Equally it's telling that you describe elation, exuberance, euphoria as a grand feeling. I don't know if I'm the only one, but to me that looks like a very hedonistic world view, to put pleasure on such a high pedestal. It's just good feelings. Why require a kind of reverence for them?
Those things are NOT just "good feelings." Feeling good because you helped someone with their homework or walked an old woman across the street is a "good feeling." Elation is "you got that NES you always wanted for Christmas" [yes I'm an eighties kid], Euphoria is how you'd feel if you met God for real and God confirmed your pet theory was spot-on the whole time.
They SHOULD be put on a pedestal because they're things you might not feel very often. True euphoria is something you might only experience once in your entire lifetime. To conflate them with just how you feel after watching a particularly good episode of He-Man is to devalue them.
I hate the word "corpo" because it sounds too cool. For some reason when I hear the word "corpo" what immediately springs to mind is a ruthless cunt with a suit who's actually important, not a fat marshmallow faggot who shills for Disney,
FWIW I only used "corpo" because I didn't want the title of this topic to get too long.
It's like how people always say they're "consuming media" instead of "I enjoyed the movie/show".
On the note about "Consumer" its kinda telling when even a retard like
Jim fucking Sterling points out that word is evil because it exists entirely to degrade the consumer.
To this day I only ever use "Consumer" or "Consooom" as an insult. Again though its a word that--much like "IP"--I've seen misused to describe things that might actually be of artistic value. Let's be honest though, most people's idea of "art" is "whatever made me pop a boner today."
A similar thing, years back there used to be a thing where people would describe any positive feeling in sexual terms. "This game gets me hard," or I even remember a time "that was pure sex" was a slang term.... fortunately, this seems to have passed as people realized how retarded it sounded.
Not trusting all of science because of some political opinion on COVID is the height of absurdity.
We live in an absurd reality. Sometimes the best way to undermine stupid think is to throw your own brand of stupid right back at it.
Like a few weeks back someone was trying to tell me about some bad decision they were making, I asked why and they said the news on television (yeah some people still watch OTA broadcasts) said something something had happened.
I asked, "How do you know that's real?"
He said, "Well it was on television."
My response, "Spider-Man is on television too, do you think
that's real?"
It was a dumb argument but it did talk the guy down from making a decision that would've left him a homeless hobo.
......
Also I'm not distrusting science entirely because of COVID. Honestly I had doubts about it even decades before. I mean there is just something shady as fuck about something that is supposed to advance human understanding and yet constantly hordes its knowledge behind paywalls.
Ultimately, humans are still emotional creatures and they tend to find things that support their beliefs. And science-types tend to be Isaac Asimov-esque types who think everything is predictable if you're smart enough, so of course when they say "everyone has a magic drug in their body that makes them happy" or that romance is caused by something called pheromones.... yeah of course they'd find this appealing. "I'll get a girl to like me by giving myself a pheromone injection!"
(Pheromones are another of those things I've always had serious questions about that makes me think we're not usually told the whole story. If they're what cause love/attraction, how do you explain autists who fall for fictional characters, or real people they only know from television/the internet? Why aren't we all just falling for literally every person of the opposite sex who crosses our path?)