Ep. 775 Minimalism: Liberate Yourself and Live a More Meaningful Life with Less Stuff?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Joshua Fields Millburn, half of the duo known as The Minimalists and himself a libertarian, discusses how the pursuit of consumption may add to rather than fill a spiritual void, and how withdrawing from the consumption frenzy can be liberating.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 775. |
| 0:04.0 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.5 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.7 | Folks, if you're like me, you get more email than you can cope with, and you frankly don't know what to do about it. |
| 0:22.1 | Well, do what I do. |
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| 0:32.3 | Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Very interesting topic today and a very, very, very interesting guest, Joshua Fields, Milburn, |
| 0:40.2 | who is best known as being one half of the minimalists. He and his friend, Ryan Nicodemus, |
| 0:47.0 | have collaborated on this project for quite some time where they've gone around and talked about |
| 0:53.2 | the idea of minimalism, which is not just a matter of downsizing and maybe giving up some of your stuff, but really asking questions about meaning and about the purpose that the stuff is supposed to serve, whereas a lot of times people are liable to get caught up in buying |
| 1:11.8 | stuff for the sake of buying the stuff, and not really for some larger reason, and they find |
| 1:18.1 | this to be in the final analysis unfulfilling. Well, he has written a number of books in this |
| 1:25.2 | subject. He's got a memoir called Everything That Remains, |
| 1:28.6 | but what I want to talk about in particular is his documentary film called The Minimalists, |
| 1:33.6 | released earlier this year 2016. I recently watched it. I can't say I'm fully on board, |
| 1:41.1 | but I understand where he's coming from, and I think it's very significant and important. |
| 1:45.6 | He's been featured in Time Magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, |
| 1:51.7 | the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Toronto Star, |
| 1:58.1 | Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, Village Voice, LA Weekly, and many other outlets. |
| 2:02.9 | Normally, I don't list all those. But in this case, I wanted you to know, this guy has gone from |
| 2:07.8 | obscurity to, in his niche, semi-stardom. So a very interesting story and very interesting ideas, |
| 2:15.8 | challenging ideas that we ought to grapple with. Joshua, |
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