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Spruiking anti consumerism

12 months ago I decided to stop accepting spruiking work.

Spruiking is about creating a false sense of urgency in shoppers, talking up products, installing a temporary FOMO and encouraging people to make impulse purchases (often of stuff they have no need for).

Spruiking pays well and I’m good at it. My conscience and my heart were not good at it though.

Mindless, impulsive, over consumption is not what I’m about. It can’t be what any of us should be about.

I stopped being ok with validating people purchasing new when I know that perfectly good, cheaper, second hand alternatives are on offer at thrift stores, tip shops and garage sales everywhere.

My mic is now silent but my public voice on consumerism is now louder.

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Rant: Take Responsibility for Your Actions, Part 4

Writer: okbdsm Source: Multiple sources (including FetLife) Date: August 29, 2018 Errata: This is the final part of a series of rants regarding the importance of taking responsibility for your actions because whether you’re in individual, a small business, or a major corporation, if you are not going to honor your commitments, then you are putting your own personal and professional reputation at risk.

In 2012, one of my friends on FetLife would end up telling me about a camming Website called MyFreeCams. Either that same year or a year later, I would end up discovering another camming Website called Chaturbate. Fast forward to 2018, I would dive into the world of Patreon.

This is actually going to be the longest of my rants, so the rest of it can be viewed via the Read More link.

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Plz tag your anti-Snow stuff. Thx!

…except I wrote a post mentioning both positive traits and - yes - things I personally perceive as character flaws. I think I was being nuanced. I didn’t consider that post as being against Snow at all, I’m pretty sure I mentioned her good intentions and her wish for everyone to share her happiness. That’s not how I use the anti-tags. I only use them… quite frankly I only use them for one reason, because the amount of people in some specific subgroups have shown that the amount of people capable of having a mature conversation there is pretty small - I seek out the ones that do in other ways. If I’d use those tags outside of that it would be for outright character bashing, which isn’t really something I do often if at all.

To me, using the anti-tags too much, it feels a little bit like moving to an online gated community of sorts? That’s not who I am. I want you to tell me that you don’t agree with my assessment of Snow and tell me why, you know? It’s like travelling, you learn to see different perspectives, because you interact. I might not agree with you, but I also might… end up agreeing if you offer me a different way of seeing things. If I’d tag everything anti, I would take away my own chance of learning something and growing.

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My reasons for going (90%) vegan:

1. Alleviate my own cognitive dissonance (”psychic discomfort”).

The feelings that arise when I looked at meat, thinking “this was part of an animal that was raised, killed, and probably lived a horrible life, just for my convenience and gustatory pleasure.” I could no longer justify eating animals, when the option to eat vegan was easily available to me.

2. Feeling of moral self-efficacy/certainty. Contributing in my own small way.

In a time of personal flux (trying to articulate my ethics), veganism represents an area of moral clarity: expanding our circle of empathy/concern to other sentient beings. An ideal to strive for. Though a 100% vegan world may not happen in my lifetime, I can glimpse it, through my own actions.

My individual dietary choice comprises only a minute contribution, but I also have completely control over it. I can’t justify not doing it, if I know it’s easy to do and reduces suffering in the world. None of us should feel that we are “above” our individual ethics/duties. We should all challenge ourselves to do better, once we know better.

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Thankfully, I don’t think “desire to feel morally superior” was part of my motivation this time. When I went pescetarian/flexetarian/vegetarian before, I was more eager to tell people about it. But it’s a shaky, dangerous motivation to rely on. Because if/when you don’t perfectly adhere to the dietary change, it means you are morally inferior.

It’s not about feeding your ego and feeling morally superior to others. It’s not even about doing veganism (or any other moral cause) perfectly. It’s about challenging yourself to do better.

We are all compelled by different kinds of suffering. No one can perfectly champion every moral cause, and choosing to focus on one particular cause does not necessarily make us “better” than other people. But by representing our chosen cause with integrity and grace, we invite others to ask questions, to get involved. We help guide one another toward redemption. To rise above the inherent cruelty of this world, and the selfish instincts we were all born with. Maybe we didn’t ask to be born. But we can strive to make the most of this life - of being human - anyway. We are the only species capable of visualizing a better world, and working to reduce suffering.

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When applying to graduate school, I knew I wanted to learn more about higher education so I could be a better resource for my current students, and the future ones I will work within whatever capacity that may be. I’ve been privileged to have access to these spaces of higher learning, and I’m thankful for my college education helping to spur me to be where I am today. That’s primarily the reason I became involved with college access to begin with. I recognize the privileges that allowed me to operate more fluidly in gaining access to these spaces, but I also recognize it was a struggle trying to navigate it all being the first in my family to go to college. I spent most of my time following what my friends were doing and trying to tell my parents what I needed to do without their full comprehension of the process. However, their support was always there and it’s something I could not have done without to be where I am today.

This foundation is what continues to drive me as I support students to this day. Working with College Advising Corps, both in a high school and then virtually, allowed me the opportunity to help support high school students figuring out what their next steps are and to be the resource that I needed. I wanted to provide that unconditional support my parents showed me, but with the college knowledge capital that I so desperately sought. Working at the Emily K. Center has allowed me to do this and so much more. With the intentionality behind each interaction I have with my students, to the support our staff will go above and beyond to provide, the center has been a space where my professional and personal ethics have aligned seamlessly.

However, more recently I’ve been existentially grappling with my role in higher education as I help support students into these domains. The more I learn about it, the more I understand its faults, the inequities that exist, the problematic origins, and the commodification of underrepresented students, like my seniors at EKC, in these higher education spaces. More importantly, I’ve been asking myself if I’m not only helping my students to see and navigate the pathways into post-secondary opportunities but am I helping provide the tools to navigate spaces that haven’t always been cultivated for them?

I’ve brought up this concept a lot with colleagues, cohort-mates, peers, and individuals I look up to in higher education, and it’s something that many of us are struggling with. Ethically, I’ve questioned if I have been preparing my students for these next steps and how I can I do this better? But one piece of advice has stuck with me and continues to ground me without losing sight of my goals to be a resource for students. Dr. Travers spoke to me once and said instead of tackling the larger system, we can only control our spheres of influence. It is in these spaces, that we can have the most impact; with our family, friends, colleagues at work, the students we work with, etc. I was trying to conceptualize my spheres of influence and it really sank in on one particular occasion.

On January 21st of this year, I was honored to help support some of our EKC students in a local MLK Day of Service event. We volunteered with a local program, Keep Durham Beautiful, that advocates for and creates green spaces in communities that historically have been neglected due to redlining and gentrification. We spent a few hours planting trees and bushes on sidewalk areas, near individuals’ homes, and in community spaces. It was a sobering moment to think about how most of the beautiful wooded areas and neighborhoods in Durham are those centered around White families and access to these White spaces. This was a moment for us to ever so slightly reclaim the equity of the physical landscape and environment for the individuals living in this community.

There weren’t many seniors there, but I spent a majority of my time with three seniors, Gustavo, Leo, and Alexis (pictured above). During this time I spent with my students, we didn’t talk about college. We didn’t talk about the schools they were accepted to. We didn’t talk about how senior year classes were going. Working alongside them, we spent these precious hours talking about ourselves, laughing at jokes, and relishing in the cultivation of community. We even spent our time talking about philosophy (I’ve been teaching them about epistemologies), what it means to be human, and practicing and experiencing empathy for ourselves and others. I couldn’t help but think how proud I was to be in a positive space, doing work for our community, while having the opportunity to see these young adults be a part of something so much larger than ourselves.

As I continue to grapple with higher education and the perpetuation of inequality, this story is a part of my professional ethics. I know the beauty of connection with my students. I know the incredible value college has brought to my life and the education they seek to amplify their own. These are the moments of connection that I strive for which go beyond classroom walls. This is where our spheres of influence are truly impacted. I will always be grateful for this chance, privilege, and opportunity to work with these students because I don’t know what I would do without them.

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