Option overload

[Another winter day watching home videos backwards.]

"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in disgust." — Thoreau, Walden

January 11, 2009

option overload:
— on the internet
— in stores

Options past a certain reasonable point are a burden on the psyche. The onus then is on us to "manually" limit our options. this is a distinct problem in overindustrialized suburbia / consumerism. What effects, long-term, does this have on the brain? Option overload is both addictive and repulsive (imagine walking into any Circuit City). Of course....it is the "dubious luxury" of wealth. I would like to discuss this with a psychologist.