Minimalism is a state of mind and therefore has little relevance to the material world. Ha, ha, ha... I know, I know, I know... I have a quirky definition of minimalism and so I bumble around whenever I attempt to communicate the utter pleasure, benefit, and peacefulness that now accompanies my unique state of mind.
I have a state of mind that remains wildly at odds with the current revolution being waged against Western thought, history, success, civility, mores, etc. The new-age mantra driving this social revolution is "collectivism". The mob who roam the streets, media, classrooms, workplaces, corporations, etc are "collectivists" and as such they are chained to the core thoughts, actions, and beliefs of others. Together they form patterns of thinking, acting, and believing which is ultimately destructive to social evolution as it has been practiced for centuries. The collectivists are redefining human civilisation in terms that subjugates the individual in an ambitious attempt to create a new state of social homeostasis [see photo].
I oppose collectivism in all its manifestations because I believe in the individual not the mob. I have witnessed the results of mob rule inside the Soviet Union, East Germany, Kerala [India], Laos, etc. In each example there was a "sameness" that drove the repression, suppression, and regression of community standards. And the current version of this "sameness" is evident today as everyone wears a mask, stands apart from his kids and his neighbour because these behaviours suits a system that favours the lowest common denominator over all else. Collectivist are redefining life on our planet. These power mongers are destroying freedoms, inventions, innovations, and ways of being that form the core of peace and prosperity in the West. These power mongers are not creative, expansive, wise, inventive, uplifting, etc but rather they are storm troopers who are content to wipe away the notion of individual freedom, independence, and self-sufficiency.
Yesterday... I was contemplating just how long it will take for this redefinition of humans to become the norm or to be defeated. I had no way to guess that timeframe might look like so I sought guidance from my vague recollections of what is recorded in modern history books. Thus I imagined what it was like to live in the West in 1936 and witness the rise and rise and rise of The Third Reich in Germany. Most people who feared the consequences of this redefinition of German life simply sat on their hands. They supported their leaders who sought to appease the power mongers in Germany, and its allies, who were collectivists and as such had a similar agenda those who bully us today. It took more than a decade, a World War, and untold misery and suffering in the West for the threat of that collectivism to be quelled. But then collectivism moved to the Soviet Union and simply persisted.
Whenever humans seek to redefine the collective it takes decades of misery, waste, war, and human sacrifice before the cause of individualism prevails again. Minimalism is on the side of the individual. It is not an ideology, religion, movement, cause, etc but rather it is a natural state of mind that allows each and everyone of us to live to our fullest potential.
Richard.
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