Rec | MINIMALISM

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I know many of you here are aesthetic maximalists but there is something to be said about the joy in owning and consuming less. there is freedom (financial freedom, freedom from advertising, freedom of thought, freedom of movement) in minimalism. I don't think minimalism is a sparsely decorated room with white walls, I think it is owning just enough to feel prepared and joyful, finding the color in your life outside of the ownership of personal objects and moreso in the use of your resources for experiences, minimizing superfluous distractions, and using things until they are unusable. I fail every day at my own ideology but here's to trying. And now a Marx quote! "The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being."

@eatgraeps

21h ago

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@Bigbeaut

I live by this sentiment but have come to disagree. Collecting/making things is one of lifes great joys.

18h ago

@eatgraeps

@BIGBEAUT Yeah I grappled w this a lot bc art is somewhat wasteful and impractical and I can justify creating mass amounts of it because it has a ”purpose” which is to make me happy but so does every plastic stanley cup addition and shitty high school reunion t shirt that will be worn once and twilight lego set. So who am I to talk. I think the answer here is not a well thought out argument about what is and is not acceptable to produce but having specific and sometimes hypocritical principles about what you accept in your own life. And I would much rather, personally, collect/make things instead of buying cheap plastic stuff from Target to fill every possible niche in my life. Just to explain my argument here a little more

7h ago

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