Just a note; The audio on this video is not great. I was interested in the subject, but could not clearly hear you speaking, had to increase the volume, and then it sounded like a cheap microphone, far away.
There is a further extrapolation from this: all possessions represent fears. Luxury goods are salient because they are supposed to be. But owning a jacket at all represents fear of the cold - and taking it to the extreme - owning clothes at all represents fear of nakedness.
Could luxury goods also represent other decision matrixes, like a signaling inclusion or exclusion into a social group, trust and loyalty in a brand, self appreciation, self loathing, short term thinking, or a number of other alternative world views?
Certainly, in my own life, I spend likely too much time and effort in seeking brutal pragmatism, but it doesn't mean everyone else enjoys that.
I'm not a social psychologist, so I can't make blanket statements for certain. But there's a risk here of taking a rather reductionist view.
Is there insecurity, hedonism, and self validation? Most definitely. But as with many things in life, many things hold up to simple answers under superficial examination.
Because there is also history and many psychological and social layers to unravel. Understanding these leads to the complexity of individuals and our diverse relationships with sensory experience, desire, and even merely wanting to feel more alive.
A price-tag-driven approach quickly leads to a famous Oscar Wilde quote of Lord Darlington. Which is of course immediately followed Cecil Graham's quote about sentimentalists.
Just a note; The audio on this video is not great. I was interested in the subject, but could not clearly hear you speaking, had to increase the volume, and then it sounded like a cheap microphone, far away.
There is a further extrapolation from this: all possessions represent fears. Luxury goods are salient because they are supposed to be. But owning a jacket at all represents fear of the cold - and taking it to the extreme - owning clothes at all represents fear of nakedness.
Could luxury goods also represent other decision matrixes, like a signaling inclusion or exclusion into a social group, trust and loyalty in a brand, self appreciation, self loathing, short term thinking, or a number of other alternative world views?
Certainly, in my own life, I spend likely too much time and effort in seeking brutal pragmatism, but it doesn't mean everyone else enjoys that.
I'm not a social psychologist, so I can't make blanket statements for certain. But there's a risk here of taking a rather reductionist view.
Is there insecurity, hedonism, and self validation? Most definitely. But as with many things in life, many things hold up to simple answers under superficial examination.
Because there is also history and many psychological and social layers to unravel. Understanding these leads to the complexity of individuals and our diverse relationships with sensory experience, desire, and even merely wanting to feel more alive.
A price-tag-driven approach quickly leads to a famous Oscar Wilde quote of Lord Darlington. Which is of course immediately followed Cecil Graham's quote about sentimentalists.