#become an enst major and write a thesis about it???? <- joking | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

frecht · 10 months ago

Text

i really want to tie stuff in because it a hundred percent is a rite of conspicuous consumption in my opinion when you bend the rules to fuse conspiuous consumption and conspicuous display into rites that are about owning things and now exactly buying things bc throws are free but it's all tied together. but it's sooo tonally different from everything else. do you think 1 paragraph about capitalism and the environment will look out of place

jstor fetch me a paper about the environmental impacts of mardi gras. im onto something here

#also there were no papers and im using a news article/press release bc i needed a statistic abt trash left from mardi gras #but actually like someone needs to get on with writing a paper abt this. if i ever had a prompt for a class that i could tie to this i woul #write a whole thing for it. i think i could.#idk. i went to mardi gras years ago w my dad's family and brought home like 20 pounds of beads. plus some stuffed animals #and first of all i will never forget that cheap plastic smell #but like. i spent the next 4-5 years trying to get rid of the beads once i realized hey im stuck with all these. what will i use them for #and i still have a few but i like the ones i kept #and like i caught a dog toy at iris and brought it back for my dog who destroyed it in like 2 weeks even though shes not a toy destroyer #it was like the fast fashion of dog toys.#and theres something there that im not sure how to get at (especially in a paper thats supposed to just be abt examples of different types #of rites that occur in festivals) about cheaply made goods that are just meant to be thrown away #that oly exist for the spectacle of catching them #that clog sewers for months afterwards with toxic chemicals #not to mention the labor practices for whoever is making these beads and toys and plastic toilets!#im actually super invested in this now. but i dont know what to do abt it #become an enst major and write a thesis about it???? <- joking #talkin

5 notes · View notes