Modern life is organized around economic principles and the current dominant principle is consumerism; in which the act of accumulating, not the object, is supposed to create satisfaction, and is based on the assumption that one can (and should) have the best of everything.
Lazy Blogger In A Hurry…
Seth Godin has a post up about “lazy people in a hurry“, in which he posits that some people are:
Lazy as in willing to buy the first choice that’s ‘good enough’ as opposed to finding the best choice.
Now, as some of you know, I disagree completely with the concept of maximizing as a way to [...]
Choice, Discontent & Satisficing
Welcome to the 21st century, the age of “limitless potential”, meaning unlimited choices. There really isn’t a facet of our lives, from toothpaste to marriage, where we are now faced with a functionally infinite number of choices. As a society, we have let the perfect become the enemy of the merely excellent, and in doing [...]
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