Thursday, April 24, 2008

Frugality


"We need to be slower, and we need to be smarter.

Slow movement means disengaging from consumerism as the main avenue of experience. We're not gonna live our life mediated by the marketplace or what's being sold. We won't made our identities and meaning based on that. Instead of the longer commute, the bigger car, the bigger house.. Let's enjoy the local produce, have time to ourselves.

Understand that things are thieves of time. Because the more things you have, the more time you have to spend working, the more your life is chained to a rhythm to get those things.

Frugality is the key"

- Nathan Gardels, the Editor of New Perspectives Quarterly

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