10.01.2024 Material desireproduction&consumption
Conventional material consumption of new products (except for books) makes me feel disconnected. There is a lack of desire involved in the process. No, desire is there, but it’s different. It’s different from the desire that produces new thoughts for example. The difference is not that one is based on material and the other on thought. Thought is material. But the materiality of conventional production and the desire immanent to it is different from the materiality of the production of thoughts (and it’s desire). One is more intensely based on the exploitation and destruction of econature, all the while feeling less substantial/necessary (to my relative conscience). The other requires the same amount of upkeep of my biobody - and all the the exploitation and destruction of econature that comes with such an endeavor - to happen, but it more intensely actives my living body’s faculties. Then there is also the simple fact that my conscious becoming partakes in the process of desireproduction&consumption of thoughts much more often than in the desireproduction&consumption of conventional material products. Which is another reason why actively partaking in conventional material consumption of new products fosters disconnection. I think more when it does happen, which leads to a higher awareness of all the collateral disconnection required in our current processes of production and consumption of material goods. This reason is more specific to my relative subject, the former is more general.