Comments on: Just Choose It!

By: Everything begins with choice | Mad World

Everything begins with choice | Mad World — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:50:05 +0000

[...] Too much choice is not good for your mental health, say psychologists, so why on earth is the government so keen to import it into our public services?The Situationist blog has reproduced an excerpt from a Times article by Liz Hollis on the dangers of… [...]

By: The Situation of Regret « The Situationist

The Situation of Regret « The Situationist — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:44:42 +0000

[...] to a heightened chance for regret, posed by to much choice, read “Why You Bought That,” “Just Choose It,” and “Can’t Get No Satisfaction” (Part [...]

By: well

well — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:56:13 +0000

so where does it stop then? you remove some choices, you feel better. you remove some more — again expectation decreases, you become pleasantly surprised, you feel better (relative to what you should expect to feel). you remove more. where does it stop? when you have only one choice? no choices?

By: CV Rick

CV Rick — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:17:31 +0000

That’s precisely right. What a great explanation for my own misery in any shopping situation. Hell, I used to enjoy strolling through an electronics store to view gadgets, but now there are a thousand different ways to play my dvd’s. I spent an hour trying to pick up an alarm clock and all I needed was the old two bells above an analog clock. I think I’m going crazy.

By: dagzine

dagzine — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:17:45 +0000

This is hardly new. Rehashing much of Georg Simmel’s “Metropolis and Mental Life” and many issues important to the Frankfurt School. More engaging is hos the Self-Help business continues to drag out these ideas, shake them off, and market them without doing anything to continue the work of critically engaging the issue.

Oh. Wait a minute. There’d be no market for these ideas in The Market if we actually worked to solve the problem.

And I love the alternative to the cell phone: the sofa. And from IKEA no less. Well, at least you can continue to choose to spend money.

By: I’m all lost in the supermarket, I can can no longer shop happily « Debris

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:35:45 +0000

[...] August 28th, 2007 in consumption The Situationist explains [...]