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 I dislike upgrading things. This is why I have, at the age of, ahem, forty plus let's say, owned only 4 cars (two of which I still own), have more than a few t-shirts that are over a decade old and am typing this on an eight year old laptop. 
 
-This is less a testament to my frugality than my deep-seated belief that if it ain't broke, there's no need to change anything.
+This is less a testament to my frugality than my deep-seated belief that if it ain't broke, not only is there no need to change anything, doing so risks upsetting the not-broke equilibrium the object in question is currently enjoying.
 
-Some of my dislike for new things does lie in frugality, which is to say that it takes time, which a yardstick of life energy, to earn money to obtain things and I prefer to have more time and less things. A lot of it comes from my worry that all these things are implicated in a web of destruction that shatters lives and destroy the planet so I can [have a nice rug](/jrnl/2015/04/the-poison-youve-been-dreaming-of).
+I'm a vagabond of sorts though so some of my dislike for new things does lie in a necessary, and I would argue natural, frugality. To upgrade takes time, which a yardstick of life energy, to earn money to obtain things and I prefer to have more time and less things. A lot of my don't upgrade stance grows out of my worry that all these things we buy are implicated in a web of destruction that shatters lives and destroys the planet so I can [have a nice rug](/jrnl/2015/04/the-poison-youve-been-dreaming-of).
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+There's another part of my dislike for stuff that's nicely summarized by Moxie Marlinspike, who wrote a great ode to a concept he calls "[The Worst](http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-worst/)." Instead of the current culturally idealized notion that you can simplify your life by spending tons of money to get the best of everything, which then purportedly frees you from needing to think about it again, Marlinspike argues that in fact, "we don't simplify by getting the very best of everything, **we simplify by arranging our lives so that those things don't matter one way or the other**" (emphasis mine). 
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+Marlinspike's whole post is wonderful and you should go read it not just because it in turn links to a P.O.S. video, though it does, as you do, but because it gets so little air time in this culture. Even if, like me, you think you're reasonably good at recognizing those moments when you're acting in a pattern of cultural conditioning, this one can be hard to see when you're acting it out. Even the biggest minimalists often end up in a situation where they may have very few things, but they the things they have are "the best". 
 
-A lot of my dislike for stuff is nicely summarized by Moxie Marlinspike, who wrote a great ode to a concept he calls "[The Worst](http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-worst/)." Instead of the current culturally idealized notion that you can simplify your life by spending tons of money to get the best of everything, which then purportedly frees you from needing to think about it again, Marlinspike argues that in fact, "we don't simplify by getting the very best of everything, **we simplify by arranging our lives so that those things don't matter one way or the other**" (emphasis mine). 
 
-Marlinspike's whole post is wonderful and you should go read it not just because it in turn links to a P.O.S. video, though it does, as you do, but because it gets so little air time in this culture.
 
 I've been thinking about this a lot lately for two reasons: rebuilding the bus and testing the brand new Fujifilm X-Pro2 for Wired.