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I just want to say I don't like this article at all. It makes minimalism seem like a rigid ideology specifically for white males who command poor people to bui
by ikt 7y ago
I just want to say I don't like this article at all.
It makes minimalism seem like a rigid ideology specifically for white males who command poor people to build and craft expensive housing and objects for them (and many of those objects are in the shape of penises?)
A whole lot of discussion on random art and murder from one of the people who made that style of art.
I thought this was going to be about minimalism, which to me is:
Q: What is minimalist living?
A: It’s simply getting rid of things you do not use or need, leaving an uncluttered, simple environment and an uncluttered, simple life. It’s living without an obsession with material things or an obsession with doing everything and doing too much. It’s using simple tools, having a simple wardrobe, carrying little and living lightly.
It's basically being more content with less which ties in nicely with financial independence. Instead I got lectured to for not being a woman of colour who renounces my privilege and whitewashing of things in an art history that I don't care for.
- justanotherhn 7y agoThanks for writing this comment it seems many people in this thread completely miss the mark on what it's supposed to be and set up "gotcha" scenarios in their strawman. I suspect it is because they associate the word minimalist with obnoxious Instagram influencers who use the word too much.
- kerkeslager 7y agoMy advice is to just stop identifying as a minimalist, and find a better word to describe your identity. The thing is, the article is describing a group of people who self-identify as "minimalist", but you, along with ten other groups that are nothing like you OR the minimalists in the article OR each other, all identify as "minimalist". It's just not a word with any coherent meaning. The result is that every time anyone talks about minimalism, there's some criticism leveled against minimalism, and then everyone's argument is "that's not minimalism, THIS is minimalism". It's an endless circle of semantic arguments. I at one time described myself as minimalist, but now I would describe myself as an anticonsumerist. It's not a perfect term either, but I haven't gotten in any stupid arguments about it.
- toddh 7y agoJoyist is the new minimalist.
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