I think one of the genuinely Unpopular Opinions I don't bring up very often is that I really am a minimalist in terms of physical possessions, and people like to make a sport of dunking on that and calling it progressive, and it tends to get under skin and piss me off

It's one of those zombie backlash things, I think

Like everyone who gets all self-righteous like "People who don't own furniture don't deserve to live" *thinks* they're striking back against a movement that says "People who get rid of furniture are spiritually enlightened"

But I never, ever actually see anyone expressing the latter sentiment for real

It's a giant strawman pinata

Like if someone in the world actually thinks that and thinks people who own too much stuff are "materialistic" and "shallow" etc they sure as fuck aren't on Twitter

Anyway it actually is very important to me, for deep psychological reasons, to feel like if I had to I could pack everything I own in the world into a car and drive into the sunset and vanish

This isn't really because of actually being afraid I'll have to flee from people trying to kill or arrest me

Although it isn't 100% *not* that, given the weird shit that's happened to me over the past several years

I just wish people would be respectful that other people have different desires and needs

It's not like I'm asking you to live with me