But I never, ever actually see anyone expressing the latter sentiment for real It's a giant strawman pinata Like if someone in the world actually thinks that and thinks people who own too much stuff are "materialistic" and "shallow" etc they sure as fuck aren't on Twitter
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Anyway it actually is very important to me, for deep psychological reasons, to feel like if I had to I could pack everything I own in the world into a car and drive into the sunset and vanish
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This isn't really because of actually being afraid I'll have to flee from people trying to kill or arrest me Although it isn't 100% *not* that, given the weird shit that's happened to me over the past several years
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I just wish people would be respectful that other people have different desires and needs It's not like I'm asking you to live with me
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Agreed. I wouldn’t say I’m a minimalist exactly, but I increasingly lean towards streamlining and simplicity as I’ve begun to understand my ADHD/autism more. It feels absurdly obvious to say it out loud, but clutter is just not good for my brain.
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And this plays into my tech choices as well. I flirted with PC gaming for a while, but came back to consoles because the flexibility and tinkering potential that’s cited as a positive of PC was actually more of a detriment for me.
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For nerds there's that famous Heinlein quote about how "A man should be able to... [obnoxiously long list of things, including a bunch of shit Heinlein probably actually couldn't do, or at least not do very well], specialization is for insects" It always angers me
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Being able to just do one thing well that people need you to do is a lot more than some people are ever able to do And it is absolutely okay to demand a society where that's ALL YOU NEED TO DO
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A lot of the hippie-dippie crap about needing to be a "full and complete human" really deeply annoys me Like bluntly it is fundamentally ableist, anti-neurodiversity, all of that stuff Sorry I don't get any joy from washing and chopping my own lettuce Karen
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I mean all the different species of nerds are kind of assholes about this Tech nerds mad you want to never touch the default settings on your laptop Gearheads mad you have no interest in ever learning to drive stick
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Fitness nerds mad all you ever do is the default workout programmed into the treadmill at the gym Music nerds mad you just put on the Top 40 playlist on Spotify and half-listen to whatever it plays Foodies mad you just buy a premade sandwich in a plastic box every day
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I could get into how a lot of this is a class-status-signaling thing, that it's very much something that people with a certain amount of disposable income and free time do to let everyone know they're "keeping busy" But whatever
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The fact is the world is filled with too many things to care about, know about and be interested in, and it's completely okay to not care about any of them
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