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

Aren't there only a handful of Harry Potter books? This guy has at least 8 copies of one of them.

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There's 7 main books in the series. That looks like the 7th book (came out in 2007), why he has that many copies I couldn't tell you. I'd like to think he's multilingual and owns them in different languages, but most likely he bought different special editions or first editions, or re-releases. I don't see why you would need that many copies of the same book though.
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Aren't there only a handful of Harry Potter books? This guy has at least 8 copies of one of them.

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That's what happens when you base your entire identity around an intellectual property that consists of a grand total of 8 books and a stage play. Fuck's sake, at least the Marvel zombies can point to the fact that Disney continually churns out new capeshit for them to consume.
 
This polyamous "hinge" looks like the goddess and two gods of millennial consumer purchases.


 
I just want to say that the “Is ‘Avengers’ America’s Iliad?” from video in the OP is making me seethe like you wouldn’t believe rn (right now). Jesus fucking Christ, how insufferable can journalists get?

The part that’s really making me upset is that, to an extent, they might be right. There are so many great works of American literature, drama, and film, but for the most part those works don’t serve as a cultural touchstone anymore. Homer’s influence was apparent in practically every aspect of Greek culture; it was their touchstone, it was their base of reference for analogies, symbols, and so on. As much as it pains me to acknowledge this, that is increasingly becoming true of capeshit in the US, as the OP video shows.

We’re replacing mythology — stories born out of the genuine spirit of a people — with entertaining but ultimately empty stories told by Hollywood hebrews, designed with the primary intention of extracting as many shekels as possible, and the secondary intention of engineering new social values. What will this mean for us?
Historians will look back on these great cultural touchstones like The Avengers, not because they are good but because they show how bad things are. Entertainment is meant to passify, it isn't a greak book that can give you many things, entertainment being only one of them. The amount of escapism provided in books simply isn't enough to block out the oppressive plastic existence. It needs to be loud and colorful; it needs to give the feeling that you're having a geniune experience where you are master of yourself, something that books can only provide so much of and especially can't be had in the world most people live in.
 
Aren't there only a handful of Harry Potter books? This guy has at least 8 copies of one of them.

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This is straight up bizarre. It looks like a repeating texture in a video game, I have literally looked at fake, computer generated bookshelves with the same vibe. I'm pretty sure that every single thing here is either a printing of a harry potter book or one of the spinoffs. The more I look at this the more confused I get.
Imagine going to someone's house and seeing the massive harry potter shelf. Just the same nine books, printed ad nauseum. repeating forevermore.
 
I just want to say that the “Is ‘Avengers’ America’s Iliad?” from video in the OP is making me seethe like you wouldn’t believe rn (right now). Jesus fucking Christ, how insufferable can journalists get?

The part that’s really making me upset is that, to an extent, they might be right. There are so many great works of American literature, drama, and film, but for the most part those works don’t serve as a cultural touchstone anymore. Homer’s influence was apparent in practically every aspect of Greek culture; it was their touchstone, it was their base of reference for analogies, symbols, and so on. As much as it pains me to acknowledge this, that is increasingly becoming true of capeshit in the US, as the OP video shows.
It's hard to really give a yes or no answer to such a question, what I would say is I'd be interested in a more in-depth study as to why these kinds of films are so culturally popular at this time. Every time periods popular film genres are usually in reaction to what's happening in society around that time, you can't just ascribe it to big companies pushing consoomers even if they are part of the audience, because the larger group is the casual viewer. It begs the question about what about these big spectacle films, along with just the best performing films that don't fall into that category, speak to people and make them go to see them. Something like that is also somewhat hard to do without the ability to look back on the bigger picture like you could do with looking at why certain films were popular in any earlier decade.
We’re replacing mythology — stories born out of the genuine spirit of a people — with entertaining but ultimately empty stories told by Hollywood hebrews, designed with the primary intention of extracting as many shekels as possible, and the secondary intention of engineering new social values. What will this mean for us?
I don't think I'd be that pessimistic over the whole thing, especially in the whole "replacing mythology" aspect. Many of the popular films today still use tropes found in ancient mythology when it comes to character arcs or story tropes.

Another thing you have to remember is that mythology, especially Greek mythology, has a lot of it that just didn't make it to today. Some of the big popular ones managed to make it or just got lucky in managing to survive, but there's likely a far greater percentage of what was popular/available back then that didn't make it. It didn't help that a lot around that time was still mainly verbal tales told at festivals or other social gatherings. There was likely a lot of crap that was popular then too. It's hard to tell right at this minute which films will go on to be remembered or forgotten decades from now. We at least have the advantage now of not losing something entirely like what has sadly happened to many older popular films (stats showing half of all pre-1950s and over 90% of those made before 1929 are gone forever), ones we know were massively popular back in the day, but have become all but forgotten today due to no sources existing for them.
 
There was likely a lot of crap that was popular then too. It's hard to tell right at this minute which films will go on to be remembered or forgotten decades from now. We at least have the advantage now of not losing something entirely like what has sadly happened to many older popular films (stats showing half of all pre-1950s and over 90% of those made before 1929 are gone forever), ones we know were massively popular back in the day, but have become all but forgotten today due to no sources existing for them.
I've been to this secondhand record store in NYC that sells absolutely anything as long as it can still be played, and it really put this into perspective for me. I mean, for every pink floyd or David Bowie or funkadelic record you found, there were 1000 trashy novelty song, one hit wonder, or overdone Christmas albums from the 70s that you had to sort through.
 
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