Ep. 175: The Cult of Consumerism

Leaving Eden Podcast

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🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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On this episode, we discuss cult-like tendencies that surround consumer behavior in luxury market segments and loyalty around certain name-brand products. Topics include luxury watches, musical instruments, and skincare.

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0:00.0	No rolling river of time.
0:07.0	You've healed me in too many days.
0:13.0	No regrets, no confusion.
0:18.0	There'll be no pollution. I'm so thankful i've decided to change my ways
0:29.1	welcome back to the leaving eden podcast we are here with you today my name's gabriel hakoen
0:36.2	and with me as always is my best friend and co-host.
0:41.3	Cult expert, cult survivor, Sadie Carpenter. How's life today, Sadie?
0:46.2	I am doing pretty well. I'm excited to get into this episode.
0:51.4	I am too. This is one. When I was trying to pitch the idea of this episode to
0:57.6	Sadie, I'm not, I'm not sure you were totally sold on this, were you? No, not quite.
1:03.9	Because doing an episode with the idea of, is consumer or is in the cult? Like, is consumerism,
1:08.9	that seems like something that's hard to define and also
1:12.5	hard to prove so i think that the tack that i want to take is when does the desire to own
1:20.8	things and when does the desire to collect things uh worship of brands uh and the status that that
1:27.0	allots you can that become something that resembles
1:30.1	cult control? So I think is consumerism a cult is a great snappy title for this episode
1:37.2	because can social pressures toward consumerism approach a cult-like amount of control over
1:43.1	the consumer doesn't quite flow so well.
1:46.6	No.
1:47.2	But that is the question that we're asking.
1:49.4	In what ways can this be similar to cult control?
1:54.4	The thing that we talk about over and over on this show is how humans are innately tribal and innately impressionable. There are so many
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