As Tyler Durden put it in Fight Club (possibly the most important movie ever made), we’re “chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.” And, even worse, “the things you own end up owning you.” He’s right. Very few, if any, of our possessions actually make us…
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Category Archives: materialism
The Simple Life
No, this isn’t about Paris or Nicole, it’s about the lifestyle known as “Simple Living.” “Simple Living,” as Wikipedia currently puts it, “is a lifestyle in which individuals consciously choose to minimize the ‘more-is-better’ pursuit of wealth and consumption. Adherents choose simple living for a variety of reasons, including spirituality, health, increase in ‘quality time’…
