The guys who turned minimalism into a religion

Hey

guys

, welcome back to an extremely specific rant that almost none of you will care about. There is nothing I like more than a good documentary. If every school in the country replaced their boring textbooks with really well-made documentaries, I would have been a student, but they didn't and imagine my excitement when I saw Netflix release a new documentary about

minimalism

, which is something that I find it really interesting. It's this increasingly popular mentality that if you get rid of all the junk in your house. it doesn't add value to your life, you will feel freer and happier, that is too simple a definition but there is a spectrum, some people take it to the extreme and get rid of everything living in a small house and others just want to give it a try.

To avoid buying things you don't need in the first place, I was excited to watch this documentary and so I did and I felt uncomfortable the whole time and I couldn't understand why and even when I finished it was still bothering me. me, so I went online and read some reviews and saw that other people were uncomfortable too and I thought that's good. I'm not alone and now I have to make a video about this. I want it and I want it now. The thing is, I love it. message that is at the center of this documentary, there is a lot of valuable information here about the rampant consumerism that has taken over our lives, how all our devices are connected and listen to our conversations to know what products to advertise and buy things.

We don't need it because we think they will make us happy, but they don't at all. I agree 100% and thought I would love this documentary, but these two

guys

are so weird that

minimalism

is what gets us through. things so that we can make room for the most important things in life that aren't really things at all. I feel like as I watch this I'm being indoctrinated into a cult, how could your life be better with less? They are standing in this dim light. room dressed all in black speaking with the cadence of a pastor giving a sermon on the dangers of hoarding, of course, most of us are not hoarders, right, no, and that's when Moses

turned

to God and said God, I have too many fidget spinners, it might have been living the American dream but it wasn't my dream and it took me getting everything I thought I wanted to realize that maybe everything I ever wanted wasn't actually what I wanted at all I can't say if I'm listening to like slam poetry or if they're auditioning for a school play, Mom and I moved 20 miles south to a suburb of Dayton, which sounds nice in the suburbs, but it wasn't nice at all, a Sometimes it sounds like they're about to burst into song our memories aren't in our things our memories are inside us and then this guy keeps talking about his mom but when he refers to her he doesn't say my mom, he just says mom as if It was all our mom, I know.

Mom certainly made a phone call from Mom, don't even get me started on Mom's bedroom, but like I said, it's not all bad, there are some really interesting infographics here with some pretty insightful information and something that's not so much every year we go by. more in shoes, jewelry and watches than in higher education, that's a pretty interesting statistic if you don't think about it too much, like, wow, we're so vain, we value clothes more than education, we really live in a society, but like you, no I won't go to college forever. I'm proud to say that I didn't spend any money on college this year because I stopped going.

Come to think of it, I bought shoes. Damn, where are my priorities? They send us advertisements that make us Subconsciously feel that we are inadequate. If we don't have this product, then I won't be loved if I don't have this toothpaste. My kids won't value me if I don't have this dish soap. My wife will leave me. if i dont start with jaws or size my husband will leave me if he finds out about my wife my wife and husband met and now they are having sex these are the kind of ads i see online i want Now next From about 10 or 15 minutes of pretty interesting information that I was enjoying hearing, it just becomes the Josh and Ryan show.

Josh goes to his childhood house and walks in slow motion because he's sad, he's like, Wow, you can! I think he used to live in this shit hole. Can you believe a guy with this amazing hair and an amazing podcast used to live in this smelly shack? By having fewer sentimental items, we can enjoy those sentimental items much more. This mat always makes me feel happy. laughs, I guess what's also a little discouraging about this is that they spent a lot of time talking about the fruitless search for things that she owned, a lot of things, things, things, things, things, things, things, how we think that things They will make us happy, but that is not the case.

Which I agree with, but they say that what will make you happy is minimalism. I asked him why the hell are you so happy. He spent the next 20 minutes telling me about this thing called minimalism, preaching that it's almost the end. -Everything is for happiness and that's where it starts to be a little cultivated in a way where they are doing what they accuse all those targeted ads of doing by pointing out that here is a problem in your life and this is what will happen. fill the void there was a big void in my life so I tried to fill that void the same way many people do with things there was a void in my life so I tried to fill it with things but I still wasn't happy I got rid of things and then I felt happy, but why are you back where you start zero plus one minus one is still zero?

I may not have been a straight student, but I can still do math, honey, they spend too much too. Much of the documentary simply talks about themselves, which is what many critics also complain about. Now we have the privilege of sharing our message with millions of people every year, we start a blog and we have millions of fans and they love us and they give us money and we don't buy anything with the money, obviously that's great, I'm happy you guys were able to succeed, but most of the people who clicked on this documentary don't really care about that and it kind of detracts from it. your message when you talk all about yourself would be like if you went to church and the whole sermon was about how the pastor was successful.

Amen. Now you're not going to believe this, but I used to preach in that little church. Down the street, have you been there? That place is disgusting. That place is dirty. They paid me in five cents. Now I'm a millionaire. You know, mom always told me that she wouldn't amount to anything. Guess where they were wrong. Rich, I could buy a new mom if I wanted, so I was intrigued after seeing this. I wanted to learn more about these guys who came and found out that they had another documentary from about six years ago and it's exactly the same one they're telling you about.

Same stories Why the hell are you so happy? Why the hell are you so happy? Why the hell are you so happy? There was this. I had this huge void in my life. In my life. Please tell me you appreciate the irony of these guys traveling. the world preaching about the importance of consolidating and simplifying your life and yet they created two entire documentaries that are identical, they also wrote four books about the same thing, they also had two ted talks and I realized that this must be the reason why the one they talk the way they do there are too many things to do it alone they are talking as if they are giving a ted talk it is a very specific style of speech and they are talking that way because they are literally giving their ted talk it is practically word for word maybe some people may find value in my story there may be some people out there who find value in my story i started a blog i started a blog when something amazing happened something amazing happened 52 people visited our website in the first month 52 people visited our website in the first month 52.

I realize that at first this might sound unremarkable, so now I'm wondering who this documentary was, because it's about them, so I thought, well, maybe this is for I like their fans to listen to more about their lives, but if you're a fan of them and you're already going to see this, you already know all this, so it's kind of a waste of time or maybe these guys are the ultimate in minimalism, they wrote 10 years ago. Like four pages of information and they haven't had to add anything that's brilliant and there's also the underlying theme of "Hey, money isn't important, it doesn't buy happiness, you can be rich and not have any possessions, but if money doesn't It is important".

So why are you charging sixteen thousand dollars on Patreon not per month but per podcast episode of which you upload about five per month, which is equivalent to eighty thousand dollars a month from your sponsors and why are you selling a quarter book on the same topic? You released a second documentary that is the same as your Ted Talks that inspired your first documentary in which you generate a bunch of excerpts from your book, but even while Rome burns, there is somehow time to shop at Ikea, according to its own logic Should they cut things? things in your life that don't add any additional value, but everything you are doing is superfluous.

I'm not saying these guys aren't allowed to make money off of this. I think it's great that they're successful, but even some of their long-time fans. They're starting to call them scammers because they haven't really evolved in the way they monetize their message, but the message itself has no ways to expand in this genre. I mean, the director of the two documentaries of his is a great example of this matt davella, who is a youtuber, many of you have probably heard of him, in fact, I have been subscribed to him for over a year. He's made a ton of videos about minimalism, but they also deal with different specific aspects.

He also has videos on a million other topics, so it's not like he's just singing the same song every week. These guys have been doing this for over a decade. It would be interesting to hear them talk about how things have changed, like now that they have children. Explain to your child that they can't have a lot of toys, kids like to have things and they won't be as interested in the idea of ​​minimalism as you are because they're like five years old, so it would be interesting to listen to that conversation. or you could show specific examples of you going to someone's house and helping them tidy up.

They don't really go into detail in their documentaries. It's all very vague. They include some random testimonials from people about how minimalism has changed their life. lives in seemingly unrelated ways i got rid of 14 pairs of pants i don't think i've had that feeling since i was about four or five minimalism changed my life i used to have terrible erectile dysfunction and then i got rid of my stamp collection and now i'm having the best sex of my life thanks minimalist the first documentary is better than the second but it's also super vague they spend most of the time talking about the problem without going into enough specific detail about the solution that you can actually take something tangible away from it, go minimalist , it would be like someone saying I smoked cigarettes for years and then I stopped smoking cigarettes and now my life is great so you should stop, no that's really awesome but how?

Did you quit? I just stopped. I'm not rooting for these guys. I don't think they are bad people. I just wanted to talk about this because I was disappointed in the documentary, and based on the reviews, a lot of other people were too. If this is a topic that interests you, and for many people it does, there are much better resources out there, like Matt's channel for one. There is also a subreddit I found called no buy where people help each other deal with their shopping addiction. because that's a real thing that people go through and need real solutions before your credit card debt ruins your life and if you're in that situation you're not going to solve an addiction listening to two guys talk about how successful they are. are and then give you a bunch of vague platitudes that you need as live action elements anyway that's it.

I don't have anything more to say about it, so I'll just post seven more videos about this every day for the next week. Make sure you completely ignore the like button and stick around until after this commercial break because I'm going to tell you my secret to permanent, unbreakable happiness. We'll be right back. I'm falling down the stairs, but I want to take a break from that to tell you about the World Wide Web, the Internet is amazing. Did you know they have websites here, but having your every website visit tracked and monitored by big tech companies that use that information to sell it isn't us?

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