A bugman is your typical big left leaning city dweller. He is usually obsessed with consumerism, lining up to purchase the newest
iPhone or MacBook when it comes out, and using a smartwatch/smart home speaker for longer than the week after he bought it. Chances are he owns other throwaway smart gadgets as well. All his tastes in movies,
music, expensive food, art, and more are determined by what review sites and blogs say.
Everything about his personality and life is not defined by who he is, but by what he buys and his consumerist tendencies. He'll be subscribed to at least
one,
maybe multiple subscription services, he'll happily use social
media and upload all of his information to the cloud, and he'll gravitate towards things that seem "rational" and use big words.
In fact, their social
media use defines a lot about who they are, as they try to get the most likes on social
media bragging about their life and viewing the lives of others who do the same.
Yet there is something big missing about their life, something that can be
seen in their face. Something that can be
seen the
minute you strip away all the consumerist choices and realize, there's nothing else. Their lives are empty, hollow, and all about serving corporations, until they die, and this is seen in their empty insectoid stare that implies they're dead inside, giving them the name bugmen.
Here we
see the Bugman in it's natural habitat. Man sleeping on the cement
gravel next to a Gamestop waiting to
get a PS5: "Confused stare"Huh? What?