As a physiologist, I want to clarify some functions of dopamine and serotonin. Dopamine of course modulates a sense of reward, but it has more to do with motivation. In the best scenario, dopamine actually does help motivate us to participate in long-term projects. If you already know and have experienced the reward behind and understood action, you actually get the most dopamine release in the build up to receive that result. Dopamine is released during new rewards. Serotonin, on the other hand, specifically influences mood. It is not simply a happiness chemical. For example, there is a circuit in the brain which shuts down the prefrontal cortex and therefore shuts down some logical reasoning while a trauma response is being formed. Serotonin released within this circuit actually creates the trauma response. You don't want all the serotonin all across your brain always. When it comes to the ways that social media hijacks our reward system, essentially, what it is doing is taking away neurochemical resources from our long-term motivation system.
Balancing neurotransmitters is the new humourism. "Dopamine is hot and dry and makes you act like a cokehead, while serotonin is cool and wet and makes you act like a stoner. Meditate and medicate your way to balance." But as the good doctor pointed out, the effects of the transmitters, like other signals, depend on context. The color red can signal "stop," or "get out of here now."
My mother’s friend had a thing she would say when I was growing up, and it’s stuck with me: We’re all a few missed paychecks away from giving lap dances at a truck stop to survive. Unless you’re rich, but that’s a conversation neither of us can afford.
@@activistwitchyeah, most people couldn't just get hired. you have to be strong to poledance. plus have the approved physical appearance and tolerance for the work.
Most people aren’t willing or ready to step outside of their performative activism to have such nuanced conversation and radical empathy. I appreciate this video so much.
youre righ and to be fair, i am not sure even i would have understood the practicality of things had things not gotten as bad as they did at some point. empathy would be great but as human beings sympathy is much easier to develop when theres a chance of identification more than abstraction. if sharing my research and my first hand experience helps others being better than me before i fell on hard times, then it was almost worth it!
Gonna make a painting that says "Pleasure but not happiness" that I can upload as the front for all of my debit and credit cards from this day forward.
I am so glad someone is finally pointing this out. As a fervent nature lover I try my best to be eco-conscious within my means, but the thing is, living sustainably IS expensive and time consuming. I have bills to pay and only 24 hours in a day, when am I supposed to churn my butter and sew my clothes? Also, speaking of clothes, I'm in love with your sweater 🐸💗
The most problematic thing is I deed how capitalism just turned things around and went: no why should the system change when I can provide the illusion of ethical consumption for a premium and that way pit people against each other? We'd love to think as individuals we can make a change but capitalism uses that to make us focus on the wrong thing when the only thing that works is organising as people against the system
Ah, I can see why witches have historically been marginalized and persecuted. This all makes too much sense! Kind of scary to the power structure. Great podcast!
Yeah in fairness there's an entire video to be made based solely on how the witches trials were really against women living independently of a man out of their own labour helping other women (midwives) or the village (herbalist). Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch is entirely about that and maybe if it's of interest might do a video specifically about that in the future
Something I always try to remember is that if I didn't need it and go looking for it, buying it isn't my decision. If I go to the store and see something and say oh that's so cute I should buy it, that decision has been made for me by someone who couldn't care less about adding value to my life. Me choosing not to buy it won't bankrupt the corrupt companies marketing it, but it will preserve a little bit of my free will and that is enough reason to ignore the dopamine rush of "retail therapy." I'm not fighting against capitalism because I think I can win, I'm fighting to protect my ability to keep fighting.
And if you can make that choice and it makes you feel better good for you. It becomes a problem when our "goodness" becomes something to look down upon others who we don't know the struggle of to judge the choice by our own metre.
Yarn and nice enough fabric to make clothing that will look professionally made up when sewn up if you have that skill is also very expensive, probably even more expensive than buying from a store so even if you know how to knit or sew it’s not less expensive, especially if you’re allergic to acrylic products like I am so I can’t use a lot of the less expensive yarns. I can knit and I do sew to mend my clothes if they have been damaged but it isn’t at all cost effective to make my own clothes or to knit much actual clothing outside of for my own enjoyment in making it, so I mostly don’t make it myself I buy it because I can’t afford spending that much on clothes.
It used to be. I learned to sew in the 90's and for about a decade I made my own clothes cheaper than at stores, but since 2000's it is cheaper to buy clothes from fast fashion (and the fabric is probably produced under the same conditions) Yarn is extremely expensive! if you can spin your own yarn, you can get wool for free or a bottle of wine from hobby meat farmers though (but the amount of time an effort to make a sweater is huge - why we made factories in the first place)
As a person who sews... I love this! I get most of my fabrics by thrifting or repurposing thrifted clothing. Just because something is repurposed or thrifted doesn't mean it's uncomfortable or cheaply made. I often find high-end designer clothing when thrifting, so I end up with nicer items than I could afford to buy new. Plus - There is so much satisfaction in making and wearing your own creations! I produce clothing I need and love - and it usually last a lot longer because I create items that will last. The history you brought was fascinating! The part about how this all impacts our brains chemically was so interesting, too! Thank you for sharing all this!!!
Perfect video. Hits exactly all of what my silly little brain wants. Discussions of capitalism, marketing schemes of morality, dopamine addictions, “pleasure but not happiness,” and the place of aesthetics/cores as both sedative and signifiers, among others. My brain spins on these topics seemingly endlessly and I like the way you’ve brought them together. I watched this video in quick succession after Zoe Bees video on fascism and imagination, which has led me to connect some dots, especially regarding potentially utilizing the impacts of the pandemic for radical change. These are good videos to watch together, I would recommend the combo. Also I like organized, yet unscripted style. Perfect video, good job, thank you.
So here's the shocking thing to me: on another channel I tried to make video essays since 2021. Zoe Bee is indeed one of the video essayst I most looked up to so hearing that accidentally on this channel that started purely for person reasons I managed to do something that echos and resonates with people who watch those I so look up to means truly the world. Thank you for your word, thank you for watching, thank you for taking the time to tell me this 🙏🏽🖤
1:00:21 on the cage-free vs caged eggs: I just took an animal welfare/ethics program and an animal husbandry program (each 16 credits) back to back and we talked extensively about caged vs cage-free egg or broiler chickens honestly torn. Cage free chickens get to roam around, but the legal requirement for how many chickens can occupy space is increased (so they’re packed tighter), they have higher risk of disease, bullying, cannibalism, etc. Caged chickens don’t get to roam around, but they are also physically safer from disease and other chickens. So it depends on what aspects of animal welfare you care about. It’s a lot more complicated than that, with a lot more factors, but that’s the 101 of the complexity of the topic.
Really loved this video. Especially the discussion of dopamine and how the drive for more drives consumerism. It really helps me put my personal psychology into a historical context in a way that is providing valuable insight. Thank you! And I appreciate the reminder to look at the context of someone's situation before moralizing on their actions.
Omg please talk about the pandemics! Suddenly all the things disabled people had been asking for like theatre at home and jobs able to be done at home and had always been told couldn't be done... Happened so easy! And now? It's all gone
I will definitely look into it to see if there is actual research done on it otherwise might take me some time but even just speaking to disabled people or people who became disabled during the pandemic with long COVID and such, might be needed sooner rather than later
I am disabled, and one of the best things that ever happened for me was home delivery from supermarkets and other local stores becoming available. Fortunately, that's one of the changes that seems to have stuck after the pandemic.
Honestly, this is fairly refreshing- A lot of people shit on people for buying fast fashion, and the "consumerism" and that stuff. But people are poor and people want new and nice things... I lived in near poverty conditions, like sorry I want to be able to buy something pretty, instead of buying bargain bin clothes that look like shit and are uncomfortable, but is cheap.... There is pretty much no ethical consumption under capitalism. Like yes - Shein is environmentally crappy. But we are broke and they have nice stuff, and for someone overweight like me - they actually have my size. None of the local stores carry anything my size that doesn't look like Alla Pugacheva's closet. So sorry, I will buy my cottagecore sweater, and a pair of pants from Shein, so I can actually come to work looking decent. (Legit I have been wearing the same 3 pairs of leggings for the past 5 months, coz my last pair of jeans got torn and is way too expensive to buy now ones.)
We are on the same boat so truly I am glad this resonates. The way capitalism has marketed morality is so ironic and you're right: there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. In my original comment reply to that thread I also brough up the size point as well so thank you for mentioning it!
literally. and shein clothes don’t just break down as if they’re tissue paper. i’ve seen all of hot topic’s merch feel and look the exact same as shein stuff. it’s all from the same chinese manufacturers so idk what ppl’s problems are. idk what ppl have going on w their washer and dryers but shein clothes have never torn or fell apart after a wash. i think ppl just don’t know how to wash their stuff imo. at least i don’t spend $80 on three things on shein like i do hot topic
@@LaLaLoopsyCutie my only problem with shein is their dyes are not very good so you are going to have to wash them separately from other clothes and in short cycles, but they do not get ripped to shreds. Also, you can mend them fine. I've had fast fashion dresses I've been using for 10 years. You're absolutely correct.
@@RoseBleueDuRosierSec oh yeah, like the bit about "shein exists because it's how the system was set up for profit" makes absolutely sense for it not to have high quality materials (though with care they can definitely survive more than the hate marketing against it say)
This is such a refreshing video! It has been bugging me lately how many of the content creators I see push slow fashion products but are unrealistically pricey! Paying $245 (not counting shipping) for ONE single item of clothing is just not reachable for so many of us. It is very easy when the company gifts these items to the content creator. It's just not our reality. We shouldn't be feeling awful about ourselves for buying fast fashion clothes which is more affordable. And if we think on it, thrift stores depend on people that donate their fast fashion items. Thrift stores are not what they used to be. Since they are on "trend" they're becoming just as pricey.
my local thrift stores are full of shein clothes that are more expensive than on the shein site 😭😭 luckily I am able to spend the time to shop around and wait for sales/coupons and such but to say that thrifting is a good replacement for ALL fast fashion is just not realistic
Idk I usually don’t comment under videos but I found your channel and I’m so happy cause your videos are great and finally I know that there are other activist witches out there! Lots of love❤
Thank you for an absolutely brilliant video 😊 The nuances are exactly what I have wanted to see someone cover - especially classism and poverty, and you have done all that so well.
thank you so much Kayleen it helps so much to hear it other can appreciate the nuances. Alas it is true that there is no ethical consumption against capitalism, but whilst trapped in it we can either fight each other or understand and then support each other against the system, and I hope all I do serves the latter
Thank you for all the work you did to research this topic! I must admit that I fall asleep to cottage core every night. Puts me right to sleep. What is with the corsets worn on the outside of a dress??? I don't get it! LOL That and always with the leather belt. OMG I am so far from Cottage Core! Even witch core. My sister farmed. I know what farming looks like, and it's not cottage core. I know what witching looks like, and it's not witch core, but I find both inspiring as far as the aesthetics go. My house is Trish Core. I have a style all my own. I LOVE this awesome and thought-provoking video. By the way, your sweater is SO CUTE, and you look cute in it.
I feel you! The life in my grandparents farm and the cottage core aesthetic are as far from each other on practical terms as one can imagine, I noticed it every time I spent time in a rented cottage built and furnished exactly according to an aesthetic rather than the real practical way a farm cottage is set up.
Trish Core yessssss! 😂 I know what farming looks like! 👏 lol - exactly - here in Devon its a lot of mud all the time living next to woodlands and farms - but it gets soooooo romanticised its actually odd when you start to objectively consider it Xx
This video is honestly pure gold Ysha! Amazing beautiful voices - I loved this so much. And yes soooo true. I felt nourished, seen, heard, held, supported and fortified listening to this - like finding my tribe ♥ I love how you approached this with such sensitivity and understanding - the nuances around this are so key to highlight as well - the elitism of aesthetics! Just so beautifully articulated! 👏 Thank you thank u thank u! ☺ 🙌 🌟 I am so thrilled that your work is reaching more people as well. Truly magical. So grateful for u and your voice in the community 😘 Xxxx
Thank you so so much Emily I am very glad to hear it resonated. I've always wanted to make this kind of video and I'm glad if in the future there will be other ways to bring random theory that got stuck in my head through the years with witchy examples that fit 😉👍🏽
Oh oop I already watched this before lol still a fantastic video tho! We def need more of this content online! Also I love that you‘re a witch too! Same here! Love that for us :D
I just started this video but the first moment of it is YES 🙌 Thank you! Witchcraft is literally becoming the fashion brand and many just go around and by cheaply made, non eco-friendly products, that they may have for a few days or weeks that they wear only because mainstream media deems it “trendy” and “cute”. I am all about people exploring other spiritual paths and getting things that resonates with their soul. I’m not here to criticize those that buy cheap stones and call themselves witches (though that’s a whole can in itself) I’m here to agree that the term witchcraft has become diluted somewhat in these times. Cottage core or green witchcraft is the most common because the whole “eco friendly” vibe and “becoming more in tuned with nature.” “Making your own stuff by scratch.” Which is grate! If you’re actually doing it. But a lot of those people arnt. They instead of up cycling old jars from peanut butter or jam or using herbs and stuff they do have on hand to make something new, they just go and buy it. It isn’t easy to make some the things. Hell I have a whole thing of egg shell powder just sitting there waiting to be used. 😂 But you know if they take the time to actually do some of these things even just making something small by hand they will see and feel the difference. It’s so sad how and where this world is going. 😞
What a fantastic discussion this is - thank you so much for bringing a bit of much needed philosophy and thought into witchy UA-cam world! thanks for all your work behind scenes
Thank you so much for having the patience to sit through this! I was really glad I had the chance to bring some theory and the educational side of my life into a video that's about my personal side and practice, seeing how the votes for the next videos are going in the community tab there's going to be more of this 😉
@@activistwitch It was an absolute delight to listen to the whole video, honestly - Im glad this is being felt by many others and definitely mega thumbs-up to more of this type of content, if it feels inviting to you too!
Wow, every sentence that came out of your mouth was SO interesting and gave me a lot to think about. This was absolutely fascinating and I learnt a lot, thank you so much.
Immediately I have become a subscriber. Thank you for bringing up topics that really resonate no matter who you are. Also, your frog sweater is freakin adorable! Hail! 🖤🐦⬛💀
Merry Meet! :) - I love the look on your face every time you know you are totally right!!! Awesome Glad to find a subscribe button well worth hitting. BB!
Having been leaning more into practice and daily meditation, beginning days in a clearer mind so I have the ability to point my ND brain at the things I want to get done, I'm happy I came across this video. It's a good reminder to carve out that space. Disconnect from the dopamine wheel.
Finding out how dopamine works literally encouraged me to do meditation now that I understand the mechanisms more than any promotion of it I heard all along!
Honestly had it in my had for months I'm so glad I finally had an excuse to share my thoughts on the matter 😉 and so glad you found me! Hopefully the other stuff on the channel is to your liking too (I do recommend the playlist on problematic sides of witchcraft cause the maiden mother crone and bioesseentialist nature of Wicca at times so needs dissecting)
So good to ear a witch talking/caring about capitalism and other connected things. It's one of my specific interests. I wanted to add that aesthetics are a form of internalized capitalism. We no longer need ads to associate feelings/fantasies and commodities. I think it's also linked to the constant entertainment flow our generations used to absorb. I'm nearly 40 and still don't know who I am without these layers of movies, music, fantasy worlds, etc. Of course the web 2.0 accelerates this. I also have a pop magick era and then realize that it was like wanting to use the Sauron's ring against him. I'll watch your other videos to feed my starving brain 😄
I think you're hitting the nail right on the head: we learn by watching others, by assimilation and repetition. the media has simply been coopeted by capitalism at this point and so normalised we do their job for them
This is by far the most insightful video essay on the topic of consumerism I’ve had the pleasure of watching, the gears are turning. thank you for sharing!!!
what I've been doing is informing people, recently a coworker mentioned he's thinking about ordering from Temu and I said "really?" someone else said "I don't it's not good quality" and gave a personal example, I agreed, but knowing he'd still need the item he mentioned wich I didn't know any shop for I mentioned "I heard Shien's better quality, but if you can I'd just research it some more" and we also talked about how the advertising each do shows their mindset on their quality "Shien keeps it clearly to the point and Temu is like quick to get a free DRONE now!!" and discribing the ad made him laugh and agree he'd rather take Shien so he felt swell so he can get what he needs while having the info he'd need and not feel terrible, so if he can have a choice it wouldn't be a random shot in the dark wich can reduce the worst of worst cheaply bad stuff to die off first
@@mitchelrow3 thank you so much! I was literally talking now with my spouse about how this was made in four days but really, to know and be able to make the connections between the things we talked about here, that's the work of years of personal curiosity and active research. It has given me great confidence to see how my mind thankfully now just draws connections independently after gathering casually so much info 😅
The full quote goes: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." Opium is not just an addictive substance, but a medicine and a painkiller. What Marx meant, is that religion makes lives of the oppressed tolerable.
So glad it was useful, it actually comes from an article I linked in the resources if you're interested in looking more into the comparison between the two
This is my first video of yours (I found you through Aunty K's tarot) but three minutes in and I'm here to stay!!! Love your approach, your subjects of choice, and your sweater too 🥰
I loved this!!! This is the first time I’ve watched any of your videos, but it won’t be the last time. I studied anthropology in college, and this brought up so much theory that I’d learned but never pieced together with specific economics. Thank you for this thought-provoking video.
I'm so glad to hear, I have all this information randomly stored too that sometimes it's food to have the excuse to make a video just to make sense of it
The extent of my interaction of cottagecore is my minecraft world. I'm practically vomiting flowers and greenery everywhere in order to make my world into a sort of digital serene heavenly home for myself. Especially since I plan to leave my country in a year, and I expect I'll need some mental safe space. And the extent of my experience with witchcraft is just Senua's Saga (a very emotional, spiritual, Nordic game). So in a way I'm your standard consumer, but I think it shows how these "artistic life styles" are more than just their fashion or even their history. Young people are interacting with these scenes because they like the current lifestyle or aesthetic, and for better and worse, sometimes their opinions aren't shaped by the history.
On the idea of "stolen wages"... Anyone who makes their own products and then sells them themselves knows that having to do it all within a business by yourself is ultra draining. I'd argue that the stolen wages are actually management wages. The problem is when management becomes bloated and parasitic rather than symbiotic.
Then it brings the issue though: once the profit they kept lays back for their investments, what's the excuse of still stealing wages? The thing is, the capitalist doesn't manage, still hires someone to do it, much like a landlord hasn't built so won't maintain the house you still pay rent to
@@activistwitch I think the ideal situation is someone who wants to invest capital has a set period where they get paid back, essentially being paid for lending their money/rendering a service, and after that, they have nothing to do with it, end of contract, go on their way and find other labourers/artisans with skills but no assets to start up, which is what banks do anyway. I also agree with the "you don't need money after x amount so let's keep societal dignity levels high", so a world where people will seek to help others (and help themselves a little in the process) but where excess is useless to the individual would be much better. I was more commenting that, as someone who makes a lot of my own stuff, I have often lamented that it would be nice to essentially have a business partner who was business inclined in a way that I am not, so I can see that appeal
As someone who has been a manager and director of sales, and who worked proxy a variety of 'positions' to assist makers in bringing their items to a larger market, and with much success (as quantified by the makers themselves) i co-sign your post. I saw many others who did what i did and did so in a very greedy and dishonest manner and ultimately stole wages from the makers.
This video is so well done. There are so many moving parts to capitalism and you are able to speak on multiple parts and how they overlap in such a digestible way. Well done. I especially appreciate the emphasis on class. I've seen way too many folks being shamed on their consumption habits in a way that benefits/perpetuates capitalism. I hate that corporations have more rights than most humans.
Very glad to hear it was easy to follow! It's the first video essay that I do unscripted but I reckon having researched the topics for years it was pretty cemented to allow.memto simplify and exemplify as much as possible
I love your channel so much. An intersection of so many of my interests.....anti-capitalism ✅️ witchcraft ✅️ psychology ✅️ activism ✅️ systems analysis ✅️ gender ✅️
Thank you so so much for your help on this Sylvie! I look up to your work and the values that transpire from what you share so it really means a lot to know I have done something that encounters your favour 🙏🏽🖤
I haven't finished the video all the way yet but wanted to say thank you. For me, it really is about buying fewer things (because I already have a lot of quality clothes that fit me well and where I like the style, I'm very fortunate in that regard) and I have the time to volunteer in a charity shop for a couple of hours a week. I also have the time to teach myself how to sew my own clothes (I made a skirt last year and making a top this year, not exactly fast going but it's very fulfilling) so I know that at least for right now, I don't give fast fashion my money. But that doesn't mean that if lots of my clothes suddenly break and I can't find a good substitute in a charity shop, I won't go there and buy from them, because I really don't have the money to pay for more. It is an individual choice, everyone should be aware of what the options are and then they can decide what they can do, personally. If people earn lots of money and constantly overbuy on everything, I will judge without holding back. But I don't know any people like that myself
And to be fair you are highlighting a way to show solidarity from those who have either time or economic privilege, because I don't have a choice, but those who do help not adding up just out of consumerism. And that's how we get out of the crab bucket.
I just want to add a bit to this conversation about shein; yes all fast fashion (and even some bigger 'luxery' brands) is bad. They all steal designs, they are aaallllll veeerrryy bad for the environment. but sadly SHEIN is WORSE. there are multiple articles, video essays, etc. that make it very clear that shein just overproduces even more than others, they often ask even more of factory workers, they work on a way bigger scale, etc. Its pretty clear that SHEIN is by far the worst worst option. Also; yes everyone needs clothes, but the entire point of slow living is that we dont need to overconsume. So yes, buy from fast fashion if you dont have time and money; but only if you really need it. If you do have time and money, go and buy secondhand or ethical but also only if you really need it! i really enjoyed this video and its an interesting conversation :))
On the overproduction I will point to this source which unfortunately I found after the video was already published: clothes still with labels (from TJ maxx specifically in the picture, so "high" labels) thrown in massive dumpsters in the Atacama desert. Again, I am surprised at how easily we fall prey of the subtle racism to make Shein out to be something western washed corporations have invented, but because they know how to market themselves, we still think the Chinese corporations are worse. www.tumblr.com/thescentofrainonstone/751854167344168960/tchaikovskaya-unbossed-im-really-not-trying-to?source=share
I learned a lot from this and I know there is a LOT more to learn about it. I’m interested in hexing the patriarchy and want to learn more about this organizing that you speak of.
glad you enjoyed it! I figured instead of just having long chats and debates with my wife and my friends it was worth putting into perspective and share :)
Im so excited this video seems to have popped off for you! Yourube suggested it for me and I appreciate your perspective so much. I'm often surprised by the number of people who don't intersect over anticapitalism and spirituality. Many of my leftist friends are pretty atheist science focused people which I totally appreciate as well but I think qualities of things like spirituality and magic are things that we will one day understand with science and we just haven't gotten there yet. And on the other side a lot of really cool and interesting channels I have found about topics like witchcraft, paganism, spirituality etcetera end up being wildly profit motivated and focused on what actually seems pretty explicitly capitalist motivated. I get we all have to survive in the system in which we live, but that doesn't mean we need to lean into it and forget about the repercussions of the consumerism we participate in or perpetuate.
I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only one needing this then! I opened the channel last autumn exactly because I knew that activism and spirituality in general (and witchcraft in particular) were intrinsically related but no one else made it their main point. I have been discouraged repeatedly by other content creators to NOT make this my niche but I'm so so glad to see I wasn't the only one who needed to explore the intersection! Thank you so.much for this comment definitely makes me feel less alone 🙏🏽🖤
You are fantastic and I can't wait to hear more from you! I just realized that the difference between commerce and capitalism is mass exploitation. Of course merchants have existed as long as civilization (likely) but it was primarily individualized rather than the core tenant of society.
You are spot on! Even if with merchants there probably was conspicuous consumption from the upper classes the lack of any other marketing, pr or advertising didn't make it exploitative. Bread was bread was bread. Sure we got to bakers trying to save up cutting floor with sawdust and then sure enough we got... Here 😓
Curious - is there a video you've made which speaks to Etsy sellers- essentially pickers who spend time going from thrift store to estate sales to garage sales and 'flip' items and charge 3x to 10x the original price they paid? I don't see these as desperate side hustles because someone who has to side hustle is already hustling elsewhere, and we then need to speak about the luxury of time (thanks for that part of this video). I only speak to these sellers because they are ultimately affecting what affordable items could be found at thrift stores by those who were in actual need of affordable items.
As someone who does make some of their own clothes, people who think sewing is cheaper than buying premade have never looked into the cost of materials. A single shirt for a relatively small person is going to take anywhere from 1-4 yards of fabric (depending on the style and cut and if you cut to use as much fabric as possible or cut for continuity of grain/pattern). Just for fabric alone, you are looking at a base of 3.99/yrd of cheap acrylic fabric. Cotton is more likely to run you 5.99 but now is probably going to be closer to 7.99. And that is not including the pattern you're using, any thread you need, and if your pattern requires buttons or elastic or lace (since we're talking about cottagecore). I am 100% for people learning to mend and make clothes if that's something they enjoy, but we should stop acting like it's a cheaper alternative. Making a garment piece out of high quality materials is going to cost more than buying the same high quality garment elsewhere and is going to cost a lot more than buying a lower quality garment. If you aren't already proficient in sewing, it also probably won't fit the first time you make it and it may not last longer if it's the first thing you've ever made. Sewing is a skill that takes time to practice, there is a lot of trial and error that will also ultimately cost money (Everyone I know who sews hates the cutting process the most because once the fabric is cut, there is no going back). And of course, all this is assuming they have either the time to hand sew all their own clothes or has access to a sewing machine. I definitely support people going to thrift stores because a lot of them still have dressing rooms and it's much better to make sure you like the fit of an item before it ships to you if possible, but not everyone has the luxury of time. If you have to shop somewhere like Shein or Temu, just rigorously read reviews, especially ones that have pictures so you can make sure what's promised is actually being delivered.
Why I personally don't buy fast fashion even though I'm poor is that it's not worth it imo because the quality is so bad, I feel like I end up paying more in the long run because the clothes break down so quickly and it's not really worth the effort to repair such low quality material. I buy as much as I can second hand but I've noticed it's getting harder to find good quality items there in recent years. Learning basic sewing and mending has been really helpful so I can repair and resize when my weight fluctuates instead having to find new stuff.
@@gooseofspooks2500 I really hope I can learn to mend myself because that's just something that would let me save so many clothes. Admittedly I just go around with holes in them rather than throwing them. Though I will say this for some Shein and Primark clothes in my experience: depending on the fabric (denim and corduroy come to mind) some are just as long lasting as the more "premium" that are supposed to last longer.
@@activistwitch Morgan Donner made a great video showing different mending techniques that inspired me to finally learn and it was actually easier than I had anticipated, I recommend that if you're looking for inspiration too! And yeah higher price doesn't always mean better quality unfortunately, that is why I'm hesitant to buy things online.
That poor person, they just want to wear something that makes them happy. And then elitists crap all over them. Is shein good? No. But if it's all you can afford and you are only buying a few things, I don't see the issue. Have people gone to thrift stores lately? Items are not discounted anymore and if you are a weird size, you are out of luck. We do what we can. Instead of demonizing people for buying things, how about calling out these companies for all their wastefulness? Hold them accountable.
YES, THIS. I'm just about out of the damn economic bracket of the THRIFT at this stage 🤣 I'm putting aside money for fast fashion now! vote with my dollar?? you think I've got dollars?? 😭🤣
Random aside for interaction, The Veblen effect works with names as well, poor people pick 'rich names' for their babies and in under 20 years (about a generation) those names now being associated with 'the poors' loose favor with the rich who find new names (or very old ones) and the cycle repeats.
Incredible video with tons of great information. The one point I would challenge (because I just learned this myself) is that our taxes pay for things we need. This is another lie by the state to keep us working under capitalism. For more info on this please see 1Dime's videos "The Deficit Myth: The Biggest Lie In Politics" and "The Problem With Taxing The Rich."
I am a mystic and have been for over 40 years. I still forage, thrift and second hand, dumpster dive and do my own thing. I laugh when I see things that are trendy and then they want you to buy into it, at any price. Now I can barely afford second hand and thrifting and I refuse to buy new. My beliefs are not an aesthetic nor are they for anyone to make a cute Tik Tok video. I make my own clothes, create feverishly everyday, grow most of my food and people do not understand it is a lot of work. I breathe this life 24/7, not when the camera is on or when I want people to purchase my creations. It is who I am. I come from a point of educate.
I'm learning to knit for fun, not because it's morally superior. Sustainable fibres cost too much for a learner like me to waste my bad knitting on, so that means I buy acrylic. In other words, fossil fuels.
Hi everyone, English is not my first language, so I'm bad at identifying different accents and understanding where they stem from. This pronunciation is something I'm not used to hearing, in spite of the author of the video saying she's from the UK. Is there a name for her accent? Asking for educational purposes
@@ssadina-shtukaturka most of my videos (including this) come with subtitles so hopefully my accent does not have to distract too much from the stuff I say.
I work at a factory in the US for the last decade. We make metal hose ends, washing machine parts, and fire extinguishers. The CEOs dad built a machine by himself that could turn out more of those metal hose ends faster than anyone else around at that time and at a far better quality. (A leaking hose end for a washing machine can actually do massive property damage). He employed people in our small town and gave us a way to gain income in this 3 traffic light town. The stolen wages idea is quite insane. The factory cost is more than the machines and material. The electric bill alone is thousands a month. If our CEO couldnt make any profit for himself and his family why would he trouble himself to run the business? We aren't unionized and we make almost triple minimum wage in my state with no college education doing low skill labor. I only have a roof over my head because someone else used their great mind to invent a machine that I never could myself that started a business. Do I absolutely love going to work? No. Am I safe there? Yes. Am I rich? No. Am I able to own a home and feel secure? Yes. I dont understand how anyone thinks communism works based on history. I know you canr work because you say you are disabled so please just enjoy the fruits of the labor of the working people and stop asking for more free stuff.
I understand the need to settle for what one feels has been "lucky enough" to already have. But that's complacency. Historically communism has actually never happened past the revolution step. The USSR is not an example of communism because it never moved past the military state phase. Cuba would be as close as it gets but we never saw it thrive not because communism doesn't work but because the US is so terrified of people like you seeing communism works better than whatever they fed you so far that they have been under a US man made blockade for decades. That's without going into all the coups the US sponsored in any country that was working under leftist (nor even communism, leftists governments.) You'd think if you were right and communism historically just failed the US wouldn't have spent so much energy destabilising countries that simply worked under a different system that was doomed to fail anyway no? I suggest you read "the Jakarta method" amzn.to/4bhJEdC to see how your your government is terrified of communism and has actively worked to indoctrinate you to talk like you did, and spent billions to make sure you don't know any better.
Such a convoluted video... Only the last 25 minutes were essential for the video, everything else feels so unneeded and said thousands of times is so many contexts.
I generally love the video but the way you bring up dopamine is just... terrible. It is a hormone we need to live. I have ADD which basically means my brain cells don't have/produce/recognize enough dopamine. It doesn't make me more mindful or less consumerist etc. It just makes me sick. Couldn't you just say "short term satisfaction" instead of dopamine dopamine dopamine? There are studies that show dopamine helps us have long term commitments by giving us small doses of happiness. Hell that is why I can't focus lack of it. Anyways that was bit of a rant. In short dopamine doesn't equal just short term satisfaction
I wish I had more time to go into dopamine, in this video it's extremely simplifies and I invite you to check the sources. I know first hand ADD so I understand what you mean, if anything with ADD the seeking out behaviour (and possibly addictive tendencies) can develop easier exactly because of how "starved" of the hormone is. I never said it's a bad hormone at all, it gives us motivation and reward.
I was nodding along to your story until around 52 min. Can you please address why it’s wrong for a woman to wear t-shirts and the same style of jeans for several years? It’s not wrong. I suggest the single mom in your metaphor would feel good wears worn-in jeans and a simple T-shirt if she didn’t also feel that in order to stay relevant, she didn’t have to compete for the male gaze. The male gaze *from both men and women*. It’s 💯 true that both hold a lower opinion of you if you dress dated or are overweight. It’s as if a woman hold no value in society if some other woman doesn’t want to look like her.
There's absolutely nothing wrong in wearing t-shirt and jeans if that's a choice. The issue is people telling off people who can't afford anything different. I used t-shirt and jeans as an example of a basic outfit, which is still ok as long as a choice,. The entire issues were talking about here is someone who associates , whehrere they realise it or not, an entire (escapist) lifestyle to a piece of clothing (which fair, see the subcultures point), but basically it's about people who think themselves ethical consumers telling poorer people to buy the basic from say, Primark, or nothing at all. That basic I defaulted to t-shirt and denim, I apologise if it sounded in any way problematic, hope this explains it
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Please tell me this is your absolutely pitiful attempt to make a joke on me being fat and that being the only characteristics I have in common with Roseanne Barr 🤣
I've been on the witchcraft scene for forty years; it used to be a case of using your imagination and cutlery drawer; now you can't move for the latest cool accessory you absolutely need to do what you could do with nothing years ago. I don't need more clutter to make others richer.
Part of my misunderstanding of what was happening in my village being fill Witchcraft was indeed that tools and aesthetics weren't a thing, if anything everything was hidden behind religious iconography
you can do just as much with a kitchen bread knife as you can with an expensive occult athame covered in runic sigils. it can do everything the athame can do, plus it can also cut bread. 🤣 I'm 100% camp old school.
Same here, nearly 50 years a witch, when I started there were few books or tools or even cool accessories! We used what we had, made what we could. Funny thing but I still use my own stuff more than store bought.
In fact, sometimes it's cheaper to buy clothes from the bargain bin and use the fabric for a different thing than buying new fabric. We've used my mom's old blouse to make a skirt this year. No way I can afford that quality in new materials.
I do remember my grandparents doing the same, in her old age it's all my grandmother did. The time alone to do it, without even considering learning, is a luxury in today's poverty we cannot afford.
@@FunkyLittlePoptart the fact you can't imagine how much people have to multitask with their time is shocking to me. Do you know when **I** who make UA-cam video have time to watch a 1h video? When I wash the dishes, when I have to clean the house. I cannot afford to not multitask. Do you want to add anything to show how your privilege doesn't even let you imagine how poor people survive?
Exactly. Even when I was poor as dirt and working 50+ hours, I would still go to the thrift shop and use those clothes or that fabric to make things. It's something I love doing and it's my happy place. I didn't have a sewing machine for awhile, so I'd just hand sew and hand embroider things.
@@activistwitch I'm in college rn (scholarship, could NOT afford this otherwise), I pick up sewing stitches by bringing my stuff to class, deconstructing half the seam on an old garment, and then re-sewing it repeatedly til I can mimic the stitch pattern. learned leatherwork cleaning tack at a riding stable for a job pre-COVID. observe everything.
As a physiologist, I want to clarify some functions of dopamine and serotonin. Dopamine of course modulates a sense of reward, but it has more to do with motivation. In the best scenario, dopamine actually does help motivate us to participate in long-term projects. If you already know and have experienced the reward behind and understood action, you actually get the most dopamine release in the build up to receive that result. Dopamine is released during new rewards. Serotonin, on the other hand, specifically influences mood. It is not simply a happiness chemical. For example, there is a circuit in the brain which shuts down the prefrontal cortex and therefore shuts down some logical reasoning while a trauma response is being formed. Serotonin released within this circuit actually creates the trauma response. You don't want all the serotonin all across your brain always.
When it comes to the ways that social media hijacks our reward system, essentially, what it is doing is taking away neurochemical resources from our long-term motivation system.
Thank you for the full explanation, I skimmed on it but thankfully the resource cover that 😉👍🏽
That’s so interesting Thankyou!
Thank you for that explanation.
Balancing neurotransmitters is the new humourism. "Dopamine is hot and dry and makes you act like a cokehead, while serotonin is cool and wet and makes you act like a stoner. Meditate and medicate your way to balance."
But as the good doctor pointed out, the effects of the transmitters, like other signals, depend on context. The color red can signal "stop," or "get out of here now."
My mother’s friend had a thing she would say when I was growing up, and it’s stuck with me:
We’re all a few missed paychecks away from giving lap dances at a truck stop to survive. Unless you’re rich, but that’s a conversation neither of us can afford.
And in fairness it's a wrong perception that getting into lap dancing is that easy even when as a last resort
@@activistwitchyeah, most people couldn't just get hired. you have to be strong to poledance. plus have the approved physical appearance and tolerance for the work.
Most people aren’t willing or ready to step outside of their performative activism to have such nuanced conversation and radical empathy. I appreciate this video so much.
youre righ and to be fair, i am not sure even i would have understood the practicality of things had things not gotten as bad as they did at some point. empathy would be great but as human beings sympathy is much easier to develop when theres a chance of identification more than abstraction. if sharing my research and my first hand experience helps others being better than me before i fell on hard times, then it was almost worth it!
Gonna make a painting that says "Pleasure but not happiness" that I can upload as the front for all of my debit and credit cards from this day forward.
Hey, marketing uses propaganda to make us want stuff we don't need, having a reminder of that is just playing fair on the same ground 😉
I am so glad someone is finally pointing this out. As a fervent nature lover I try my best to be eco-conscious within my means, but the thing is, living sustainably IS expensive and time consuming. I have bills to pay and only 24 hours in a day, when am I supposed to churn my butter and sew my clothes?
Also, speaking of clothes, I'm in love with your sweater 🐸💗
The most problematic thing is I deed how capitalism just turned things around and went: no why should the system change when I can provide the illusion of ethical consumption for a premium and that way pit people against each other? We'd love to think as individuals we can make a change but capitalism uses that to make us focus on the wrong thing when the only thing that works is organising as people against the system
Ah, I can see why witches have historically been marginalized and persecuted. This all makes too much sense! Kind of scary to the power structure. Great podcast!
Yeah in fairness there's an entire video to be made based solely on how the witches trials were really against women living independently of a man out of their own labour helping other women (midwives) or the village (herbalist). Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch is entirely about that and maybe if it's of interest might do a video specifically about that in the future
@@activistwitch this is historically untrue and has been debunked by many historians
@@activistwitch THIS PLEASE! YESSSSS!
Something I always try to remember is that if I didn't need it and go looking for it, buying it isn't my decision. If I go to the store and see something and say oh that's so cute I should buy it, that decision has been made for me by someone who couldn't care less about adding value to my life. Me choosing not to buy it won't bankrupt the corrupt companies marketing it, but it will preserve a little bit of my free will and that is enough reason to ignore the dopamine rush of "retail therapy."
I'm not fighting against capitalism because I think I can win, I'm fighting to protect my ability to keep fighting.
And if you can make that choice and it makes you feel better good for you. It becomes a problem when our "goodness" becomes something to look down upon others who we don't know the struggle of to judge the choice by our own metre.
Love this mindset!
Yarn and nice enough fabric to make clothing that will look professionally made up when sewn up if you have that skill is also very expensive, probably even more expensive than buying from a store so even if you know how to knit or sew it’s not less expensive, especially if you’re allergic to acrylic products like I am so I can’t use a lot of the less expensive yarns. I can knit and I do sew to mend my clothes if they have been damaged but it isn’t at all cost effective to make my own clothes or to knit much actual clothing outside of for my own enjoyment in making it, so I mostly don’t make it myself I buy it because I can’t afford spending that much on clothes.
Same, I have learnt to crochet but between yarn and time costs it's just not a luxury I can afford beyond the random placemat
It used to be. I learned to sew in the 90's and for about a decade I made my own clothes cheaper than at stores, but since 2000's it is cheaper to buy clothes from fast fashion (and the fabric is probably produced under the same conditions) Yarn is extremely expensive! if you can spin your own yarn, you can get wool for free or a bottle of wine from hobby meat farmers though (but the amount of time an effort to make a sweater is huge - why we made factories in the first place)
As a person who sews... I love this! I get most of my fabrics by thrifting or repurposing thrifted clothing. Just because something is repurposed or thrifted doesn't mean it's uncomfortable or cheaply made. I often find high-end designer clothing when thrifting, so I end up with nicer items than I could afford to buy new. Plus - There is so much satisfaction in making and wearing your own creations! I produce clothing I need and love - and it usually last a lot longer because I create items that will last. The history you brought was fascinating! The part about how this all impacts our brains chemically was so interesting, too! Thank you for sharing all this!!!
Thank you for watching and sharing! 🙏🏽🖤
Perfect video. Hits exactly all of what my silly little brain wants. Discussions of capitalism, marketing schemes of morality, dopamine addictions, “pleasure but not happiness,” and the place of aesthetics/cores as both sedative and signifiers, among others. My brain spins on these topics seemingly endlessly and I like the way you’ve brought them together. I watched this video in quick succession after Zoe Bees video on fascism and imagination, which has led me to connect some dots, especially regarding potentially utilizing the impacts of the pandemic for radical change. These are good videos to watch together, I would recommend the combo.
Also I like organized, yet unscripted style. Perfect video, good job, thank you.
So here's the shocking thing to me: on another channel I tried to make video essays since 2021. Zoe Bee is indeed one of the video essayst I most looked up to so hearing that accidentally on this channel that started purely for person reasons I managed to do something that echos and resonates with people who watch those I so look up to means truly the world. Thank you for your word, thank you for watching, thank you for taking the time to tell me this 🙏🏽🖤
1:00:21 on the cage-free vs caged eggs: I just took an animal welfare/ethics program and an animal husbandry program (each 16 credits) back to back and we talked extensively about caged vs cage-free egg or broiler chickens honestly torn. Cage free chickens get to roam around, but the legal requirement for how many chickens can occupy space is increased (so they’re packed tighter), they have higher risk of disease, bullying, cannibalism, etc. Caged chickens don’t get to roam around, but they are also physically safer from disease and other chickens. So it depends on what aspects of animal welfare you care about. It’s a lot more complicated than that, with a lot more factors, but that’s the 101 of the complexity of the topic.
Thank you for sharing these details!
Really loved this video. Especially the discussion of dopamine and how the drive for more drives consumerism. It really helps me put my personal psychology into a historical context in a way that is providing valuable insight. Thank you! And I appreciate the reminder to look at the context of someone's situation before moralizing on their actions.
Glad it was helpful!
Omg please talk about the pandemics! Suddenly all the things disabled people had been asking for like theatre at home and jobs able to be done at home and had always been told couldn't be done... Happened so easy! And now? It's all gone
I will definitely look into it to see if there is actual research done on it otherwise might take me some time but even just speaking to disabled people or people who became disabled during the pandemic with long COVID and such, might be needed sooner rather than later
I am disabled, and one of the best things that ever happened for me was home delivery from supermarkets and other local stores becoming available. Fortunately, that's one of the changes that seems to have stuck after the pandemic.
Honestly, this is fairly refreshing-
A lot of people shit on people for buying fast fashion, and the "consumerism" and that stuff.
But people are poor and people want new and nice things... I lived in near poverty conditions, like sorry I want to be able to buy something pretty, instead of buying bargain bin clothes that look like shit and are uncomfortable, but is cheap....
There is pretty much no ethical consumption under capitalism. Like yes - Shein is environmentally crappy. But we are broke and they have nice stuff, and for someone overweight like me - they actually have my size.
None of the local stores carry anything my size that doesn't look like Alla Pugacheva's closet. So sorry, I will buy my cottagecore sweater, and a pair of pants from Shein, so I can actually come to work looking decent. (Legit I have been wearing the same 3 pairs of leggings for the past 5 months, coz my last pair of jeans got torn and is way too expensive to buy now ones.)
We are on the same boat so truly I am glad this resonates. The way capitalism has marketed morality is so ironic and you're right: there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
In my original comment reply to that thread I also brough up the size point as well so thank you for mentioning it!
literally. and shein clothes don’t just break down as if they’re tissue paper. i’ve seen all of hot topic’s merch feel and look the exact same as shein stuff. it’s all from the same chinese manufacturers so idk what ppl’s problems are. idk what ppl have going on w their washer and dryers but shein clothes have never torn or fell apart after a wash. i think ppl just don’t know how to wash their stuff imo. at least i don’t spend $80 on three things on shein like i do hot topic
@@LaLaLoopsyCutie my only problem with shein is their dyes are not very good so you are going to have to wash them separately from other clothes and in short cycles, but they do not get ripped to shreds. Also, you can mend them fine. I've had fast fashion dresses I've been using for 10 years. You're absolutely correct.
Alla is an icon, tho 💀
@@RoseBleueDuRosierSec oh yeah, like the bit about "shein exists because it's how the system was set up for profit" makes absolutely sense for it not to have high quality materials (though with care they can definitely survive more than the hate marketing against it say)
This is such a refreshing video! It has been bugging me lately how many of the content creators I see push slow fashion products but are unrealistically pricey! Paying $245 (not counting shipping) for ONE single item of clothing is just not reachable for so many of us. It is very easy when the company gifts these items to the content creator. It's just not our reality. We shouldn't be feeling awful about ourselves for buying fast fashion clothes which is more affordable.
And if we think on it, thrift stores depend on people that donate their fast fashion items. Thrift stores are not what they used to be. Since they are on "trend" they're becoming just as pricey.
Thank you so much for watching, so glad it resonated with you!
my local thrift stores are full of shein clothes that are more expensive than on the shein site 😭😭 luckily I am able to spend the time to shop around and wait for sales/coupons and such but to say that thrifting is a good replacement for ALL fast fashion is just not realistic
The irony!!!
Idk I usually don’t comment under videos but I found your channel and I’m so happy cause your videos are great and finally I know that there are other activist witches out there!
Lots of love❤
Thank you so much!!
Thank you for an absolutely brilliant video 😊 The nuances are exactly what I have wanted to see someone cover - especially classism and poverty, and you have done all that so well.
thank you so much Kayleen it helps so much to hear it other can appreciate the nuances. Alas it is true that there is no ethical consumption against capitalism, but whilst trapped in it we can either fight each other or understand and then support each other against the system, and I hope all I do serves the latter
@@activistwitchI think the collaboration you have included here is a great example of supporting each other against the system.
Thank you for all the work you did to research this topic! I must admit that I fall asleep to cottage core every night. Puts me right to sleep. What is with the corsets worn on the outside of a dress??? I don't get it! LOL That and always with the leather belt. OMG I am so far from Cottage Core! Even witch core. My sister farmed. I know what farming looks like, and it's not cottage core. I know what witching looks like, and it's not witch core, but I find both inspiring as far as the aesthetics go. My house is Trish Core. I have a style all my own. I LOVE this awesome and thought-provoking video. By the way, your sweater is SO CUTE, and you look cute in it.
I feel you! The life in my grandparents farm and the cottage core aesthetic are as far from each other on practical terms as one can imagine, I noticed it every time I spent time in a rented cottage built and furnished exactly according to an aesthetic rather than the real practical way a farm cottage is set up.
Trish Core yessssss! 😂 I know what farming looks like! 👏 lol - exactly - here in Devon its a lot of mud all the time living next to woodlands and farms - but it gets soooooo romanticised its actually odd when you start to objectively consider it Xx
This video is honestly pure gold Ysha! Amazing beautiful voices - I loved this so much. And yes soooo true. I felt nourished, seen, heard, held, supported and fortified listening to this - like finding my tribe ♥ I love how you approached this with such sensitivity and understanding - the nuances around this are so key to highlight as well - the elitism of aesthetics! Just so beautifully articulated! 👏 Thank you thank u thank u! ☺ 🙌 🌟 I am so thrilled that your work is reaching more people as well. Truly magical. So grateful for u and your voice in the community 😘 Xxxx
Thank you so so much Emily I am very glad to hear it resonated. I've always wanted to make this kind of video and I'm glad if in the future there will be other ways to bring random theory that got stuck in my head through the years with witchy examples that fit 😉👍🏽
Oh oop I already watched this before lol still a fantastic video tho! We def need more of this content online! Also I love that you‘re a witch too! Same here! Love that for us :D
I just started this video but the first moment of it is YES 🙌 Thank you! Witchcraft is literally becoming the fashion brand and many just go around and by cheaply made, non eco-friendly products, that they may have for a few days or weeks that they wear only because mainstream media deems it “trendy” and “cute”. I am all about people exploring other spiritual paths and getting things that resonates with their soul. I’m not here to criticize those that buy cheap stones and call themselves witches (though that’s a whole can in itself) I’m here to agree that the term witchcraft has become diluted somewhat in these times. Cottage core or green witchcraft is the most common because the whole “eco friendly” vibe and “becoming more in tuned with nature.” “Making your own stuff by scratch.” Which is grate! If you’re actually doing it. But a lot of those people arnt. They instead of up cycling old jars from peanut butter or jam or using herbs and stuff they do have on hand to make something new, they just go and buy it. It isn’t easy to make some the things. Hell I have a whole thing of egg shell powder just sitting there waiting to be used. 😂 But you know if they take the time to actually do some of these things even just making something small by hand they will see and feel the difference. It’s so sad how and where this world is going. 😞
As the meme says: to find a witch, just out free empty mason jars outside your door
Thanks so much again for such an informative thought provoking video. You’re a star, blessings ❤️
You are so welcome, glad.to hear it was useful!
What a fantastic discussion this is - thank you so much for bringing a bit of much needed philosophy and thought into witchy UA-cam world! thanks for all your work behind scenes
Thank you so much for having the patience to sit through this! I was really glad I had the chance to bring some theory and the educational side of my life into a video that's about my personal side and practice, seeing how the votes for the next videos are going in the community tab there's going to be more of this 😉
@@activistwitch It was an absolute delight to listen to the whole video, honestly - Im glad this is being felt by many others and definitely mega thumbs-up to more of this type of content, if it feels inviting to you too!
What an amazing and well-researched video. Thank you so much, you clarified SO much for me. Hugs from the US.
thank you for watching, glad to hear it was useful!
Wow, every sentence that came out of your mouth was SO interesting and gave me a lot to think about. This was absolutely fascinating and I learnt a lot, thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much for watching!
Immediately I have become a subscriber. Thank you for bringing up topics that really resonate no matter who you are. Also, your frog sweater is freakin adorable! Hail! 🖤🐦⬛💀
Glad you found it interesting! Thank you for taking the time to watch and even comment!
I had so many awakenings during this video, thank you for making these concepts so tangible
i'm so glad to hear I managed to make sense :)
Its good hearing a fellow comrade, following here
Glad to hear you found it useful! Thank you!
Merry Meet! :) - I love the look on your face every time you know you are totally right!!! Awesome Glad to find a subscribe button well worth hitting. BB!
Oh gosh hope I don't look too smug but yeah even just researching this video gave me a lot of satisfaction realising how things make sense!!!
Having been leaning more into practice and daily meditation, beginning days in a clearer mind so I have the ability to point my ND brain at the things I want to get done, I'm happy I came across this video. It's a good reminder to carve out that space. Disconnect from the dopamine wheel.
Finding out how dopamine works literally encouraged me to do meditation now that I understand the mechanisms more than any promotion of it I heard all along!
Remarkable work, I'm so glad to have found your channel!
Honestly had it in my had for months I'm so glad I finally had an excuse to share my thoughts on the matter 😉 and so glad you found me! Hopefully the other stuff on the channel is to your liking too (I do recommend the playlist on problematic sides of witchcraft cause the maiden mother crone and bioesseentialist nature of Wicca at times so needs dissecting)
So good to ear a witch talking/caring about capitalism and other connected things. It's one of my specific interests.
I wanted to add that aesthetics are a form of internalized capitalism. We no longer need ads to associate feelings/fantasies and commodities. I think it's also linked to the constant entertainment flow our generations used to absorb. I'm nearly 40 and still don't know who I am without these layers of movies, music, fantasy worlds, etc. Of course the web 2.0 accelerates this. I also have a pop magick era and then realize that it was like wanting to use the Sauron's ring against him. I'll watch your other videos to feed my starving brain 😄
I think you're hitting the nail right on the head: we learn by watching others, by assimilation and repetition. the media has simply been coopeted by capitalism at this point and so normalised we do their job for them
This is by far the most insightful video essay on the topic of consumerism I’ve had the pleasure of watching, the gears are turning. thank you for sharing!!!
So glad to know it was useful! Thank you for watching!
what I've been doing is informing people, recently a coworker mentioned he's thinking about ordering from Temu and I said "really?"
someone else said "I don't it's not good quality" and gave a personal example, I agreed, but knowing he'd still need the item he mentioned wich I didn't know any shop for
I mentioned "I heard Shien's better quality, but if you can I'd just research it some more" and we also talked about how the advertising each do shows their mindset on their quality
"Shien keeps it clearly to the point and Temu is like quick to get a free DRONE now!!" and discribing the ad made him laugh and agree he'd rather take Shien so he felt swell
so he can get what he needs while having the info he'd need and not feel terrible, so if he can have a choice it wouldn't be a random shot in the dark
wich can reduce the worst of worst cheaply bad stuff to die off first
Channel 4 recently made a dispatches episode on temu and you're very right :the issue there is not only quality but safery
The effort that must have gone into this video really shows! I enjoyed this so much! Thanks!
@@mitchelrow3 thank you so much! I was literally talking now with my spouse about how this was made in four days but really, to know and be able to make the connections between the things we talked about here, that's the work of years of personal curiosity and active research. It has given me great confidence to see how my mind thankfully now just draws connections independently after gathering casually so much info 😅
@@activistwitch That's so lovely to hear! I'm trying to go on a similar journey of curiosity, right now, so this is really hopeful. Thank you!!
The full quote goes: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
Opium is not just an addictive substance, but a medicine and a painkiller. What Marx meant, is that religion makes lives of the oppressed tolerable.
Tolerable is not exactly the point of opiates though, the point is loss of consciousness enough to not care and keep following what comes from "above"
It’s like when food pantries only have canned food, but no chips, cookies or candy. Like poor people don’t deserve pleasure because they’re poor.
Very true!
I love the distinction you give between aesthetic and subculture! This was very helpful for me in restructuring my thinking. Thank you for the video.
So glad it was useful, it actually comes from an article I linked in the resources if you're interested in looking more into the comparison between the two
You are such a good teacher, it was so easy to follow along ❤
That's really one of the best compliments one can give me, I'm so glad to hear that! Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment 🙏🏽🖤
Thank you for your research and passion; you raise so many important points.
My pleasure! So glad all this random info in my brain finally paid off to share this!
This is my first video of yours (I found you through Aunty K's tarot) but three minutes in and I'm here to stay!!! Love your approach, your subjects of choice, and your sweater too 🥰
Thank you so much I'm so glad you found this useful!
I'm listening to his audiobook on systemic shame - it's amazing!!!
I loved this!!! This is the first time I’ve watched any of your videos, but it won’t be the last time. I studied anthropology in college, and this brought up so much theory that I’d learned but never pieced together with specific economics. Thank you for this thought-provoking video.
I'm so glad to hear, I have all this information randomly stored too that sometimes it's food to have the excuse to make a video just to make sense of it
The extent of my interaction of cottagecore is my minecraft world. I'm practically vomiting flowers and greenery everywhere in order to make my world into a sort of digital serene heavenly home for myself. Especially since I plan to leave my country in a year, and I expect I'll need some mental safe space.
And the extent of my experience with witchcraft is just Senua's Saga (a very emotional, spiritual, Nordic game). So in a way I'm your standard consumer, but I think it shows how these "artistic life styles" are more than just their fashion or even their history. Young people are interacting with these scenes because they like the current lifestyle or aesthetic, and for better and worse, sometimes their opinions aren't shaped by the history.
I completely get it, that's why I tried to provide a tiny hint to scratch the surface.
Ps I know hellblade! A friend of mine consulted on it!
On the idea of "stolen wages"... Anyone who makes their own products and then sells them themselves knows that having to do it all within a business by yourself is ultra draining. I'd argue that the stolen wages are actually management wages. The problem is when management becomes bloated and parasitic rather than symbiotic.
Then it brings the issue though: once the profit they kept lays back for their investments, what's the excuse of still stealing wages? The thing is, the capitalist doesn't manage, still hires someone to do it, much like a landlord hasn't built so won't maintain the house you still pay rent to
@@activistwitch I think the ideal situation is someone who wants to invest capital has a set period where they get paid back, essentially being paid for lending their money/rendering a service, and after that, they have nothing to do with it, end of contract, go on their way and find other labourers/artisans with skills but no assets to start up, which is what banks do anyway. I also agree with the "you don't need money after x amount so let's keep societal dignity levels high", so a world where people will seek to help others (and help themselves a little in the process) but where excess is useless to the individual would be much better. I was more commenting that, as someone who makes a lot of my own stuff, I have often lamented that it would be nice to essentially have a business partner who was business inclined in a way that I am not, so I can see that appeal
@@FoxInTheStudio no the ideal situation is the people own the means of production.
@@activistwitch managers aint people
As someone who has been a manager and director of sales, and who worked proxy a variety of 'positions' to assist makers in bringing their items to a larger market, and with much success (as quantified by the makers themselves) i co-sign your post. I saw many others who did what i did and did so in a very greedy and dishonest manner and ultimately stole wages from the makers.
This video is so well done. There are so many moving parts to capitalism and you are able to speak on multiple parts and how they overlap in such a digestible way. Well done. I especially appreciate the emphasis on class. I've seen way too many folks being shamed on their consumption habits in a way that benefits/perpetuates capitalism. I hate that corporations have more rights than most humans.
Very glad to hear it was easy to follow! It's the first video essay that I do unscripted but I reckon having researched the topics for years it was pretty cemented to allow.memto simplify and exemplify as much as possible
Thank you, fantastic work 💜
So glad you found it interesting, thanks for watching!
So happy I found your channel!! This is the kind of witchcraft I can get behind
Glad to hear! Thank you so much for watching!
I love your channel so much. An intersection of so many of my interests.....anti-capitalism ✅️ witchcraft ✅️ psychology ✅️ activism ✅️ systems analysis ✅️ gender ✅️
oh my goodness i am so glad i'm not the only one that is at the intersection of all thee interests!
Loved this, so many interesting topics in this video!
Thank you so so much for your help on this Sylvie! I look up to your work and the values that transpire from what you share so it really means a lot to know I have done something that encounters your favour 🙏🏽🖤
Thank you for an informative hour! I’ll be checking out more of your videos in the future.
Thank you so much for watching 🙏🏽 glad to hear you found it useful!
I haven't finished the video all the way yet but wanted to say thank you. For me, it really is about buying fewer things (because I already have a lot of quality clothes that fit me well and where I like the style, I'm very fortunate in that regard) and I have the time to volunteer in a charity shop for a couple of hours a week. I also have the time to teach myself how to sew my own clothes (I made a skirt last year and making a top this year, not exactly fast going but it's very fulfilling) so I know that at least for right now, I don't give fast fashion my money. But that doesn't mean that if lots of my clothes suddenly break and I can't find a good substitute in a charity shop, I won't go there and buy from them, because I really don't have the money to pay for more. It is an individual choice, everyone should be aware of what the options are and then they can decide what they can do, personally. If people earn lots of money and constantly overbuy on everything, I will judge without holding back. But I don't know any people like that myself
And to be fair you are highlighting a way to show solidarity from those who have either time or economic privilege, because I don't have a choice, but those who do help not adding up just out of consumerism. And that's how we get out of the crab bucket.
I just want to add a bit to this conversation about shein;
yes all fast fashion (and even some bigger 'luxery' brands) is bad. They all steal designs, they are aaallllll veeerrryy bad for the environment.
but sadly SHEIN is WORSE. there are multiple articles, video essays, etc. that make it very clear that shein just overproduces even more than others, they often ask even more of factory workers, they work on a way bigger scale, etc.
Its pretty clear that SHEIN is by far the worst worst option.
Also; yes everyone needs clothes, but the entire point of slow living is that we dont need to overconsume. So yes, buy from fast fashion if you dont have time and money; but only if you really need it. If you do have time and money, go and buy secondhand or ethical but also only if you really need it!
i really enjoyed this video and its an interesting conversation :))
On the overproduction I will point to this source which unfortunately I found after the video was already published: clothes still with labels (from TJ maxx specifically in the picture, so "high" labels) thrown in massive dumpsters in the Atacama desert. Again, I am surprised at how easily we fall prey of the subtle racism to make Shein out to be something western washed corporations have invented, but because they know how to market themselves, we still think the Chinese corporations are worse. www.tumblr.com/thescentofrainonstone/751854167344168960/tchaikovskaya-unbossed-im-really-not-trying-to?source=share
Very insightful!
Glad you think so!
Thank you for this video!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching!
I learned a lot from this and I know there is a LOT more to learn about it. I’m interested in hexing the patriarchy and want to learn more about this organizing that you speak of.
so glad to hear this was useful, i do plan on making more of this style of videos :)
Not sure how I got here but thank you for an insightful video ❤
Serendipitous discoveries are the best aren't they? Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for watching!
This is an awesome video, such good research amd critical thinking
glad you enjoyed it! I figured instead of just having long chats and debates with my wife and my friends it was worth putting into perspective and share :)
Im so excited this video seems to have popped off for you! Yourube suggested it for me and I appreciate your perspective so much. I'm often surprised by the number of people who don't intersect over anticapitalism and spirituality. Many of my leftist friends are pretty atheist science focused people which I totally appreciate as well but I think qualities of things like spirituality and magic are things that we will one day understand with science and we just haven't gotten there yet. And on the other side a lot of really cool and interesting channels I have found about topics like witchcraft, paganism, spirituality etcetera end up being wildly profit motivated and focused on what actually seems pretty explicitly capitalist motivated. I get we all have to survive in the system in which we live, but that doesn't mean we need to lean into it and forget about the repercussions of the consumerism we participate in or perpetuate.
I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only one needing this then! I opened the channel last autumn exactly because I knew that activism and spirituality in general (and witchcraft in particular) were intrinsically related but no one else made it their main point. I have been discouraged repeatedly by other content creators to NOT make this my niche but I'm so so glad to see I wasn't the only one who needed to explore the intersection! Thank you so.much for this comment definitely makes me feel less alone 🙏🏽🖤
I watched this entire video and holy moly it was interesting the entire way through. Thank you for opening my eyes for some things
So glad to hear you found it useful at all! Thank you for watching and for commenting!!!
Brilliant! Thank you and your learned, creative comrades so much.
Glad you enjoyed it! my pleasure to share!
You are fantastic and I can't wait to hear more from you! I just realized that the difference between commerce and capitalism is mass exploitation. Of course merchants have existed as long as civilization (likely) but it was primarily individualized rather than the core tenant of society.
You are spot on! Even if with merchants there probably was conspicuous consumption from the upper classes the lack of any other marketing, pr or advertising didn't make it exploitative. Bread was bread was bread. Sure we got to bakers trying to save up cutting floor with sawdust and then sure enough we got... Here 😓
I really appreciate this Ysha, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed! That's for watching!
so much integrity spoken, well done
"My poverty, not [just] my will" made it kind of necessary (apologies for the bastardisation of that Shakespeare quote)
Im so happy I found your channel!!!
Glad to be found by like-minded people! 😉👍🏽 Welcome!!!
Cottagecore is very thriftable.
I have a section in the video covering that towards the 40:00 mark
Curious - is there a video you've made which speaks to Etsy sellers- essentially pickers who spend time going from thrift store to estate sales to garage sales and 'flip' items and charge 3x to 10x the original price they paid? I don't see these as desperate side hustles because someone who has to side hustle is already hustling elsewhere, and we then need to speak about the luxury of time (thanks for that part of this video). I only speak to these sellers because they are ultimately affecting what affordable items could be found at thrift stores by those who were in actual need of affordable items.
I haven't made a video specifically on Etsy no, I don't think I know enough in that regard, sorry
As someone who does make some of their own clothes, people who think sewing is cheaper than buying premade have never looked into the cost of materials. A single shirt for a relatively small person is going to take anywhere from 1-4 yards of fabric (depending on the style and cut and if you cut to use as much fabric as possible or cut for continuity of grain/pattern). Just for fabric alone, you are looking at a base of 3.99/yrd of cheap acrylic fabric. Cotton is more likely to run you 5.99 but now is probably going to be closer to 7.99. And that is not including the pattern you're using, any thread you need, and if your pattern requires buttons or elastic or lace (since we're talking about cottagecore). I am 100% for people learning to mend and make clothes if that's something they enjoy, but we should stop acting like it's a cheaper alternative. Making a garment piece out of high quality materials is going to cost more than buying the same high quality garment elsewhere and is going to cost a lot more than buying a lower quality garment. If you aren't already proficient in sewing, it also probably won't fit the first time you make it and it may not last longer if it's the first thing you've ever made. Sewing is a skill that takes time to practice, there is a lot of trial and error that will also ultimately cost money (Everyone I know who sews hates the cutting process the most because once the fabric is cut, there is no going back). And of course, all this is assuming they have either the time to hand sew all their own clothes or has access to a sewing machine.
I definitely support people going to thrift stores because a lot of them still have dressing rooms and it's much better to make sure you like the fit of an item before it ships to you if possible, but not everyone has the luxury of time. If you have to shop somewhere like Shein or Temu, just rigorously read reviews, especially ones that have pictures so you can make sure what's promised is actually being delivered.
Absolutely true, real pictures Vs staged pictures to sell a product are at times an issue of their own!
Why I personally don't buy fast fashion even though I'm poor is that it's not worth it imo because the quality is so bad, I feel like I end up paying more in the long run because the clothes break down so quickly and it's not really worth the effort to repair such low quality material. I buy as much as I can second hand but I've noticed it's getting harder to find good quality items there in recent years. Learning basic sewing and mending has been really helpful so I can repair and resize when my weight fluctuates instead having to find new stuff.
@@gooseofspooks2500 I really hope I can learn to mend myself because that's just something that would let me save so many clothes. Admittedly I just go around with holes in them rather than throwing them. Though I will say this for some Shein and Primark clothes in my experience: depending on the fabric (denim and corduroy come to mind) some are just as long lasting as the more "premium" that are supposed to last longer.
@@activistwitch Morgan Donner made a great video showing different mending techniques that inspired me to finally learn and it was actually easier than I had anticipated, I recommend that if you're looking for inspiration too! And yeah higher price doesn't always mean better quality unfortunately, that is why I'm hesitant to buy things online.
Great video. Definitely looking forward to more of your content. 🖤🖤🖤
Thank you so much 🙏🏽
Sei italiana? Either way, I love what you're doing here (and your aesthetic)!
grazie!
This was a really good video, thank you for doing this!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment!!!
That poor person, they just want to wear something that makes them happy. And then elitists crap all over them.
Is shein good? No. But if it's all you can afford and you are only buying a few things, I don't see the issue.
Have people gone to thrift stores lately? Items are not discounted anymore and if you are a weird size, you are out of luck.
We do what we can.
Instead of demonizing people for buying things, how about calling out these companies for all their wastefulness? Hold them accountable.
Exactly 💯💯💯
YES, THIS. I'm just about out of the damn economic bracket of the THRIFT at this stage 🤣 I'm putting aside money for fast fashion now! vote with my dollar?? you think I've got dollars?? 😭🤣
👏👏👏👏👏Well said👏👏👏👏👏
Random aside for interaction, The Veblen effect works with names as well, poor people pick 'rich names' for their babies and in under 20 years (about a generation) those names now being associated with 'the poors' loose favor with the rich who find new names (or very old ones) and the cycle repeats.
It makes problematically sense thanks for sharing this!
Sinceramente con lo difícil que es acceder a materiales, he tratado con fallo y error con aquellas cosas a mi al rededor, plantas locales y etc
this video really making me ruminate on all the purchases i intensely regret… 😔
Oh yeah, awareness of the machine we're being grinded by daily it's a hell of a feeling 💀
Incredible video with tons of great information. The one point I would challenge (because I just learned this myself) is that our taxes pay for things we need. This is another lie by the state to keep us working under capitalism. For more info on this please see 1Dime's videos "The Deficit Myth: The Biggest Lie In Politics" and "The Problem With Taxing The Rich."
completely agree, considering the UK governement cannot provide a budget and expenditure for over a Billion of our taxes!
I'm from the States. It took me a while to figure out that when y'all were saying 'Shane' you meant SHEIN.
If you turn on subtitles you'd have all the proper script. I transcribe manually most of my videos for accessibility
@activistwitch ooh I love that! Thank you!
@@HumanFellaPerson you're very welcome, I know I can't "hear" without my subtitles 😅
I am a mystic and have been for over 40 years. I still forage, thrift and second hand, dumpster dive and do my own thing. I laugh when I see things that are trendy and then they want you to buy into it, at any price. Now I can barely afford second hand and thrifting and I refuse to buy new. My beliefs are not an aesthetic nor are they for anyone to make a cute Tik Tok video. I make my own clothes, create feverishly everyday, grow most of my food and people do not understand it is a lot of work. I breathe this life 24/7, not when the camera is on or when I want people to purchase my creations. It is who I am. I come from a point of educate.
Thank you for sharing your point of view.
How I would love to see thrifted curtains turned into sac dresses as the new cottage core 😂
Very "gone with the wind" 😓
I'm learning to knit for fun, not because it's morally superior. Sustainable fibres cost too much for a learner like me to waste my bad knitting on, so that means I buy acrylic. In other words, fossil fuels.
I never understood the idea of wanting to be like another person.
Hi everyone, English is not my first language, so I'm bad at identifying different accents and understanding where they stem from. This pronunciation is something I'm not used to hearing, in spite of the author of the video saying she's from the UK. Is there a name for her accent? Asking for educational purposes
@@ssadina-shtukaturka most of my videos (including this) come with subtitles so hopefully my accent does not have to distract too much from the stuff I say.
@@activistwitch it absolutely doesn't! I just wonder where it's from
I love this video so much
Glad you found it! Thank you for watching!
Agreed
Glad to hear 👍🏽
You have the best hair colour. >^_^
Thank you! It's very variable but this was a good day 😅
Living wage what is that?
I know 🥲
I work at a factory in the US for the last decade. We make metal hose ends, washing machine parts, and fire extinguishers. The CEOs dad built a machine by himself that could turn out more of those metal hose ends faster than anyone else around at that time and at a far better quality. (A leaking hose end for a washing machine can actually do massive property damage).
He employed people in our small town and gave us a way to gain income in this 3 traffic light town. The stolen wages idea is quite insane. The factory cost is more than the machines and material. The electric bill alone is thousands a month. If our CEO couldnt make any profit for himself and his family why would he trouble himself to run the business? We aren't unionized and we make almost triple minimum wage in my state with no college education doing low skill labor. I only have a roof over my head because someone else used their great mind to invent a machine that I never could myself that started a business.
Do I absolutely love going to work? No. Am I safe there? Yes. Am I rich? No. Am I able to own a home and feel secure? Yes.
I dont understand how anyone thinks communism works based on history.
I know you canr work because you say you are disabled so please just enjoy the fruits of the labor of the working people and stop asking for more free stuff.
I understand the need to settle for what one feels has been "lucky enough" to already have. But that's complacency.
Historically communism has actually never happened past the revolution step. The USSR is not an example of communism because it never moved past the military state phase. Cuba would be as close as it gets but we never saw it thrive not because communism doesn't work but because the US is so terrified of people like you seeing communism works better than whatever they fed you so far that they have been under a US man made blockade for decades. That's without going into all the coups the US sponsored in any country that was working under leftist (nor even communism, leftists governments.)
You'd think if you were right and communism historically just failed the US wouldn't have spent so much energy destabilising countries that simply worked under a different system that was doomed to fail anyway no?
I suggest you read "the Jakarta method" amzn.to/4bhJEdC to see how your your government is terrified of communism and has actively worked to indoctrinate you to talk like you did, and spent billions to make sure you don't know any better.
Such a convoluted video... Only the last 25 minutes were essential for the video, everything else feels so unneeded and said thousands of times is so many contexts.
@@NotaBurnerac-iv6pp well thank you for watching, glad to hear something was useful at all
I generally love the video but the way you bring up dopamine is just... terrible. It is a hormone we need to live. I have ADD which basically means my brain cells don't have/produce/recognize enough dopamine. It doesn't make me more mindful or less consumerist etc. It just makes me sick. Couldn't you just say "short term satisfaction" instead of dopamine dopamine dopamine? There are studies that show dopamine helps us have long term commitments by giving us small doses of happiness. Hell that is why I can't focus lack of it. Anyways that was bit of a rant. In short dopamine doesn't equal just short term satisfaction
I wish I had more time to go into dopamine, in this video it's extremely simplifies and I invite you to check the sources. I know first hand ADD so I understand what you mean, if anything with ADD the seeking out behaviour (and possibly addictive tendencies) can develop easier exactly because of how "starved" of the hormone is. I never said it's a bad hormone at all, it gives us motivation and reward.
I was nodding along to your story until around 52 min. Can you please address why it’s wrong for a woman to wear t-shirts and the same style of jeans for several years? It’s not wrong. I suggest the single mom in your metaphor would feel good wears worn-in jeans and a simple T-shirt if she didn’t also feel that in order to stay relevant, she didn’t have to compete for the male gaze. The male gaze *from both men and women*. It’s 💯 true that both hold a lower opinion of you if you dress dated or are overweight. It’s as if a woman hold no value in society if some other woman doesn’t want to look like her.
There's absolutely nothing wrong in wearing t-shirt and jeans if that's a choice. The issue is people telling off people who can't afford anything different. I used t-shirt and jeans as an example of a basic outfit, which is still ok as long as a choice,. The entire issues were talking about here is someone who associates , whehrere they realise it or not, an entire (escapist) lifestyle to a piece of clothing (which fair, see the subcultures point), but basically it's about people who think themselves ethical consumers telling poorer people to buy the basic from say, Primark, or nothing at all. That basic I defaulted to t-shirt and denim, I apologise if it sounded in any way problematic, hope this explains it
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Isaiah55:6&7,"Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon."
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Wasn't she in Roseanne?
Please tell me this is your absolutely pitiful attempt to make a joke on me being fat and that being the only characteristics I have in common with Roseanne Barr 🤣
@activistwitch not at all the character I'm reminded of isn't fat at all, it's the young daughter with dark curly hair.
THIS WAS SUCH A GOID VIDEO THANK YOU ACTIVIST WITCH!! 🫶🏼
You're so welcome! Glad you liked it!
Why YT recommended again this communist to me..
btw if you click, let alone comment on a video, UA-cam will show you more of this so maybe curate your algorithm without anger?
I've been on the witchcraft scene for forty years; it used to be a case of using your imagination and cutlery drawer; now you can't move for the latest cool accessory you absolutely need to do what you could do with nothing years ago. I don't need more clutter to make others richer.
Part of my misunderstanding of what was happening in my village being fill Witchcraft was indeed that tools and aesthetics weren't a thing, if anything everything was hidden behind religious iconography
Yes
you can do just as much with a kitchen bread knife as you can with an expensive occult athame covered in runic sigils. it can do everything the athame can do, plus it can also cut bread. 🤣 I'm 100% camp old school.
Same here, nearly 50 years a witch, when I started there were few books or tools or even cool accessories! We used what we had, made what we could. Funny thing but I still use my own stuff more than store bought.
In fact, sometimes it's cheaper to buy clothes from the bargain bin and use the fabric for a different thing than buying new fabric. We've used my mom's old blouse to make a skirt this year. No way I can afford that quality in new materials.
I do remember my grandparents doing the same, in her old age it's all my grandmother did. The time alone to do it, without even considering learning, is a luxury in today's poverty we cannot afford.
@@FunkyLittlePoptart the fact you can't imagine how much people have to multitask with their time is shocking to me. Do you know when **I** who make UA-cam video have time to watch a 1h video? When I wash the dishes, when I have to clean the house. I cannot afford to not multitask. Do you want to add anything to show how your privilege doesn't even let you imagine how poor people survive?
Exactly. Even when I was poor as dirt and working 50+ hours, I would still go to the thrift shop and use those clothes or that fabric to make things. It's something I love doing and it's my happy place. I didn't have a sewing machine for awhile, so I'd just hand sew and hand embroider things.
@@activistwitch I'm in college rn (scholarship, could NOT afford this otherwise), I pick up sewing stitches by bringing my stuff to class, deconstructing half the seam on an old garment, and then re-sewing it repeatedly til I can mimic the stitch pattern. learned leatherwork cleaning tack at a riding stable for a job pre-COVID. observe everything.
@@activistwitch doing dishes to this video literally right now lol