It explains the experience of Kelly Sutton, a 22-year-old dude from Brooklyn, who has adapted a digital minimalist lifestyle, ridding himself of most everything he owns save his laptop, one of those digital book reader things, a bed, clothes ... that sort of stuff.
I thought it was interesting, this is why. In my own little mind, I like to think we're all in this big war right now, a digital war. There's people fighting on one side to burn the books, digitize photographs, and make things faster, quicker, NOW. The digital. They're in Spock suits and live in a place that looks like the place in Tron. Then there's people on the other side, struggling to hold onto a rope of nostalgia, reading dusty books, flipping through photo albums, keeping 'the bulk' for whatever personal reason or attachment they have. The physical. They're in flannel shirts and sit on a porch somewhere in the South listening to Neil Young.
I'm not sure that one is right, and one is wrong though.
I think that each side seems to feed off of the other, which is awesome. When we become too digital, when music becomes like tap water on iTunes, there comes a group of people who move to the exact opposite side of the see saw and buy an old beat up record player. When we become to physical, lugging around a backpack of books and notes, we move towards laptops and digital books.
I like it. Anyways, I'm going to watch the Lone Ranger circa 1950's via the internet, so I like a bit of both haha
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