All books were not created equal, she thought. There were many that should be weeded, particularly in the self-help genre, but this one seemed different. The little book was woke to the fucked-upedness of carbon-based consumer capitalism that was wrecking the planet. The problem was systemic, the book seemed to be saying. A person’s clutter wasn’t the result of laziness, procrastination, psychological disorders, or character flaws. It was a socioeconomic and even philosophical problem, one of Marxian alienation and commodity fetishism, which required nothing less than a spiritual revolution in
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