The idea of being a minimalist is to work through life with only a few possessions, this opposed to the materialistic view most economist state humans have. As these concepts general opposing each other, we expect one to cancel out the other but not for both to continue. As such it is worthy to note, the minimalistic endeavor has been around for a long time and is still going strong. Even in business the concept is reaching new heights and obtaining more ground. Seeing to the future in space as marked by the same, yet we will still have to answer the question of which is correct. And with our futures at risk, we need that answer in a timely fashion.
Few possessions have a cause and effect in life, as the individual(s) must learn to exist by using all items more fully. But it also affects the economy; the more people join such a society the less mass consumption need exist. Thus it is obviously why mass production supports the concept of mainstream materialism. Marketing this concept has people continuing to buy and in large qualities. But opposition is not meant to exist to a universal laws, instead we should expect if theory is correct opposition is removed.
Opposing view points offer competition meant to make improvements and evolve to better theories of how things operate or should operate. Mainstream views of needed mass production has a continually requirement, the mass public must buy into the same. Thus a mass marketing and political control status is aimed at keeping the public focused on the same ideology. This requires the political acceptance of this ideology as the only accepted means of business, production and consumer spending. Infrastructure relating to this has to be built and maintained, this requires time, money and energy which is becoming increasingly expensive.
It is expensive not just money, it is the waste of lives with future values yet to be seen, kept this way only for a few to gain political service. Thus minimalist and any concept of such are not accepted by the mainstream as controlled by the political mass production ideology. Yet in the colonial days, those seeking a better life choose to work within this concept, as it provided for them while allowing a future to be built. Their value going hand in hand with the saying, “take what you need,” as the frontiersmen and colonials would offer to each other survival and the means to provide a future for all seen as equals. We have gone beyond this today, with the every changing business world we have looked beyond our own prejudices to see more as equal.
This concept will reach new meaning as we search among the stars for life and the means to colonize the Solar System, taking with us our ideologies we must change. The concept of massive infrastructure does not work if you have to move among the planets, there is just too much to take and not enough energy. Instead you must cut back to the bare minimal needs, making the most use of all that is taken and not wasting anything. Thus there are those willing to evolve, even today, to meet this standard of higher development and pioneer the means to develop the concepts. Now seeing the future as it may come to pass, we know the needs presented will not fit into the confines of the mass production ideology nor the present politics supporting it.
Developments are still needed to meet the needs of reality; the concepts of the past must give way to the needs reality shows a future existence from. Thus it is the minimalist society growth which will make business and society stronger. The question of whether it should be followed can only be answered by those seeking the future and asking themselves another question. Whether we intend to stay on this planet forever or leave it, what will we do when we have wasted all that was created? For in staying or going we must find the means to cut our needs and allow more usage with less waste made in the process thus efficiency very nature.
The future has always been at risk, for we build it upon the cause and effect concept of our present lives. Then by this very nature we decide our fate, standing today as judge and jury for that which we choose to have tomorrow. Somewhere along this future we must decide to present a conscious mind to the problems of our lives, but in gaining such consciousness we must answer for our deeds. For as we become conscious, there can be few who lead us astray and fewer still which we become less responsible for our actions. Just a child grows up into maturity, so must the human race one day become mature as a whole and responsible along the way.
Contact: Michael Pulse MPulse@truth-things.biz Author of: The Truth of Things
CEO of Stone Rose LLC Profile on Elance: http://mpulse-stone-rose.elance.com
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