Consumer Culture/Materialism--Lecture by Professor Hollie Martin (HD)
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- Опубликовано: 8 янв 2014
- You enter the dizzying space called the shopping center. You gather as many goods as your budget (if you keep one) will allow (making a list, checking it twice). You (considering yourself nice rather than naughty) celebrate your excursion and delight in your new, shiny stuff. What is wrong with this picture? Professor Hollie Martin (Glendale College English Department) takes a look at how our stuff may be impacting us more than we realize.
I hate shopping . It makes me get anxiety. I can see how people get sucked into it. I just know it takes my time to earn the loot to pay for an object. And the hype wears off. People are slaves to their possessions
Profound presentation. No Climate Change Action without action on Consumerism and materialism. Minimalism is the way.
Excellent presentation! Brilliant mind. Praises to Dr. Hollie Martin.
Prof Martin, this was a great lecture. I appreciate this being available for the public.
This lecture was well presented, entertaining, enlightening, interesting, moving and provocative to action. Hooray! for the lecturer. The more I listen to this lecture (I have watched it about three times now at least), the more I am happy with how much money I have and don’t feel the need to work more. Also, I feel I don’t have to get more new stuff, and devise ways to keep my current stuff going longer into its old age. I have so many clothes it’s not funny. Basically, the 8 year relationship with my female partner broke up over money issues and designer stuff acquisition, and the continual pressure to do so. I was ambivalently interested in it, often not, but my partner was highly materialistic and money at all costs orientated. It broke our relationship. It is a recipe for misery. Watching this lecture made me so happy with who I already am and what I already have. Now for a relationship based on more humane and humble values. It’s so important. 🤓🌈🍀👔🦋
i know it's kinda off topic but does anyone know a good website to watch newly released movies online ?
@Aryan Bryson meh I watch on Flixportal. Just google for it:D -jonas
@Jonas Jeffery thanks, I went there and it seems like a nice service :D I appreciate it !
@Aryan Bryson glad I could help =)
One of the most inspiring and truth loaded lectures I have heard. You help me free my material loaded heart.
Thank you
Love love love this lecture!! Thank U!
Brilliant presentation. Great job Hollie!
Here's a good antidote for buying things to convince yourself and others that you are valuable:
Self-rating and other-rating is how people develop inferiority and superiority feelings, not just of specific resources we possess, but of the whole person. It is one of the most unhealthy acts you can commit against yourself and others. Painful emotional disturbances result from rating persons rather than behaviour. p.37 Overcoming the Rating Game by Paul Hauck
Great lecture!
Great lecture!!! Thanks for posting this!
Great lecture, Professor Martin.
Amazing lecture!!!!
Definitely an intelligent talk. There were some great questions in the Q and A also, wow.
Interesting lecture, well done.
great lecture.
Great lecture! AAA+++
how do i reference some of the information here?
Great lecture
Wow!! My Mother used to shop for shoes like that, she would need every color of that same shoe. I only like to grocery shop and I don't like clutter.
All I kept hearing was “this dysfunction, that I am proactively a part of”
57:00 One possible answer to this woman's question about potential social isolation if you don't buy crap that your peers are buying. Instead of wasting your money on crap keep it in your bank account. Then when someone tries to put you down for not owning crap, show them how much money is in your account and say you can afford to buy the junk that everyone is buying, but you choose not to do so because you value other things.
Or, don't bother to explain yourself at all.
See still fall into that competition. Same as saying I have 5 and you have 4 therefore I am better than you based upon what I have.
Lots of people shop to fill the void and emptiness of their lives, the hopeless and non control existence.
Very good stuff
well done it was really useful ,we have the same problem somehow in different forms
The American dream is life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Whoever gets that confused with a realestate brochure has only themselves to blame.
Just buy less. Where is the problem? Think about the people in the world who have NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, and thank God you have a house, a job and money. After visited Rwanda, I decided to buy ONLY what is strictly necessary. Do the same!
Most of the world's population has significantly less and is happier than we are. They are not defined by homes, cars, clothes, etc., but rather their relationships. We need to get back to that.
When she was talking about Warhol s later discovered shopping bags never used I was reminded of a book I read a month ago in which it was exemplified the story of a man buying a best sellers book even though the man was looking forward to buy it when he gets home he put the book into the booksshelve the book was never read it, the authors states that this is a case of modern people actually believing in mágic without them being aware of it, an example of beliefs without believers s totally different story with primitive man Which by totally being conciencieus of the mágics power he set out to conjure call upon natures capacities to solve a give issue, modern man is aware of something getting a hold on him, an anxiety so to say for having the latest book, or maybe catching up. With the current fad in everything the act of buying alleviates that anxiety
I am taking a module in business school - consumer culture theory. This lecture is really insightful and provoking. I do resonate with many of Dr Hollie's views. Nonetheless, I still feel that some forms of resistance of consumption have kicked in.
subtitles please?
Interesting lecture but it seems like emotional self-righteous reasoning without first defining a proper definition of how the self SHOULD allow itself to be actualized via external things (including accomplishments). It's very hard for this type of critique to not collapse into easy games of self superiority. We need the rigor of a bottom-up philosophical critique.
I agree. She’s from the English Department. Does she also lecture in Zoology? 😆
When I see people with fancy cars, I think: 'Well, they're going to be paying that off for the rest of their life. I'll pass, thanks.' Same thing I think if they have a fancy house. Opulence = debt in my brain, so I'm one of the luckier ones. (Disclaimer: If you're scrimped and saved to buy them without any loans or mortgage it's slightly different, but it still reflects a mindset that I don't agree with. So, again, I'll pass on you.) Unfortunately, this sort of mindset is, I think, too rare to be safe for the planet and ourselves.
I consume - I exist
My parents refused to buy us designer clothing aside from Stride Right and Buster Brown shoes and Caters kids clothing. We never got to ride on the cute $.50 mechanical rides outside of stores. All meals were made at home. We took celery and carrot stick, peanuts and raisins to the movies. I got to trade all of this for the coveted "No Student Debt." Thank you, Mom & Dad.
see i loved this lecture until the end. It's basically my problem with most academic lectures in that it doesn't really have a solution. its all just kind of talk
it's about informing people and planting seeds in their minds to get them to think, think of future solutions and apply the information they have learned into their daily lives
Take away shopping and excessive amounts of time on social media. There is so much more to do with life. Allocate a day to just learning about how to live a more productive lifestyle. You can discover answers yourself - studies, videos, documentaries. In fact you might become so consumed with research and acquisition of knowledge you won't have time for shopping or Facebook.
Materialism is not what she said. Philosophic Dialectic materialism has wider meaning.
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36:20
moderation is the point
If I can't eat it, f*ck it, and it ain't going to get me into heaven, I don't need it.
Another person who enjoys the holy doughnut!
OK I thought I was bad but it seems I'm just about average.
I wish that Americans would at last remember that poems should be rhymed.
Iphone.... (pppppffft) What a pathetic world we live in. Full of Overshoot and no care for the incoming Collapse. Yes Overshoot and Collapse are totally linked!
read baudrillard.
I totally agree baudrillard remains the cutting edge when it comes to consumerism and its disconttents
Hollie gave me the best bbbj EVER back in'07
46:23 Maybe Muhammad should have remembered this when he decided to go around conquering people unless they subscribed to his religion
Before he asked 20% of the booty, to be exact. 😂
Cons00000000000000000meeeeeeeeeeers
What are the conditions of the people in foreign country's who make our stuff?
THEY GET TO EAT!! Take our money away from them and what happens to them? Have an answer for that?
I guess that doesn't matter.... am I right?
Seriously, there is no good answer for the question of cheap foreign labor.
You're wrong. Many foreign workers are children treated horribly. Let's have meaningful lives for all.
It is getting worse now with social media influncers.
And its all made in China.
Watching a film in English?
What happened to literature?
zombies everywhere
Typically American; You analyse the what and how, excellently.! But what aboute the
why and where-from it comes??? when the person is just a baby, totaly dependent on his mother, can't do anything by himself. She cater for all his needs. When he needs something,
she brings/give it to him, without any effort on his part... with his infantile thinking he associate
GETTING with motherly love. Later in life, when mother is not around any more, the shop, and
money take her place..................(still infantile...) (inspired by my friend Zigmund...)
Consumer Culture/Materialism not minimalism normal (narcissist) people are victum/slave to this thing .....
Fact check: USA came in 13th place when it comes to working hours in OECD report. Mexico was 1st. Otherwise, supershallow presentation, not conclusive synthesis, venturing into misleading.
dumb lecture clearly consumerism is a computation that gets more complex in respect to society. hedonism doesn't cause complex shipping distributions. a computational increase in contracts created to contracts with high roi causes larger scale production chains.