The dance with stuff is really life's 3 stages: wanting stuff, acquiring stuff, getting rid of stuff. This is a developed-world problem, not exclusively American, and dominated most of the 20th century. The staged houses all look the same, as do the generic backgrounds on web meetings and homogenized store fronts on the street and TED talks' structure and rhythm. Indoor yard/estate sales reveal the chaos of life in all its glory.
The dance with stuff is really life's 3 stages: wanting stuff, acquiring stuff, getting rid of stuff. This is a developed-world problem, not exclusively American, and dominated most of the 20th century. The staged houses all look the same, as do the generic backgrounds on web meetings and homogenized store fronts on the street and TED talks' structure and rhythm. Indoor yard/estate sales reveal the chaos of life in all its glory.
I love that and had never quite thought of the life stages that way! And yes, literally everything looks the same now