Hi Peter,
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 09:15:45 +0100, you wrote:
>Oops! - yep, have to hold my hand up to that one!
<looks around bomb zone of disembodied computer parts> Don't know what
I meant...
>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).
Yes. This is bang on the money. It is a mode of living that came out
of one of the worlds first true consumer societies. Germany of the
40's.
>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).
I'll buy that for a dollar. At 32 I do find myself wondering how I
could manage to make something so simple (life) become such a complex
mess. ...
>Real minimal living, I would venture, is more likely to be found in a
>monastery.
Which, I believe, is a different thing... The concept of sacrifice.
Minimalist would be an attempt to have it all...
>Hope I didn't offend!
Not at all. You'd find it hard to find anything near an attempt at
chic in my apartment anyway. It's rather more like Oscar in "The odd
couple"...
regards,
Ian
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