Experiential Consumerism

[Edie]

I think sometimes they can be attractive chances to do things that you’d never usually have the opportunity or skills or equipment to do?

I’ve not had one but I’d like to have one, a long group hike in Scotland, or I’d love a hot air balloon ride (I nearly got one for my 40th but had to use the money for the German exchange ), or I’d love to have a go at making mosaics. I totally get the whole concept actually

Some of my most precious memories have been experiences. Taking my eldest to the top of the Shard in the dark when he was 13 is the one that comes to mind. He looked down at London and was just astonished.

Why don’t you all club together and get me a Peru hill walking holiday, and a HD TV, and I’ll report back which was best?

 

[Treacle Toes]

I think sometimes they can be attractive chances to do things that you’d never usually have the opportunity or skills or equipment to do?

I’ve not had one but I’d like to have one, a long group hike in Scotland, or I’d love a hot air balloon ride (I nearly got one for my 40th but had to use the money for the German exchange ), or I’d love to have a go at making mosaics. I totally get the whole concept actually

Some of my most precious memories have been experiences. Taking my eldest to the top of the Shard in the dark when he was 13 is the one that comes to mind. He looked down at London and was just astonished.

Why don’t you all club together and get me a Peru hill walking holiday, and a HD TV, and I’ll report back which was best?

https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/fund-my-holiday-twats.350689/

 

[Yossarian]

good luck selling those

 

[wayward bob]

tbf, mushing huskies (holiday this year) was the best thing i've ever done bar nothing. but the consumerism required to get me in the right place at the right time was far from insignificant

 

[wayward bob]

ha! synchronicity

 

[ferrelhadley]

Seems to be a thing now amongst my better off m/c friends.

People who not so long ago were very materialistic are now all "Oh, We're not about 'stuff' we're about 'experiences'".

Which they then buy as a package based upon whatever is in vogue amongst their peers.

Yuk.

Slagging off your mates behind their backs. Are you trying to come across as a bit of a cunt?

 

[Poi E]

Yoga experience for you

 

[chilango]

Slagging off your mates behind their backs. Are you trying to come across as a bit of a cunt?

Why do you care?

 

[yield]

The marketing of stuff like Transformative as worth paying a premium for depends on some strange and extremely inauthentic notions. Negative experiences are IMO far, far more truly transformative than fun ones. Having a car or bike accident or losing something important like a job or a spouse or a home or a child are sure as fuck transformative. I'm not sure doing a skydive strapped to someone's belly or white-water rafting somewhere pretty are really as transformative as say a drug overdose or a really good bout of food poisoning or losing a fight.

David Fincher's The Game is bourgeois fantasy about transformation through trauma.

Spoiler: plot

The plot is a bit daft though. How would the company know he'd jump there? If it's meaning is free will why doesn't he seem to have any?

 

[mojo pixy]

^ just looked that up and seen it's also a film, directed by the author of the book. Something to do this evening

 

[NoXion]

Slagging off your mates behind their backs. Are you trying to come across as a bit of a cunt?

Funny, I don't remember him calling them cunts.

 

[Teaboy]

I like doing stuff and I live in a one bed flat so have no room for things. I never knew I was so trendy.

 

[8ball]

I like doing stuff and I live in a one bed flat so have no room for things. I never knew I was so trendy.

Doesn't matter what you do - sooner or later you're going to be fashionable for a few minutes.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Seems to be a thing now amongst my better off m/c friends.

People who not so long ago were very materialistic are now all "Oh, We're not about 'stuff' we're about 'experiences'".

Which they then buy as a package based upon whatever is in vogue amongst their peers.

Yuk.

I've had plenty of experiences, I didn't pay for them. I could do with some more 'stuff' (or better stuff) though, thanks.

I too have had many 'experiences', some of which I would have paid not to have.

 

[pesh]

There was a TV prog years ago whose premise was three pairs of people got dropped somewhere extremely remote with almost no money and the first pair to get home were the winners.

I have wondered if anyone offers that kind of thing as An Experience you can buy. I reckon there would be a market for it, but the costs of putting it on safely, and of making sure the participants had no idea where they were when they started, would be massive.

Tribe of Munt used to offer that experience.

 

[seventh bullet]

I don't mix with better off m/c types so the 'experience' is getting drunk and enhancing the few hours of freedom with more illicit substances in between making sure my elderly arthritic mother's home is clean and tidy and her grocery shopping is sorted.

I know what the OP means though. But, the proles need more of it too. Not necessarily in the way talked about but you know ...

Just because cunts get to have narrowly-defined 'fun' within the context of this shithouse iteration of capitalism doesn't mean 'we' shouldn't demand it. The purpose of humans isn't ceaseless drudgery.