Minimalism is about owning less stuff, about owning less. But it's actually far more than that when you start to study it. We live in the world of social media where we see 1000 plus advertisements every single day, and every advertisement calls for our attention and it calls for our affection. Minimalism is about rejecting those advertisement messages and taking back control of our own lives and being loyal with our time and our money, and our energy. We need to renegotiate the thought of minimalism the term was originally conceived in the late 1950s. The ability to choose less today minimalism has become and then point towards a minimalist lifestyle that moves away from aesthetics and into politics ultimately minimalism has promised for socio-economic and environmental reasons. But we need to understand that its current state is more than a continuation of consumer culture than a movement toward an environmentally and materially conscious society. The trend of minimalism has inspired a lot of people in recent years. Somehow it has become the inverse of what it was trying to be now for certain minimalists. The lifestyle means a firmly selected wardrobe of expensive clothes in an aesthetic of white while using minimalist as a style. Take for example the buy less but buy better attitude that is encroach minimalism. Yes, buying a $500 pair of shoes might in some cases be more environmentally friendly than buying four sets of $60 shoes because the pricier shoes will most likely last longer and produce minor waste than four pairs. However, most people don't have the money for that so this minimalist philosophy uses the excuse of having little to buy the most expensive things perhaps minimalists are purchasing less. But they are still buying into the idea of creating status through expensive items thus if you don't have the means or the money to rid yourself of your belongings and purchase just the right things then minimalism must not be for you.
The new trend of minimalism as a visual aesthetic has now been merged with a surge of self-optimization by using the right technology and paring down your life in the right way minimalism can portably deliver happiness financial security and free time to those who follow its path, unfortunately, it can only be viewed as a key to happiness by those who already have more than enough for low-income people buying Inexpensive clothing or owning less furniture isn't a choice Its structural reality minimalism. However, it can offer so much more than a stylistically slimmed-down wardrobe it can instead mean a purposefully anti-consumerist and environmentally aesthetic lifestyle that works against the power of capitalism. The focus with minimalism then is not necessarily working to edit your daily choices and activewear down to the cream of the crop but instead on working hard to critically check your consumption choices. Day to day this looks like choosing not to buy the latest hundreds-dollar iPhone or if you are cleaning out your wardrobe choosing not to sell your clothes if you don't need the money and instead donating them to a progressive organization if you do in fact need to get a new pair of pants to consider buying secondhand the idea is to know that consumption feeds a system that affects overwhelming harm on the environment and marginalized people minimalism can offer guidance, not as a stylistic choice. But as a mindset that helps reroute our unconscious purchasing habits into a well-informed consumption critical stance. Minimum has slowly grown more popular so it's important to remember that as an aesthetic trend and a way to find happiness minimalism can sometimes be just another tricky form of conspicuous consumption. As a pro-environment list and anti-consumption choice, however, minimalism can offer a way to guide us along the route of an economic system that constantly pressures us to buy more. Having and buying less do not need to be status symbols or the subject of a social media post, they can instead be radical political and environmental acts. Of course, this needs to be done in a balanced way and without giving up your comfort.
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