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I'm really starting to freak out this christmas. This whole consumerism thing. I've been complaining about it for weeks, much to the delight of my friends, I'm sure. The thought about how disgusting this type of society is creeps up on me if I watch too many commercials in a row, and especially when I find myself back at the mall. I mean there's all these people there...in the small crowded shops...and they're BUYING things. They're buying all this stuff. I'm doing it too! And what else do I find myself and the rest of my race doing? LOOKING at things. This is amazing when you think about it. The whole window shopping thing. You go into a store, and you walk around, and you stare at things. You pick them up, inspect them for quality, color, shape, etc...and for the most part, you put them down and never consider them again. Even if you spent 15 minutes carrying the object around debating on whether or not it had a place in your life. You spend minute after minute looking at things you slightly want, but probably cannot have.
I experience this alot when I go to Hot Topic(yeah, I'm such a fucking "poseur"). I look at all the clothes:
"Oh, look at that dress, that is so pretty. Fuck, it's $89.00! I can't afford that!"
"Wow, that is the cutest skirt, I want that. Who am I kidding? That is way too short for someone chubby like me."
"Wow a (insert favorite punk-emo-rock-metal band here) t-shirt/hoodie/wrist band! I've got to have that! Let's see...I've got 10...15...22 dollars. Guess I'll buy that other thing I wanted to buy later. Come to mama!"
Then I come into the store sometime later and I'm wearing Hot Topic clothes, looking at Hot Topic clothes, surrounded by people in Hot Topic clothes, and I feel like such a fucking loser. (I'm becoming more and more aware that shopping at Hot Topic is the equivalent of shopping at the Gap, and I'm trying very hard to live with that)
-- back to my point.
There will always be stuff. More time passes, more stuff comes into the realm of purchasing. It's like, fucking scary. Is the world eventually going to become heavy with computers, clothing, barbies, and dvds? What the fuck are we going to do with all this shit? Part of consumerism is, supply and demand. ...which I recently interpeted as meaning "there is always 1000% more in supply than there is in demand." So there's always more shit than there is people who are willing to buy that shit. What does that mean? It means we're making too much shit.
Okay I've slipped too far into the rant and lost my ability to illustrate my feelings in a concrete manner...so I'll just um...stop.
So yeah the whole thing where our entire lives revolve around the buying and selling of goods, is really irritating. But not so irritating as to stop me from buying things.
I'm really starting to freak out this christmas. This whole consumerism thing. I've been complaining about it for weeks, much to the delight of my friends, I'm sure. The thought about how disgusting this type of society is creeps up on me if I watch too many commercials in a row, and especially when I find myself back at the mall. I mean there's all these people there...in the small crowded shops...and they're BUYING things. They're buying all this stuff. I'm doing it too! And what else do I find myself and the rest of my race doing? LOOKING at things. This is amazing when you think about it. The whole window shopping thing. You go into a store, and you walk around, and you stare at things. You pick them up, inspect them for quality, color, shape, etc...and for the most part, you put them down and never consider them again. Even if you spent 15 minutes carrying the object around debating on whether or not it had a place in your life. You spend minute after minute looking at things you slightly want, but probably cannot have.
I experience this alot when I go to Hot Topic(yeah, I'm such a fucking "poseur"). I look at all the clothes:
"Oh, look at that dress, that is so pretty. Fuck, it's $89.00! I can't afford that!"
"Wow, that is the cutest skirt, I want that. Who am I kidding? That is way too short for someone chubby like me."
"Wow a (insert favorite punk-emo-rock-metal band here) t-shirt/hoodie/wrist band! I've got to have that! Let's see...I've got 10...15...22 dollars. Guess I'll buy that other thing I wanted to buy later. Come to mama!"
Then I come into the store sometime later and I'm wearing Hot Topic clothes, looking at Hot Topic clothes, surrounded by people in Hot Topic clothes, and I feel like such a fucking loser. (I'm becoming more and more aware that shopping at Hot Topic is the equivalent of shopping at the Gap, and I'm trying very hard to live with that)
-- back to my point.
There will always be stuff. More time passes, more stuff comes into the realm of purchasing. It's like, fucking scary. Is the world eventually going to become heavy with computers, clothing, barbies, and dvds? What the fuck are we going to do with all this shit? Part of consumerism is, supply and demand. ...which I recently interpeted as meaning "there is always 1000% more in supply than there is in demand." So there's always more shit than there is people who are willing to buy that shit. What does that mean? It means we're making too much shit.
Okay I've slipped too far into the rant and lost my ability to illustrate my feelings in a concrete manner...so I'll just um...stop.
So yeah the whole thing where our entire lives revolve around the buying and selling of goods, is really irritating. But not so irritating as to stop me from buying things.
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Date: 2003-12-19 05:46 pm (UTC)