The Consumer

The Symbols

Squirrel, Apple, Apple Tree, Afternoon, Fall Season, Harvest, Painting Tree Trunks White

Might Mean

Freedom: freedom of choice, room to maneuver, laxity, tolerance, endurance, permissiveness, loose, scattered, clutter, confusion

Abundance: quantity over quality, expansiveness, fertility, generosity, beneficence, prosperity, surplus/savings, over-consumption, excess, infinity, obsession, overwhelm, imbalance, hoarding, mediocrity, food as fuel

Desire: wanting, indulging, appetite, enjoyment, pleasure, nurturing, sensuality, hedonism, nourishment, consumption, hunger, cravings

For Example

Movie Clips & Videos:

Food is fuel – Ratatouille

The story with money - The Laundromat

Help getting fascinated – Adaptation

I Love To Eat Scene – Julie and Julia,
The Love of Chocolate – Chocolat,
The Goddess, Giver of Forms – Joseph Campbell

Podcasts:
Kraftland (Invisibilia),
The Giant Pool of Money (This American Life),
The Neuroscience of Pleasure, Pain And Addiction (Fresh Air)

"One of the main problems of mythology is reconciling the mind to this brutal precondition of all life, which lives by the killing and eating of lives. You don't kid yourself by eating only vegetables, either, for they, too, are alive. So the essence of life is this eating of itself!

Life lives on lives, and the reconciliation of the human mind and sensibilities to that fundamental fact is one of the functions of some of those very brutal rites in which the ritual consist chiefly of killing–in imitation, at it were, of that first, primordial crime, out of which arose this temporal world, in which we all participate. The reconciliation of mind to the conditions of life is fundamental to all creation stories."

– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, p.50

Art:
La Folie des Grandeurs (Delusions of Grandeur, Magritte),
Self-Obliteration (Kusawa)