28.3.25

Liquid love


The girl just wants to be
left alone with Marx and Engels for a while
she's writing in the style
of any riot girl

Consumerism is not about accumulating goods (who gathers goods must put up as well with heavy suitcases and cluttered houses), but about using them and disposing of them after use to make room for other goods and their uses.

Consumer life favours lightness and speed; also the novelty and variety that lightness and speed are hoped to foster and expedite. It is the turnover, not the volume of purchases, that measures success in the life of homo consumens.