I don´t like the "consumer" label at all. From my vantage point it´s about as disempowering as you can get. I think consumer and what I see is some drooling person sitting in front of their television set with a coca-cola in one hand and a chicken mcnugget in the other, ashtray full of Marlboro butts and medicine bottles full of colorful pills. I´m assuming that the origins of the term can be traced to some reformist organizing campaign trying to gain more services for people with mental illnesses: like "See, we buy things too! You better treat us with respect! Buying power is voting power!" well that´s just great, but I myself don´t ever want to be referred to as a fucking "consumer" like it´s some empowering statement about my place in society. I´ll take "crazy" or "maniac" any day over that one.

— scatter The Icarus Project