I think I already wrote this paper in grad school. People who use more emotionally heightened language in their gofundme campaigns get more than those who don’t. Tragedy is commodified, or rather the eusocial experience of relieving another’s tragedy is commodified and sold to us
I love that phrasing. I’m unfortunately cobbling the ideas together from a bunch of places, mostly @KermitTheFraud’s effort posts
Edit: I guess point being I’m not nearly as familiar with the literature as I ought to be. I dropped out of school because I didn’t have the patience for that
The only difference between a smart man and an educated one is whether they know the citations, not whether they understand the concepts. Knowing the literature is overrated as long as you get the theory and commodification is something I feel like leftists are well versed on in general
Yeah I suppose it’s not like I’m doing research or anything where making sure the ground hasn’t already been trod is important
Neat thread. Thanks for the shoutout. I’m cobbling the ideas together myself. Hopefully we’re not doing some sort of game of theory telephone
The social feeds are an absolute barrage of contextless moments. I wanna say there’s a relatively new temporal illusion related to this. Usually there’s a tradeoff between the perceived length of experience as it’s happening and the perceived length of time when recalling the memory of that experience. So on one hand, time flies when your having fun but the memories of that fun are rich. On the other hand, time goes slow when your bored and there’s very little to recall afterwards, so it seems short. Social media manages to let us take up time as if we were having fun and recall it as if we were bored. It’s short-short time.
I'm seeing stuff that's like "the past few days have been tough. you deserve to relax. take a look at our selection of computers."
They’re not even trying to hide the fact that the dopamine hit from buying something is the point
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In regards to the point about amazon and how we click, buy, ship and receive in hours and that helps fuel our consumption habits and if we thought more about it, like a physical store catalogue, we probably wouldn't buy it...who has that much spare money to just be buying everything thats advertised to them? So to anyone who happens across our little site who is like this, instead of buying trinkets from amazon, click the little "donate" link at the bottom of hexbear. Your money will go to much better use.
You don’t need to buy everything that’s advertised to you any more than you have to comment on every post you see. But if you window shop enough and have the money, you will buy something eventually. And I’m assuming there’s some sort of normal distribution where the top buyers buy the majority of the products, but nearly everyone buys something on occasion
I mean, yeah, ads obviously work or else they wouldn't be throwing them in our faces all the time, but I guess I don't have that kind of money. Ads don't work on you when you're broke! :agony-shivering:
