The Cult of Minimalism

Check out this creepy-ass culty shit written by Everett Bogue (or Grimey Ev, as he likes to be called):

In the near future…

We will end poverty (both the 5-bedroom 2-car TV-enslavement in the 1st world and the we-can’t-eat in the 3rd)

Will will destroy the corporations that led us to this place of advertising enslavement.

We will recognize that we’re in this together. We brought us to this place, and we will take us to the future.

We will find freedom and also harmony for all. Across all borders, ideals, and end all conflicts.

This is why minimalism is blowing up right now, because it is the truth, because it brings about freedom for all.

This has been tried before, but before we didn’t have the tools without boundaries.

They can’t stop us now.

Are you alive? Prove it.

Minimalism is the truth. It brings about freedom for all. DO YOU LOVE FREEDOM? Then buy Everett Bogue's book, Minimalist Business, for just $37 (note: price is about to go up because Our Leader is adding more content)! It's the only way to get freedom, and freedom (like socks) doesn't really count as a possession!

In the same post, Bogue also says:

The Internet killed the Gatekeepers and made it possible to connect with anyone anywhere in the world.

If you're all about "ending poverty," Ev, then maybe you should realize that impoverished people (of the "we-can't-eat" sort that you so eloquently described) do not have access to the fucking internet. The Gatekeepers are blocking them! Same goes for China, where you can't even access Youtube to watch awesome Minimalist videos. It's all Gatekeepers. Fucking Gatekeepers! Our Minimalist cult must rise up against them and give humanity one of its 57 most basic needs: full, unrestricted internet access. If it's good enough for Bogue-y, it's good enough for the Third World.

He goes on to say...

So, for the first time in the history of the human race, the people who actually get it — the ones who are awake,– are able to organize themselves to save the future of the human race.

Ideas don’t come from the individual, they come from the formation of a collective. I’m just funneling the ideas of my collective whole, and you are to pass them on.

This guy has the ego of a cult leader. I, for one, welcome our Minimalist overlord, if only because once he assumes the throne he so clearly desires, he could reasonably count each and every human being as a possession. That, my friends, is around 7 billion possessions. This paradox - an ordained Minimalist having more than 100 possessions! - would probably bring about the apocalypse. Good riddance.