@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @fj
+1, & good for the rest of the #world too!
These vehicular monstrosities are #energy guzzlers🤦‍♂️ as well as incredibly impractical for high-density space-deprived cities.
Imho, and it's not intended to body-shame etc, such oversized #vehicles reflect deeper problems in #American #consumerist culture such as, #overindulgence, over-consumption, gluttony, lack of discipline, #FOMO, etc, etc. These problems may also have become vicious spirals.🤔
“Thanks to the #algorithmic tracking of demand and the algorithmic delivery of supply, #digitalmedia has for the last twenty years promoted an ideal of perfect #form—not a Platonic ideal but a #consumerist one.” open.substack.com/pub/newcarto...

Creative Work in an Age of Dig...
Creative Work in an Age of Digital Production

On machine formalism.

New Cartographies

We are watching #ICE agents aka weak foot soldiers, kill people in the streets.

The same way the US empire has been funding a #genocide for decades and throughout history to maintain dominance.

This has been normalized in our #capitalist and #consumerist culture. It is not just or moral.

If the people don't shut it down via #generalstrike and #workingclass #solidarity, history has shown us, another power eventually will.

The USA experiment is a complete failure.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h5VHHMzpSBg

GRAPHIC: CBP officers shoot another person in Minneapolis at point-blank range.

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as long as the wealthy, which is a good part of us white people, do not change their #consumerist, #extractivist, #capitalist, #collionalist ways, are not willing to live with less so others can live at all - this is the future we are going:

more & more authoritarian nations ending the world in endless war over the last bits & pieces that help them pretend that one day all of their peasants will get rich if they just support another #war. #trump just drew the blueprint for it.

#oilandgas #uspol #venezuela

@straits_times
The $650mio in projected savings could arguably be underestimated, as #preventive #healthcare is deemed to be not growth-centric by #bigpharma & #consumerist #privatehealthcare providers. But lifestyle changes & interventions driven by preventive healthcare principles is part of global #SDG & should be an integral part of long-term #sustainability strategies to foster national well-being & #happiness. Prioritize #lifestyle solutions b4 #medication.⚕️🇸🇬
#SG60 #Singapore #Asean #Asia
"I don’t think it is about harping back to a simpler life per se, but a life that would be genuinely #meaningful + #sustainable. If the #modern #industrial - #consumerist world was a viable project, then he’d be seen as a daydreamer, but it isn’t ..." fivebooks.com/best-books/m... #books

Modern Classics
Modern Classics

Five of the best 'modern classic' books, as recommended by the Lake District shepherd and bestselling author James Rebanks

Five Books

How #consumerist #capitalism defeated #environmentalism: ”Consumer choice”

By appealing to a naive & narrow idea of ”freedom”, environmentally friendly products were cast as niche.

By being priced above what poor people could afford, they were bound to become an elitist product from the start.

Environmentalists supporting this scam painted themselves into a corner: Environmentalism was not for the poor, who were left out of the hope of saving the planet.

Finally, they grew tired of it.

Or it's a rejection of #mindlessconsumption?

Commentary: Is #underconsumption the new #consumption?
"Every generation thinks that they have stumbled onto something new & innovative, but soon realises tt it’s mostly been done before. With underconsumption core, I doubt tt anyone #GenX & older will bat an eyelid.. Underconsumption - or just normal consumption - requires practices tt #overconsumption doesn't: #Selfdiscipline & #restraint, especially in a #consumerist world"
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/underconsumption-trend-tiktok-regular-consumption-recycle-second-hand-frugal-4682346

Commentary: Is underconsumption the new consumption? It depends

"Underconsumption core" continues to trend on TikTok, but is choosing frugality a conscious act, or just a performance? The difference is up to us, says sociologist Terence Heng. 

CNA

Starting university? Here’s the ultimate guide on what to take – by students themselves.

Good concept for an article that then turns into full-on #consumerist bollox; from the ‘environmentally conscious’ daily newspaper, The Guardian.

🤦🏻‍♂️

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/sep/08/starting-university-ultimate-guide-what-to-take-students-?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Starting university? Here’s the ultimate guide on what to take – by students themselves

From a doorstop to help you make friends to travel cutlery, students share their advice on what freshers need – and what to leave at home

The Guardian