The modern trend towards Minimalism evolved out of the overly materialistic western culture. Minimalism is based around reducing the number of personal belongings.

The goal of most minimalists is to live a freer life through a reducing of their physical possessions. Physical books, CD, DVD, pen and paper have all been replaced by smartphones without compromise.

Instead of filling our homes we fill cloud storage space. We have replaced one activity with another, leaving our heads just as clouded as before.

Minimalism is to reduce the negative impact of our actions on the environment. Introspection, creative thinking, pondering ones existential nature, dreaming, creation of meaning and purpose.

Our Minimalism has to extend to an experiential Minimalism, in which we reduce our cultural input and consumption of experiences.

True Minimalism is probably the only way in which we can gain the freedom in time and capacity of mind to construct a meaningful purpose for our lives. We see it in the life of a monk.

In addition to the reduction of our material possessions they also strive to reduce their consumption of externally provided experiences.

Consuming culture will leave us with little capacity to think for ourselves and to experience the deepest aspects of truth and reality.

It will get us stuck at where we are, unable to direct our own life-story, unable to create the dream we want for others and ourselves.

True Minimalism extends to all aspects of our lives and reduces everything that is not beneficial.

Man, I see in Fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars.

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place.

We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war … our Great Depression is our lives.

We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact.

And we’re very, very pissed off.