What of the Cultural Consumer?

With their grand cultural expression of upright trade there are buyers and sellers within the self-determined emporiums of Afrikan souls replete throughout their continuum. As with the overall facility of trading the roles and activities of the buyer and the seller are naturally and necessarily also outwardly expressive of cultural substance as a norm.  Taking the buyer (or consumer), these naturally cultured souls seek to acquire that which is empowered by highly civilised living and also empowers highly civilised living. Afrikan consumers enter the Afrikan marketplace naturally holding their lived substance of rightful order and consequently purchase that which is of complementarity, benefits or enhances their upright order of substance carried. Indeed, the entering into an Afrikan emporium itself in the first place to browse and buy can be seen as a cultured directive.  

According to a contemporary mainstream source the cultural consumer is a role explained in the following way:

“The cultural consumer describes a person who avidly consumes art, books, music and live cultural events within a society. With the rise of expressive technologies, cultural consumers have harnessed the internet to fuel their own creative efforts”.

According to the same source, the cultural consumer holds the following characteristics in that this:

“type of consumer values creativity, design and the power of personal values. These consumers will look toward companies that can present an offering that solves a problem, does some good, and delivers aesthetically. They also look for products that engage the senses as a way to discern truth. In other words, they believe what they can experience. Authenticity is paramount, and stories and images are powerful means for communicating messages”.

Such a phenomena may appear new to others. However, for the Afrikan this type of role and attributed qualities are of general popularity throughout the Afrikan continuum. Albeit void of what may be considered as current technology of the now.

But, what of the cultural consumer in soul people during a time of interruption and disruption? Well, subject to the ills imposed by others, Afrikan souls can be at a deficit of self-knowingness and be at a deficit in relation to their norms of self-determined cultured engagement. In this, their role of the cultural consumer is compelled to suffer. If the highly cultured life of Afrikan souls is at less-than optimal flourishing, then the outwardly expressed roles and activities can only reflect likewise. Certainly, any such disorder will be a boon to others that mean the Afrikan ill who may also push and peddle a host of pseudo-cultural concoctions to fill the gap of deficit for susceptible souls to consume at their peril.

Despite the challenges, it is only Afrikan souls that can restore their self-knowingness, cultured living and outwardly expressed roles and activities that service their imperative for upright ascension. Self-determined emporiums, buyers, consumers and the like to service self-economy functioning which in turn empowers Afrikan highly civilised norm are crucial parts of this pioneering people’s overall thrust for elevation and their optimal flourishing. Each soul from whatever station, level or status can make a rightful step of progress to realise their highly cultured norm. After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.

Kwanzaa is one of the essential cultural observances of life within the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation. The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN) is an Afrikan-centred spiritual and cultural mission for ascendancy that embodies living spiritually and culturally rooted life. To find out more about URAN and its spiritual-cultural mission for liberty and nationhood click here. The exquisite URAN pendant can be obtained online by clicking here.

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