Consumerism Eats Everything I Try To Do

Been feeling pretty useless lately. Let's figure out why. Reading List -------------------- Jean Baudrillard - "The Precession of Simulacra" - Search for free PDF; covers sign-value. Karl Marx - Capital, Vol. 1, Ch. 1 §4 - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx... Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle - https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar... Herbert Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man - Free PDF, search title + marxists.org Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism - Freely circulated PDF, search title Slavoj Žižek - "The Interpassive Subject" - Search title for free essay Michael Maniates - "Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?" (2001) - ResearchGate Dittmar, Bond, Hurst & Kasser - "The Relationship Between Materialism and Personal Well-Being" (2014) - ResearchGate Deci & Ryan - Self-Determination Theory - https://selfdeterminationtheory.org Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus - https://www.epicurus.net/letters/meno... Support the channel on Patreon: http://bit.ly/rmrpatreon Take a lesson with me: https://rmr.media/education Find my music here: https://rmr.media/findme Connect: Bluesky: https://bit.ly/3ZGYhom Website: http://bit.ly/rmrmedia 00:00 intro 03:18 displacement of the citizen 03:38 sign-value 07:04 how capitalism eats dissent 12:07 rebuttals 16:26 why do i even care 24:24 what to do about it