Dirt Floor

Dirt floor is the name given to a movement whereby I'm attempting to understand, articulate and generally theorize about life simplification. I enter this pursuit with the presumption that my life, and I believe many others, is incredibly complex and an interest in understanding why, and how that may change, toward simplicity.
Beginning with an inquiry into material culture, I am attempting to locate my need for and pursuit of comfort. The premise is that comfort very quickly becomes psychological and emotional after ones physical needs are met, and that these needs are insatiable after one begins to pursue them.
Dirtfloor essentially asks then, at what point am I physically OK, and when is any additional material comfort simply a layer of psychological and emotional comfort-er.
While I am an avid (occasional) ultralight backpacker, who is highly influenced by the aesthetics of minimalism, Dirt-floor is primarily about drawing the simplification of ultralight backpacking to the domestic sphere.
I live in a house proud culture, where one is judged, or judges himself, upon his ability to create and maintain a ship size environmentally unsustainable home. Even someone who spends months backpacking along a pristine trail, likely has an expensive home, car, and computer to return to. I do ( Well, my car is not expensive, but I wish it was).
My thoughts and experiments:
What would happen to me, in all of my domains (psychological,emotional,spiritual,intellectual) and to the world, if I turn off the power to my home one evening a week? So many people around the world have no power for much of the day, and yet instead of thinking how we can emulate them, understand how they manage, and how this experience may be beneficial. We seen only interested in demonstrating to the world that more comfort is better.