halcynth:

As much as consumer culture is bad at delivering enduring satisfaction, it is spectacularly good at offering novelties and experiences that are, as the saying goes, fun for a while. […] Even if we recognize—as most of us do, at least some of the time—that the small pleasure of buying something new rarely lasts, consumer culture has made it very, very easy to keep going back for more small pleasures. Line up enough of them, and it becomes a reasonable simulacrum of lasting contentment. It is another of consumerism’s ironies that, although it functions like a mental trap, we often think of it as an escape. Consumption is, as one group of researchers put it, “a culturally sanctioned coping strategy”—including to cope with the pressures of consumer capitalism.

— The Day the World Stops Shopping, J.B. MacKinnon

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