People tend to fetishize minimalism. Cue the annoying Marie Kondo memes...
Truth is, minimalism is a rich person's game.
As an adult I never had enough money to have too much food in my fridge, let alone too many consumer goods cluttering up my house. Honestly, the idea of having all kinds of extra clothing and gadgets laying around sounds a little like a dream come true.
What's So Good About It
Besides, who said that minimalism was an answer to anything?
What do you think is going to happen? Do you think that if you get rid of all the excess, you will be left with exactly the right things?
Do you imagine a clean home with a few dozen of the perfect objects, each placed in the perfect spot? Cuz this is a pipe dream.
Most artists I know tend to be maximalists. They don't pare down to the bare essentials.
The key skill is not minimalism. The key skill is organization.
Where Minimalism Fails
You can't minimalist your way into a high fidelity recording of an orchestra - you need great cable management and a solid conductor. And a whole lot of money.
I suspect that minimalism is a false catch-all solution for society's woes, one that does not exactly work. The idea is, we have so much stuff and we still aren't happy - maybe we just need to get rid of everything!
I for one prefer to cultivate stability within chaos -- and my kind of chaos requires more than the bare minimum of physical objects laying around.
What about you? Do you vibe with extreme minimalism? Or are you, like me, more of a maximalist?
I know I have far too much stuff, but I acquire less these days. There is a rampant fetish of consumerism that drives people to try to have more stuff than others. We can live with less and the planet will be better off if we do, but companies and governments are stuck in the rut of eternal 'growth'. That's a highway to hell.
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I agree with you, eternal growth is a highway to hell. Lately Im trying not to waste anything, so if I buy it, I have to use it, especially with food. Its amazing how much better it feels when I'm using every single bite of what I buy, not wasting a drop.
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Interesting to see this, as I just moved apartments into a much smaller place and am currently going through boxes of things and minimizing my belongings. So many boxes of things I dont use or need, it feels nice to be letting go of it, and also finding old things I could use now that were tucked away, becoming more organized. I guess im somewhere in the middle on this.
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Haha hey if you're in a minimalism phase that is cool too. It does feel nice to free yourself of old junk that's been hanging around in boxes cluttering up the place.
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