Approach to Minimalism

Physical

Only own what you need and use regularly

Simple aesthetic, but you don’t have to sacrifice quality

New purchases of physical objects are for a given purpose

Do not hang on to items that have outlived usefulness or purpose

Regular maintenance to quality possessions ensures their condition over time

Question your emotional attachment to objects

Stuff does not equal security or status

When you collate a smaller collection of possessions that are specifically in your life to aid in your health and wellbeing, you have more time and energy to invest in people and activities you would like to experience instead of investing time and energy into acquiring and maintaining physical structures that have increasingly diminishing returns in regards to the quality of your direct lived experience.

Want less things + Own/buy less things = focus on priorities, less time spent working to acquire, less time spent working to maintain what has been acquired, less time spent removing the residuals of acquiring

Digital

Technology is abundant but in excess can be much to our detriment.

Do you use the internet as a tool or does the internet use you as a tool?

Who serves whom?

Does your use of technology enable a healthy well balanced meaningful life?

Or are you a pavlovian zombie, brain dead and now trained only to respond to micro-hits of dopamine doled out by algorithms designed to turn you into an addict?

Do you worship faux facades through screens that have become gross caricatures of the human experience in an attempt to mimic true relationships?

Do not allow the tool to become your master.

Realize the intent behind what is being transmitted through the use of this tool and understand that you can also choose to not succumb to the whims of digital proselytization.

It’s common for false gods to create shrines to themselves that they worship daily and entice you to do the same. Why do you give your power away so easily to such fools?

Parasocial relationships are mostly fictitious in actuality and rely mainly on a many to one relationship which is largely unsustainable. You think they benefit you more, but that’s what they hope for, because there are more of you than them so it actually benefits them more, especially if you look at it from an exchange of energy.