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It's extremely tongue-in-cheek in cheek, lmfao. Although one thing about making it personal doesn't work for most people, because, as you point out, they just opt for the well-worn, tried, and true path. They have no personalities of their own, never mind taste in the first place. When this place was less of a shithole you would see the same thing in the WAYWT thread, most users would default to 'uniforms' a white t shirt with a black bomber and skinny jeans. or flecktarn, grey sweater, jeans and boots, etc.
And even then, most people are consumers. Even when they are able to make things personal, they don't make anything themselves; they are not producing anything, they're just buying stuff other people have made and created, and organizing it. And I'm not sure if this constitutes a type of production because while it's the result of a personal view on the objects, it's also largely formulaic and follows certain established templates, like as we've discussed prior in these threads the design shop aesthetic, the DWR sale raiders, etc etc etc. It's more algorithmic and mechanical than accretic or creative imo. A long time ago I had the idea of 'considered consumption'. If we are doomed to be consumers because of structural forces largely out of our control, then we should at least be thoughtful and, as you say, personal in our choices, understand what makes an object 'good' and strive to consume only good objects and things, however, even then it's just another layer of cope

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