I do really like your expression of the spectre of a deadly obsession when you describe the absurd killing of youngsters for a pair of shoes, and you said well, it’s an obsession, but obsession with what? about what? If we accept the fact that we are still behaving like primitives tribes with new and fancy toys that modernity has given to us, them I can say that a pair of shoes is a trophy that contain certain socialized codes, a status symbol as you said. You had brought one example that an .... aggressive advertising that sells ‘brashness, competitiveness, obsessiveness and insatiability but I think is beyond that. I remember being in Caracas (one of the world's deadliest cities, as you put it) and seen the enormous tension among youngsters that, as any big metropolis subject to a miserly bombardment of advertisements about how is the “must being” with a resulting induced market by constructed necessities, and I have to say is brutal. bringing down civilization into barbarity again, of course assuming we have been lifted.
But is sad that is nothing else to say about your last sentence ... Trainers are a status symbol for young people all over the world, one that some are willing to kill for. That is the way is suppose to be? that’s it? This only fuel the core bully values of this phenomenon. Here is a question for this forum: how to recodify the gangs culture into a political and natural force able to construct themselves a channel that neutralize this vicious bombardment of adds and embrace exercise of power without ending up killing for a pair of shoes. Caracas is finding a dignified way out of this mortifying top list.
Read: The scramble for Kanye West trainers raises the spectre of a deadly obsession, by Lanre Bakare
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