The Consumer

Symbols

Squirrel, Apple, Apple Tree, Afternoon, Fall Season, Harvest, Painting Tree Trunks White

Keywords

Freedom: freedom of choice, room to maneuver, laxity, tolerance, endurance, permissiveness, loose, scattered, clutter, confusion

Abundance: quantity over quality, expansiveness, fertility, generosity, beneficence, prosperity, surplus/savings, over-consumption, excess, infinity, obsession, overwhelm, imbalance, hoarding, mediocrity, food as fuel

Desire: wanting, indulging, appetite, enjoyment, pleasure, nurturing, sensuality, hedonism, nourishment, consumption, hunger, cravings

Examples

Movie Clips & Videos:

Food is fuel – Ratatouille

The story with money - The Laundromat

Help getting fascinated – Adaptation

I Love To Eat Scene – Julie and Julia,
The Love of Chocolate – Chocolat,
The Goddess, Giver of Forms – Joseph Campbell

Podcasts:
Kraftland (Invisibilia),
The Giant Pool of Money (This American Life),
The Neuroscience of Pleasure, Pain And Addiction (Fresh Air)

"It is the paradox of being human–that we are one specimen among three billions other specimens of the same kind plus the fact that each one of us is unique. To think of oneself in a statistical way is most destructive to the process of individuation because it makes everything relative... You do not realize what it does to you when you read statistics.

It is completely destructive poison, and what is worse it is not true; it is a falsified image of reality. If we begin to think statistically, we begin to think against our own uniqueness. But it is not only thinking but a way of feeling. That is the statistical mood in which one is overwhelmed by the manifoldness and ordinariness of life."

– Marie-Louise Von Franz, The Problem of the Puer Aeternus, p.89

Art:
La Folie des Grandeurs (Delusions of Grandeur, Magritte),
Self-Obliteration (Kusawa)