I see in the ballad of the snow boots below a metaphor for mental health.
A woman told me she always detested using the word consumer to describe recipients of mental health treatment.
“No kidding,” I told her. You consume soft drinks. You don’t consume healthcare.”
She told me that for those with developmental disabilities the term is now individual. As in individuals who have developmental disabilities.
Imagine that–individual.
Consumers are a mass market. They’re a homogeneous demographic used to sell products. Do we really need to buy what marketers are selling? Buying products should not be the reason for our existence.
I paid $125 for these boots because I wasn’t going to spend $200 on an abominable pair of even uglier fur trapper boots.
A woman told me she liked these boots because they’re trendy, modern. I say: dare to be different. Call yourself an individual.
Buy a different boot instead of UGGs.
People who don’t think and act alike are unpredictable. They can’t be controlled. So in reality consumerism is a form of submission.
Thinking and acting the same as everyone else is a form of submission.
That’s ultimately why I don’t like using the word consumer: it insinuates that we’re all the same and have the same needs.
I say: be an individual. Get on yr boots and walk all over conformity.
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