I think about clothes, a lot

Can clothes ever be meaningful?

Have no meaning. Get things. Have meaning? Did the meaning come from the things or did the meaning come from the getting?

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DRAFT
Aug 23, 2026
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A placeholder for meaning?

We can’t live without money. We work, so we can have money. We work so we can buy things.

We need to now pay for our own existence, because we don’t live free in nature anymore. Instead we have currency and ownership of land.

A lot of our time is spent acquiring things, maintaining things. The things we buy, are things that we …

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