O melhor, o pior e o que é adequado

Um post interessante do Moxie Marlinspike, falando sobre uma filosofia do Dustin Curtis, onde ele só compra “as melhores coisas”. A racionalização dele é a seguinte:

“The best” isn’t necessarily a product or thing. It’s the reward for winning the battle fought between patience, obsession, and desire. It takes an unreasonably long amount of time to find the best of something. It requires that you know everything about a product’s market, manufacture, and design, and that you can navigate deceptive pricing and marketing. It requires that you find the best thing for yourself, which means you need to know what actually matters to you.

O Moxie desenvolveu a seguinte teoria:

So I’d like to respond with an alternate philosophy that I will call “the worst.” The worst stands in direct contrast to Dustin Curtis, and suggests that one is actually more likely to engender a liberated life by getting the very worst of everything whenever possible.

The basic premise of the worst is that both ideas and material possessions should be tools that serve us, rather than things we live in service to. When that relationship with material possessions is inverted, such that we end up living in service to them, the result is consumerism. When that relationship with ideas is inverted, the result is ideology or religion.

Eu não concordo com as duas teorias. A do Dustin é insensata e a do Moxie também. E vou dizer o porquê, contando duas historinhas.

Mas, desde já, vou chamar a minha filosofia de “o adequado”.