https://whatwesalvaged.com/tags/consumerism/ Recent content in Consumerism on What We Salvaged: Fragments after the fall Hugo en-GB Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://whatwesalvaged.com/posts/everyone-wants-to-be-us-the-lie-behind-be-yourself/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://whatwesalvaged.com/posts/everyone-wants-to-be-us-the-lie-behind-be-yourself/ To “be your own person” has been what we have been told for decades; at least the whole of this writer’s life. A person is to “self-actualise”, that is, to become the ultimate version of themselves. Motivational speaker, Tony Robbins has told people that they can “awaken the giant within”. But you can’t be your own person, unless you know what person you are, you can’t “self-actualise” unless you have an inkling of what the “self” is and you can’t awaken the giant unless you have an understanding of what sort of giant you might awaken and what it might do.