Should we free ourselves of objects and clutter? | Paul Dolan, Mary-Ann Ochota and Steve Taylor
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is There a Difference Between Mindfulness and Mindfulness?
Do our objects say something about who we are as individuals? Or do we live in communities where the group influences the possessions that we own? Absolutely, because you form your identity by having that reflected back to you by others. So if those people over there have flash cars and that's not your kind of a thing, then you may well go to take a stronger position in opposition to that. We're not the flash car kind of people. We're the tumbly down, fix it together with a bit of twine and gaffer tape and drive around north of Scotland with it. And counterculture, I guess, would be an example of that.
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