No Gear

Anything that requires a lot of gear, to me, is suspect. Another bastard step child of capitalism, here’s just another thing that requires you to buy all sorts of other things just to participate. Well to that, I say NO goddamnit.

Gear is, most often, completely unnecessary. It’s extra frosting in small dagger doses of diabetes. Gear adds unneeded complexity. What happened to keeping things simple, people? Gear adds to the likelihood of something going wrong and being unable to easily identify what exactly is going wrong. Well, the main thing is fine, is it extra thing #1 or extra thing #2? Or maybe extra thing #10 or #11? Jesus Christ this is exhausting. So tired thanks to all this gear.

It also feels like we’re being planned obsolescenced to death. Because all the new gear is only good for so long before all the gear needs to be replaced. Again. And again.

Gear is bush league craftsmanship.

Gear is a door-to-door junk salesman.

Gear is an excuse to not focus on what’s important in life. Which is, of course, NOT BUYING MORE GEAR.