Widespread discontent is privatised into consumption and social-media venting

Evidence

Discontent is everywhere in the UK now but for the most part it’s privatised: blunted by alcohol and anti-depressants, or directed into impotent comments box spite and empty social media outrage: “All you Zombies, tweet tweet tweet”. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1355

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Teasing builds solidarity on shared consumption, not shared citizenship — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 793; Consumption practices have replaced political conviction as ideology — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 853; Political questions about toxicity get deflected into anxieties about personal consumption choices. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 77 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Political questions about toxicity get deflected into anxieties about personal consumption choices. #corroborates (0.85) — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 77
• Consumption practices have replaced political conviction as ideology #corroborates (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 853
• Affirmation culture degrades recognitive politics into feel-seen consumerism. #expands (0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 102
• Workers’ latent community hunger gets wasted by privatism. #corroborates (0.80) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 938
• Teasing builds solidarity on shared consumption, not shared citizenship #qualifies (0.75) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 793
• Social media’s brand logic makes normal mind-changing socially punished #expands (0.72) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 551
• Overcommercialized attention harvesting provokes strong social backlash #complicates (0.72) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 69