If minimalism is about not being wasteful, then how come minimalists say you should throw away perfectly working stuff?

So Minimalism has become the very thing it wished to destroy

minimalists will pay thousands of dollars to live in a plain white room - honestly fuck that noise, keep things you like, keep things you want, keep cool shit you found on the ground somewhere if that makes you happy.

minimalists decorate rooms the same way you'd save a dying baby bird in a shoebox

"Damn minimalists, they ruined minimalism!"

I remember reading something a while back where journalists (?) would go back minimalist decorated apartments they had covered during its peak and without fail every person had to do away with the minimalism. Turns out they were storing their stuff elsewhere and couldn't deal with not having "stuff" on hand anymore. It struck me as the movement being rather shallow in hindsight.

4:58 A wise woman once told me "all you really need in life is a good computer". Aside from everything else you need to live, I mean.

This video seems to very well indirectly cover my problems with a lot of the high profile "art things," that you see in the news every now and then these days. It just feels so... detached from the lives we live, rather than a reflection of it. (that or it seems to rely on shock value, and I personally don't care for shock value.)

I wish to gaze upon the art cube

There are too many minimalists.

So, to sum it up realistic vs ideal being at odds with each other.

I loved cs_italy even if its kinda trash for any serious play, so many memories in it

minimalism sounds like minimum settings but minimalism is probably better then modern art

as someone who knows nothing about visual art it sounds like the issue is people trying to look and be minimalist themselves, rather then be creators of minimalist art, and getting lost in that ideal.

Cause it suuucks

The minimalist movement doesn’t seem normal to me. What is normal to me is people decluttering every so often. It seem like self torture..