I’m not asking about ads in general, but it might be part of the same behavior. I mean the trend of showing media/art like Finding Nemo and people immediately going over-your-head with the message and buying endangered fish.

Is this commodity fetishization, and if so, what are things an artist or creator can do to curb that? Is this something that is considered the responsibility of the creator?

Can anybody suggest readings or authors that shed light on this problem or possible solutions?

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I would suppose we do it in a very similar way to which we get past people seeing things directly and saying “I want that”.

    Either by putting as much as possible under the collectivized modek so that people get used to it, or by instilling a sort of ambivalence over owning things (e.g. having to lug everything you own across town without using a motor, or maybe just not having arbitrary amounts of storage as something you can just buy).