Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Speaking of perfume, here's Persona perfume.

Ever wanted to smell like an agoraphobic gamer girl?

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

"Blue" fragrances aka Blue de Chanel and Dior Sauvage Eau de Gunt smells like glorified shower gels. They are the most popular, even tho they're boring af.
To no ones surprise, some people like fragrances that make them smell unwashed. Some do actually like the smell of manure. Well, some do like to play with the poopoo too

So that's why French people smell so bad...

 

[WelperHelper99]

Speaking of perfume, here's Persona perfume.
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Ever wanted to smell like an agoraphobic gamer girl?

There's liking a game than smelling like it. Just get a sticker for your laptop like a normie lol

 

[Cheeseknife]

In some part, consoomer culture arises due a widespread negative attitude towards work. Not just the Blue Collar work, but even White Collar jobs--the kind of work that the Dilbert cartoon is based around.

Negative attitudes about work are common because very few people in the US really make anything anymore. We just buy things. Very few people who do work actually create anything--they just sell products other people made. The link between product and creation has been severed. What hasn't been accounted for is the fact that this gives everyone a sense of detachment from said products. Sure, you can attribute consoomerism to people who just have bad values, but we should also realize that our whole system of production is completely fucked.

Very few of us actually know who actually produces the goods we consume--yet another way we are essentially detached from the system. The workforce is impersonal, and people are reduced to a number, a labor cost. Therefore, we have outsource all production to foreign countries because its cheaper. Like, a shirt you buy for $20 USD was probably made by some factory worker in Taiwan for the equivalent of $0.15 USD. Some Chinese workers have been documented as having dropped dead in factories while making the toys you put in your McDonald's Kid's Meals. We shop, but they drop. But we never see these connections because China is over there and not here. It's easy to ignore the problems with our system of production when they're far away from us, but not so easy if they're next-door to us.

Not only are we detached from the process of production, consoomers are necessarily removed from the materiality of the products they consume. Products have been imbued with special meaning and purpose through branding. Advertisements are not informative, they are full of fantasy. Shampoo doesn't tell you it will clean your hair, it fills your mind with visions of sunlit beaches, warm sand, a cool breeze and fresh air. You're sold a dream, not a reality.

Corporations are funny in this regard. They don't seem to exist on the corporeal world. For many people a corporation is something that exists completely within the mind. This aspect is where consoomerism shows itself to be utterly and truly a religious phenomena. People will spend hundreds to thousands of dollars for some plastic that is shaped like their favorite super-hero. They will spend hundreds of dollars on deluxe version of a new video game simply because the game is tied to a particular brand or franchise. They will devote hours and hours of their time talking to their friends about the history and people in worlds that don't exist as if that information holds any value.

People who say they are a "fan" of something, tout that label as if it holds any actual meaning or value. However, the only value a "fan" has is as someone who spends time and money on consuming products from a brand or franchise. Their identity is necessarily tied to a corporation, much like a Christian might be tied to his faith in God, a Muslim to Allah, or Buddhist to Taoism.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Why Saber, why, why couldn't you stay based and keep talking about North Korean cartoons?.

The dude's been a brony for a decade or so.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

"work" and "job" are constantly being conflated as one and the same
work can be labor, it can be craft, its something that we as humans have to do our whole life to live and thrive, even hunting or gathering or building or farming, hell, even creating art, are all "work"

a "job" is something more finite and intentional, it can be something youre hired to do or set out to do

not all work is a job, and not every job is work

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Very few of us actually know who actually produces the goods we consume--yet another way we are essentially detached from the system. The workforce is impersonal, and people are reduced to a number, a labor cost. Therefore, we have outsource all production to foreign countries because its cheaper. L

It was always like that, since your town/your state didn't make most of the goods you bought and that included lots of cheap shit. Pick a Rust Belt town, it probably made something distinct. But nobody cared because the world was a lot smaller back then. Hell, they even outsourced labor in the US because ever since the 1880s they just sent it to the South since Southerners had less unions and more corrupt politics so they didn't need as many safety measures. The cotton mills of Appalachia were absolutely hellish even by the standards of the shitty mills in nowadays shithole towns like Lynn, Massachusetts (i.e. where Moviebob lives).

Not only are we detached from the process of production, consoomers are necessarily removed from the materiality of the products they consume. Products have been imbued with special meaning and purpose through branding. Advertisements are not informative, they are full of fantasy. Shampoo doesn't tell you it will clean your hair, it fills your mind with visions of sunlit beaches, warm sand, a cool breeze and fresh air. You're sold a dream, not a reality.

They were selling people silly fantasies in ads since child labor was legal and wanting to work 40 hours a week a sign you were a criminal socialist.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

"Blue" fragrances aka Blue de Chanel and Dior Sauvage Eau de Gunt smells like glorified shower gels. They are the most popular, even tho they're boring af.
To no ones surprise, some people like fragrances that make them smell unwashed. Some do actually like the smell of manure. Well, some do like to play with the poopoo too

Notes include vomit, pus, sweat, and mud.

I saw it in a shop once, it was covered with a cloche and had a sign on it with a warning not to spray it

 

[Cheeseknife]

Here's some of everything you need to know:

Detachment and Dissatisfaction:

Detachment from Production:

Detachment from Producers:

Detachment from Products:

 

[WelperHelper99]

"work" and "job" are constantly being conflated as one and the same
work can be labor, it can be craft, its something that we as humans have to do our whole life to live and thrive, even hunting or gathering or building or farming, hell, even creating art, are all "work"

a "job" is something more finite and intentional, it can be something youre hired to do or set out to do

not all work is a job, and not every job is work

Laziness is a sin as old as time. People don't see that distinction, nor that you can have a GOOD job, one that serves a important purpose while not shafting its workers. You could make all that plastic junk in the US, with vacation and benefits. But that would require the paypigs to actually give a shit where their funkos come from, to make enough of a fuss to have it happen

 

[Cheeseknife]

Laziness is a sin as old as time. People don't see that distinction, nor that you can have a GOOD job, one that serves a important purpose while not shafting its workers. You could make all that plastic junk in the US, with vacation and benefits. But that would require the paypigs to actually give a shit where their funkos come from, to make enough of a fuss to have it happen

Even if they knew where the funkos are coming from, it still might not matter because most consoomers purchase them solely to signal their worth as a consoomer. It's all about identity and connection with a wider base of people who are buying the same or similar products. That's what Cavanaugh means by "detachment." People are thoroughly taught not to think about where stuff comes from, so people seem to imagine shelves just magically restock themselves with new stuff over and over.

Again, we are taught regularly not to think about production, producers, or the products themselves. We're just supposed to buy things. As far as these corporations are concerned, that is our lot in life: our sole purpose on this earth is to consume, consume, consume. It's like whenever Coca-Cola releases something new, your friends and co-workers need to go try it. They cannot help themselves. That is learned behavior. They truly believe it gives them a purpose in life to do this.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Here's some of everything you need to know:

Detachment and Dissatisfaction:

Detachment from Production:

Detachment from Producers:

Detachment from Products:

Why did you use the same username as your Digimon Youtube channel?

 

[Cheeseknife]

It was always like that, since your town/your state didn't make most of the goods you bought and that included lots of cheap shit. Pick a Rust Belt town, it probably made something distinct. But nobody cared because the world was a lot smaller back then. Hell, they even outsourced labor in the US because ever since the 1880s they just sent it to the South since Southerners had less unions and more corrupt politics so they didn't need as many safety measures. The cotton mills of Appalachia were absolutely hellish even by the standards of the shitty mills in nowadays shithole towns like Lynn, Massachusetts (i.e. where Moviebob lives).

They were selling people silly fantasies in ads since child labor was legal and wanting to work 40 hours a week a sign you were a criminal socialist.

Yeah, Cavanaugh mentions this with regard to detachment from producers and from production. There was a point in time where things were more closely knit. The people who made your shoes, your clothes, your tools, your food, etc. may have been people you knew or your parents knew. You had a better idea where they got their materials from and whether or not their craft was legit. If you were a tightly-knit community, you'd buy their stuff even if it weren't as high quality as something you'd get elsewhere just because your community was that important.

You would have learned a craft or trade and performed that for your locale. Maybe a smith, a farmer, a tailor, etc. The system of production was closer to home. It's harder to sell a fantasy when you know you're getting your milk and bread from your neighbor down the road and you have a better idea what he's feeding his cows and putting in his soil.

Nowadays, all people are taught is how to buy things. People in retail are paid to sell things other people made. Having an actual trade skill is not as common anymore.

 

[JustTheFaxcts]

Why did you use the same username as your Digimon Youtube channel?

You should really leave Sam alone, he's a very busy english major.

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

Hahahaha.

https://fanfiction.net/u/11194072/rustycheeseknife

There's a Facebook and maybe Twitter, RCheeseknife. More I'm sure. "WhattheEgad" huh? Before you rebranded? https://www.reddit.com/r/digimon/comments/8tiu00/input_on_my_in_retrospect_series_for_digimon/
Oh, your livejournal.

https://theegad.livejournal.com/

Birthday Dec 5th huh? I doubt as a tween you were smart enough to put in a fake day.

Your buddy Luke is ok at violin out in Virginia. EWU?

Listen. All the things on the sign up page? You need to go back and read them.

Consoom Digimon Cartoons

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Yeah, Cavanaugh mentions this with regard to detachment from producers and from production. There was a point in time where things were more closely knit. The people who made your shoes, your clothes, your tools, your food, etc. may have been people you knew or your parents knew. You had a better idea where they got their materials from and whether or not their craft was legit. If you were a tightly-knit community, you'd buy their stuff even if it weren't as high quality as something you'd get elsewhere just because your community was that important.

You would have learned a craft or trade and performed that for your locale. Maybe a smith, a farmer, a tailor, etc. The system of production was closer to home. It's harder to sell a fantasy when you know you're getting your milk and bread from your neighbor down the road and you have a better idea what he's feeding his cows and putting in his soil.

Nowadays, all people are taught is how to buy things. People in retail are paid to sell things other people made. Having an actual trade skill is not as common anymore.

Markets were a little more complicated than that, even preindustrial had some distance between producers and consumers. Rome famously had to import their grain all the way from fucking Egypt for example. No settlement has the ability to provide for all its needs so trading goods from other communities was important. You had merchants moving shit every which way across the Mediterranean Sea or along the silk road then more inland routes to smaller villages and cities. Then once the age of exploration happens goods and products started to flow purposefully across the world to meet market demands. Outside of the most isolated and primitive settlements you will never find that tight knit production/consoomer relationship and its been like that since Mesopotamia days.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Markets were a little more complicated than that, even preindustrial had some distance between producers and consumers. Rome famously had to import their grain all the way from fucking Egypt for example. No settlement has the ability to provide for all its needs so trading goods from other communities was important. You had merchants moving shit every which way across the Mediterranean Sea or along the silk road then more inland routes to smaller villages and cities. Then once the age of exploration happens goods and products started to flow purposefully across the world to meet market demands. Outside of the most isolated and primitive settlements you will never find that tight knit production/consoomer relationship and its been like that since Mesopotamia days.

Crazy how Rome and China never came into direct contact with one another. No Roman ever reached as far as China but rich romans would still wear clothes made with chinese silks because products always found their own way.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Yeah, Cavanaugh mentions this with regard to detachment from producers and from production. There was a point in time where things were more closely knit. The people who made your shoes, your clothes, your tools, your food, etc. may have been people you knew or your parents knew. You had a better idea where they got their materials from and whether or not their craft was legit. If you were a tightly-knit community, you'd buy their stuff even if it weren't as high quality as something you'd get elsewhere just because your community was that important.

You would have learned a craft or trade and performed that for your locale. Maybe a smith, a farmer, a tailor, etc. The system of production was closer to home. It's harder to sell a fantasy when you know you're getting your milk and bread from your neighbor down the road and you have a better idea what he's feeding his cows and putting in his soil.

Nowadays, all people are taught is how to buy things. People in retail are paid to sell things other people made. Having an actual trade skill is not as common anymore.

That time ended with the Industrial Revolution and most of those small producers being outcompeted by large producers, plus many, many people living in cities (and later suburbs).

Markets were a little more complicated than that, even preindustrial had some distance between producers and consumers. Rome famously had to import their grain all the way from fucking Egypt for example. No settlement has the ability to provide for all its needs so trading goods from other communities was important. You had merchants moving shit every which way across the Mediterranean Sea or along the silk road then more inland routes to smaller villages and cities. Then once the age of exploration happens goods and products started to flow purposefully across the world to meet market demands. Outside of the most isolated and primitive settlements you will never find that tight knit production/consoomer relationship and its been like that since Mesopotamia days.

That's because Rome was a big city and most of the grain in Italy was being consumed locally. It was very common in preindustrial societies for most (not all, of course) production to be local.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

Hahahaha.

https://fanfiction.net/u/11194072/rustycheeseknife

There's a Facebook and maybe Twitter, RCheeseknife. More I'm sure. "WhattheEgad" huh? Before you rebranded? https://www.reddit.com/r/digimon/comments/8tiu00/input_on_my_in_retrospect_series_for_digimon/
Oh, your livejournal.

https://theegad.livejournal.com/

Birthday Dec 5th huh? I doubt as a tween you were smart enough to put in a fake day.

Your buddy Luke is ok at violin out in Virginia. EWU?

Listen. All the things on the sign up page? You need to go back and read them.

Consoom Digimon Cartoons

White man was here
How do you know
Video essay

 

[Cringestorian X]

@Rusty Cheeseknife take a sit, please

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