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1. Minimalism is oppressive. I have never thought to use that word for its effect. Sterility is what I think of it, but oppressive is better.

2. Wow, great links this week. I loved the homemade vacuum sealer.
   I also loved the title Oppressive regarding minimalism, I think clearing out is great, not buying in the first place would have been better though. I dislike all the hype about owning nothing because that just puts you back to shopping, every time you need the handy gadget you used to own, just buy another one…and throw that away?
   The article on Solving the Wrong Problems was very interesting and led me to a few other very interesting articles.
   The last great world changing discovery was Antibiotics (and we may not have them to kick around much longer)
   Everything else is a variation on inventions discovered a century or two ago. All we are doing now is building on them and we seem to be concentrating on “great new discoveries” that help us to become helpless.

   • Yeah, my problem with minimalism is that it’s about not doing something. It’s too Calvinist for my tastes. I’d rather be proactive.

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