Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Some of your tumblr posts seem to contain products marketed at young adults: camel, chanel, makers mark are the ones I remember. Then you post Banksy's diatribe against commercialism. What is your feeling/relationship to media that seeks you as a consumer

Good question! Finally another good one! Even though it's slightly creeperish.

For me it's basically a catch 22; knowing the truth behind the media and corporate consumerism, and having to live and succeed in that same environment. I'm more than well aware of the exploitation of the general public by these large corporations, and yet other than write long rants about it, I'm pretty much powerless to stop it at this point in my life. My goal in life is to become extremely well versed in law so that if/when the day ever comes for me to "do something about it", nobody can fuck with me. So to speak. But right now, as a 19 year old college undergraduate? There's really nothing I can do to completely avoid being a part of this circus. So for now, I just keep myself as informed as possible and try to avoid going to corrupted chains like Starbucks, Walmart, etc, and do my best to succeed in school.

This is part of the reason I love political artists like Banksy; they DO something. Other than some sporadic blogging and writing, I'm not really artistically gifted enough to really start any kind of media revolution. Which is why any person who decides to make a public statement on a scale that he does has my utmost respect and appreciation.

Feel free to follow up on this in another question or even not anonymously, I love discussing this topic.

ask away u beezyy

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