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The Consumption Ritual

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Jermaine Fowler
Dec 10, 2025
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You’re scrolling. Your thumb stops on a woman with forty-two Stanley cups arranged by color on custom shelving like a shrine. A $45 tumbler, designed to be reusable, purchased forty-two times because hydration became an aesthetic. You keep scrolling.

A cooking creator wraps a five-pound block of cheese in bacon, deep-fries it, takes one bite. The rest go…

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