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One bright little bugger rolled under the bed where there grows a virgin forest of fluff and fungi. Two cheerful cousins, “raiding the icebox” as children in old fairy tales, and the thrushes were sweetly whistling in the bright-green garden as the dark-green shadows drew in their claws. The two young discoverers of that strange and sickening treasure commented upon it as follows:

No, poetry is convulsive! It’s bound up in the earth’s tremors! It denounces appearances: it pierces lies and conventions with its sword...until one day – crack – they lose control, they get furious, they break everything, hurl insults, they succumb to violence, sometimes commiting a crime. And it is in the light of the condition of our senses, our capacities...They act with lower levels of self-control due to impulsivity and cannot contain themselves. Greedy people are especially impulsive decision-makers. Consistent with previous studies, a positive corelation between dispositional greed and impulsivity was found. The term “conspicuous” describes upper-class consumption in the post-Industrial Revolution in Europe in the nineteenth century. Through “conspicuous consumption” often came “conspicuous waste.”  

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. For instance, pairing leafy greens with bright oranges or red peppers creates visual dynamism...where an uneven number of items can create a more compelling and aesthetically pleasing arrangement.  

No record has remained of the exact summer day...In summer the nights. Not only when the moon shines, but on dark nights too, as the fireflies flit to and fro, and even when it rains...the single trumpet duplicated and reduplicated itself with other shriller sounds lost its darkness and became pierced with lights. The crows fly back to their nests in threes and fours. A large boiled strawberry is then covered with twenty pounds of steak and honey...and this with a grim, unillusioned pride that suddenly seemed both a reproach and a warning...One must face one’s own death, the unforeseen, our own shadow, the worms that swarm inside us.


                                                                                          

text is cut-up from the following:
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Psychomagic, Alejandro Jodorowsky
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Vladimir Nabokov
The Anatomy of Consumerism: The Story of Excess, Greed, Self-Indulgence..., H. RamHormozi
The Joy of Cooking, Irma Rombauer
Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag
The Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon
Individual Differences in Plate Wasting Behavior: The Roles of Dispositional Greed, Impulsivity, Food Satisfaction, and Ecolabeling, 
Engin Üngüren 1, Ömer Akgün Tekin 2,*, Hüseyin Avsallı 1,* and Yaşar Yiğit Kaçmaz
The Theory of The Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen