Someone recently brought up the Japanese concept of Wabi-sabi. I hadn't thought about it in years. It's about acceptance - finding beauty in imperfection and impermanence. I think the Japanese are doing better with this latest economic downturn because of this cultural and collective mind-set. They don’t operate from a material base as we do. Here, identity is all about the car, the body...things – material success. That's a bad investment.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Wabi-sabi
Someone recently brought up the Japanese concept of Wabi-sabi. I hadn't thought about it in years. It's about acceptance - finding beauty in imperfection and impermanence. I think the Japanese are doing better with this latest economic downturn because of this cultural and collective mind-set. They don’t operate from a material base as we do. Here, identity is all about the car, the body...things – material success. That's a bad investment.
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