In his comedy sketch about “Stuff,” George Carlin joked that the whole meaning of life can be described as “Trying to find a place to put your stuff!” After all, that’s what a house is: it’s a “place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff!” I doubt Carlin would have been a self-described minimalist, but his description of a consumerist mindset perfectly articulates the motivating principles of the popular minimalist lifestyle movement. Scroll through any social media platform with some variation of #minimalism, and you’ll encounter millions of pictures of sparsely decorated living rooms, tirades about the psychological harm of consumerism, and evidence of the glory of a life with fewer material possessions, world without end. Amen.
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