Minimalism is lame

[StevenHandel]

Originally Posted by ken nubo

The most alarming thing, however, is the pseudo Zen philosophy. I woke up one morning, suddenly blog posts everywhere: “The Zen of public speaking”, “The Zen of working”, “The Zen of cleaning your toilet”. Lame, pretentious, pseudo Zen philosophy for those who never meditate in their life. Huh.

Meditative people don't work up a big stink over nothing. Relax. Take a deep breath and count to ten..

[Ryan OLoughlin]

Since everyone is different, I think minimalist blogs are beneficial for most people. Not all of them, but I think most people are addicited and conditioned to materialism. So it's valuable for people to here "spend money on experiences, rather than things", as an example. When i first heard that it really resonated with me. I consciously never thought about that before.

Also, minimilist bloggers are just targeting their niche of people who have too much stuff, aren't they? I say that with respect, of course I feel bad for the poor and struggling of society. I've heard that over half of the world liveso n less than a dollar a day. So the question is, how can we change that?