Consumption Dramatics
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Life is filled with inconveniences.
We have millions of idle unemployed here in Turkey. Bankers and politicians stole all the money. Greed is good is their mantra.
Government is organized crime.
Soma Mine disasters with catastrophic loss of life is a fact of life for diggers making $500 a month. My job is to sell stuff.
Treasures to be dusted on archaic mantelpieces. People buy things to make themselves happy - in the short term. They want to impress family and friends. They get bored, forget about it, lose it, throw it away or donate it to charity and buy more stuff.
It’s a never-ending insatiable desire of supply and demand consumption dramatics.
Advertising never dies. Fools are ruled by their emotions. Fear. Enough psycho-social-babble.
What brought you here?
My feet.
Playing with fire in Ulus, Turkey.