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Should we free ourselves of objects and clutter? | Paul Dolan, Mary-Ann Ochota and Steve Taylor

Philosophy For Our Times

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Do You Think There's Been a Historical Shift?

Do you think perhaps there's been a historical shift that in the past our possessions were to do with memory, family, things we inherited from our ancestors and so on. Nowadays our possessions, our gadgets are about being in the present, perhaps in a bad way, that we're sort of scrolling through our social media. We're just complex creatures and we tell our stories through things. And I think if we entirely lose sight of that, we lose sight of what it is to be human.

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