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jeffvail on October 8, 2007 - 10:36am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The fact that it isn't currently being sold to your kids is a problem of marketing. Major corporations don't have the profit-motive to slow consumption or the pace of life, but marketing is a concept that can also be applied by those not driven solely by profit motive. If elegant simplicity and minimalist consumption become "cool," you never know what people will go for:

Magazine Simplicity

Vernacular Zen

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john macklin on October 8, 2007 - 10:53am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

“Conspicuous Simplicity”. You got my vote.

When those two roads diverged in the woods, boy did we take the wrong one. And yup, that's made all the difference.

Long live the bookstore, and light to read by.

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