do what now?
Inspired, I
think, by the book I recently worked on dealing with
the sociological implications of Henry David
Thoreau's works, I've been doing a lot of reading
online...again...about voluntary simplicity. I
already try to live that sort of life, to a large
degree, but I figure I can always find inspiration
& new ideas from looking at what other people are
doing.
And there's one thing I don't get: If the whole point is to leave a smaller footprint on the planet, to learn to live without being distracted by all the unnecessary crap that our consumer culture works so hard to convince us we absolutely need, to live more deliberately - why are so many voluntary simplicity sites trying to sell me something?
Must I own my own copy of Your Money or Your Life and Voluntary Simplicity—or can I just borrow them from the library like I do all the other books I want to read? And do I really need a "Live Simply" T-shirt or coffee mug? Isn't that just more of the junk that I'm supposed to be trying to cull from my life?
And there's one thing I don't get: If the whole point is to leave a smaller footprint on the planet, to learn to live without being distracted by all the unnecessary crap that our consumer culture works so hard to convince us we absolutely need, to live more deliberately - why are so many voluntary simplicity sites trying to sell me something?
Must I own my own copy of Your Money or Your Life and Voluntary Simplicity—or can I just borrow them from the library like I do all the other books I want to read? And do I really need a "Live Simply" T-shirt or coffee mug? Isn't that just more of the junk that I'm supposed to be trying to cull from my life?
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