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On simplicity

If you come right down to it, there are very few human needs that are really very essential. Love perhaps, companionship, beauty, religion and job enjoyment for that extra joi d'vrie.

Clothes, restaurants, etc have artificially created demand among consumers - it's no coincidence that Google makes billions a year from ad revenue. Half the economy is probably spent convincing us to purchase the other half. To quote, "we work in jobs we don't want to buy shit we don't need."

Now and then I feel the urge to simplify life to the bare essentials. Instant messaging, telephony, etc the illusion of instant contactivity becomes an unbearable burden. Even blogging.

Well, perhaps not blogging. There is still the fundamental human need to communicate, and the need to be understood.

posted by anodyne @ 12.2.08