CONSUMERISTS, THAT’S WHAT WE ARE

It’s incredible how consumerism took a very specific face, a very clever way of justifying it fooling ourselves that we are debating some kind of art. We are spending money to buy products, mass-produced products that do not have any use but cluster our houses or rooms with useless capitalist junk we dare to call art. And we discuss and analyze this type of consumerism deeply even with philosophical questions. Which can’t detach it from being a curious example of cybernetic sociologic manifestation. And there are fans of one or other of this money-sucker companies. I’m a Sideshow fanboy. But the best show I ever saw was this year XM at STGCC. Look, I’m an insider, I’m one of the feeders of this network of unknown people that share the same “hobby” (the other name to invest your money, time or effort in something useless you like).

23h08. I’m in Brazil, smoked a bit of a joint and came here to communicate with you because it is the best way I can devise to spend the effect. I’m listening to The Cure. But I guess I’ll put Björk. A few get Björk, but those like me who understand that what she does is the avant-garde of world music, it’s not pop, it’s something without a label, singular are in for a treat. She can’t be characterized, she created several groundbreaking albums, the one I admire the most is Medúlla, all recorded solemnly using voices and every track is different from the other, musically speaking, arrange to speak. I will put Medúlla to hear right now. Not now. Now I will take my consumerist ass to smoke. I don’t mind being a consumerist, everyone in a capitalist society is consumerist, apart from the mendigos. They are the anticapitalism so to say and it doesn’t seem to be a nice place to be. In need of material things but also with deeper needs like dignity and social acceptance. They make part of the same society, they are no less citizens then we are. Sorry, I smoked another round of joint and took a detour on the subject. But I can only imagine how harsh life was to those poor souls that put them in such a miserable situation. My consumerism reached its peak with the acquisition of Batman Beyond White Edition from the so praised, with an almost blind appraisal, Prime 1. The first and only piece from them. And there’s Azure Dragon, my last piece for a while or my last piece for once, I don’t know. I think it’s time for me to quit. Azure Dragon being my last try of including exotic pieces in my collection, mostly formed by Sideshow pieces. I even have a t-shirt with the brand Sideshow. Look where consumerism took me. Lol. And I’m very proud of it. Use only on certain occasions, don’t want to wear it off anytime soon.

0h07. I was remembering of an uncle of mine. Will smoke a cigarette now.

0h16. I’m back and don’t really know what to talk about. I believe in the Technological Singularity. It’s kind of a God of mine. Or the beginning of it for us humans. I never believed in God, in any god. I was taught this way. Until a revelation I had was “supported” by the book The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil. There I discovered the concept of Technological Singularity that matched perfectly with my revelations. But I don’t know how believer I am. However, I’m an optimist about the future. The future of humankind.

0h40. Went to eat and smoke a cigarette. I think with the weight of the food in my stomach I’m going to sleep soon. I played Zelda: Breath of the Wild and I had a good time this way around what I found surprising, to say the least. I’m intending to give it another chance, I want to see what lies beyond and this is what drives a Zelda game or a Metroid game, the wish to discover how to reach a new path. About statues. The 1/4 Wolverine from XM and the one from Sideshow are a tight match. The brown costume is my favorite one. Masked, I prefer XM, unmasked, Sideshow. But won’t get any. I have Wolverine Beast Mode here, I don’t need another.

0h51. I remembered now from the arc of Daredevil written by Frank Miller and drawn by David Mazzucchelli. One of the best I ever read in a normal comic. The other is the Alan Moore phase ahead of Swamp Thing. I must admit I’ve never read Sandman though. But it seems an interesting read, the problem is I stopped reading everything. I stopped watching television, I almost stopped to play games. I spend my life in front of this computer, writing and listening to music. I dream of a girl and about have my room remodeled to accommodate my collection. Have no more dreams than those two. Hope some free space to be possible so I can acquire two or three more 1/4s. It would be better four or five but I’m not so optimistic. Only that Batman Beyond will steal a huge chunk of space. And to think I will see him only by the end of 2021 is kind of disappointing when my brother comes to visit us again. I don’t know. He travels December 20 maybe it ships before. Then I’ll ask him to bring it to me and left behind Rebel Terminator and Sonja: Queen of Scavengers.

1h28. I’m waiting for the payment of a figure I’ve sold on eBay (for cheap). I will have to make money to Azure Dragon the only figure that awes me as much as Batman: Sanity. But the Batman is too much expensive and complex to have it in Brazil. I would exchange my Batman Beyond for this piece in a blink of an eye. But is too much for me. Azure Dragon is more akin to my possibilities, delivered in Brazil, what will make the statue that much more expensive due to additional shipping costs and Brazilian crazy customs taxes. 60% over price plus shipping as far as I’m concerned. And here I am talking about consumerism. Is it such a terrible word. An offensive word? What to expect if we live in a capitalist system that uses its resources to make more money for a few. I’m not against capitalism, it drives innovation and that’s good for the world. But it should not outdo democracy or democracies. Humankind has ambition innate it’s one of the coils to development of the technology and sciences and everything human. There’s a bad side to it because this urge for power may lead a man to go against the law and common sense and common good for its own benefice. I know this because I have this repressed in me so I can fit into society and because I have very limited power. Consumerists. Or would we be investing in state of the art pop culture? Statues sculpted digitally of icons of the pop culture. North American mostly. In my case, Japanese as well because I have several PVC figures. Evangelion and Fate Stay Night most part. Asuka being my preferred character. At the end of the day, most people in the world feel the need to have something material and dearly to oneself. We, collectors, have several and they don’t end and stop to evolve. I will smoke the last cigarette of the night.

2h16. It’s funny to write to you in the mood I’m in. I just followed the flux of my thoughts it’s a super fun experience.

2h31. It’s curious how from consumerism could flourish a vibrant, positive, friendly community of people from all around the globe. Mostly men, but I can spot new women coming to this world, to this addiction that must be very well tamed.

I’m a consumerist and feel ashamed of that. If I allocated the money, I spend in those figures to help serious humanitarian causes I would be causing a positive impact on the world not only on myself. Well, that’s what I felt like to say after smoking half a joint.