Simon Sinek penned, “There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice”. Harmony is an admirable goal, but sacrifice is necessary to achieve it. According to Merriam-Webster, sacrifice is an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy. Sacrifice has the power to create harmony, but if taken to extremes can also destroy humanity. When does the cost become too high? As humans our most valuable possession
A Perfect Society Hidden in Our History Imagine a world with no crime, greed or poverty. In the past, many people have had the same dream and have strived to achieve a perfect world. The specticality of society’s thoughts on a perfect world made it difficult to achieve this. However, with religion at the side of the majority of these early perfect cultural dreamers, the idea of an utopia was created. A religious or secular community, forming a community life inspired by religion is the exact
Two distinguishing intentional communities, which differ in liminality and charisma, are the Harmony Society and the New Harmony Society. In the book, “Intentional Community” New Harmony Society is referred as Society of Equality. Here forward, we will refer to the New Harmony Society, as Society of Equality. The Harmony Society was able to sustain the persona of liminality and communitas while, the Society of Equality, was in no way ever able to. Society of Equality’s founder, set out to change
Postmodernism Traditional thinking has understood the world in its totality as including both chaos and harmony. Lovelock's hypothesis gives us a new resolution to this problem by expanding or even relocating creativity from the human intellect to the world. Postmodernism is the return to the mythological-aesthetic reflexion of the world concerning the idea of order and harmony. Facing the publicly known and proclamated appeals for further prosperity, scepticism is being survived so deeply
Confucius and his disciples. The Five Classics: The Book of History, The Book of Poetry, The Book of Changes, The Book of Rites, and The Spring and Autumn Annals. The Five Classics covered the time period of Zhou, and explained the actions individuals should achieve. The Four Books: The Analects, The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, and The Mencius. The Four Books which includes pre-Confucian works of poetry, history, and divination, which is the sayings of Confucius and his
greatest mathematicians in history, but also for his works concerning music, philosophy, astrology, and many others for all the discoveries made by him. One of the greatest discoveries attributed to Pythagoras is the discovery of the musical scale used nowadays. This scale was based on the principle in which all Pythagoreans base their thought: the existence of numbers in every single aspect in existence. A philosophical belief of universal creation based upon the perfect harmony between numbers and nature
The Japanese culture has allowed for very little diversity. This started very early in their history. The social controls used to eliminate diversity are the family, the power of gender, the poor treatment of minority groups, the corporate Japanese mentality, and the respect required by people in authority. However, due to globalization and the shrinking of the world, Japanese society is starting to make the change to diversity. The individualistic mentality shared
differently from others. They stick together: eating, working, or traveling in a group. Following others and being part of a group gives them a kind of carefreeness and joy. Why are Japanese group-oriented? The reasons originate from their geography, history, and culture. Geographical location and climate play a key role in promoting this group-orientedness. Japan is isolated from other countries. Japan is composed of four main islands which are surrounded by sea and located far from America, Europe
Vietnam is an emerging economy in Southeast Asia with thousands years of history. The early Vietnamese people developed and shared their custom with many civilizations such as Champa, an Indian influenced state, and China, a powerful neighbor in the north. Vietnam had been ruled by the Chinese government for about a thousand years, colonized by the French for almost a century, and controlled by the American for 30 years. Because of the long aggressions of other countries, many foreign cultural values
word of mouth, not written in musical notation. Don't know who wrote it. Melody and lyrics change as they are passed on. Folk Music is History in song: Tells about daily lives. Tells about Special events - often tragedies, themes of romance, battle, adventure, and history. Purpose of folk music: Entertainment, recreation, socializing, dancing, games. Teaching, make work go faster