Quarter of Denial: not buying stuff tackles minimalism at the source

Watching footage of over 1,000 people lining up outside the new outlet mall by the airport Wednesday, I felt weird and, honestly, a sense of pity. Not for them, but for something way bigger that’s apparently missing.
And while I bet there were plenty of fun conversations in that human caterpillar — maybe people even made new friends — they didn’t really go there to be social, some in line since midnight.
No, let’s be frank — they were there to fill some n