Downshifting as a lifestyle Bashny.Net

Pretty often we get bored of everything and everyone, I want to throw all and to start doing something new. To live for herself, to abandon the conventional goals of others — this is 2 the main tasks of philosophy of downshifting.

Downshifting from англdownshifting, switching the auto into a lower gear, slowing or weakening of a process.

Those who consider themselves downshifters, happy to abandon capital accumulation and career development — an ordinary common pleasures and benefits of our society.





In the history of such examples is enough. For example, the Roman Emperor Diocletian from the government and moved to a village to grow a cabbage. Siddhattha Gotama (given at birth the name of the Wake) also renounced this life.

By the way, now in Ukraine there are a few large families who live in pleasure, even where the parents themselves raise their children.





The ideology and the term downshifting appeared at the turn of 19-20 centuries in the West, in Russia, this philosophy has been accepted only in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Downshifters believe that the world has become too consumer, the man becomes alienated from his human essence (Marx 3-cha the degree of alienation), and that the most important is the development of personality.

Opponents of the downshifting I believe the desire to make a career, become successful and financially independent of natural human needs, so there is a lot of opponents of this philosophy.

Incidentally, the term "downshifting" was first used in print by the American journalist Sarah Ben Breathy in the article "life on the lower gear, downshifting and the new view of success in the 90s", which was published in the newspaper "Washington Post" December 31, 1991.
Now it has become very popular In the USA, Australia and the UK.





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