The Consoomer Menace

Certified_Heterosexual · 2020-02-05T19:52:10+00:00

Inspired by this tweet: That "consumer" has become an insult among Gen Z has given me hope that the soul-deadening philosophy of the bugman is as futureless as the bugman himself. The insultification of "consoomer" condemns the corporate mass that has created this cancer, the social atomization that traps people in a despair of relentless feeding, the gnawing void of materialism that destroys reason and empathy. The bugman consoomer visibly destroys his body with flab, sickness, and addiction. In an absurd extension of his weakness, he tattles to Internet companies to stop normal people from commenting on his degradation. He is obliterated as soon as you point out that his life is dedicated to endless consumption of corporate product; his fat dream is to become totally useless to everyone but the fat cats who profit off him, an ugly blob filling every orifice and sense organ with childish treats until he ruptures. Look at him above, he has no counter other than saying "yes, this is what I am" in stunned obliviousness. He is a grotesque, defective, stupid nullity, a sterile neotenous mutant, a sadistic, evil little pig. Data shows that most alcoholics start drinking in their teenage years, and become lifelong abusers because the substance prevents the formation of coping skills. You could argue that over-consumption of nerdshit has a similar effect. Shy or introverted kids who are constantly immersed in these artificial systems never learn to cooperate or master any organic body of knowledge. You could argue that someone like Chris-Chan is the index patient for this, but Movie Bob isn't terribly different. About 10 years ago, my friend's dad told me something that's never left my mind: "There are two kinds of people in this world: Producers and Consumers. You either produce, or you consume. If you produce, you're too busy to consume. If you consume, you're too busy to produce. If you ever have to ask which one you are, you're a Consumer." I wish I could remember exactly what he said later, but it boiled down to not mattering what you produce, as long as you produce. If the world would be inconvenienced or made worse if you retired or died today, it's a pretty good indicator you're a producer. He gave the examples of plumbers, writers, even accountants, so long as you CREATE or CHANGE something. If you spend more time in your day consuming and doing nothing useful with it (this was specifically in reference to people who spend 10 hours a day playing video games or watching TV), your most important contribution to society is giving producers money to continue producing. This man was somewhat wealthy, having worked his whole life even after semi-retiring in his 70s, but didn't seem to view the world through the lens of a class divide. Instead, the world was divided by the producer/consumer line. He hated politicians that took excessive donations and clearly had no ideas of their own, probably moreso than any man I've ever met (he passed away shortly after Trump entered the race in 2015). This site is one of only three things I really consume anymore. I've given up most video games, haven't seen the inside of a movie theater in years, and only watch TV shows with friends while shooting the shit. The last movie I watched was with a girl on a date, and that's for the intent of being a future Producer of children. That friend's dad's pep talk to me changed a lot in my life, and it's obvious that none of these vloggers and bluechecks have ever considered a life where their jobs aren't meaningless, where "spending time with your kids" can be spent constructing a treehouse or teaching them something instead of watching a movie or going to a local prolechow store, and that consumption of product only wastes their time. Last note: Before he passed away, this man told me the greatest contribution you can give the world is a healthy, normal family. No one will care what video game you played 30 years ago, but they will care if your 30-year-old son or daughter is saving lives. Once YouTube and Twitter end up dead and gone, the name MovieBob will never be mentioned again.

Thread starter Certified_Heterosexual
Start date Feb 5, 2020

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Feb 11, 2020

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Alright, I've copied the copyright discussion over to it's own thread. Because of the way some of the discussion was entwined, I had to leave the posts in here too. As such folks, please take the copyright discussion to the new thread and return more to the original topic here.

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