Consumerism

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It's Palantir, it's Consumerism, and it's the Atlanta...

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Consumerist.

Consumerism.

Consumerism.

We always wanted to debunk the wellness and well-being space because we felt that it was elitist, expensive.

Consumerist driven and nothing to do with what people actually needed in their lives, more what you were being told you needed to feel better.

And we wanted to prove it.

Yeah.

Radical individualism.

Consumerism.

Consumerism says I approach the world and therefore the church primarily as a consumer of goods and services.

I evaluate the goods and services and experiences available to me according to my needs and preferences.

When something no longer works for me, I can simply find another option on the menu available.

And so we increasingly organize our lives around short-term ease, efficiency, and control.

Radical individualism grinds against the call to bind my life to the good of others.

Consumerism trains me to approach church as one of many religious goods and services that's measured by what I'm getting out of it.

To Romero, consumerism turns society into mindless zombies, and we've been conditioned to believe that having all these material things brings value to our lives.

With that mind, zombies are the most extreme form of people becoming consumed by, well, consuming.

Consumerism, you could say.

Driven only by their need to consume, they lack any sort of awareness.

This is why the zombies instinctively go to the mall because, when alive, the consumption of goods was the only thing that mattered, and now they're consuming as well.