Hello fellow consumers,

As always thank you to everyone that participated in the last weekly and remember you are Operation MONKE!

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NOTE:

Use and bookmark:

• https://communities.win/c/ConsumeProduct
• https://scored.co/c/ConsumeProduct
• https://arete.network/b/ConsumeProduct/

This Weeks Discussion Theme: Consoom The Past

In this weekly, we consoom the past! The places and moments in our personal lives or historical timeline which evokes a sense of nostalgia of a superior time. We often believe that things were better in the past, but at which period and what exactly seemed better? Is this sense of a better time a delusion waiting to be shattered by some schizoposter? “Um, actually TV sucked then, and it sucks now.” “People have always been censored and banned from platforms so what if it happens on the internet today!” “Don’t you know the government always lied, so what about X event who cares!?” “Mom's spaghetti came from a box and the sauce from a can; it did not taste better!”

Discussion ideas:

• Share a past memory or place in history you believe was better than the present day. Explain why you think the past was better.
• The past is important “you can't know where you are going unless you know where you came from”. Do you think nostalgia can have a negative influence on our decision-making and behavior in the present day?
• Do you think the internet distorts or enhances our perception of the past? Why do some people have nostalgic feelings for decades they never lived in?

Weekly Polls:

• ▶ What do you want next week’s theme to be? (04-02)
• Suggest a new weekly themes to be added to the list NOTE: Feel free to suggest new weekly ideas. 136 weekly threads could use some fresh ideas. Might start slowing down on weekly threads.

Previous Weeklies:

• Master List

Official public chat on Arete:

https://arete.network/chat/Server-ConsumeProduct/

Another "drama free" one made by Candelabro, intended for more mature discussions, preferred by many over the public one. Private; you have to request an invite:

https://arete.network/chat/Server-DramaFree/

And of course, there is also the reddit-style forum alternative in case something happens to Scored, such as when the old consumeproduct.win domain was shut down by the registrar for antisemitism, or you just prefer its format over Scored. I recommend you bookmark it or at least remember that it exists.

(new thread because the old one was getting filled up with deleted comments)

Onion URL of Arete:

http://f63rmp7hhtw6sk3tkptmbfhsbeeureuznffvi5gpzolq2xbf6znq66ad.onion/