Oops! - yep, have to hold my hand up to that one!
But what I meant is just that - minimalist LOOKS enticing, but it doesn't
work unless you either have storage facilities the size of a bus depot, or
throw everything away as soon as someone puts it down, which ends up making
you an ideal member of a consumer society (i.e. its expensive).
So in the end, minimalist living is a misnomer, in that the living is
actually going on elsewhere.And the 40 year-olds you refer to may well have
been attracted to the apparent simplicity because of an internal need to
simplify life a bit (by that age life has usually got pretty complex).
Real minimal living, I would venture, is more likely to be found in a
monastery.
Hope I didn't offend!
cheers
ppl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian J Greely" <Ian@tirnanog.org>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: 02 July 2000 02:08
Subject: Re: MD ayn rand
> Hmm,
>
> You wouldn't happen to be a guy living in a lot of clutter who is
> dissing other peoples choices to live without the clutter, would you?
>
> Most of the young men I know are unable to afford true minimalist
> living. It's rather pricy. Black wood (formica) and smoked glass
> happen to be cheap.... I wonder if there is any connection...
>
> Though of the few homes I've been in that have been designed in
> minimalist style the mode of living is very enticing. Clean spaces and
> straight lines. Odd that most of those homes are of divorced men in
> their 40s and rather well off.
>
> From the sounds of things perhaps Ayn Rand embodies the low
> maintenance philosophy. It is an easy to maintain viewpoint that,
> whilst it is missing many of the essentials of living, offers a clean
> structure that lets you eat out for many of the real essentials.
>
> regards,
> Ian
>
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2000 00:15:42 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >by the way, I've a theory that Ayn Rand tends to appeal to those at a
> >certain developmental stage, in the way that black wood and smoked glass
> >constitute the ultimate in interior design to young bachelors keen to
reject
> >their parents and have 'stylish interiors'. It's just easy enough to
> >understand at that age. Bit like minimalist architecture, Bauhaus,
Naziism /
> >Fascism, nouvelle cuisine, the whole of 'style', Art college-chic,
> >revolutionary thinking, radical solutions, belief in the idea that 'you
get
> >what you pay for', etc.,
> >phases you have to go through, but not get stuck in.
> >unless you're an aging hippy that invented something like "The Simpsons"
> >cheers
> >Peter Lennox
> >Hardwick House
> >tel: (0114) 2661509
> >e-mail: peter@lennox01.freeserve.co.uk
> >or:- ppl100@york.ac.uk
> >
> >
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