Hello again, beautiful beautiful beings and welcome back to another expand podcast episode with

yours truly, Elizabeth April. Today, I want to talk all about social consumerism and the impact that it has on our mind, body, soul,

as well as our fight and flight tendencies. So social consumerism is a term that I just made up. I don't know if it's a legit thing out there. I

wouldn't be surprised, to be honest. Maybe a new psychological term, right? Wouldn't be surprised.

Now, typical consumerism, like materialism, is where we are consuming the materials in our reality,

buying shit on Amazon,

stuffing our shelves with things.

For me personally,

I am a consumerism of art and utility.

Those are kind of the two categories. And to be honest, I love to consume,

but only certain things in particular, other than food, because I really do love food. But I love

art. I love traditional forms of art. I love graphic forms of art. I love sculpture art. Like, I'm an artist, but I love art. I just

love it so much. So there's that. And then the other thing that I like to consume is utility.

This is what I call utility. For me, anyway, anything that serves a purpose or multiple purposes, I consider utility. So say, for example, I have crystals on my desk. Yes, they look beautiful, but they actually have jobs to do. They actually do things and not just, you know, look beautiful. So I consider Crystal's

utility. Same thing with plants. Plants look beautiful. They give a certain energy and frequency

to the room and to the house, but they are also oxygen-bearing devices, right? So they are utility. So I love utility things because it's useful,

right? So I'm not going to hate on consumerism, but I just kind of want to maybe just talk a

little bit about consumerism and the way that it's really switched. Now, we can all say that consumerism has increased.

You know, we could blame Instagram accounts and influencers for that. I mean, some of the

largest influencers out there are just because they have money. Like, it it's such a in my mind anyway a grotesque

awareness of humanity. It's like oh I've got a Rolls Royce and a bends and a Gucci purse

all the other things right and they have millions and millions and millions of followers. And it blows my mind because it's

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