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EDIT since this has breached containment! Some info on the poll as whole!
1- I'm sorry to put two bad bitches against each other. The bracket setup was randomly selected, not seeded to have equal match-ups. BUT there will be a revival round! 2- Image descriptions are in the ALT text. 3- As always, there is a real human person running these, so keep negative propaganda to a minimum in the notes. Talk up your faves as much as you want, but don't shit-talk the other option.
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Is there anyone who knows anything about Consumption by Courtney Baron? I’m looking to direct it next year for my schools one act festival, and just trying to get as much info as possible
Agreed.
We live in strange times when we see consumption in general, and media consumption in particular, as the primary way to put our morality into practice.
I was raised this way, to an extent. My parents would always buy free-range eggs. But they made a point to explain to me that it wasn't a virtue signal - it was a way of applying pressure. "Lots of people can't afford to buy free range, but we can, so we do it.' they said. "That creates demand, and in the long term that will make free range eggs more affordable for everyone". It was all very pragmatic and made sense. There absolutely are some situations where we can affect markets for the better by how we shop.
But that's not how you become a good person. You don't get heaven coupons for shopping unproblematically. It's just one of a range of ways an individual person can make the world a little bit better. Nobody can take part in every single collective action campaign. You pick a few, and you do them not to polish your halo, but because you think they actually have some effect in the real world, and you want to make things a little bit better.
But somehow we're all turning into Chidi Anagonye, and I don't think it's making the world a better place. I think it's making it a more anxious, less focused, more antagonistic place.
And somehow, the phrase "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" doesn't really comfort me. It's so very black and white, and it kind of misses the point, for me anyway. It still puts some kind of ethical valence on the business of buying things, and for most of us, for most of our purchases on most days, it really just doesn't matter that much. You need a thing, you buy the thing, you feel gratitude that you could do that, and you live on. Maybe you could afford to buy the fairtrade version, and you feel a bit more gratitude, because maybe you made the world a little bit better, and the fairtrade one is probably tastier anyway.
The sad truth is that those people whose purchases really tip the moral scale aren't losing sleep over building another beach house on a fragile habitat. The rest of us are just the little people living our lives as best we can. If there's a judgment, we'll be judged on things that really matter: how we treated other people, not which brand of washing powder we bought.
Dont let romanticized depictions of tuberculosis in victorian novels fool you into thinking theres ethical consumption under late capitalism
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