<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878</id><updated>2012-02-18T00:11:29.146-08:00</updated><category term='time to think'/><category term='reflection'/><category term='FRIENDSHIP AND BROTHERHOOD'/><category term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>IGN HERI SATRYA WANGSA</title><subtitle type='html'>ignherisw@gmail.com / ignheri@yahoo.com / www.simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>69</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-2389680555700126961</id><published>2012-02-17T23:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-17T23:45:05.962-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><title type='text'>SMILEY-FACE PENCIL (1): TRIBUTE TO JOHN FRANCIS GARI</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L7omF_-duWE/Tz9ViYyNJ9I/AAAAAAAAAlU/rDkEs3Fqqps/s1600/IMG_4777.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L7omF_-duWE/Tz9ViYyNJ9I/AAAAAAAAAlU/rDkEs3Fqqps/s400/IMG_4777.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710376901786019794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fwDloXz_KjA/Tz9U86IywuI/AAAAAAAAAlI/6cpd7EiZc08/s1600/IMG_4788.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fwDloXz_KjA/Tz9U86IywuI/AAAAAAAAAlI/6cpd7EiZc08/s400/IMG_4788.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710376257904100066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I have been completing month of transition. Finishing 20-month of reconciliation is not an easy job. Hit it of with ups and downs, but I have enough guts to deal with that. As I listen to my surroundings finally I find "cash in trash". That's me anyway with some close friends who are trying to come to my space. Yes! What a beautiful friendship. It doesn't with the words, and I need to be skillful enough to "twist". I did it. I have made it. Amazing! I met Steven, a 14 years of age Chinese boy, in a different world. He was very talkative -- too young to know the price of S-Class Mercedes Benz. Steve, a Korean businessman, just starred at him and shouted,"You will know when you grow up!". My classmate, a Chinese diocesan priest Father Paul, gave a big laugh. I told to myself that I am very happy. On the way back home I am counting number of people flock and get trapped in public transportation. But, I am just happy and at peace. It's true. Life is full with meaning. It's not so scared. I just "let the cat out of the bag"......&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-2389680555700126961?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2389680555700126961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2389680555700126961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2012/02/smiley-face-pencil-1-tribute-to-john.html' title='SMILEY-FACE PENCIL (1): TRIBUTE TO JOHN FRANCIS GARI'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L7omF_-duWE/Tz9ViYyNJ9I/AAAAAAAAAlU/rDkEs3Fqqps/s72-c/IMG_4777.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-52119823737062530</id><published>2012-01-14T05:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-14T05:26:44.272-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nrtHXola82U/TxGCJTsOLmI/AAAAAAAAAjY/D-99O3cBZbo/s1600/IMG_4281.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FL5pvwVKMz8/TxGCJtCEZbI/AAAAAAAAAjo/e-2BmiBv-Yg/s400/IMG_3955.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697478106819093938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-52119823737062530?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/52119823737062530'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/52119823737062530'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nrtHXola82U/TxGCJTsOLmI/AAAAAAAAAjY/D-99O3cBZbo/s72-c/IMG_4281.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-979969572306189379</id><published>2011-12-17T17:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-17T17:32:48.813-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FRIENDSHIP AND BROTHERHOOD'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8LAaJ6JrgqQ/Tu1CSOj4rpI/AAAAAAAAAi4/TnRoDvtYQOU/s1600/DSC05762.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8LAaJ6JrgqQ/Tu1CSOj4rpI/AAAAAAAAAi4/TnRoDvtYQOU/s400/DSC05762.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687274785352494738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fD45EUtmtFk/Tu1BsbtZAUI/AAAAAAAAAis/lGlOpxV5Nxg/s1600/DSC_0737.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fD45EUtmtFk/Tu1BsbtZAUI/AAAAAAAAAis/lGlOpxV5Nxg/s400/DSC_0737.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687274136046993730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-283ajqbrHSc/Tu1Ae3jDufI/AAAAAAAAAig/Cb3VbGcVqUQ/s1600/DSC_0719.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-283ajqbrHSc/Tu1Ae3jDufI/AAAAAAAAAig/Cb3VbGcVqUQ/s400/DSC_0719.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5687272803490052594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-979969572306189379?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/979969572306189379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/979969572306189379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2011/12/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8LAaJ6JrgqQ/Tu1CSOj4rpI/AAAAAAAAAi4/TnRoDvtYQOU/s72-c/DSC05762.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-8763382209226640845</id><published>2011-08-14T00:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-14T00:24:40.726-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><title type='text'>JUST A DECISION (2)</title><content type='html'>My professional career as educator which started in 1992 has openned my eyes to the reality of poverty in educational institution. The corrupt system is a tragic story which cause people disoriented even at the level of educational institution which somehow should be the centre or source of enlightenment for the society. In fact poverty no longer talks about material but intellectual and moral. I want to say that this must be something very relevant with the existence of educational institution which seems to fail promoting the value of life. Cycle of poverty has rooted in educational system which is now growing to produce “junkies” – other name of life style of pleasure. Most of educational institutions are taking part in “rat-racing”. They have become showcase of pleasure. How will be the future of next generation?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-8763382209226640845?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8763382209226640845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8763382209226640845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2011/08/just-decision-2.html' title='JUST A DECISION (2)'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-2446449835311135595</id><published>2011-08-09T00:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-09T00:45:08.493-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><title type='text'>JUST A DECISION</title><content type='html'>All of us agree that there is a tendency in our society to take the way of destruction. The pathway to stay away from the “beings”. Crisis of identity in modernity has lead to the apathy and frustation. Man is searching and finding nothing except loneliness and alienation. Impact of creativity (in technology) seems to be the scapegoat to create the world of imagination. Today’s world is too much with invention in the name of efficiency and effectivity. Man has started the stairway to ”artificial” heaven – a promise as well as despair and hope of emptiness. A world where all human needs are satisfied without considering how much cost it does. New civilization has come with abundance of man-made values. Man is trying to conquer the life when at the same time reducing his authencity. The paradox of man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This decision that I have made is not so pessimistic  as man is preparing his graveyard for the death is everywhere ie. apathy, intolerance, injustice. It comes from the deepest part of my interior block that life should bring meaning. It’s a loud and voiceless sound in the silence that life is not about  ambition for power, security, and pride. There is a hope for new life where people can enrich their life in harmony. A pure life where all resources are directed to the spirit of appreciative and conservation. As a “consecrated” educator the opportunity is not just to promote the value of life but to bring the Good News. Within modern perspective the Good News is a new life which is free from attachment of “economic consequences and attributes”. Man is an economic creature who always find the best alternative to satisfy his needs. The fact that dichotomy of economic creature is too dominant can be seen from – culture of material ie. the need of material satisfaction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-2446449835311135595?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2446449835311135595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2446449835311135595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2011/08/just-decision.html' title='JUST A DECISION'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-4858580323907997716</id><published>2011-08-07T18:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-07T18:42:46.087-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>SYMBOL MANIA</title><content type='html'>The era of consumer is when he is in the quest for the “true” meaning – meaningful consumption. For this orientation he uses some criteria that standardize his behaviour. The challenge is that the environment is not always “in-control”.  In the interactive process of relationship between signifier and signified in most of ads the production of symbol is unavoidable.  Technology has played key role to intensify degree of ads exposure even to the critical point – culture of symbol. Symbol which is a product of structuralization signifier and signified. Through the various medium and constant expose ads create “dream”, using language which is the best in that sense to repress and manipulate message. It is almost undeniable that the existence of “creative” ads has produced consuming society. The positive impact is learning society as now consumer becomes more aware with product he is going to consume. He knows that he is consuming symbol, and at the same time plays the role as “symbol endorser”.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-4858580323907997716?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/4858580323907997716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/4858580323907997716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2011/08/symbol-mania.html' title='SYMBOL MANIA'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-6215369457082964997</id><published>2011-07-30T17:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-30T17:22:47.458-07:00</updated><title type='text'>CONSUMER IN SEARCHING FOR MEANING</title><content type='html'>Consumer is looking for meaning, dealing with economic-related consumption activity – having, doing, experiencing. To consume, consumer and consumption are just linguistically existence of sign and its representative. Consumer is the main actor of consumption activity. If it is not true then the notion of consumer will still be on the area of passive individuals who have no choice and less authority over decision to have “the best” for himself. They are not able to make decision as their thought might get distracted by illusion of “the best, the most suitable, the most ideal”. The reality of external environment which is unquestionably a product of “accumulated” expectation has become central issue to explore the “world” of consumer. Consumer is unique individual who never stops rationalizing his existence and craving for expectation. Thus, elements of external environment are contributed by the presence of “collective” ambition, expectation. It has dynamics within frame of time and space which somehow offers medium for learning – a school of thought. The environment has been able to empower critical thinking and “reflective life”. This comes the idea of consumer who is looking for meaningful object – a concrete realization of an expectation to have “completeness and perfect life”.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-6215369457082964997?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6215369457082964997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6215369457082964997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2011/07/consumer-in-searching-for-meaning.html' title='CONSUMER IN SEARCHING FOR MEANING'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-9190472338581239272</id><published>2011-04-16T01:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-16T01:10:48.842-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><title type='text'>INTELLECTUAL GIPSY</title><content type='html'>Consolation oh consolation. The idea of Ascetism (from George Bernard Shaw by Frank Harris) is such a great humility towards life. Poor in material will not meant to be poor in intellectuality. Your intellectual should be under your authority. It is a tool that leads you to the deepest understanding – the “wisdom”. The intellectual “gipsy” means you work only for the sake of truth. To produce and  .... forget about the “sensational effect” that may follow. Your vocation is finding the truth. And, once you find it the next challenge is to “live” in it. Intellectual “gipsy” is really poverty of material. You are “materially” a man of nothing but should be in the level that your intellectuality can accept it. To respond God’s love is really a matter of “personalized capacity to express, to produce”. Don’t force yourself to reach the “artificial ideal” which comes from “what other people say of it”. The ideal which is a product of “collective decision” will only cause “dehumanization”. &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;(ign_heri_sw/April 2011)&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-9190472338581239272?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/9190472338581239272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/9190472338581239272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2011/04/intellectual-gipsy.html' title='INTELLECTUAL GIPSY'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-67051666176674556</id><published>2011-04-16T00:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-16T00:58:57.602-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><title type='text'>CREATIVE CONSUMER</title><content type='html'>Impact of market creativity is creative consumer who has much capacity and freedom to make selection for his best product. The critical conscious point for consumer to think and define the idea of “the best”  has made him being able to have maximum authority as rational consumer. This will come to the idea of dynamic of creative consumer in terms of his various activities to learn, think and experience. The dynamic term refers to the possibilities of experiencing disappointment, satisfaction and difficulty to make decision with the fact of “creative market”. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;(ign_heri_sw/April 2011)&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-67051666176674556?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/67051666176674556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/67051666176674556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2011/04/creative-consumer.html' title='CREATIVE CONSUMER'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-1438460809977155045</id><published>2011-04-16T00:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-16T00:48:15.071-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>KREATIFITAS BERORIENTASI PASAR</title><content type='html'>Dalam konteks kreatifitas berorientasi pasar, maka “karya” dari sang creator harus diberi label dan elemen-elemen yang seringkali dimanipulasi untuk dapat ditempatkan sebagai “produk”. Karya itu akhirnya menjadi produk. Dia harus mampu menyediakan wilayah, ruang dan mekanisme bagi terjadinya pembaharuan (innovativeness) yang dapat dijual dan mendapat “tempat” di benak pasar dan mampu “dipertukarkan” karena dengan demikian akan menjadi “energi” bagi daur hidup kreatifitas itu sendiri. Bentuknya semacam kreatifitas mekanistis karena kreatifitas dapat dengan cepat dan mudah dilakukan (oleh siapapun), selalu me-review (to review), merevisi (to revise), melengkapi (to complete) feature dan versi sebelumnya. Kreatifitas hanya sanggup “bermain-main” dalam persoalan memecah dan merangkai, merusak dan memperbaiki. Tidak heran jika muncul pesimisme kreatifitas pasar karena selalu memproduksi nilai-nilai yang merusak (destructive values). Oleh karena itu yang dikerjakan oleh kreatifitas model ini adalah memperbaiki nilai-nilai yang merusak tersebut. Energi kreatifitas yang berorientasi pasar adalah pasar itu sendiri. Selama ada pasar maka disitu ada energi bagi kreatifitas. Kreatifitas akan “mati” karena kehabisan “energi” apabila ditinggalkan oleh pasar. &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;(ign_heri_sw/April_2011)&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-1438460809977155045?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1438460809977155045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1438460809977155045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2011/04/kreatifitas-berorientasi-pasar.html' title='KREATIFITAS BERORIENTASI PASAR'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-2869015507267054742</id><published>2010-05-11T19:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.912-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>MATERIAL ORIENTATION</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-oOaXDp4yI/AAAAAAAAAg4/cqv8Kahq7Gk/s1600/IMG_3889.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-oOaXDp4yI/AAAAAAAAAg4/cqv8Kahq7Gk/s400/IMG_3889.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470200543423619874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-oOQAKo1KI/AAAAAAAAAgw/XGJCfiNwnA4/s1600/IMG_3887.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-oOQAKo1KI/AAAAAAAAAgw/XGJCfiNwnA4/s400/IMG_3887.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470200365480203426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-oOB6dgF5I/AAAAAAAAAgo/xcfBSxs9rUw/s1600/IMG_3884.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-oOB6dgF5I/AAAAAAAAAgo/xcfBSxs9rUw/s400/IMG_3884.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470200123430541202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Material orientation is a mindset that focused on material wealth or anything that is perceived physically. Why is that? Imagine or do the imagination of a physical object is relatively easy because it is more clear, concrete, certain, and (look) real. There is a convenience aspect that is empirical. With a “physical” view I know and trust. Seeing is an empirical activity, which is active and moves to use or "activate" the senses of sight (eyes). I think that everything must look real, tangible, and can be perceived by using the five senses which I have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Objects in the physical appearance of practical value can be used as standard terminology of ownership for the rich-poor, much-less and heavy-light. Much and little at the level of materialism is the perception of quantity (quantity). Therefore, understanding the level of rich and poor in material wealth is that they have "items that are expensive" in quantity it is said to be rich, and vice versa because of the poor is said to have "items that are expensive" in small amounts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Material is more easily seen in both near and far distances. In close proximity of a physical object can be viewed by using the senses of vision (eyes). In the physical distance of an object also allows for viewing by using a specific mechanistic tools. Often found to be the conception that the material is "looking at the surface." Material is easily found, are found in the "before" the people who go and see him. This reality is described as "surface reality".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Material is always desirable, necessary and contested by many people because of its easiness aspect. Ease in its sense of "essential", and not one in the sense of "how to get it". It is in the most common sense that being able to get it takes effort, effort that could be perceived as "not always easy." The essence of "convenience" in the level of material is easily visible, clearly conceived as a physical, tangible, concrete, and "easy business." Through this understanding we can say that materialism and convenience has always been the orientation for the (most) people. The problem now is when many people want the same object, namely material wealth and convenience, it can be imagined when materialism and convenience have popularity in "economic value". No wonder if then they become "commodities". Materialism and convenience that "are able to be commodified", become commodities, sold and used commercially. @ ign_heri_sw/2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-2869015507267054742?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2869015507267054742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2869015507267054742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/05/material-orientation.html' title='MATERIAL ORIENTATION'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-oOaXDp4yI/AAAAAAAAAg4/cqv8Kahq7Gk/s72-c/IMG_3889.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-748085881389690657</id><published>2010-05-08T19:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.912-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>BEING A LOSER</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-YjIr9jmRI/AAAAAAAAAgg/1KReNUUy4HY/s1600/IMG_2072.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-YjIr9jmRI/AAAAAAAAAgg/1KReNUUy4HY/s400/IMG_2072.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469097429634881810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-YiAlNXNkI/AAAAAAAAAgY/IJZ_kVkZzkY/s1600/IMG_3867.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-YiAlNXNkI/AAAAAAAAAgY/IJZ_kVkZzkY/s400/IMG_3867.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469096190871549506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-Yhhzi7npI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/jsQVHkNRBg0/s1600/marine+terrace+_+s%27pore+_+may+2010.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-Yhhzi7npI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/jsQVHkNRBg0/s400/marine+terrace+_+s%27pore+_+may+2010.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469095662144167570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be a loser seemingly lost its popularity. Nobody wants to be defeated. Being a loser brings an “emotional” meaning of deficiency, deterioration, abandoned and neglected, therefore the defeat must be avoided wherever possible. Winners also get a better reward compared to the loser. This resulted an undeniable gaps in the win-lose arena. Winning and losing are two creatures blurred by perception. People admit that. They provide different recognition. Winners are placed in "higher" than the loser. Though,  a real win-lose is a matter of quantity. The winner has a number that is greater than the loser. The problem is the larger number given to the winners which means “greater portion” for them, while the smaller one for the loser. That is the culture of quantity or material. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;©ign_heri_sw/2010&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-748085881389690657?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/748085881389690657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/748085881389690657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/05/being-loser.html' title='BEING A LOSER'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-YjIr9jmRI/AAAAAAAAAgg/1KReNUUy4HY/s72-c/IMG_2072.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-2543829117793358496</id><published>2010-05-08T03:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T03:38:00.360-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>ENERGY OF CREATIVITY</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-U-6XpfYGI/AAAAAAAAAgA/F_895SEyFn4/s1600/IMG_3869.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-U-6XpfYGI/AAAAAAAAAgA/F_895SEyFn4/s400/IMG_3869.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468846495012708450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-U-k5YWlrI/AAAAAAAAAf4/UzkGR7U8mUc/s1600/the_red_from_botanic_garden.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-U-k5YWlrI/AAAAAAAAAf4/UzkGR7U8mUc/s400/the_red_from_botanic_garden.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468846126110512818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-U-Zj_qSCI/AAAAAAAAAfw/ApYJYgeh5Ao/s1600/IMG_2068.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-U-Zj_qSCI/AAAAAAAAAfw/ApYJYgeh5Ao/s400/IMG_2068.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468845931391240226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creativity does not just deal with the market, which is consistently responding to market dynamics, but also the manifestation of interest and "anxiety" of the creator. Energy for market-oriented creativity is a dynamic market. Dynamic market with purely economic interests. "Spirit" of market is filled with the essence of needs and scarcity. Market will always be  the winner because that's where the market equilibrium is constructed – law of the demand and supply, therefore, market perspective should always be followed, maintained, and adopted. This creativity deals with producing "products". Instead, creativity is "poor market" and total expressive of its creator is creativity inspired by the "lonely", far from the noisiness of market. This kind of creativity will only produce a "work" instead of "product". Work in this creativity has no economic value, but it is understood in the frame of "rich" meaning (meaningful), interpretive and subjective. Its energy comes from the creator’s internal reflective capacity, namely excess capacity to create or excess of creative energy. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;(ign_heri_satrya_wangsa/2010)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-2543829117793358496?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2543829117793358496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2543829117793358496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/05/energy-of-creativity.html' title='ENERGY OF CREATIVITY'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S-U-6XpfYGI/AAAAAAAAAgA/F_895SEyFn4/s72-c/IMG_3869.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-722408745117799324</id><published>2010-04-14T23:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T23:25:18.511-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S8axML2nYQI/AAAAAAAAAdo/_x85eOs4-sc/s1600/Singapore_Jan_2010+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S8axML2nYQI/AAAAAAAAAdo/_x85eOs4-sc/s400/Singapore_Jan_2010+003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460246421131714818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;HUMANIORA YANG KIAN TERSISIH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dalam pendidikan modern, humaniora semakin terdesak. Proses ini sudah lama berlangsung dan tampak di segala tahap pendidikan. Di sini kita membatasi diri pada pendidikan tinggi saja. &lt;br /&gt;Dalam universitas-universitas pertama di Eropa (sejak abad ke-13), humaniora memainkan peranan sentral. Saat itu humaniora dimengerti sebagai artes liberales atau the liberal arts yang diajarkan dalam Fakultas Artium (the Faculty of Arts). Intinya adalah filsafat, terutama di Universitas Paris. Semua mahasiswa harus menjalani pendidikan di Fakultas Artium dulu, sebelum diterima di fakultas lain (waktu itu masih sebatas fakultas teologi, hukum, dan kedokteran). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Semakin sempit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dengan perkembangan ilmu dan teknologi pada zaman modern, jumlah fakultas di perguruan tinggi bertambah besar dan sekaligus peranan humaniora berkurang terus. Kini, dengan humaniora dimengerti ilmu sejarah, filsafat, ilmu bahasa serta sastra, dan ilmu-ilmu budaya lain, ruang gerak untuk mereka menjadi semakin sempit. Sekarang hal itu tampak lagi dengan jelas di Eropa. Di situ selama kira-kira sepuluh tahun terakhir diupayakan restrukturisasi pendidikan tinggi dalam rangka Persetujuan Bologna. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Negara-negara Eropa yang menjadi partisipan sepakat untuk menciptakan struktur pendidikan tinggi yang sama, sehingga kerja sama dan pertukaran antaruniversitas sangat dimudahkan. Hasilnya adalah struktur "bama" (bachelor-master). Dalam program bachelor (3 tahun) orang muda sudah disiapkan untuk masuk pasar kerja. Diberi tekanan besar pada profesionalisme, keterampilan, dan keahlian. Dalam program master (umumnya 1 tahun) dapat ditambah lagi sebuah spesialisasi atau, kalau ingin, bahkan dapat diambil beberapa program master. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pembaruan pendidikan tinggi di Eropa itu tentu ada banyak aspek bagus, tetapi suatu akibat negatif adalah bahwa humaniora lebih banyak lagi disingkirkan dari kurikulum. Beberapa waktu lalu, Ketua Akademi Ilmu Pengetahuan Belanda Profesor Frits van Oostrom mengkritik keadaan dalam pendidikan tinggi di Belanda itu (NRC-Handelsblad, 9-1-2007). Tujuan pendidikan tinggi di Belanda adalah menghasilkan profesional yang unggul dan piawai, tapi kurang diperhatikan bahwa dengan demikian para mahasiswa memperoleh pandangan yang agak sempit. Dididik insinyur, ekonom, biolog, ahli hukum, dan profesional lain yang pandai, tapi kurang diberikan visi dan kreativitas kepada orang-orang muda itu. Banyak bakat mereka tidak dikembangkan. Pendidikan mereka bersifat berat sebelah. Jika kita bandingkan dengan keadaan di Amerika Serikat, di situ pendidikan tinggi masih memberi banyak kesempatan kepada humaniora yang justru berasal dari Eropa (liberal arts). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Universitas-universitas di Amerika dalam tahap pertama (bachelor) memberikan suatu pendidikan luas dulu, sebelum mahasiswa mengambil spesialisasinya. Hal itu tampak dalam kurikulum inti di banyak universitas Amerika. Misalnya, dalam pedoman studi Universitas Harvard dikatakan: "Filsafat Kurikulum Inti bertumpu pada keyakinan bahwa setiap lulusan Harvard harus terdidik secara luas dan serentak, juga terlatih dalam suatu spesialisasi atau konsentrasi khusus". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lebih lanjut dituliskan, "Diandaikan bahwa para mahasiswa membutuhkan bimbingan tertentu dalam mencapai tujuan tersebut dan bahwa korps dosen mempunyai kewajiban mengantar mereka kepada pengetahuan, keterampilan intelektual, dan kebiasaan berpikir yang merupakan ciri khas pria dan wanita yang terdidik". Lalu menyusul sebuah daftar dengan lebih dari 100 mata kuliah pilihan tentang topik-topik sejarah, kesenian dan sastra, filsafat dan etika, analisis sosial, dan lain-lain. Setiap mahasiswa wajib mengambil sejumlah mata kuliah dari topik-topik humaniora tersebut. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Inovatif &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Setelah membandingkan sistem pendidikan tinggi di Eropa dengan sistem di Amerika Serikat, Ketua Akademi Ilmu Pengetahuan Belanda itu mengajukan pertanyaan yang menarik. Ia mengatakan: secara umum diketahui bahwa Amerika Serikat memiliki perekonomian paling inovatif di dunia. Perekonomian ini mempunyai kemampuan untuk bertahan dan menyesuaikan diri di tengah banyak perubahan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inovasi menuntut pemikiran kreatif dan kesanggupan senantiasa mencari jalur-jalur baru. Apakah sifat perekonomian Amerika ini tidak berhubungan dengan sistem pendidikan tinggi di sana? Pertanyaan ini tidak pernah dapat dijawab dengan pasti. Sulit untuk dibuktikan bahwa suasana ini disebabkan oleh peranan humaniora di sana. Lebih mudah dapat diakui bahwa suasana ini sesuai dengan apa yang dimaksudkan dengan humaniora. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Orang modern sering bersikap utilitarian. Minatnya terarah kepada manfaat dan prestasi yang nyata. Di sini humaniora mau tidak mau harus mengecewakan. Berbekal humaniora saja, para lulusan perguruan tinggi tidak bisa membangun jembatan dan gedung bertingkat. Tetapi, melalui humaniora dapat dihasilkan sesuatu yang penting juga. Humaniora memberikan wawasan yang luas, kapasitas untuk berubah, visi yang kreatif, kepekaan untuk implikasi sosial dan kultural, kemampuan untuk melihat the whole picture. Dengan demikian, sifat berat sebelah pendidikan teknis dan ilmiah dapat diimbangi. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Melalui humaniora dapat dikembangkan juga bakat untuk memimpin. Akhir-akhir ini beberapa universitas memasukkan mata kuliah leadership dalam kurikulum. Namun, selain isinya kurang jelas, dapat diragukan juga apakah dengan satu mata kuliah saja kita dapat mendidik pemimpin. Sebaliknya, bila mahasiswa telah belajar berpikir kritis, bernuansa, kreatif, dan holistik, ia dipersiapkan juga sebagai pemimpin (asalkan ada cukup bakat alamiah). Syaratnya tentu bahwa humaniora diberikan dengan cara berbobot dan dekat dengan aktualitas. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Kasus di Indonesia &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dalam hal kualitas, keadaan humaniora di Indonesia rupanya justru sebaliknya dari keadaannya di dunia Barat. Di universitas-universitas Eropa dan Amerika, humaniora masih mempunyai kedudukan kuat. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mereka mempunyai tradisi yang sudah panjang. Mereka memiliki juga infrastruktur akademis yang kukuh, seperti perpustakaan. Mereka juga kuat dalam kerja sama internasional. Kesulitan mereka adalah jumlah mahasiswa yang berminat untuk studi humaniora semakin kecil, dan kesempatan untuk mengajar humaniora di tempat lain semakin sempit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Di Indonesia, posisi humaniora masih lemah. Infrastruktur akademis yang mendukung juga lemah. Universitas memberi prioritas mutlak kepada pengembangan ilmu dan teknologi. Fakultas yang berkecimpung di bidang itulah dapat mengirim dosennya untuk studi lanjut di luar negeri. Dosen humaniora yang memiliki gelar S-3 dari universitas terkemuka di luar negeri hampir tidak ada. Mutu mahasiswa humaniora juga tidak meyakinkan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depresiasi terhadap humaniora sebenarnya sudah mulai di SMA, di mana jurusan IPA dianggap identik dengan siswa yang berbakat. Namun, jangan kita lupa, diukur dengan standar IPA, orang seperti William Shakespeare mungkin mendapat penilaian jelek sekali! Jadi, perjuangan untuk memajukan humaniora menjadi lebih berat lagi di Indonesia. (Adapted from Humaniora-KOMPAS, June 30, 2007 by K Bertens Anggota Staf Pusat Pengembangan Etika, Universitas Atma Jaya, Jakarta)&lt;br /&gt;[yap/m&amp;pr-07/07]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-722408745117799324?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/722408745117799324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/722408745117799324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/04/humaniora-yang-kian-tersisih-dalam.html' title=''/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S8axML2nYQI/AAAAAAAAAdo/_x85eOs4-sc/s72-c/Singapore_Jan_2010+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-3085980889535521183</id><published>2010-04-04T18:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.912-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Crucifixion was designed (by the Romans) to inflict optimal physical pain. The procedure was dragged out over a good number of hours and the amount of pain inflicted at any given moment was carefully calculated so as not to cause unconsciousness and thus ease the pain of the one being crucified. Indeed they sometimes even gave wine mixed with morphine to the person being crucified, not to ease his suffering, but........to keep him from passing out from pain so as to have to endure it longer. That pain stretched His heart to a great depth. BUT ...... that new space did not fill in with bitterness and anger.It filled in instead with a depth of empathy and forgiveness. (Ronald Rolheiser / 2010)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HAPPY EASTER, BROTHER !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ignaci (www.simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-3085980889535521183?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/3085980889535521183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/3085980889535521183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/04/crucifixion-was-designed-by-romans-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-997787773870390430</id><published>2010-04-04T06:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.912-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>THE LANGUAGE OF ADS IN CREATING ECONOMIC MINDSET AND CULTURAL-BASED ORIENTATION</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;THE LANGUAGE OF ADS IN CREATING ECONOMIC MINDSET AND CULTURAL-BASED ORIENTATION : &lt;br /&gt;A CHALLENGE FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ign. Heri Satrya Wangsa&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABSTRACT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Problems related to urban development can not be separated from the growing number of new economic rational-based mindset man produced by persuasive messages which are packaged by the language of ads delivered in various form and emphasized on commercial targets. The real form and easily-interpretated of such persuasive messages is when the culture of irrational consumption created. The fast growing of shopping centres in many big cities reflect the problem of consumption symbol which relies on the power of capital, and the problem of identity crisis. Essentially, the meaning of urban development is the systemic destruction as the economic eagerness or ambition can not be integrated with the heritage of identity as potential resources. However, there should be a compromise which can be ideal approach to find a challenge while discussing on urban development. The economic mindset should be integrated with cultural-based orientation which put on the local identity on the first things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keywords:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;urban development, language of ads, cultural-based orientation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BACKGROUND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Discussing today’s city is very interesting and, on the contrary, a tragic never-ending story. The urgent call for reshaping mindset will become a must as the facts of trend that city is now becoming a dream that will never come true. City has attracted those who want to improve their economic welfare. In addition, this may become global issue especially when the issue will later go to the “socio-economic” side of things. World Bank Institute (2006) has predicted that 55 percent of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2020. Almost 94 percent of the increase will occur in developing countries. This trend will reshape the world and make cities compete for a skilled labor force and potential investors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The incoming new economy has been labelled by the newness in the way of life within the economic aspect. The various tastes which are getting more complex and highly varied create a very specific and customized product. The urgent call for creativity and high innovation is required to respond demand which is getting more complicated. Rationales in the frame of new economy tend to be materialism-oriented, and generally avoid the human dimension. Society in modern economy has less attention to show the character of humanism and romantism. The essence of human is lost for the reason of personal business and wealthy. In future impact this fact could potentially cause social conflict in society (Dagun, 1992:254).&lt;br /&gt;This article intends to facilitate future research in urban development specifically to introduce a compromise or integrated approach which could be an asset to find alternative for urban development. The writer uses the following three rationales to develop comprehensive conceptual model which is called as “economic mindset and cultural-based orientation”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rationale-1: The growing number of shopping center has led to symbol of consumerism in which consumption become irrational-oriented concept. Language of ads reflected from the existence of shopping center or malls has created strong impact to consumerism and consumer culture as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rationale-2: Language of ads bring persuasive messages which construct economic mindset. Language of ads which contain persuasive messages can contribute learning on cultural-based orientation selection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rationale-3: A compromise approach will subsequently be created combining local identity with economic value as an alternative for urban development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THEORETICAL REVIEW &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Medema et al (2003) defined a commodity as an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another. The nature of such wants, whether, for instance, they spring from the stomach or from fancy; makes no difference. Neither are we here concerned to know how the object satisfies these wants, whether directly as means of subsistence, or indirectly as means of production. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every useful thing may be looked at from the two points of view of quality and quantity. It is an assemblage of many properties, and may therefore be of use in various ways. To discover the various uses of things is the work of history. So also is the establisment of socially recognized standards of measure for the quantities of these useful objects. The diversity of these measures has its origin partly in the diverse nature of the objects to be measured, partly in convention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The utility of a thing makes it a use-value. But this utility is not a thing of air. Being limited by the physical properties of the commodity; it has no existence apart from that commodity. A commodity; such as iron, corn, or a diamond, is therefore, so far as it is a material thing, a use-value, something useful. The use-values of commodities furnish the material for a special study, that of the commercial knowledge of commodities. Use-values become a reality only by use of consumption: they also constitute the substance of all wealth, whatever may be the social form of that wealth.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we abstract from the material substance of the circulation of commodities, that is, from the exchange of the various use-values, and consider only the economic forms produced by this process of circulation, we find its final result to be money: this final product of the circulation of commodities is the first form in which capital appears. The first distinction we notice between money that is money only, and money that is capital, is nothing more than a difference in their form of circulation. The simplest form of the circulation of commodities is C-M-C, the transformation of commodities into money, and the change of the money back again into commodities; or selling in order to buy. But alongside of this form we find another specifically different form: M-C-M, the transformation of money into commodities, and the change of commodities back again into money; or buying in order to sell. Money that circulates in the latter manner is thereby transformed into, becomes capital, and is already potentially capital&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maldonado et al (2003) explained advertising and the criticism of advertising. Advertising is typically thought of as one of many external influences on buyer behavior. Some may argue that it does not always have as much impact on behavior as other external influences such as salespeople, culture, family, reference groups, and social and situational influences. Additionally, as consumers become bombarded with more and more advertisements, many claim that ads have little or no influence on their judgments or actions. In spite of these criticisms, advertising is considered an efficient way of reaching many consumers. Therefore, marketers continue to seek ways to increase the influence of advertising on their audience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mallalieu and Palan (2006) mentioned the term shopping environment as environmental resources which include store variety, salespeople, other shoppers, and product information. All of them are utilized by shoppers. This term is used by Mallalieu and Palan within the context of a shopping mall environment which influence teenage girls’ perceptions of shopping competence and their own felt competencies as shoppers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maryadi in Skinner (1953), an expert of behavioral approach, said that human behavior constitutes from learning process toward social environment group where he lives as one of its constituent. Generally, the forming in behavior has principles of reinforcement. Behaviors are formed and maintained as they are reinforced by environment and the socially unaccepted behavior will be gradually lost. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Culture is all ideas, beliefs, and knowledge owned by human in a society (Hoed, 1992). According to Koentjaraningrat, culture is considered as all system of ideas, action and human works in a society through learning (Hariyono, 1994).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are three forms of culture:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Cultural system. Cultural system is the complexity of ideas and thought owned by human as center for aspiration and orientation in experiencing life problem. This orientation is strongly solidified as soul of a group of society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Social system. Social system is a patterned action of a group of a society. This system produces a pattern of human activity which interact and make social interrelation. Indicators or guides which are followed by human while conducting interaction are called as social values.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Physical culture. Physical culture is all physical objects, action, and human works in society. It brings real and clear character that can be material objects or other things touchable. This physical work usually reflects cultural value mindset and patterned action by a group of society. (Hariyono, 1994)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We could have an opinion that cities always have culture, in the frame that those cities have organized colourful cultural products, artefact, distinguished buildings and way of life, in this meaning they are open to be more cultural and emphasize that systemic lay-out or space organization, architectural image are manifested by rules of certain culture. (Featherstone, 2001:227)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISCUSSION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does it come from development?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Facts of today’s city can not be out of “development” issues. That may link to “holly word” for the sake of welfare but never give sufficient reason for why should be away from its subject. Defining development within the context of urban development seems to be a sadness. Definition of development has changed its essential meaning into a systemic destruction against the values of local culture. Development has lost the human dimension, on the contrary, city has become an attractive choice for those who need to experience the colourful and joy of modernization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The consequences for urban development which have no concern with human dimension are output characterized by practical and consumerism-based mindset and represented in the form of action, attitude and the behavior of urban society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The growing number of profit accumulation motives can easily be viewed from the “birth” of business entity in various forms. Shopping centres have been a medium for urban society to practice consumption-based activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Urban development and culture of material&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dicussing urban development has been so far very relevant when city has no more identity. In the social economic perspective the existence of today’s city has been a machine for capitalist in the name of welfare but disregard the meaning of human. Urban development has much focused on culture and material-oriented mindset. The capital accumulation is getting higher and the promising “beauty of city” (through industrialization) which is considered as unrealistic has made city create the problem of urbanization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sadness happened when city fails to be a dream for economic welfare. This is a classical phenomena that the existence of today’s city has been a bad news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Facts of mall&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Within the frame of economic development and growth concept as well, facts of the increasing number of shopping centres or malls are indicators for the success of urban development. On the other side, those facts are minimizing the role of human dimension. Shopping centres which are rising in rural area can not be limited and stopped. Urban people will then become creature of shopper. The consumer culture has made shopping is not a matter of fulfilling a hunger but it is a life style. Facts of malls have symbolized a culture of consumption producing irrational consumers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Economic principles have made a reference for urban people mindset systematically formed by the symbols of consumption culture which is a language of violence producing irrational consumer. In general perspective, the high perception of economic principles has produced the culture of commodity in which the social relation has no place when everything are perceived as commodity – that they are available for sell and buy, as stated by Marx in his works “The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844”. (Damsar, 2002:13)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Facts of malls and the language of ads&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In economic context, mall or shopping centres have been a gallery and market for economic transaction. Advertisement is medium for providing information which communicate commodities sold by the seller. Advertisement as medium for communication contain persuasive messages. The similarity of mall and language of ads is that both of them are considered as economic tools or commercial instrument for economic transaction. Malls are represented as “centre for interaction” or market for the seller and buyer to meet and exchange values attaining the same economic perception. While advertisement containing persuasive messages has main goal to intensify economic transaction. Advertisement can become shopping environment and have triggering effect to consumptive activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In perspective of Economics and Psychology, Reynaud stated that product can create image and produce flow of “mental energy”. Any product or service will produce a set of representations in consumers’ minds. Such images will vary in their accuracy, strength, and consistency. They, rather than any objective properties, will control consumers’ behavior toward the product, attracting attention to it, determining the judgment made on it, and deciding whether or not it will be acquired. The product image is thus one of the factors that directs the flow of mental energy. (Reynaud, 1981:136)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Facts of mall are realities of consumerism symbols which the consumers are patterned by money generated machine offering leisure, entertainment, facility, social status, and beauty. There are efforts to empower consumerism potentials and minimizing economic Rationality. The following illustration can be the example:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No other excellent marketing strategy for Pondok Indah Mall (PIM) II which started to open since last October 2005. The strength of marketing mall is found in an excellent way of mall management in translating its marketing strategy into mall concept and design as well as competitive selection for the tenants to open new outlet in this mall. According to Andreas Kartawinata, Operation &amp; Marketing Director of Pondok Indah Mall, developer for PIM II translating marketing strategy into shopping entertainment concept. (MIX Magazine edition of 15th February 2006 page 32)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beside, the mall provides indoor parking in basement area, and hotspot facility in all areas to facilitate internet access for executives when they are in out-of-office activities. In addition, the mall is preparing the sophisticated shopping directory which will give leisure and availability to access information for the shoppers. (MIX Magazine edition of 15th February 2006 page 32)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Architectural design, mall interior, facility and tenants live in mall clearly show that PIM II is segmented for mid to high level of shoppers. Look at their tenants such as Premier Cinema, popular cafes commonly for hang out such as Starbuck, restaurant served with various menus originated from abroad open until 12 in the morning every weekend, Sogo Department Store, Sogo Food Hall, ATM and Banking Centre, fashion boutique for imported-products labelled with leading brand such as Aigner, Versace, and Hugo Boss with various product choice for various purposes such as F1 Studio, Pola Craft, Kyohara, and Games Workshop (MIX Magazine edition of 15th February 2006 page 33)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Decorating the store is really one of marketing tactic applied by the management of department store. Ratih D. Gianda, Head of Investor Relation Division PT Midta Adi Perkasa Tbk, the management, stated that this department store has its own schedule to refresh lay-out and “cosmetics” of each store. “We really put the attention on its design standard which should be determined by the size,” said Ratih. “Also, flyer, banner and flags named with Sogo to enliven the mall. “We usually make our own style. And, the construction is referred to their stores.” (MIX Magazine edition of 15th February 2006 page 26)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Facts of mall is reality of complicated need which is getting more numerous, formed through learning process facilitated by consumerism culture using high-tech touch. Outlets dressed with millions of interesting touch have unfinished appeals. The facts below may clearly indicate the magnetism of mall for children:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dhyahan was only five years of age. She used to feel unhappy when taking for a walk every weekend was considered as meaningless “without malls”. In each of her travels, such as out-of town travels, she used to ask to stop over the mall. She seemed to enjoy mall. While taking for a walk she used to look for  interesting items found in mall such as play ground, children stuffs, and food court. While being in play ground she had no time for other things, and she was looking for Barbie-like stuffs as seen on TV. When she finished and felt satisfied, then she went home. (MIX Magazine edition of 15th February 2006 page 26)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Local character as cultural orientation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cultural orientation means value orientation which will then be applicable, and become social identity as well as instrument for social interaction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Local character is the very specific self identity or selfness. Within the perspective of psychology character means a quality or continuous nature which could make certain uniqueness to identify personality, object or event (Chaplin, 1981). Local character in the frame of city is when city has historical identity, valuable and recognizable. City which is free from alienation being “himself as human being”. The following reflect local identity which is systematically built by a city:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet as Anselm Strauss (1976) has pointed out, “The entire complex of urban life can be thought of as a person rather than a distinctive place, and the city can be endowed with a personality – or, to use common parlance – a character of its own” (p.14). He adds that cities, like people, have biographies and reputation and can be thought of as having the capacity to act in certain ways and possess particular resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;City thought as a person has personality which is built from the collection of biographies, reputation, and capacity. Biographies refer to historical story owned by the city. This is why documentation of historical values could be very important as city has its own identity. Museums can be a better place as where the documentation should be well kept. All historical buildings are tangible assets which tell much biographies and reputation. The physical assets related to biographies and reputation are soul that the city has. This is to say that building a city systematically to have local identity need commitment to maintain assets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personality refers to personal identity which forms character. Character of each person living in a city could potentially colour the identity which means that urban development is a matter of developing the mindset.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do we capture the personality of a great city? How do we reduce its essence to something manageable, yet meaningful? In the past, social scientists did not even attempt this task: they are only now daring to take the plunge. This has always been the writer’s turf. In his book Images of the American City, Strauss (1976) has connected a number of striking urban characterizations. There is Milwaukee, “which sits in a complacent shabbiness of the west shore of Lake Michigan like a wealthy old lady in black alpaca taking her ease on the beach” (p.14). Houston is like “an incipient heavyweight champion in its pimply faced adolescence” (p.20): and Rochester is “like a successful, well-adjusted individual of middle age” (p.20). Abler and Adams (1976) refer to Carl Sandburg’s Chicago as a “tall bold slugger set vivid against the soft , little”; Atlanta, they note, “has the nerve of a great mule. If it could suck as hard as it can blow, it would bring the ocean to it and become a seaport’ (p.24) (Krupat, 1988:24)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A compromise approach&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Human life is always on the track of changes. Each of many ideas and strengths has risen from the two different powerful points. The intenseness made of conflict between two different powerful points will cause change (Pressman, 2000:69). Change can be unavoidable fact in human life. Conflict between ideas or “strength” that can cause change will be common in human life. A view of city as human means that city never be far away from the reality of change. Conflict between economic and cultural rationales within the context of urban development could be a compromise approach for urban development alternative as all potentials are well placed as ready-to-allocate resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The language of ads reflected in the growing number of malls contain learning material to improve economic and cultural reasoning. Capitalism should not be considered as threat for social destruction as “wrong perception” of capitalism that will flow through its own way to “death”. Therefore, the growing number of malls symbolized consumerism should turn to other direction and be placed as learning material. An economic viewpoint is still relevant to catch the concept of use-value and circulation commodities (Medema et al, 2003). Historical assets should be directed to the concept of use-value and commodity but not in the “wrong perception of capitalism”. This means that it is necessary to “underline” the role of State to guarantee commitment to maintain the assets. A cultural perpective covers cultural reasoning which means that local identity should be put on the first things. City should have identity, and this identity is very specific, clear and directed to human dimension. Basically city resembles human-like that should be treated as a human.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the economic rationales meet with cultural rationales that could be a conflict between the two ideas or reasoning which can make city become dynamic. The dynamic could be in the tolerant level to prevent the uexpected “systemic destruction” as the two rationales could be successfully compromised.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONCLUSION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Facts of malls or shopping centres in today’s city within the frame of urban development has pictured a symbol of consumerism. Components of shopping environment and their assessories are advertised communication or language of ads, the language which is used by capitalist as medium or instrument of concerns on capital accumulation. The language of ads contains persuasive messages which their intensity tend to get stronger and make no sense (irrational). Within the frame of urban development those facts can be shown by the sparks of physical facilities which are totally capitalist-oriented.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The persuasive messages which are getting stronger and irrational have emphasized much on rational economic mindset and cultural-orientation. Facts of consumerism symbol that will subsequently be communicated through the language of ads is a medium of learning to attain rational economic mindset namely beliefs on value-added mindset. In other side, the reality of consumerism symbol communicated through the language of ads produces learning on how to motivate the urgent need to set back local cultural orientation. It means that, the culture of shopping is directed to the culture of “consuming” local value product, highly perceived local products. It is a compromise approach between economic values and local character as an alternative for urban development.(ign_heri_sw)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REFERENCES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[1] Pressman, Steven (2000). Lima puluh pemikir ekonomi dunia (terjemahan). &lt;br /&gt;Jakarta: RajaGrafindo Persada&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[2] Featherstone, Mike (2001). Postmodernisme dan Budaya Konsumen (terjemahan). &lt;br /&gt;Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[3] Dagun, Save M. (1992). Pengantar Filsafat Ekonomi. &lt;br /&gt;Jakarta: Rineka Cipta&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[4]   ____________ (1992). 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Academy of Marketing Science. http://www.amsreview.org&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-997787773870390430?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/997787773870390430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/997787773870390430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/04/language-of-ads-in-creating-economic.html' title='THE LANGUAGE OF ADS IN CREATING ECONOMIC MINDSET AND CULTURAL-BASED ORIENTATION'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-2493800864503378306</id><published>2010-04-04T06:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.913-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>ANALOGI PAVLOV DAN XIXO DALAM PENDIDIKAN</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Analogi Pavlov dan Xixo dalam Pendidikan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ignherisw@gmail.com / ignheri@yahoo.com / www.simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seorang psikolog Rusia, Ivan P. Pavlov, berhasil memenangkan hadiah Nobel pada tahun 1904 melalui penelitian terkenalnya mengenai fisiologi pencernaan. Demikian penelitian tersebut dinamakan eksperimen Pavlov.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eksperimen dilakukan sebagai berikut: setiap kali Pavlov memberi makan anjing, maka anjing itu mengeluarkan air liur  ketika melihat makanan disuguhkan. Pada saat Pavlov menyuguhkan makanan, bersama itu pula dia membunyikan bel. Eksperimen itu terus dilakukan berulang kali, yaitu ketika Pavlov menyuguhkan makanan, pada saat itu pula bel dibunyikan. Hasil eksperimen itu adalah ketika anjing mendengar bunyi bel yang sama, air liur akan keluar walaupun dihadapannya tidak tersaji makanan. Dalam eksperimen ini Pavlov berhasil mengkondisikan bunyi bel sebagai perangsang untuk mengeluarkan air liur anjing. Kesimpulan dari penelitian yang dilakukan Pavlov adalah proses psikis identik dengan proses fisiologis di dalam otak, dan bahwa hal ini dapat diselidiki secara eksperimental lewat pengkondisian (Chaplin, 1968)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Film The Gods Must be Crazy yang dirilis tahun 1980-an pernah meraih predikat the most popular movie di beberapa negara. Film ini berlatar belakang kehidupan sosio-kultural masyarakat di Gurun Kalahari, Namibia, Afrika Selatan. Cerita dimulai pada suatu pagi, Xixo, sang ketua suku San, melihat “benda” yang diturunkan oleh “para dewa” dari langit, di wilayah perburuannya. Sang “benda” yang ternyata botol Coca Cola kosong ini dilempar keluar kokpit oleh seorang pilot pesawat terbang pribadi yang kebetulan melintas di atas Gurun Kalahari. Bagi Xixo, pesawat terbang ini terlihat sebagai kepulan asap putih yang menggores di langit yang biru dan cerah, sembari merambatkan suara yang bergemuruh. Xixo dan komunitasnya tidak pernah melihat botol Coca Cola, maupun pesawat terbang. Suara bergemuruh di udara dipersepsikan sebagai tindakan para dewa dan botol Coca Cola ini sebagai benda yang diturunkan oleh para dewa kepada komunitasnya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Setibanya di tengah-tengah warga sukunya, Xixo menceritakan pengalaman anehnya itu dengan menanyakan di antara komunitasnya apakah ada yang telah mengenal kegunaan “benda” pemberian dewa tersebut. Hasilnya nihil. Tidak satupun dari para anggota suku San yang pernah melihat “benda” asing itu sebelumnya. Namun demikian, dilandasi kepercayaan akan itikad baik para dewa, warga San tidak kehilangan harapan. Dengan sabar mereka terus berusaha mencari tahu kegunaan “benda” asing itu. Satu per satu, secara bergiliran, para anggota suku San memegang benda misterius tersebut, mengamat-amatinya, mengutak-atik dan mencoba-coba. Apa yang terjadi kemudian adalah sesuai yang di luar dugaan masyarakat modern, sesuatu yang ajaib! Mereka berhasil menemukan beberapa inovasi melalui “benda” misterius itu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inovasi yang pertama ditemukan oleh seorang sesepuh suku, yang mendapati bahwa benda itu dapat difungsikan sebagai alat musik tiup. Sang sesepuh ini lantas memeragakan bagaimana ia bisa bermain musik dengan “benda” pemberian dewa itu. Inovasi kedua ketika kaum mudanya beraksi. Mereka berhasil mendapati kegunaan “benda” itu, tetapi bukan sebagai alat tiup. Bagi mereka, pemberian dewa itu merupakan alat untuk menggosok dan menghaluskan kulit ular, yang nantinya kulit ini mereka pakai sebagai aksesori.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proses inovasi terus berlangsung. “Benda” dari dewa itu berpindah lagi ke tangan-tangan lain, kegunaan-kegunaan baru yang lain masih didapatkan lagi. Kaum ibu mendapati kegunaan sebagai alat untuk membuat cetakan lingkaran-lingkaran yang dihasilkan, mereka mendapatkan ikat kepala yang lebih indah. Kegunaan lain lagi yang berhasil didapatkan adalah sebagai alat pukul, alat penggosok, dan alat penuang air (tetapi bukan untuk minum sebab suku San hanya minum melalui dedaunan). Dalam waktu yang tidak lama, warga suku San telah dapat memecahkan misteri “benda” itu dan mereka senang karena telah dapat menemukan banyak manfaat dari pemberian dewa. (uraian dikutip dari Seri Penerbitan Sains, Teknologi, dan Masyarakat tahun 2002)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kemapanan dapat dipahami sebagai sesuatu yang lumrah, kepercayaan-kepercayaan (beliefs) yang hidup di masyarakat. Kemapanan yang dianut oleh sebagian besar masyarakat pendidik (baca: guru) di Indonesia adalah sebuah bentuk totalitas kepasrahan, ketidakberdayaan melawan sebuah sistem. Kemapanan karena nilai-nilai kultural yang sangat kuat membelenggu melalui label-label sosial yang (seringkali dipaksakan) dikenakan. Tut wuri handayani memberi pengertian sebagai guru yang harus “digugu” (diperhatikan) dan “ditiru” (dicontoh). Guru dalam simbol kesempurnaan adalah pengajar dan pendidik yang menjadi panutan, dan figur sosial (social figure). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kemapanan dalam bentuk lain adalah ketika sekolah menjadi tuntutan untuk menyediakan kegiatan pembelajaran, pendidikan untuk menghasilkan manusia-manusia unggul. Dalam pandangan budaya komoditas (commodity culture), manusia-manusia produk pendidikan dihadapkan pada tuntutan pasar (market oriented) menjadi sumber daya yang berdaya saing (competitive resource) dan aset bernilai jual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ada lagi kemapanan pemahaman yang kontradiktif ketika guru dimaknai sebagai sebuah profesi yang tidak mampu memberi harapan secara ekonomis. Profesi yang selalu dikalahkan dalam wacana mekanisme pasar (market mechanism). Bekerja dan berkarir sebagai guru tidak lagi mampu memberikan citra atau konotasi positif kesejahteraan. Karir itu hanyalah pilihan kedua (second choice) yang memang dimatikan dalam persepsi ketidakberdayaan, pahlawan tanpa tanda jasa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apa hubungan antara eksperimen Pavlov, Xixo dan kemapanan? Pavlov Must be Crazy, artinya Pavlov dengan eksperimennya yang mencoba men-dekonstruksi nalar. Sebuah komitmen dan upaya yang dilatarbelakangi oleh nalar yang sangat ketat. Dan, pendidikan ketika ditempatkan dalam ruangan Pavlov ternyata bisa memberi pemahaman alternatif bagi problematik pendidikan.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pavlov dan Xixo merupakan tokoh sentral dalam ceritanya masing-masing, dimana representasi eksistensinya mampu memberi gambaran logis bagi penyelesaian kerumitan “simpul-simpul” intervensi kepentingan dalam pendidikan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Xixo dalam lakon The Gods Must be Crazy telah memberi pencerahan bagi komunitasnya untuk melakukan inovasi. Botol Coca Cola kosong telah memberi jalan bagi hidupnya untuk bertemu dan berkompromi dengan realitas yang sama sekali baru bagi diri maupun lingkungannya. Berawal dari rasa ingin tahu, proses inovasi muncul. Totalitas Xixo adalah kesederhanaan sebuah komitmen, kemauan, dan persepsi positif terhadap sebuah realitas baru, yaitu bahwa “benda” tersebut merupakan sebuah pemberian yang tulus dari para “dewa”, dan oleh karenanya perlu dihargai.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Pavlov dengan eksperimennya membuktikan bunyi bel akan menjadi stimulus bagi anjing untuk memberi respon dengan mengeluarkan air liur. Bunyi bel menjadi stimulus yang efektif untuk menggantikan “sementara” makanan. Yang menjadi pertanyaan adalah sampai kapan anjing tersebut bisa “dikondisikan” seperti itu? Atau justru sebaliknya, pembelajaran yang dilakukan Pavlov telah membuatnya mampu melakukan analogi bunyi bel sebagai makanan, sehingga kelak si anjing (mungkin) akan mati karena tidak pernah diberi makanan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Permasalahan pendidikan adalah permasalahan guru&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dalam konteks guru yang prihatin terhadap nasibnya adalah bahwa kemapanan telah memberi pembelajaran bagi guru untuk “melakoni” perannya. Kemapanan karena terbelenggu label-label sosial menuntut guru untuk memberi yang terbaik dalam menjalankan profesi maupun perannya. Tuntutan menjadi sosok ideal di satu sisi dan terbatasnya kapasitas intelektual di sisi lain adalah karena persoalan hambatan bagi akses ke arah pengembangan sebagai modal intelektual. Artinya, guru mesti mengakumulasi modal intelektualnya untuk memformat harga. Rendahnya posisi tawar guru karena tidak memiliki nilai jual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sekolah sebagai ruang formal bagi aktualisasi peran guru juga telah diintervensi oleh negara dalam bentuk target dan tujuan menghasilkan manusia yang memiliki daya saing. Inipun sebuah kemapanan pemahaman yang menempatkan guru pada akhirnya sebagai “alat” bagi kepentingan negara. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eksperimen Pavlov adalah persoalan pendidikan. Konsepsi stimulus-respon berhasil dijungkirbalikkan melalui eksperimen ini. Pendidikan yang memprihatinkan adalah pendidikan yang dijadikan “eksperimen”. Bongkar pasang kebijakan sebenarnya adalah persoalan eksperimen yang tidak pernah menyelesaikan persoalan namun menjanjikan harapan yang tidak pernah dapat diwujudkan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pendidikan sebagai sarana strategis meningkatkan kualitas manusia telah dibebani oleh banyak kepentingan. Awalnya kepentingan negara dan masyarakat, yang kemudian berakhir pada kepentingan guru itu sendiri, kemana lagi kalau tidak urusan kesejahteraan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Atas nama kesejahteraan telah memangkas kreatifitas dan potensinya sebagai sosok pembelajar. Guru yang pembelajar akan terus berjuang keluar dari pemahaman sempitnya tentang kemapanan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sosok Xixo adalah stimulus terjadinya serangkaian proses inovasi yang mengalir apa adanya berawal dari sebuah realitas. Dalam konteks pendidikan telah muncul realitas baru bahwa problematika manusia sebenarnya adalah pendidikan yang tidak pernah dihargai pada tempatnya. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pavlov dengan eksperimennya mampu membuktikan bahwa mindset pembelajar bisa ditumbuhkan melalui sebuah “rekayasa” yaitu harapan dan persepsi positif. Artinya, harapan dan persepsi positif ditempatkan sebagai stimulus yang dikondisikan untuk menumbuhkan mindset pembelajar. Mindset pembelajar merupakan mekanisme bagi kegiatan pembelajaran secara sadar (conscious learning mechanism) ke arah tercapainya akumulasi modal intelektual. Dalam ruang pemahaman kapitalisme, modal intelektual yang memadai akan menghasilkan posisi tawar (bargaining power) yang kuat. Tidak ada lagi tuntutan kesejahteraan karena mekanisme pasar (market mechanism) telah berpihak pada mereka yang memiliki modal intelektual. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gurupun kemudian mampu membuat karya yang memiliki nilai ekonomis (economic value).  Tidak lagi mempersoalkan harkat dan martabatnya tetapi karya-karya aktual yang diperlukan oleh lingkungan. Rutinitas kegiatan belajar mengajar yang “membelenggu” secara tidak langsung kemudian beralih menjadi aktivitas “yang membebaskan”. Berkarya juga persoalan inovasi yang (mestinya) terus dilakukan sebagai bentuk aktualisasi “membebaskan” rasa keingintahuan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dengan demikian eksperimen Pavlov tidak berakhir pada kematian si anjing (mungkin karena tidak mampu meyakinkan tuannya), namun Pavlov yang akhirnya berbelas kasih untuk memberikan makanan yang sebenarnya. Xixo juga tidak perlu merasa heran dan bertanya lagi bila para dewa menjatuhkan banyak “botol”. Dengan demikian “misteri” problematika pendidikan di negeri ini bukan lagi sebuah sinisme yang tidak bisa diselesaikan.©ign.heri.sw./2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-2493800864503378306?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2493800864503378306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2493800864503378306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/04/analogi-pavlov-dan-xixo-dalam.html' title='ANALOGI PAVLOV DAN XIXO DALAM PENDIDIKAN'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-8230147635494619149</id><published>2010-04-03T09:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-03T09:34:49.215-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>MASYARAKAT BARU</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;MASYARAKAT BARU&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ign. Heri S. Wangsa&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dunia alternatif&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Craig Watkins (2009) melalui bukunya The Young and The Digital menjelaskan bagaimana orang-orang muda di era budaya digital (digital culture) membentuk masyarakat baru (new society) dalam dunia online (online world). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watkins memperkenalkan beberapa terminologi dalam konsepsi masyarakat baru (new society) seperti second lives dan new world. Telah terbentuk dunia alternatif, komunitas baru, komunitas impian melalui proses pembelajaran yang dilakukan oleh orang-orang muda (young people). Mereka sangat cepat menyerap dan mengadopsi hal-hal baru yang didasari rasa keingintahuan (curiosity) yang sangat kuat. Kemana arah dunia alternatif yang dirintis oleh orang-orang muda ini?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sangat menarik untuk mengikuti fenomena ini. Nampak terdapat korelasi antara orang-orang muda dan perkembangan teknologi informasi. Orang-orang muda menjadi pasar bagi berbagai macam produk dari perkembangan teknologi informasi. Mereka adalah konsumen yang sangat loyal karena esensi teknologi yang terus hidup dengan aspek kreatifitas dan inovasinya. Orang-orang muda adalah mereka yang sangat concern dengan dinamika. Teknologi dengan aspek kreatifitas dan inovasinya mampu menawarkan dinamika, yaitu kehidupan baru dalam dunia alternatif dimana kebutuhan untuk menjalin relasi secara sosial dapat dipenuhi secara virtual melalui dunia online (online world). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disamping sebagai pasar yang aktif, orang-orang muda adalah subyek atau pelaku utama yang turut menentukan arah perkembangan teknologi informasi.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunia online adalah dunia virtual dimana masyarakat punya kesempatan menggunakan teknologi untuk membentuk jaringan sosial (social networking) sebagaimana dalam dunia nyata (real world). Dunia virtual adalah bahasa lain dari masyarakat diam (silent society) dimana interaksi dilakukan tanpa melibatkan pertemuan secara fisik (physical appearance). Silent society ini memiliki kekuatan revolusioner untuk menggerakkan massa secara diam-diam melalui kegiatan tukar menukar ide atau gagasan (sharing ideas) dalam waktu yang relatif cepat. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Konsumen yang terus belajar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Munculnya gadget dengan berbagai macam variasi fitur menyebabkan konsumen terus belajar. Produk-produk itu memotivasi pemakainya untuk terus belajar. Dan, proses pembelajaran itu, disadari atau tidak, turut menentukan perkembangan munculnya generasi digital (digital generation). Dampak positif dari perkembangan teknologi adalah motivasi untuk terus belajar. Walaupun akhirnya pembelajaran tersebut menjadikan mereka tak lebih dari sekedar konsumen atau pemakai. Produk-produk berteknologi tinggi menyediakan otomatisasi kemampuan akses informasi. Dengan segala atribut kepraktisan, kemudahan, kecepatan, akurasi, dan kenyamanan, produk-produk itu telah menjadi bagian dari keseharian. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Konsumen pembelajar terus dibentuk sebagai pengguna yang loyal dan bahkan adiktif (addictive). Teknologi itu telah membentuk masyarakat pembelajar yang terus belajar terhadap produk-produk yang cepat sekali mengeluarkan seri dan versi-versi terbaru. Mereka diajak belajar sekaligus mengkonsumsi agar menjadi konsumen yang baik. Pembelajaran bermotif konsumtif.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dampak lain dari munculnya konsumen pembelajar adalah budaya berpikir praktis dan instan. Atribut kepraktisan, kemudahan, kecepatan, akurasi, dan kenyamanan ternyata menjadi benih bagi tumbuhnya budaya yang serba cepat. Orientasi waktu (time orientation) dan efisiensi menjadi ukuran ideal. Oleh karenanya waktu harus digunakan secara efisien. Waktu menjadi sumber daya (resource) yang diparalelkan dengan akumulasi kapital. Semakin efisien pengelolaan dan penggunaan waktu, semakin besar tingkat akumulasi kapital yang dapat diperoleh. Konsumen pembelajar adalah mereka yang terus menerus mengikuti perkembangan kecanggihan teknologi karena tuntutan lingkungan ber-gadget. Lingkungan itu sudah disesaki oleh sang mediator, yakni medium atau sarana untuk mengakses informasi. Medium itu juga telah menjadi alat bantu untuk dapat diterima secara sosial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fenomena konsumen pembelajar merupakan konsekuensi masa transformasi, peralihan dari pola pikir tradisional konvensional ke modern. Modernisasi ditandai dengan cara pandang, pola pikir dan metode baru. Modernisasi dan konsumen pembelajar dapat dijelaskan melalui sejumlah upaya kompromistis terhadap perubahan. Kompromi terhadap perubahan adalah bentuk lain budaya fleksibilitas, yakni fleksibel atau kelenturan penyesuaian. Akhirnya perubahan itu direspon secara damai. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aleksander Hemon (2010) dalam Best European Fiction 2010 menjelaskan bagaimana cerpen-cerpen karya para pengarang Eropa memberi petunjuk pada sedang terjadinya dinamika transformatif budaya di Eropa. Melalui karya-karya tersebut ditunjukkan bagaimana terjadinya aliran perubahan (flow of change) menuju ke sebuah integrasi. Ada upaya untuk membentuk identitas baru. Ada keinginan untuk terus berubah menuju sebuah kehidupan baru melalui kompromistis jembatan penghubung avant garde dan mainstream. Terjadi dinamika fragmentasi, interaksi dan integrasi. Meminjam analogi Hemon, fenomena konsumen pembelajar adalah bagian dari dinamika aktivitas bernilai ekonomis-komersial dalam sebuah siklus dimana konsumen akhirnya menjadi pembelajar untuk lebih konsumtif. Dari konsepsi semula yang menempatkan konsumen sebagai obyek pasif menjadi subyek aktif. Semula adalah sangat jelas terjadi pemisahan fungsi antara konsumen sebagai obyek dan produsen sebagai subyek, namun sekarang fungsi obyek-subyek sudah terintegrasi. Konsumen adalah sekaligus produsen bagi dirinya sendiri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Konsumen pembelajar dalam masyarakat pembelajar adalah perubahan revolusioner yang ditandai oleh kreatifitas berkelanjutan. Ditandai oleh munculnya berbagai macam terminologi. Berkaitan dengan terminologi, Paul Greenberg (2010) dalam  Customer Relationship Management at the Speed of Light mengatakan bahwa struktur terminologi membawa konten yang berbeda. Era perubahan itu adalah perubahan terminologi, perubahan yang semakin mengembalikan kepentingan konsumen berikut sistem yang memfasilitasi berbagai macam perilakunya. Perubahan terminologi adalah indikasi proses pembelajaran. Melalui “kosa kata” baru konsumen difasilitasi sekaligus dikondisikan untuk belajar. Apa yang dikatakan Hollis Thomases (2010) dalam Twitter Marketing adalah bahwa atas nama “kecepatan” yang bernilai ekonomis, maka pembelajaran itu adalah belajar untuk berkomunikasi secara efektif, pandai meringkas informasi sampai pada “inti persoalan”. Semua dipahami secara ekonomis, memberi yang terbaik bagi orang lain atas nama pertukaran ekonomis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Era digital memicu cara berpikir (the way to think). Melalui dunia alternatif – dunia virtual, kreatifitas justru dihasilkan dari ketidakteraturan, ketidakpastian. Sharon Begley dalam artikelnya Does the Web Change How We Think (Newsweek/January 18, 2010) mempertentangkan pendapat-pendapat Joshua Greene (neuroscientist Harvard University), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (psychologist Claremont Graduate University) dan Haim Harari (physicist). Apakah internet mempengaruhi cara kita berpikir? Namun kemudian dapat dijelaskan “jalan tengah” dari perbedaan pendapat-pendapat tersebut, bahwa era internet secara tidak langsung menghasilkan creativity by destruction, yakni kreatifitas yang diperoleh melalui proses menghilangkan, mengabaikan informasi-informasi yang tidak penting (unnecessary information). Proses tersebut terjadi melalui “pemaksaan” untuk memilah-milah informasi “inti” diantara tumpukan informasi “sampah”, dimana daya nalar murni (pure logic) mengalami “benturan” dengan hal-hal yang tidak penting (unseriously matter). Benturan ini disebut oleh Nassim Taleb, pengarang The Blackswan,   sebagai ilusi pengetahuan (illusion of knowledge).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jalan Tengah&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Revolusi kreatifitas menyebabkan munculnya gadget berteknologi tinggi. Piranti yang sangat dibutuhkan, menjadi bagian dari keseharian kebutuhan untuk dapat diterima secara sosial. Revolusi kreatifitas juga memicu pembelajaran  karena gadget-gadget itu dibuat secara serial, setiap saat memiliki versi yang saling melengkapi (complementary). Versi terkini menjadi pelengkap dari versi sebelumnya. Setiap saat muncul fitur-fitur baru. Terjadilah pembelajaran dan konsumen yang terus belajar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Masyarakat baru itu adalah komunitas konsumen yang umumnya orang-orang muda (young people). Karakter tingkat keingintahuan yang tinggi (high curiousity) adalah tipikal orang-orang muda yang selalu memperbaharui pola pikir “mengejar ketertinggalan”. Menjadi sebuah budaya untuk terus mengenakan atribut kebaruan (newness). Kebaruan menjadi tujuan konsumsi, oleh karenanya revolusi kreatifitas yang selalu menciptakan “kebaruan” terus dicari, dipelajari, dan dipakai. Karakter keingintahuan yang tinggi  menjadi label pasar yang aktif, bahkan reaktif karena respon yang cepat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kemana arah perubahan? Revolusi kreatifitas menuju pertukaran secara ekonomis. Artinya, setiap saat kreatifitas menghasilkan gadget baru maka gadget itu harus mampu dipertukarkan dalam mekanisme pasar. Energi daro revolusi kreatifitas adalah pasar yang responsif, sebagai masyarakat pengguna yang loyal. Untuk itu dibuatlah impiah, sebuah medium menuju dunia alternatif, ruang ideal yang mampu diterima secara personal. Ruang ideal itulah yang menyebabkan munculnya rasa keingintahuan yang tinggi untuk memotivasi pembelajaran. Selamat datang masyarakat baru di era pembelajaran.(ign_heri_sw/2010)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-8230147635494619149?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8230147635494619149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8230147635494619149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/04/masyarakat-baru.html' title='MASYARAKAT BARU'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-7436072871816808598</id><published>2010-04-02T19:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.913-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>LOGIKA INTERNET</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;LOGIKA INTERNET&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ign. Heri Satrya Wangsa*)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ignherisw@gmail.com / ignheri@yahoo.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Histeria popularitas internet setidaknya menarik perhatian dalam bentuk logika yang dihasilkan, sekaligus isi (content) dari logika yang demikian mudah diadopsi. Dan, logika itu telah menjadi bagian dari keseharian (baca: hidup).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obyek yang disakralkan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ketika popularitas internet secara revolusioner telah merubah gaya dan pandangan hidup, muncul obyek-obyek seperti waktu (time), konektivitas (connected-ness), kreatifitas (creativity) dan informasi (information) yand ditempatkan secara sakral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunia baru itu telah terbentuk. Ketika kemudahan dan kecepatan merupakan generalisasi efektivitas waktu, terbentuklah masyarakat yang berorientasi waktu (time-oriented society). Mereka mengadopsi nilai-nilai efektivitas waktu. Ukurannya adalah kepraktisan secara ekonomis. Waktu adalah sumber daya (resources).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pada saat yang sama terjadinya pergeseran budaya individualistis ke arah kolektifitas merupakan wajah baru egoisme konektivitas. Kebutuhan konektivitas adalah ketergantungan konektivitas yang dipicu oleh sentimen loyalitas kolektif, kepentingan bersama yang mengikat dan memberi konsekuensi bagi siapapun yang lepas dari ikatan itu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sisi lainnya adalah kreatifitas yang menjadi kata kunci. Kreatifitas tak terbendungkan (rapid flow of creativity) memunculkan subyek-subyek buatan yang tak lain merupakan obyek bermuatan nilai-nilai ideal atau impian, dipoles melalui kosmetika komersial supaya laku dijual. Ruang yang tak terbatas bagi kreatifitas membentuk lingkungan kreatif yang seringkali dilakukan melalui eksperimen kekacauan (chaotic) artifisial ataupun permainan kesenjangan. Kontradiksi diciptakan untuk menemukan ide atau gagasan berorientasi kebaruan (newness).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Informasi bebas akses (free access information) menjadikan konsumsi tak mengenal batas (unlimited consumption). Konsumsi informasi adalah tuntutan emosional terhadap kebaruan dan sosial. Dalam perspektif ini budaya isi (content culture) telah hilang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kemudahan dan kecepatan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teknologi dalam konteks masyarakat industrialis menawarkan berbagai kemudahan dan kecepatan proses. Kecenderungannya adalah pemendekan proses. Analogi ini dapat dipakai memberi gambaran masyarakat modern yang mengalami “sakit ketergesa-gesaan” (hurry sickness). Kerangka waktu tidak mampu dimaknai dan dihargai sebagai bagian dari kehidupan pribadi (private life), tapi rutinitas mekanistis yang sarat bermuatan nilai-nilai ekonomis. Steve Taylor (2007) dalam bukunya Making Time menyebut sebagai tyranny of linear time, yaitu sebuah keadaan dimana waktu dirasa begitu cepat berlalu dalam “ketergesa-gesaan” serta rutinitas yang tidak pernah mampu disadari esensi kehadirannya. Kemudahan dan kecepatan dibutuhkan dalam perspektif proses mencapai sebuah tujuan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ketika kemudahan dan kecepatan dirasionalisasi secara ekonomis, yang terjadi adalah irasionalisasi waktu yang selalu menghabiskan wilayah privat. Eva Hoffman (2009) dalam Time mengaitkan waktu dan ruang dengan pemaknaan terhadap kebebasan (freedom). Irasionalitas gerak dan aksi adalah keterikatan individu terhadap ruang dan waktu ketidaksadarannya (unconsciousness). Disitulah individu tidak lagi mengenal kebebasan. Dengan demikian kemudahan dan kecepatan yang ditawarkan melalui logika internet akan mengintervensi kebebasan apabila itu adalah permasalahan pemendekan proses yang tanpa disadari merepresentasikan akumulasi kepentingan ekonomis more is better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Individualistis ke kolektifitas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kolektifitas berawal dari konektifitas (connected-ness). Konektifitas menghubungkan keberagaman karakter dan kepentingan, menjadi karakter dan kepentingan kolektif. Logika internet menyediakan itu. Dalam tataran tertentu konektifitas adalah keterikatan secara sukarela terhadap kekuatan komunal. Oleh karena konektifitas lebih dekat dengan persoalan pasar potensial, maka seringkali konektifitas di-komunitas-kan. Konektifitas adalah komunitas yang kemudian sarat bermuatan egoisme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Individu membawa karakter spesifik. Harga identitas melekat secara jelas, dimiliki dan diakui. Namun ini mesti dilepaskan sebagai konsekuensi kepentingan kolektif. Nilai-nilai otentik individual dikompromikan dengan nilai-nilai kolektif. Titik temunya lebih sering memihak kepentingan kolektif, kesepakatan kolektif.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kematian subyek&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Logika internet adalah pengalaman kreatifitas, yaitu kesempatan berinteraksi dalam lingkungan kreatif. Pengalaman kreatifitas adalah mengalami kreatifitas secara sadar. Mengalami kreatifitas melalui dunia virtual misalnya, merupakan kesempatan berinteraksi dengan obyek-obyek ideal produk kreatifitas. Karena kreatifitas, obyek-obyek tersebut menjadi subyek, yaitu kemampuan mengatur dirinya sendiri, menyeleksi, memilih, memutuskan. Dunia virtual menyediakan banyak subyek buatan (artificial).&lt;br /&gt;Apabila dunia virtual banyak menyediakan subyek artifisial, maka atas nama kreatifitas, dunia virtual telah menjadi dunia alternatif ideal (ideal alternative world). Kekalahan subyek terjadi ketika perannya tergantikan. Dalam dominasi kolektifitas terhadap “aku”, yang terjadi adalah “aku ketika bersama orang lain”. Hadirnya dunia virtual secara tidak langsung juga menciptakan wilayah nyaman (comfort zone) yang sangat diminati. Konsekuensinya adalah tiadanya kesempatan untuk memilih dan membuat pertimbangan. Keadaan itu diperparah dengan atribut kemudahan dan kecepatan yang selalu mengalahkan siapa saja yang tertinggal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Konsekuensi konektifitas adalah keterikatan kebenaran (truth), yaitu kebenaran yang dipaksakan untuk diakui secara kolektif (collective-shared truth). Kebenaran individual (individual-perceived truth) seringkali mengalami konflik dengan kebenaran kolektif. Kreatifitas baru muncul melalui konflik semacam itu, namun dapat juga dikatakan bahwa konflik yang disebabkan oleh ide, gagasan, “kebenaran” yang disamakan, diseragamkan tersebut menjadi penyebab lingkungan polutif. Bentuk lain akar kekalahan subyek, bahkan kematian subyek (death of subject).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kreatifitas menciptakan detil produk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meminjam analogi Rowena Murray (2009) yang memberi “resep” kekuatan sebuah karya tulis tidak melalui pengulangan (repetition) namun kemampuan mengambil sudut pandang baru (take another new angle). Demikian juga kreatifitas tidak pernah melakukan “pengulangan” tapi kemampuan untuk mengambil kebaruan (newness) dari sisi lain. Ini berbeda dengan kreatifitas konvensional sekedar menciptakan polarisasi dan konflik.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Logika internet adalah logika pasar. Oleh karena ada obyek yang dicari dan dibutuhkan, maka obyek itu ditawarkan dan dijual. Dia adalah budaya produk dengan segala atributnya. Budaya produk berurusan dengan persoalan kosmetik nilai jual, selalu harus menyediakan kelebihan (excess) serta ruang kebebasan (space of freedom). Ruang kebebasan disediakan secara terbatas dalam lingkup ruang dan waktu supaya terus diminati, dibutuhkan dan dikonsumsi. Ruang kebebasan memang disediakan, tapi tidak pernah “membebaskan” dalam arti memberi ruang dan waktu nyaman yang cukup untuk membuat pertimbangan sekaligus menentukan pilihan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dalam keadaan serba produk, maka semua obyek fisik maupun non-fisik memiliki kesempatan yang sama untuk dapat dijual. Hamish Pringle (2004) dalam Celebrity Sells menjelaskan bagaimana pengakuan (confession) - obyek non-fisik dalam bentuk pernyataan afirmatif seorang selebriti mampu memiliki nilai jual. Dikatakan oleh Hamish, terdapat kecenderungan semakin tipis atau kaburnya batas perbedaan antara selebriti sebagai human dengan selebriti sebagai sosok produk atau manufactured.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hilangnya budaya isi (content culture)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Harold James (2009) dalam The Creation and Destruction of Value menjelaskan keterkaitan antara globalisasi dan perpindahan ide. Mobilitas perpindahan ide menjadi sangat memungkinkan ketika terjadi konektifitas (connected-ness). Perpindahan ide termasuk di dalamnya adalah pertukaran ide. Logika internet dan logika globalisasi menempatkan informasi sebagai entitas yang dengan mudah dapat diakses, dipilih dan dikonsumsi. Namun esensi kemudahan ternyata dipahami sebatas mengakses, memilih dan mengkonsumsi kebaruan (newness). Pertukaran ide dimotivasi oleh keinginan mengakses, memilih dan mengkonsumsi kebaruan. Disitulah nilai-nilai isi (content) dihilangkan, diabaikan melalui irasionalitas konsumsi “kemasan” (packaging) yang tidak lain adalah kebaruan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Menurut Fisher &amp; Shipton (2010) dalam Designing for Re-use and the Life of Consumer Packaging kemasan secara material merepresentasikan isi. Kemasan dibuat memiliki nilai menurut isi yang ada di dalamnya. Ketika isi habis dikonsumsi, tidak berarti nilai yang ada juga habis atau hilang. Nilai itu tetap melekat dalam bentuk barunya setelah melalui proses penggunaan kembali (re-use) maupun daur ulang (recycling). Dalam proses penggunaan kembali (re-use), bentuk baru ditentukan oleh cara penggunaan (how) serta siapa yang menggunakan (who). Sedangkan proses daur ulang (recycling) lebih banyak memberi penekanan pada komitmen nyata terhadap lingkungan (pro-environmental actions). Fisher &amp; Shipton yang lebih banyak menekankan kemasan dalam konsepsi penggunaan kembali (re-use) menjelaskan lebih lanjut bahwa melalui kreatifitas kemasan dapat dibuat memiliki nilai kebaruan (newness) yang sama ketika produk dikonsumsi dalam bentuk aslinya (original form). Hanya saja nilai kebaruan disini berbeda dalam hal cara dan siapa pemakainya (lead users) (Lihat Von Hippel, 1986 &amp; 1988 dalam Fisher &amp; Shipton, 2010). Melalui analogi ini dapat dilihat betapa kreatifitas “memprioritaskan” kemasan. Kreatifitas mampu melakukan banyak eksperimen untuk membuat kebaruan kemasan secara konsisten. Kemasan selalu dibuat baru karena kemasan adalah obyek yang mudah dikonsumsi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Logika internet adalah menikmati lingkungan kreatif melalui wisata dunia virtual. Namun perlu dicermati bahwa kreatifitas (hanya) memprioritaskan kemasan supaya mudah laku.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Upaya penyadaran&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Popularitas virtualisasi merupakan realitas kemenangan era baru. Menjadi virtual adalah jalan baru memenuhi kebutuhan untuk dapat diterima dan diakui. Keterikatan kolektif emosional adalah kesadaran hakikat human-ness manusia sebagai makhluk sosial. Motif ini kemudian memunculkan temuan-temuan baru yang menyediakan tempat, sarana dan ruang. &lt;br /&gt;Sadar atau tidak bahwa logika internet mampu memenuhi motif-motif itu sebagai …. the material existence of a thing precedes its immaterial essence….. Aliran eksistensialisme yang muncul di Eropa akhir abad ke-19 menempatkan gagasan “eksistensi material mendahului esensi non-materialnya” (Lihat Marinoff, 2004:34). Pandangan tersebut tepat untuk menggambarkan era baru ditandai munculnya temuan-temuan baru yang nilai-nilai materialnya sangat dominan dibanding esensi non-materialnya. Temuan-temuan itu muncul mendahului esensinya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Menurut pandangan Marinoff, sisi positif dari eksistensialisme adalah pengakuan manusia sebagai agen bebas (free agent) untuk menentukan yang terbaik bagi dirinya sendiri. Nilai itu muncul melalui aksi. Namun dia juga mempertanyakan apakah setiap orang bisa melakukan itu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Its main weakness is that not everyone is ready to accept the personal responsibility that liberty confers, and the accountability that freedom demands. Many are tempted to wield more power than they can responsibly hold.” (Marinoff, 2004:36)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dominasi eksistensi material adalah wajah baru dunia saat ini yang kehadirannya ditandai dengan kontinuitas serta konsistensi temuan-temuan revolusioner. Dalam perspektif mayoritas fenomena ini secara tidak langsung mempromosikan cara dan pandangan hidup baru yang membawa ke arah penyadaran datangnya peradaban baru berikut segala konsekuensi yang mesti ditanggung. Konsekuensi yang paling memprihatinkan adalah ketika wilayah nyaman (comfort zone) tidak mampu memberi gambaran yang lebih lengkap (wholeness) karena terlalu banyak dihalangi oleh visualisasi materialisme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sepertinya pandangan Halliman (2009:12) berikut ini  dapat menjadi refleksi, yaitu…. the part of the visual field that can be seen clearly at any given time is only a fraction of the total.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;©ign.heri.sw/2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Referensi:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marinoff, Lou (2004). The Big Questions. London: Bloomsburry Publishing Plc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fisher, Tom &amp; Shipton, Janet (2010). Designing for Re-Use. The Life of Consumer &lt;br /&gt;Packaging. London: Earthscan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoffman, Eva (2009). Time. London: Profile Books Ltd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pringle, Hamish (2004). Celebrity Sells. England: John Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Halliman, Joseph T (2009). Errornomics. UK: Ebury Publishing&lt;br /&gt;James, Harold (2009). The Creation and Destruction of Value. USA: Harvard University Press&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Murray, Rowena (2009). Writing for Academic Journal (2nd edition). England: McGraw-Hill Ed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-7436072871816808598?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/7436072871816808598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/7436072871816808598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/04/logika-internet.html' title='LOGIKA INTERNET'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-6527806274120052422</id><published>2010-04-01T00:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.913-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>What is the relation between COLOURFUL and HAPPINESS ??</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7RS1nklf5I/AAAAAAAAAbo/9y_OyyUeJnA/s1600/IMG_3801.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7RS1nklf5I/AAAAAAAAAbo/9y_OyyUeJnA/s400/IMG_3801.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455076129761492882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7RSsNh9zJI/AAAAAAAAAbg/kEByQhv29g8/s1600/IMG_3804.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7RSsNh9zJI/AAAAAAAAAbg/kEByQhv29g8/s400/IMG_3804.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455075968152358034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7RSk2KXzzI/AAAAAAAAAbY/QL5OyVdDPf8/s1600/IMG_3807.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7RSk2KXzzI/AAAAAAAAAbY/QL5OyVdDPf8/s400/IMG_3807.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455075841620299570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-6527806274120052422?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6527806274120052422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6527806274120052422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-is-relation-between-colourful-and.html' title='What is the relation between COLOURFUL and HAPPINESS ??'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7RS1nklf5I/AAAAAAAAAbo/9y_OyyUeJnA/s72-c/IMG_3801.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-5502201938351147906</id><published>2010-03-31T07:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-31T07:41:37.802-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>THE LOGIC OF INTERNET (1)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7NejkCLTEI/AAAAAAAAAbI/-X443q8oQWE/s1600/IMG_3811.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7NejkCLTEI/AAAAAAAAAbI/-X443q8oQWE/s400/IMG_3811.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454807538737040450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new world has come. It is when easiness and fastness are generalizing time efficiency, and consequently creating time-oriented society. They adopt values of time efficiency which is measured by economic-based practices. Time has become resources. In the mean time there is a cultural shift of individualism to collectivity which is other appearance of connected-ness egoism. The need for connectivity is dependency of connectivity driven by sensitivity of collective loyalty, namely collective interest which brings emotional close-ness as well as asking for absolute loyalty for those who are attached on it.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunia baru itu telah terbentuk. Ketika kemudahan dan kecepatan merupakan generalisasi efektivitas waktu, terbentuklah masyarakat yang berorientasi waktu (time-oriented society). Mereka mengadopsi nilai-nilai efektivitas waktu. Ukurannya adalah kepraktisan secara ekonomis. Waktu adalah sumber daya (resources). Pada saat yang sama terjadinya pergeseran budaya individualistis ke arah kolektifitas merupakan wajah baru egoisme konektivitas. Kebutuhan konektivitas adalah ketergantungan konektivitas yang dipicu oleh sentimen loyalitas kolektif, kepentingan bersama yang mengikat dan memberi konsekuensi bagi siapapun yang lepas dari ikatan itu.(ign.hr.sw/2010)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-5502201938351147906?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/5502201938351147906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/5502201938351147906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/03/logic-of-internet-1.html' title='THE LOGIC OF INTERNET (1)'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7NejkCLTEI/AAAAAAAAAbI/-X443q8oQWE/s72-c/IMG_3811.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-1064270321959395427</id><published>2010-03-22T00:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.921-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>CULTURE OF CONNECTIVITY</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7STeB8iVRI/AAAAAAAAAcA/n3auIx2Ct5A/s1600/IMG_3817.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7STeB8iVRI/AAAAAAAAAcA/n3auIx2Ct5A/s400/IMG_3817.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455147192780215570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7STXUn7MKI/AAAAAAAAAb4/_FVimbxH0uI/s1600/IMG_3819.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7STXUn7MKI/AAAAAAAAAb4/_FVimbxH0uI/s400/IMG_3819.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455147077534953634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Connectivity is trying to make a link between variety of characters and interests into the collective ones. There will be dependency which is determined by sensitivity of collective loyality and uniformity of interest. They bring consequences for those who want to be un-connected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Konektifitas menghubungkan keberagaman karakter dan kepentingan, menjadi karakter dan kepentingan kolektif. Ketergantungan dipicu oleh sentimen lotalitas kolektif, "kepentingan bersama" yang mengikat dan memberi konsekuensi bagi siapapun yang "lepas" dari "ikatan" itu.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-1064270321959395427?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1064270321959395427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1064270321959395427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/03/culture-of-connectivity.html' title='CULTURE OF CONNECTIVITY'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S7STeB8iVRI/AAAAAAAAAcA/n3auIx2Ct5A/s72-c/IMG_3817.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-5041006405449453180</id><published>2010-03-13T18:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.922-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>TV-BASED ADVERTISING AND IMPACT TO THE DIMENSION OF BRAND EQUITY: TOWARDS EFFECTIVE MARKETING COMMUNICATION | Wangsa | Jurnal Kewirausahaan</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://puslit2.petra.ac.id/ejournal/index.php/jkw/article/viewArticle/16801"&gt;TV-BASED ADVERTISING AND IMPACT TO THE DIMENSION OF BRAND EQUITY: TOWARDS EFFECTIVE MARKETING COMMUNICATION | Wangsa | Jurnal Kewirausahaan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-5041006405449453180?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://puslit2.petra.ac.id/ejournal/index.php/jkw/article/viewArticle/16801' title='TV-BASED ADVERTISING AND IMPACT TO THE DIMENSION OF BRAND EQUITY: TOWARDS EFFECTIVE MARKETING COMMUNICATION | Wangsa | Jurnal Kewirausahaan'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/5041006405449453180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/5041006405449453180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/03/tv-based-advertising-and-impact-to.html' title='TV-BASED ADVERTISING AND IMPACT TO THE DIMENSION OF BRAND EQUITY: TOWARDS EFFECTIVE MARKETING COMMUNICATION | Wangsa | Jurnal Kewirausahaan'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-6914268540311753174</id><published>2010-03-13T18:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.922-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>POP CULTURE IN ADVERTISEMENT: AN ALTERNATIVE FOR BRAND IMAGE DEVELOPMENT IN THE ERA OF POSTMODERN | Wangsa | Jurnal Kewirausahaan</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://puslit2.petra.ac.id/ejournal/index.php/jkw/article/viewArticle/16805"&gt;POP CULTURE IN ADVERTISEMENT: AN ALTERNATIVE FOR BRAND IMAGE DEVELOPMENT IN THE ERA OF POSTMODERN | Wangsa | Jurnal Kewirausahaan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-6914268540311753174?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://puslit2.petra.ac.id/ejournal/index.php/jkw/article/viewArticle/16805' title='POP CULTURE IN ADVERTISEMENT: AN ALTERNATIVE FOR BRAND IMAGE DEVELOPMENT IN THE ERA OF POSTMODERN | Wangsa | Jurnal Kewirausahaan'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6914268540311753174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6914268540311753174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/03/pop-culture-in-advertisement.html' title='POP CULTURE IN ADVERTISEMENT: AN ALTERNATIVE FOR BRAND IMAGE DEVELOPMENT IN THE ERA OF POSTMODERN | Wangsa | Jurnal Kewirausahaan'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-452019349552461667</id><published>2010-03-13T05:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.923-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>DUNIA IMAJI</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;DUNIA IMAJI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ign heri sw&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Berawal dari pertanyaan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ketika orang-orang muda berhadapan dengan dunia imaji yang terdapat dalam sebuah kotak kecil ajaib yang bernama komputer ataupun televisi, muncul pertanyaan akankah dunia buatan yang tercipta atas kedahsyatan revolusi kreatifitas teknologi itu mampu menghadirkan tampilan emosional dan manusiawi? Akankah tampilan-tampilan itu kemudian berpotensi destruktif karena intervensi kepentingan pasar? Terkait dengan pangsa pasar potensial orang-orang muda, bagaimana menghubungkan karakter orang-orang muda tersebut dengan realitas dunia imaji? Artinya, apakah realitas dunia imaji mampu menghasilkan, membentuk karakter yang sangat spesifik pada orang-orang muda tersebut?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tampilan yang penuh emosional dan manusiawi adalah kontinuitas hasil kreatifitas yang terus bereproduksi dengan kemampuan jelajah ke wilayah yang berorientasi pada kemanusiaan. Kotak kecil ajaib yang bernama komputer ataupun televisi telah mampu menghadirkan, memberi harapan, menjanjikan sebuah bentuk kehidupan baru (new life) yang mampu dikontrol dan direkayasa sesuai kebutuhan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dugaan bahwa tampilan-tampilan tersebut berpotensi destruktif dapat dijelaskan dari keberpihakannya kepada kepentingan pasar. Logika pasar adalah egoisme kepentingan penumpukan kapital yang tidak pernah memiliki titik akhir. Karena orientasi tersebut maka tampilan-tampilan dunia imaji yang dihasilkan melalui revolusi kreatifitas teknologi sarat bermuatan kepentingan akumulasi keuntungan material. Kepentingan akumulasi keuntungan material dapat mudah dilihat dari tampilan-tampilan yang bermuatan budaya material, mengajak pemirsanya belanja dan mengkonsumsi material dalam bentuk simbol-simbol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Realitas dunia imaji adalah realitas buatan yang mencoba menghadirkan dan mewujudkan mimpi-mimpi indah yang seringkali tidak realistis. Mimpi-mimpi indah bahwa hidup yang ideal adalah mengkonsumsi (life is consuming). Obyek-obyek konsumtifpun diciptakan. Bagi yang tidak mau mengkonsumsi akan diabaikan, dikucilkan, ditinggalkan oleh komunitasnya. Secara ekstrim, bagi yang tidak mau mengkonsumsi akan dihilangkan identitas sosialnya. Sebuah konsekuensi yang cukup berat mesti ditanggungkan kepada konsumen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Persoalan dunia imaji tidak akan pernah selesai apabila pemirsa (audience) tidak segera dicerdaskan oleh konsekuensi logis dari tayangan-tayangan berbau konsumtif tersebut. Orang-orang muda merupakan target pasar yang potensial karena karakter bawaan yang sangat terbuka dan mudah beradaptasi terhadap perubahan. Karakter ini kemudian ditangkap oleh mekanisme pasar dan “tangan-tangan tak kelihatan” untuk mengedukasi orang-orang muda  tersebut menjadi lebih konsumtif.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Muda dan muda(h)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Orang-orang muda (young people) adalah orang-orang yang penuh energi dan vitalitas untuk berpartisipasi dalam budaya perubahan. Pada tingkat emosional yang relatif belum stabil memberi ciri resistan terhadap perubahan itu sendiri. Artinya, orang-orang muda yang sebagian besar berada pada tingkat emosional yang labil menjadi sangat resistan, yaitu mudah menerima sekaligus mudah menolak terhadap perubahan. Sebagai sebuah kesempatan bagi pasar untuk mengintervensi ciri-ciri resistan pada orang-orang muda tersebut, maka dibentuklah karakter buatan (artificial character) dengan segala atribut idola (idol attribute) yang melekat dalam karakter tersebut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Banyak karakter buatan diarahkan pada karakter “kemudahan” dengan budaya “hidup penuh dengan kemudahan”. Semuanya “mudah” diakses, didapatkan, dan dikonsumsi sebanyak yang diinginkan. Karakter kemudahan ini banyak memberi inspirasi pada produk-produk konsumtif yang sangat inovatif dengan segala bentuk kemudahan yang ditawarkan (mudah dipakai, mudah didapatkan, dan mudah dikenali).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dengan kata lain orang-orang muda adalah orang-orang yang selalu menuntut kemudahan. Mudah dalam memperoleh apapun yang diinginkan. Pada tataran lain “mudah” adalah juga “cepat dan instant”. Kemudahan untuk diakses karena cepat. Budaya cepat adalah budaya instant yang kemudian menjadi wabah yang sulit untuk dihilangkan bagi semua kalangan. Semua orang menginginkan untuk dapat dilayani secara cepat dengan pengorbanan sekecil-kecilnya (sacrificing less).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muda dan mudah adalah dua kata kunci yang memiliki relasi komplementer (complementary relationship), yaitu relasi yang saling melengkapi. Muda (young) dalam konteks orang-orang muda (young people) adalah sebuah spirit yang terus bergejolak, tidak pernah diam, tidak pernah tenang. Sosok yang penuh energi untuk mengalahkan dirinya. Banyak tantangan bermunculan dan semuanya itu ingin dilalui dan dikalahkan. Sedangkan mudah (easy) merupakan medium yang sarat bermuatan kecepatan yang tidak mengenal waktu (timeless). Kemudahan (easiness) adalah spirit untuk tidak mempersoalkan persoalan-persoalan esensial yang seringkali membutuhkan kedalaman berpikir. Kemudahan (easiness) adalah kedangkalan atau pemendekan jarak yang menghubungkan titik ego dengan titik idealisme. Idealisme yang pencapaiannya tidak membutuhkan proses lama karena nir-waktu (timeless). Oleh karena itu seringkali kemudahan identik dengan instan. Ketika kemudahan dan instanisasi menjadi sebuah acuan (orientation) dalam berpikir dan berperilaku, maka munculah budaya. Budaya instan adalah budaya kemudahan, budaya pemendekan, budaya yang mengabaikan proses maupun waktu. Muda dan mudah memiliki relasi saling melengkapi dapat dibaca ketika orang-orang muda (young people) dengan segala karakter bawaannya secara tidak sadar membutuhkan budaya kemudahan untuk mewujudkan ambisi-ambisinya. Ada dorongan yang bersifat naluriah untuk selalu berpikir mudah dan cepat dengan menggunakan berbagai macam cara.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dunia imaji dan budaya kemudahan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunia imaji adalah dunia buatan (artificial) yang berisi janji dan harapan. Karena sifatnya yang artifisial maka nilai-nilai orisinalitas yang dibawa sejatinya adalah orisinalitas artifisial yang dipenuhi pesan-pesan penciptanya (the creator). Oleh karena itu dunia imaji selalu berpihak pada kepentingan penciptanya. Dalam tataran lingkungan yang berciri material, maka idealisme sang pencipta (the creator) kemudian dikalahkan oleh nilai-nilai ekonomis. Dapat dikatakan disini sebenarnya dunia imaji lebih memihak kepada kepentingan pasar. Dan, ketika kepentingan pasar menjadi acuan maka yang terjadi adalah tuntutan peran dunia imaji tak lebih dari sekedar produk untuk selalu cepat dapat diperbaharui mengikuti selera pasar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunia imaji terus berkreasi mengikuti tuntutan pasar. Kreatifitas kemudian juga mesti disesuaikan dengan pasar. Tren film-film animasi adalah salah satu contoh dimana kreatifitas dunia imaji tidak lagi harus berurusan dengan dunia riil. Kreatifitas sudah melampaui batas-batas rasionalitas. Pemirsapun kemudian dengan mudah diajak masuk ke wilayah irasionalitas yang memang dipenuhi oleh mimpi, harapan dan segala bentuk budaya dan ekstasi “kemudahan”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karakter dibentuk oleh kebiasaan untuk mengkonsumsi tayangan-tayangan yang ditampilkan oleh dunia imaji. Tayangan-tayangan berciri kekerasan dan kejahatan akan melahirkan karakter yang selalu mengadopsi nilai-nilai “negatif” kekerasan dan kejahatan. Sebaliknya tayangan-tayangan yang mempromosikan nilai-nilai kebaikan, ketulusan dan kejujuran akan membentuk karakter yang selalu menerapkan nilai-nilai “positif” kebaikan, ketulusan dan kejujuran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dalam berbagai kesempatan Penulis mengamati perkembangan pola pikir dan perilaku orang-orang muda di beberapa negara Asia seperti Indonesia, Singapura, Malaysia dan Filipina pola-pola konsumsi dunia imaji sangat dipengaruhi oleh kesempatan dan kemampuan untuk mengakses. Perkembangan teknologi informasi yang sangat cepat dan revolusioner membuat informasi menjadi semakin mudah untuk diakses melampaui batas-batas geografis. Perkembangan itu kemudian juga menimbulkan kedahsyatan “gelombang besar” informasi yang tidak lagi mampu diseleksi. Semua informasi kemudian menjadi penting dan dibutuhkan walaupun itu masih dipertanyakan. Artinya, apakah informasi yang diakses dan akhirnya dikonsumsi tersebut memang dibutuhkan. Fenomena ini mirip dengan konsepsi impulse buying atau kecenderungan untuk secara tidak sadar membeli ataupun mengkonsumsi produk tertentu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Orang-orang muda yang sangat techie merupakan output dari kreatifitas dunia imaji yang tidak pernah selesai. Apabila karakter dari teknologi adalah kecepatan dan ketepatan (accuracy) maka techie dapat dibaca sebagai karakter yang selalu menginginkan kemudahan. Kecepatan dan ketepatan adalah bahasa lain dari pemotongan, pemendekan, atau penyederhanaan waktu proses (processing time).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Akhir dunia imaji&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Menjadi menarik untuk disinggung kemana akhir dunia imaji. Apabila siklus dunia imaji mampu dipertahankan karena mekanisme pasar, yaitu ketika dunia imaji tetap dibutuhkan dan dikonsumsi untuk alasan yang rasional dalam relasi supply-demand, maka tidak akan pernah ada titik akhir eksistensi dunia imaji. Sebagai sebuah realitas, maka dunia imaji tidak akan pernah mati. Dia akan terus berevolusi mencari wajah-wajah baru.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunia imaji adalah produk kreatifitas. Manusia dengan karakter curiousity-nya terus akan berkreasi. Dan, apabila kreatifitas itu secara esensial merupakan bagian dari relasi supply-demand maka kreatifitas menjadi tidak obyektif. Kreatifitas yang subyektif patut diwaspadai membawa virus-virus perubahan yang bersifat destruktif, merusak, menghilangkan nilai-nilai orisinalitas peradaban manusia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dengan logika kreatifitas subyektif, maka dunia imaji memang terus berkreasi menjadi teman virtual, namun kreasi itu kelak akan bersifat destruktif, yaitu merusak hubungan manusia secara sosial. Esensi manusia secara sosial akan digantikan esensi virtualitas yang sebenarnya adalah semu (pseudo), buatan (artificial), serta sarat dengan kepentingan keseimbangan pasar (market equilibrium).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunia imaji juga akan terus menjual mimpi dan harapan. Pasarpun akan menjadi semakin responsif. Tayangan-tayangan semakin laris dengan muatan (content) futuristis yang mampu menyediakan wisata khayalan (imaginative tourism), membawa pemirsa kepada dunia kreatifitas. Sebuah tawaran untuk memasuki dunia alternatif (alternative world) terutama bagi mereka yang lelah dan pesimis terhadap realitas dunia nyata. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(@ign_heri_sw/2010)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-452019349552461667?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/452019349552461667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/452019349552461667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/03/dunia-imaji.html' title='DUNIA IMAJI'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-7473213120837546776</id><published>2010-03-11T23:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.983-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>THE WORLD OF IMAGE AND ETHICAL VALUES</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;THE WORLD OF IMAGE AND ETHICAL VALUES &lt;br /&gt;FROM DEUTERONOMY 30:15-20&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ignasius Heri Satrya Wangsa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Starting with the question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When young people meet with the world of image inside a tiny “magic” box namely computer or television, will the artificial world created by the booming of technology creativity revolution be able to present emotional and human-oriented performance? Will the performance be consequently bringing destructive potentials because of market intervention? How to relate young people character with the reality of the world of image? It means that as whether the reality of the world of image could produce and form a specific character to young people?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those questions are later on connected to the ethical values adopted from Deuteronomy 30:15-20. How the world of image which are commonly found in the world of young people and somehow tentatively bringing a message of destructive could be objectively discussed instead of “falsified” using the ethical values taken from Deuteronomy 30:15-20.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The world of image&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The emotional and human-oriented performance is the continuation of creativity which keeps reproducing with the ability to covering the area of human-oriented. A tiny “magic” box namely computer or television has been able to present and provide a hope, dreaming out a new controllable and flexible life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a hypothesis that the performance contains destructive potentials. It could be explained by its “collusion” to market. The logic of market is egoism of capital accumulation which has never been ended. That orientation has caused the fact that the performance produced by the world of image is a matter of technology creativity revolution, and that it brings much on material-oriented benefits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact of the world of image is artificial one which present and bring unrealistic “beautiful” dreams. Those that promoting the ideal life of consuming. Consumer-oriented objects are created. Those who will not consume will be socially separated and left by their community. Radically, those who are not keen to consume their social identity will be separated. It is a hard consequence for consumer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Problem in the world of image will never be ended if the audience are being less educated by the logical consequences of those consumptive-flavourness performances. Young people has been considered as potential target market because of “inherited” characters of opennes and easily-adjusted mindness toward changes. This character will accordingly be adopted by market mechanism and “invisible hands” to educate young people to be more consumptive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ethical perspective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Deuteronomy 30:15-20 there is an ethical value that could possibly be used to give reasonable perspectives. They are not to eliminate the destructive potentials of the world of image but more on the “accompaniment” and developing critical thinking for the society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deuteronomy 30:15-20 has also clearly stated the consequences living in the way of truth which there will be life and prosperity. There are commandments as well as promises. From this point of view God provides a frame which the man could use as guide to find the “goodness”. Man are encouraged to find the “life” instead of the “death”. The commandments are integrated in promises. This is the way to interpret God’s rule as His commitment to love us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you do not hear, but are led astray to bow down to other gods and serve them, I declare to you today that I shall perish; you shall not live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. (Deut. 30:15-20)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Keegan (1985) life is the criterion of truth integrated in the norms, actions, institutions or ethical systems; it is the content of what is good. What kills (death) is contained in a “false”, one-sided pronouncement by those who hold power; this has death-dealing instrumental ‘efficacy’: what it effects is evil – in its norms, actions, institutions or ethical systems. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Keegan’s perspective life could be symbolizing as good things that have to be achieved, and death as opposite of life could mean as bad things that have to be rejected. This is the message that God intend to give, and that the life will only think about the “appropriateness and righteousness”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The perspective of “good and bad” things can be found in Deuteronomy 30:15-20 and emphasized by Keegan (1985) as “ethical values”. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Commentary by Leslie J. Hoppe on Bergant, Dianne &amp; Karris, Robert J. (1989)&lt;br /&gt;1) The scene of Moses’ address to Israel is the region known as the plains of Moab, immediately east of the Jordan River. The time is just before the tribes are to take possession of the land promised to their ancestor. The context of these final words of Moses is an exhortation to obedience. This “testament” of Moses is his advice to Israel to heed the lessons of the past if it wants to secure its future. The lesson is simple enough: God expects complete loyalty from Israel; nothing less is satisfactory. Israel’s trek through the wilderness after its departure from Egypt has taught it over and over again that loyalty is rewarded and infidelity is punished. Moses will now spend his last energies in trying to move Israel to the kind of obedience, loyalty, and commitment that will secure Israel’s future in the land it will soon come to possess. (p. 198)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Deuteronomy 30:15-20 is Moses’ third address. The major concern of this address is Israel’s immediate future. Moses makes provisions for Joshua to assume the leadership of the tribes after his death. Equally important are the provisions made for storing the book of the law and for its periodic reading. The law is to be the guide in Israel’s future existence in the land. Individual human leaders come and go, but the law endures as the most effective way to safeguard Israel’s commitment to the Lord.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deuteronomy 30:15-20 contain all the elements found in the rest of the book: commandments, blessing and curse, the appeal for obedience. After all has been said, the entire thrust of the book comes down to a choice that people need to make. Israel’s future is dependent upon that choice. God’s graciousness is not at issue. It is the response of Israel that causes its future to hang in the balance. Moses is not a neutral observer in the process; he is passionately concerned for Israel’s future. That is why he virtually commands Israel to choose life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The life-and-death alternatives are broader than may be apparent to the contemporary reader. “Life” refers to that sphere of human activity under the protection of the divine; “death” refers to that sphere of human activity which is devoid of the divine presence. Death, then, is more than the cessation of physical life; it is existence outside the land, existence in the nether world of exile. Death is life without God. Life is blessing, death the curse. (p. 226)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good and evil here do not necessarily refer to moral choices. Good refers to the consequences of life with God: fertility, prosperity, and happiness. Evil refers to the consequences of life apart from God: exile, disease, and death. It is up to Israel to make one of two choices: (1) life with God, which brings blessing and good; or (2) life apart from God, which is nothing less than the curse of death. There are no other alternatives. (p. 226)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moses calls upon the heavens and the earth to witness Israel’s choice. In an ancient Near Eastern treaties, personified forces of nature were witnesses to the conclusion of a treaty, and it was presumed that they would deal with any partner to the treaty who proved unfaithful to its provisions. Israel, of course, demythologizes this aspect of covenant form, but it retains the idea of witnesses to the covenant by referring to the heavens and earth here. (p. 226)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel will find its true self by making a decision for life. The nation’s very purpose is to love the Lord. Every generation of Israel is to put itself in the plae of those who were personally addressed by Moses, because all Israel needs to remember is that it has only two choices and that in making the right choice Israel will find “a long life”. (p. 226)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Commentary by Werner H. Schmidt (1990)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collection of laws in Pentateuch are usually in the form of an address of God to Moses, but Deuteronomy is an address of Moses to the people and thus only indirectly is it the word of God. Its promises and ordinance are presented as the testament of the man who led Israel our of Egypt, through the wilderness, and to the very borders of the Promised Land. They constitute Moses’ farewell addresses. (p. 120-121)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nucleus laws (Deut 12-26) is surrounded by an inner (5-11; 27-28) and an outer (1-4; 29-30) framework of speeches, and the concluding chapters (31-34) bring together Moses’ “song” (32) and “blessing” (33) as well as accounts of the appointment of Joshua (31) and the death of Moses (34), among other things. (p. 121)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Commentary by Hans Walter Wolff (1973)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The outline of the Deuteronomic law is clear. In the middle (chaps. 12-26) we have a collection of interpretations of the law. They are introduced by sermons in chapters 6-11, to which the Decalogue (chap. 5) serves as a preface. Lists of blessings and curses are found at the end (chaps. 27-28). The book is un questionably the result  of oral recitation, and its outline may even reflect a liturgical formula. (p. 40)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The general values of Deuteronomy and, specifically, Deuteronomy 30:15-20:&lt;br /&gt;adopted from Pilch and Malina (1998)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Law has powerful consequences. Power is the ability to exercise control over the behavior of others. It is obviously necessary that power be recognized and accepted by those whose existence is being controlled. When subordinates accept and respect the power of superiors, the superior is considered to be honorable. (Pilch) (p. 158)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Law also brings as a value of change. From disobedient setting to obedient commitment. The seeking of change or novelty is normally disapproved of throughout the Bible. Indeed, the general orientation is precisely to the opposite, ie., to stability and constancy. Because cultural and religious traditions provide the grounds for social values and the standards against which anything new is measured, change and novelty are usually met with hostility: change is fraught with fear of the unknown, bringing pollution and chaos in its wake; novelty doubts the value of tradition by manifesting disloyalty toward it. Change or novelty in traditional religion or religious doctrine and practice meet with especially violent rejection. In situations where the tradition and its values are believed to be seriously at risk, compromise is categorically rejected, and a struggle is waged to reassert the ascendancy of, or to remain faithful to, the tradition, no matter the personal or social cost. (McVain) (p. 19)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Young and easy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Young people are those who are full with energy and vitality to participate in the culture of change. Within the level of relatively unstable emotion they are characterized by resistancy towards the changes. In other words, the young people who are mostly having vulnerable emotion will become very resistant which means that they are either easily well-accepted or less-accepted towards the changes. An opportunity comes as market mechanism intervenes the resistant character of the young people by producing artificial character with all idolized attributes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of artificial characters are directed to the character of “easiness” as well as the culture of “easy life”. Everything are easily accessible, obtainable, and consumable as much as possible. This character of easiness inspires very consumptive and innovative products with all “easy” offerings (usable, obtainable, and promotable).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Young people are those who always need easiness. Easy to get whatever needed. At another level of “easiness” means “quick and instant”. Accessible because of the “speedness”. A culture of  “speedness” is also a culture of instant which becomes a contagious “virus”. All people need to be quick-served and sacrificing less.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Young and easy are two keywords which have complementary relationship, a relation to be complement. Young within the perspective of young people is a dynamic spirit. An energic creature who are filled with passion to have conflict with himself. Many challenges come out, all are eager to be gone through and dominated. Terminology of “easy” refers to medium which contains meaningfully on timeless. Easiness brings the spirit of in-essence which need less of critical thinking. Easiness is meaningless symbolizing the effort to shorten the “distance” between absolute ego and idealism, the idealism which proceeds in relatively short time  because of timeless character. Therefore, easiness usually refers to conceptual meaning of instant. When easy and instant culture have become an orientation of thought and behavior, there will be a culture. Instant culture has the same meaning with culture of easiness, a culture which fails to recognize process and time, a culture which is process-less and time-less. Easy and young which have mutual relationship could be interpreted in case that young people with all of their inherited characters unconsciously consume culture of easiness to meet their ambition. There is a trend of natural “spirituality” of easy engaged in various way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The world of image and culture of easiness&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world of image is an artificial world which is full with promise and hope. As bringing an artificial character so that the values of originality are essentially artificial originality which is creator-oriented. Within the material context, creator’s idealism will be polluted by economic values. The world of image tends to be directed to market mechanism. Following consequences to market mechanism orientation, the world of image has become a product that needs to be renewable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world of image will continuously innovate following trend of the market. Creativity that has to be adjusted by market mechanism. Trend of animation technology has given an example that creativity in the world of image is not dealing with “real” world. The creativity has crossed out of the “border” of rationality. Most of the audiences will unconsciously “be invited” to the “comfort zone” area of irrationality such as dream, hope and all “ecstasy of easiness”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Character is formed by an addiction to consume the world of image. The image of violence and crime will animate “negative” characters of violence and crime. In contrary, the image that promotes values of morality, humility and honesty will animate “positive” character of morality, humility and honesty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Writer has opportunity to explore the mindset and behavior of young people in Asian countries such as Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. It has shown a fact of consumption pattern of the world of image influenced by opportunity and ability to access. The revolution of information technology has made information be accessible and borderless. The revolution has also created undeniable fact of information “bombardment”. All less-validity and “questionable” information has been irrationally consumed. This phenomena resembles the concept of impulse buying or tendency to unconsciously buy and consume certain product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Young people as techies generation are output of world of image never-ending creativity. Character of technology is speed and accuracy which could be interpreted as a character of easiness. Speed and accuracy symbolize the effort to shorten and simplify processing time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The world of image vs ethical perspective: an alternative&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The idea of God is not invented by the philosopher but encountered in human history so that it cannot be sustained by merely logical construction. (Stokes in Brown, 1971). From this point of view it is shown that God can not be approached in the language of human logic but more on the eyes of faith. He is in his kindness brings hope for the “goodness” of his people. The word of “human history” could refer on the journey of experiencing life. There are “stages” that have to be passing through the same as when Israelits had their journey to free from slavery under Pharaoh regime in Egypt. Stages of having sorrowful and joyful moments “colouring” their journey that would then shape the their quality of faith.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is interesting to discuss the end “direction” of the world of image. When the cycle of the world of image could be well-maintained for the reason of market mechanism, within the perspective that the presence of the world of image is necessary and consumable for the rationality of supply-demand relation, there will never be “extreme point” for the presence of the world of image. As an authorative spirit, the world of image will never be die. It will continuously evolve into new “faces”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world of image is produced by creativity. Man with his curiousity will continuously innovate. And, as creativity is essentially part of supply-demand relation, the creativity will become ego-centric. The subjective creativity should suspiciously be anticipated as it potentially produces the destructive virus of change and dies out the originality of humankind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using the logic of subjective creativity, the world of image will continuously be on the right track of creativity, building the spirit of virtual friendship. The creativity becomes destructive in terms of displacing social relation. Social roles will be replaced by virtual essentials which are in fact pseudo, artificial and market-oriented.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world of image will continuously sell dream and hope. Market will also be getting responsive. There are many best-buy performances with futuristic content providing imaginative tourism and inviting audience to the world of creativity. An offering to enter the alternative world specially those who are tired and pessimistic to the reality of “real” world. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the world will not be ended with the pessimism of destruction caused by the fact of the world of image. It is still a hope that this life could be well-perceived meaningful if God’s commandment become a meaning of his promise. The ethical values found in God’s words could be understood as doing “appropriateness” will promote harmony of life. Using “prophetic” way of thinking, creativity in the world of image should not be directed to create new form of consumerism. Creativity will create harmony when it goes to functioning human to be able to perform as the people of God. On the contrary, the creativity will created disharmony when it goes to dis-functioning human as the ambitious creature who only drive by their selfishness. (ign.heri.sw/2009)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REFERENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keegan, Terence J (1985). Interpreting The Bible: A Popular Introduction Biblical Hermeneutics. New York: Paulist Press&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brown, Delwin. James, Ralph E. Jr. and Reeves, Gene (1971). Process Philosophy and Christian Thought. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill education Publishing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stokes, Walter E. (1971). God for today and tomorrow. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill education Publishing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bergant, Dianne &amp; Karris, Robert J. (1989). The Collegeville Bible Commentary. The Liturgical Press: Minnesota&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Schmidt, Werner H. (1990). Old Testament: Introduction. The Crossroan Publishing Company: New York&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wolff, Hans Walter (1973). The Old Testament: A Guide to Its Writing. Fortress Press: USA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pilch, John J &amp; Malina, Bruce J. (1998). Handbook of Biblical Social Values. Hendrickson Publishers Inc.: Massachusetts&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-7473213120837546776?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/7473213120837546776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/7473213120837546776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/03/world-of-image-and-ethical-values.html' title='THE WORLD OF IMAGE AND ETHICAL VALUES'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-1476175496281672138</id><published>2010-03-11T00:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.983-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>FROM VULNERABILITY TO JOY</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5io1tsU_nI/AAAAAAAAAWY/d3823xn-ybQ/s1600-h/IMG_3580.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5io1tsU_nI/AAAAAAAAAWY/d3823xn-ybQ/s400/IMG_3580.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447289390056668786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5ioujG3dvI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/9jBh4a1O7mY/s1600-h/IMG_3232.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5ioujG3dvI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/9jBh4a1O7mY/s400/IMG_3232.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447289266956105458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FROM VULNERABILITY TO JOY:&lt;br /&gt;A biblical study on Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This biblical study is enriched and inspired by the commentary of Rabbi David Hoffman (JTS newsletter 8 October 2009). Hoffman mentioned the most “beautiful part of conversion” from the past life as sinner to the new life referring to the one of Jewish Festival – Shemini Atzeret (Dt. 14:22-16:17 and Num. 29:35-30:1) which is basically integrated with Yom Kippur (Lev. 16:1-34, Num. 29:7-11, and Lev. 18:1-30) and Sukkot (Lev. 22:26-23:44 and Num. 29:12-16).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This paper is very interesting to reflect as it brings symbolic meaning of the message of spiritual journey which ends with joyful. In addition, it is an effort to explain the relationship between vulnerability and joy as Hoffman’s statement in his commentary that … the joy that comes from experiencing true love is rooted in our ability to make ourselves vulnerable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The writer describes the relationship between vulnerability and joy within the perspective of the three yearly Jewish Festivals – Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vulnerability and joy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being vulnerable is not only an “exercise” to be more God-oriented but it is also an opportunity to be more open before God. It is a purification. According to Rabbi Akiva (JTS newsletter 8 October 2009) the “theological” view of being vulnerable can be read as the narrative of a promise that God – in his abundant love – will serve as purifying mikveh for all those who come before God (M. Yoma 8:9).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rabbi David Hoffman stated specifically that being vulnerable is an invitation to experience the deep meaning of relationship. It is also a prayer. In the quiet of our prayers we shared our most intimate tears and hopes. We asked God to know us in our imperfections, stripped of our defenses and self-justifying arguments. And in these most honest moments of self-revelation and, thus, deep vulnerability, we find acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being vulnerable is not without reason as it is an effort to revise the quality of relationship. It contains tears but within the frame of hopes. “Tears-in-hope construction” is basically a theology of enlightment that being a Catholic always bring real dream of happines, the other word of joyful. In times we experience vulnerability we realize of our imperfections, stripped of our defenses and self-justifying arguments. This also the way exercising totality and commitment of being surrended by God’s authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The joy is nothing without pricey effort specifically in a matter of controlling selfness. The joy will not come out without sacrificing of ourselves into the capacity of “being given” before God. We feel uncomfortable and sometimes mixed with anxiety, the other term of vulnerability, when we have to detach from the high ambitious dream into the awareness of reality. We are afraid of being away from our belongings. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The relationship between vulnerability and joy may also be discussed in the point of view God’s love as it is a process of experiencing the authenticity and originality of responding his love, and that this experience will end with a promise of happiness. In other words, vulnerability and joy have a “complementary” relationship. Joyfulness can not be possessed without having the “spirit” of vulnerability, or as Rabbi David Hoffman’s experiencing of self-exposure. Joyfulness can not be present without having the “sense” of vulnerability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rabbi David Hoffman added that the three events of Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret can be integrated into great truth about vulnerability, joy and love. Yom Kippur delivers the message of love, Sukkot refers to holiday with full of joy as stated in Deuteronomy 16:15, and Shemini Atzeret is the closing of Sukkot in which the Jews enter a place of deep personal vulnerability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Green (2002) explains the three events of Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Shemini Atzeret, as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yom Kippur (Lev. 16:1-34, Num. 29:7-11, and Lev. 18:1-30), the 10th day of Tishery, is the holiest and most awesome day on the Hebrew calendar. It is called a “Sabbath of Sabbaths”; all work that is forbidden on the Sabbath on Yom Kippur as well. In addition, it is a full fast day, which means that there are five special prohibitions: against eating and drinking, sexual relation, bathing, wearing (leather) shoes, and wearing perfumes. The Talmudic (Talmud) tractate dealing with Yom Kippur is simply called “The Day.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yom Kippur is also one of the most ancient Jewish festivals. Its ritual, probably as practiced in First Temple times, is fully elaborated in Leviticus 16. The purpose of that ritual was to atone for Israel, its priests, and its Temple, to “cover” their sins and allow for a new purity. This was accomplished by sacrifice, the sprinkling of blood, and the unique expulsion of the scapegoat , who carried the sins of Israel off into the wilderness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are five prayer services on Yom Kippur. To each of them, a special penitential section called selihot is added; in the first four services, this also includes a lengthy confession of sins. The penintential hymns or selihot are interspersed with frequent calling out of God’s thirteen attributes, which are found in Exodus 34:6-7. This is the formula Moses mysteriously heard recited in the moment when God forgave Israel the sin of the golden calf, and it is still felt to have great power to arouse the forgiveness of sin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yom Kippur is generally considered to be a full day of prayer. In traditional synagogues, the leaders of prayer and many others are dressed in white, symbolizing innocence. The length and repetitious quality of the prayer services on Yom Kippur have a cathartic effect, and by the end of the fast, following the appearance of three stars in the evening sky, we are filled with a sense of both exhaustion and cleansing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The purification of Yom Kippur is effective only for transgressions against God. Sins against our fellow person require that person’s forgiveness. Since Jews do not want to go through Yom Kippur with the burden of sin still upon them, it is customary before or on Yom Kippur for us to ask forgiveness of one another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sukkot (Lev. 22:26-23:44 and Num. 29:12-16), means “tabernacles”, booth or the festival of the fall full moon or Festival of Tabernacles (see Solomon, 2006:375), is celebrated for seven days that begin on the 15th of Tishrey. This is the Biblical “seventh month,” as prescribed in Leviticus 23:33 and Deuteronomy 16:13. Sukkot is a harvest festival, “the season of ingathering,” As we gather the produce of the field into our homes for the winter, so does God gather us into God’s special place, the sukkah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The original kernel of this festival lies in the transition our ancient ancestors made from nomadic to settled agriculture-based existence. The farmers kept in their hearts the ancient memory of life as wanderers. Once a year, at the time of the first fall full moon, they would go out and live in wanderers’ tents for a week, just as at the spring full moon they took a week when they would eat only nomads’ bread, during the Festival of Matzot that was to be joined to our Pesah. The sukkah came to be associated with harvest time, and later still with the huts in which the people of Israel lived during our forty years of wandering in the wilderness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sukkot is called “the season of our joy,” and is meant to be the most joyous of all the festivals. This is not the frolicking joy of Purim, but a happiness born of deep satiety at the harvest and gratitude for God’s gifts. We also rejoice that the season of judgment has passed, confident that our sins are forgiven and the way is clear for us to start life anew. Sheltered in God’s love in the sukkah, we rejoice and dance before God with four plants enumerated in Leviticus 23:40, as identified in rabbinic tradition, namely lulav (palm frond), etrog (citron), three hadassim (myrtle branches), and two ‘aravot (willow branches). On the intermediate days of Sukkot a special libation ceremony occurred in the ancient Temple. The earliest rabbis, who still recalled the ceremony from the days before the Temple’s destruction, said: “Whoever has seen the joy of the Temple water-drawing has never seen joy at all!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Solomon (2006:375) Sukkot has three primary levels of significance:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Historical.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It commemorates God’s protection afforded to the Israelites in the desert; “So that your generations should know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths (tabernacles) when I brought them out of the land of Egypt” (Lev 23:43). Tradition generally equates the “booths” of this verse with the protective “clouds of glory” that surrounded the Israelites during the 40 years of wandering in the Sinai desert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Agricultural.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is the final harvest festival of the year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Religious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God is our Protector; this is symbolized as we leave our homes and dwell in simple booths (sukkot). The Mishna states that on Sukkot heaven makes judgment as to how much water to provide for the coming year. This gives a penitential edge to the festival, though the main prayer for rain is delayed until Shemini Atzeret.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shemini Atzeret (Dt. 14:22-16:17 and Num. 29:35-30:1) is the eight day from the start of Sukkot, but is considered a separate holiday on the Hebrew calender. Sukkot, according to Leviticus 23:34, is celebrated for seven days, but only on the first and eighth days is labor forbidden. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the diaspora, Shemini Atzeret is celebrated as a holiday on its own. The sukkah is no longer used; neither are the lulav and etrog. No particular symbols are associated with this day, which is seen as a continuation of the joy of Sukkot. In Israel, Shemini Atzeret and Simhat Torah are celebrated on the same day, and it takes on primarily the character of the latter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Midrash offers several explanations for the “extra” holiday. Pilgrims would have come a long way to Jerusalem in order to celebrate Sukkot, probably the most widely observed pilgrimage festival. Some came for nearly the whole month to dwell in the sacred city and to be in “God’s courts.” Loving their company as  He does, God is like the king who asks his beloved guest to stay an extra day, for the pure enjoyment of being together. Rashi (Lev. 23:26), as explained by Solomon (2006), interprets the festival with a parable illustrating the love between God and Israel: “It is like a king who invited his children to a banquet for several days. When the time came for them to depart, he said, ‘I beg you, stay with me one more day, it is hard for me to part from you.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other sources note that Sukkot is a universal holiday, when seventy bullocks are being offered over the course of the seven days in honor of the seventy nations of the world. God then invites Israel to stay an extra day just on their own, like the steward who stays in his master’s court after all the great guests have departed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the last statutory day of the fall festival season, Shemini Atzeret is the day when a prayer for rain is said in the mussaf prayer. This geshem prayer introduces the daily supplication for rain recited in each amidah prayer through the rainy season, ending with Pesah. Along with its parallel tal (“Dew”), recited on the first day of Pesah, it is chanted in an awesome melody reminiscent of the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Relationship between Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the three elements of truth -- love, joy and vulnerability -- are integrated each other, they become a reflection of God’s concern to his people. He will give us love and joy when we are able to “translate” the meaning of his presence through “deep personal vulnerability”. God is the source of love and joy, and sorrowful is sometimes related to the moment when we are doing something sinful. We regret of being sinful before God. But, having sorrowful moment also happen when we are blinded by our “humanness”. It happens when our human capacity can not understand that God always brings hope and love. (ign_heri_sw/2009)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REFERENCE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1)The Interpreter’s Bible (1953). New York: Abingdom Press&lt;br /&gt;2)Mays, James L (2000). Bible Commentary. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc.&lt;br /&gt;3)Solomon, Norman (2006). Historical Dictionary of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Maryland: Scare Crow Press Inc.&lt;br /&gt;4)Green, Arthur (2002). These are the Words: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life. Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing&lt;br /&gt;5)Alter, Robert (2004). The Five Books of Moses. New York: W.W. Norton &amp; Company&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-1476175496281672138?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1476175496281672138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1476175496281672138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/03/from-vulnerability-to-joy.html' title='FROM VULNERABILITY TO JOY'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5io1tsU_nI/AAAAAAAAAWY/d3823xn-ybQ/s72-c/IMG_3580.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-4330352291178037459</id><published>2010-03-09T04:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.983-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>MEANING REVITALIZATION ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5ZLiUmNT3I/AAAAAAAAAUo/cRlKA0n_pJU/s1600-h/IMG_3656.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5ZLiUmNT3I/AAAAAAAAAUo/cRlKA0n_pJU/s400/IMG_3656.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446623852367794034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5ZLcY-k7BI/AAAAAAAAAUg/YWqBc9oeuhw/s1600-h/IMG_3655.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5ZLcY-k7BI/AAAAAAAAAUg/YWqBc9oeuhw/s400/IMG_3655.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446623750464531474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5ZLXp2rP_I/AAAAAAAAAUY/qitMdXwgraY/s1600-h/IMG_3654.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5ZLXp2rP_I/AAAAAAAAAUY/qitMdXwgraY/s400/IMG_3654.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446623669095448562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5ZLREdoxqI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/Y0NenJyxVX8/s1600-h/IMG_3653.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5ZLREdoxqI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/Y0NenJyxVX8/s400/IMG_3653.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446623555979101858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HUMAN DIMENSION AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR MEANING REVITALIZATION ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: CHALLENGE FOR INFORMAL SECTOR &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Ign. Heri Satrya Wangsa&lt;br /&gt;e-mail: ignheri(at)yahoo.com / ignherisw(at)gmail.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABSTRACT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Success in economic development has been so far quantitatively viewed by numbers, on the contrary, regardless human dimension. It is necessary to find the integrated meaning of economic development which focus on human dimension. In addition, that human-based orientation has been an effort to revitalize mis-interpretation of today’s meaning on economic development  which is specifically defined within capitalism frame as passive participation (human as a tools or object), capital accumulation (capital-oriented), and creating new inefficient bureaucratic lines. The human-oriented economic development has lead to human as the primary actor.  Therefore, the revitalization meaning of economic development should be characterized by active participation of concerns owned by all actors in economic development, drive to the creation of human capital accumulation, and empower bureaucratic accessability. Discussion for informal sector is very relevant as this sector has highly relevant to employment absorption (Wirahadikusumah in Alisjahbana, 2003). Revitalization in economic development meaning within the context of informal sector implies the modified meaning of economic development in informal sector which is more integrated and human-based. This meaning of revitalization should be human-oriented and have the same perception for development strategy which facilitate active participation as the essence of human, drive human capital accumulation to get competitive values, and empower bureaucratic accessability to have bureaucratic adaptability. Participation can be medium of learning to find the essence of human which could be valuable asset to free from exploitation as the consequences of capitalism. Human dimension in economic development within the context of informal sector could be an alternative approach to strengthen and intensify the role of informal sector.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keywords:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;economic development, informal sector, human dimension&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BACKGROUND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Economic development&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Attainment indicators for economic development could be well understood from various perspective. In capitalism perspective development means capital accumulation through economic growth strategy using foreign investment and industrialization. The foreign investment is inspired by success story of Marshall Plan  in supporting development in West Europe and Japan. While the industrialization focused on modern sector and capital-based orientation experienced by the United Kingdom as the first industrial country (Kuncoro, 2003:8). Whereas, the perspective of economic development focusing on human dimension could be categorized into 2 (two) namely, human as instrument and human as the target.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The idea of human as instrument in economic development has brought the meaning of development as an effort to increase human capacity. However, the capacity has been oriented to the formation of human as resources to increase production value and productivity. The such opinion could be called as production centered development as stated by Tjokrowinoto in Kuncoro (2000:168). The main point on production value and productivity has reduced human as medium or instrument to maximize satisfaction and profit. (Kuncoro, 2000:168). This idea has swept away and minimalized the existence of human within the frame of passive object of the development&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The idea of human as target in economic development could hopefully place human at his own dignity as the main actor or subject in development. Human is the owner of development. Therefore, development is a matter of medium or instrument to attain wealfare for human.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Informal sector &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many opinions including empiral proofs state the contribution of informal sector in decreasing unemployment rate as that sector relatively has high ability to absorb workforce. In many developing countries, informal sector has contributed to overcome unemployment problem (Gilbert &amp; Gugler in Setyawan, 2007). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tokman (2007) stated the notion of the informal sector was brought forward in a 1972 ILO report on Kenya (ILO, 1972), following a 1971 paper (Hart, 1973). They highlighted that the problem of employment in less-developed countries is not one of unemployment but rather of employed workers who do not earn enough money to make a living. They are ‘working poor’. This conceptual interpretation was based on their opposition to formality and their lack of access to the market and productive resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most interesting aspect to learn from informal sector as viewed by Gilber &amp; Gugler in Setyawan (2007) and Tokman (2007) is that contribution this sector to overcome unemployment problem eventhough the real meaning of unemployment is slightly change to “working poor” caused by inability to access to the market and productive resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, informal sector is always marginalized, economically and socially perceived as “lower class”, and even “sentenced to death” for its role in development. This means there is a sharp contradiction between positive contribution of informal sector which has been confirmed as an effective way in supporting economic potentials, in other side the role of informal sector has not been well placed objectively.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eko Budihardjo and Sudanti Hardjohubojo in Alisjahbana (2003:148) stated several findings related to informal sector as follows:&lt;br /&gt;1) There is a close relation between economic activity in informal sector and the existence of  slums area with or without legal support.&lt;br /&gt;2) The economic activity in informal sector (mainly PKL) is not applied as the temporary “stepping stone” to “jump” to the next phase which is considered as better and safe place for career. This sector is well perceived as the best choice to improve welfare.&lt;br /&gt;3) From the education aspect, those who are in informal sector have various educational background such as university student and even some of them hold bachelor degree.&lt;br /&gt;4) The sustainability of informal sector tend to the existence of formal sector.&lt;br /&gt;5) Most of them who are in informal sector do not have prestige for their “profession” and are reluctant to hand over to their predecessors.&lt;br /&gt;6) Profit taken from their business is not re-invested to increase or make business expansion, but focusing more on their children education, fixing their houses, and buying some consumer goods. Therefore, the quality of their welfare is considered as “poor” and unfeasible (Wiebe in Setyawan, 2007).&lt;br /&gt;7) The business characteristic is consumer-oriented, flexibility in a matter of time and place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the above findings the writer makes the following interpretations:&lt;br /&gt;Informal sector seems to have character as “unexpected sector”,  socially perceived as “lower class” (see no. 1 and 5). The resistance toward changes of external environment has not been totally positioned and rationalized as an opportunity to improve economic welfare as there is no ability to strengthen (and allocate) their own assets which have no economic value (see no. 2). The various education background could become facts that the competitive values have not been owned yet. Education bacground is only a matter of formality that could not be used to support, and allocate the existing economic value assets (see no. 3). Informal sector has complementary relationship with formal sector. Within economic perspective there is a close relation between the two sectors as assumed by dualism in economic activity (Alisjahbana, 2003:82). The complementary relationship indicates that it is unnecessary to categorize social class as it always places formal sector at “higher class” and informal sector at “lower class” (see no. 4). There is no opportunity to make saving as the sector is considered as less profitable. Therefore, the profit can not be used to increase investment to make business development and expansion as well. This has become a dilema that in one side it is caused by the pressure of capitalism facts which are favorable for formal sector, in other side there has been no competitive values which could make their business survive (see no. 6). Business flexibility which means time and place flexibility can make this sector getting worse unless it can develop and manage competitive values that make this sector place in “equal position” with formal sector (see no. 7).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PROBLEM FORMULATION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How could we rationalize the concept of human dimension as an alternative for meaning revitalization in economic development?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THEORETICAL REVIEW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Facts of Capitalism: Commodities and Money&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Medema, et al (2003) defined a commodity as an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another. The nature of such wants, whether, for instance, they spring from the stomach or from fancy; makes no difference. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every useful thing may be looked at from the two points of view of quality and quantity. It is an assemblage of many properties, and may therefore be of use in various ways. To discover the various uses of things is the work of history. So also is the establisment of socially recognized standards of measure for the quantities of these useful objects. The diversity of these measures has its origin partly in the diverse nature of the objects to be measured, partly in convention.&lt;br /&gt;The utility of a thing makes it a use-value. But this utility is not a thing of air. Being limited by the physical properties of the commodity; it has no existence apart from that commodity. A commodity; such as iron, corn, or a diamond, is therefore, so far as it is a material thing, a use-value, something useful. The use-values of commodities furnish the material for a special study, that of the commercial knowledge of commodities. Use-values become a reality only by use of consumption: they also constitute the substance of all wealth, whatever may be the social form of that wealth.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we abstract from the material substance of the circulation of commodities, that is, from the exchange of the various use-values, and consider only the economic forms produced by this process of circulation, we find its final result to be money: this final product of the circulation of commodities is the first form in which capital appears. The first distinction we notice between money that is money only, and money that is capital, is nothing more than a difference in their form of circulation. The simplest form of the circulation of commodities is C-M-C, the transformation of commodities into money, and the change of the money back again into commodities; or selling in order to buy. But alongside of this form we find another specifically different form: M-C-M, the transformation of money into commodities, and the change of commodities back again into money; or buying in order to sell. Money that circulates in the latter manner is thereby transformed into, becomes capital, and is already potentially capital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Facts of Capitalism: Human as Labour &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The capitalist buys labour-power in order to use it: and labour-power in use is labour itself. The purchaser of labour-power consumes it by setting the seller of it to work. By working, the latter becomes actually, what before he only was potentially, labour-power in action, a labourer. In order that his labour may re-appear in a commodity, he must, before all things, expend it on something useful, on something capable of satisfying a want of some sort. Hence, what the capitalist sets the labourer to produce, is a particular use-value, a specific article. The fact that the production of use-values, or goods, is carried on under the control of capitalist and on his behalf, does not alter the general character of that production. We shall, therefore, in the first place, have to consider the labour-process independently for the particular form it assumes under given social conditions. (Medema, et al. 2003:385-386)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Labour is, in the first place, a process in which both man and Nature participate, and in which man of his own accord starts, regulates, and controls the material re-actions between himself and Nature. He opposes himself to Nature as one of her owns forces, setting in motion arms and legs, head and hands, the natural forces of his body, in order to appropriate Nature’s productions in a form adapted to his own wants. By thus acting on the external world and changing it, he at the same time changes his own nature. He develops his slumbering powers and compels them to act in obedience to his sway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end of every labour-process, we get result that already existed in the imagination of the labourer at its commencement. He not only effects a change of form in the material on which he works, but he also realises a purpose of his own that gives the law to his modus operandi, and to which he must subordinate his will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The elementary factors of the labour-process are (1) the personal activity of man, that is, work itself, (2) the subject of that work, and (3) its instruments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An instrument of labour is a thing, or a complex of things, which the labourer interposes between himself and the subject of his labour, and which serves as the conductor of his activity. He makes use of the mechanical, physical, and chemical properties of some substances in order to make other substances subservient to his aims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the labour-process, therefore, man’s activity, with the help of the instruments of labour, effects an alteration, designed from the commencement, in the material worked upon. The process disappears in the product, the latter is a use-value. Nature’s material adapted by a change of form to the wants of man. Labour has incorporated itself with its subject: the former is materialised, the latter transformed. (Medema, et al. 2003:387)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Psychological Perspective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maryadi in Skinner (1953), an expert of behavioral approach, said that human behavior constitutes from learning process toward social environment group where he lives as one of its constituent. Generally, the forming in behavior has principles of reinforcement. Behaviors are formed and maintained as they are reinforced by environment and the socially unaccepted behavior will be gradually disappeared. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The psychological approach is applied for the reason that meaning of development can not be separated from the role of human. Informal sector could be viewed as instrument for human to attain economic welfare through motivational hierarchy (Chaplin, 1981), human which get involved with economic activity as driven by his motives of need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Psycho-economic Perspective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reynard (1983:171) explained the human factor in development. Development is more than a growth, even if we restrict discussion to economic development: it involves all those mental and social changes that make a population better able to pursue its own economic evolution. But development and growth are closely linked in practice, so the demonstration that the dynamism drive of the producers and of the consumers each accounts for around one-third of all growth is sufficient to show that the human factor is dominant in economic development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Within this perspective the role of economic development is not just a matter of how to reach the growth but more on developing mental and social changes to pursue economic evolution. Man can perform his role as dynamism driver when he is as producer or consumer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Perspective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Culture is all ideas, beliefs, and knowledge owned by human in a society (Hoed, 1992). According to Koentjaraningrat, culture is considered as all system of ideas, action and human works in a society through learning (Hariyono, 1994).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are three forms of culture:&lt;br /&gt;1. Cultural system. Cultural system is the complexity of ideas and thought owned by human as center for aspiration and orientation in experiencing life problem. This orientation is strongly solidified as soul of a group of society.&lt;br /&gt;2. Social system. Social system is a patterned action of a group of a society. This system produces a pattern of human activity which interact and make social interrelation. Indicators or guides which are followed by human while conducting interaction are called as social values.&lt;br /&gt;3. Physical culture. Physical culture is all physical objects, action, and human works in society. It brings real and clear character that can be material objects or other things touchable. This physical work usually reflects cultural value mindset and patterned action by a group of society. (Hariyono, 1994)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;METHODOLOGY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Discussion in this article focus on the efforts to rationalize in the area of psychology, social, culture and economics. The rationalization could hopefully facilitate to find some keywords which could be used to know human dimension in economic development within the frame of meaning revitalization on economic development. While the discussion on informal sector  is used as medium to support the understanding.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The writer hopes that this article could facilitate future research which is more comprehensive related to human dimension as an alternative for meaning revitalization in economic development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISCUSSION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact of capitalism has made impact to destruction of logical order. Too much focusing and even wrong viewpoint on economic thoughts have bad idea of commodity and the concept of use-value. The mis-placed economic thoughts have triggered human to create “inefficient space” or it could be popularly known as “inefficient new bureaucratic lines” as new use-value of commodity. Within the perspective of culture this phenomena is commonly stated as “commodification culture”. Economic development is one of rational economic medium for human (and society) to pursue economic evolution (see Reynaud, 1981:171). For the purposes of growth the efforts toward human empowerment (through development) will result in productivity. However, this productivity has to be consciously owned as labour-power in use (see Medema, et al 2003:385-386) which could be valuable assets to build “bureaucratic accessability”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of discussion in this article use informal sector to guide better understanding in an effort to revitalize meaning in economic development. Attributes that can be derived from the existence of informal sector are adopted from findings of research conducted by Eko Budihardjo and Sudanti Hardjohubojo in Alisjahbana (2003:148), and opinion stated by Tokman (2007). They are character of “unexpected sector”,  and inability to access to the market and productive resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Discussion in this article within the frame of economics is limited to how to rationalize human as an economic man (homo economicus). The writer uses three rationales to guide discussion for the Conceptual Model, namely Participation and The Essence of Human, Human Capital Accumulation and Competitive Values and Bureaucratic Accessability and Bureaucratic Adaptability.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Participation in psychological context means a process to take part in certain activity (Chaplin in Kartini-Kartono, 2001:354). In Rationale-1 human and participation in development are closely linked to the essence of human. In order to make his own economic evolution (Reynaud, 1983:171) economic development should refer to mental and social changes. Target of the economic development is how to attain mental and social changes. Therefore, the empowerment of human in economic development is relevant with the opportunity to provide learning environment that facilitate human to make mental and social changes. Participation could be interpretated as an initiative that comes from the conscious effort to improve economic welfare. Without participation human could only place himself as a “meaningless” object of development.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consequences for the facts of capitalism are still on the “safe track” eventhough human is considered as instrument, or in other word, labourer (see Medema, et al. 2003:385-386). However, those need to be well-interpretated as the meaning of instrument is too risky to have exploitation specifically referring to the “character of production”. Within the context of informal sector in urban development active participation that directs human to find his essence could be accelerator to the importance of strengthening economic value assets. By this description human could place himself as actor or subject in the development.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In Rationale-2 the essence of human that has been consciously well perceived, as described in Rationale-1, builds a mechanism that facilitate human to maintain and increase economic values. This is relevant with Tokman (2007) that informal sector is unable to access to the market and productive resources. Maintaining and increasing economic values are such a powerful assets to access to the market and allocate productive resources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact of capitalism which concerns on “too much” economic rationality has potential to exploit resources. Fact of capitalism resembles fact of exploitation. Human as one of potential resources could also be threatened by exploitation. However, human capital accumulation and competitive values that are resulted from the revitalized or “new” meaning of development could safe human from exploitation. In the context of informal sector, this could be valuable asset despite the “pessimism” that informal sector is still far from offering acceptable conditions in terms of job stability and labour and social protections. (see Tokman, 2007:2)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Rationale-3  is related to inability for informal sector to access market and productive resources. The writer uses the term of bureaucratic accessability and bureaucratic adaptability to resemble productive resources or a particular use-value (human as labourer). Bureaucratic accessability means the ability to access bureaucracy as human has sufficient bargaining power or particular use-value. Therefore, bureaucratic accessability means bureaucratic adaptability. The meaning of “particular use-value” may have the same with the “adaptability skills”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the cultural perspective the idea of corrupted bureaucracy has been a “classical” problem that the business should be concerned with. Tokman stated that this should be a commitment owned by the Government to provide support by facilitating access to market and productive resources (see Tokman, 2007:3).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Indonesia the above “classical” problem still has significant role to contribute ineffeciency. The only solution is that the human capital should be accumulated (through human empowerment) to gain competitive values (Rationale-2) in which the principles of effeciency will be dominated to improve accessability and adaptability skills. The idea of corrupted bureaucracy may still exist and be unavoidable facts, and this may not be the target of economic development. Therefore, human dimension should be considered and placed at “the real target”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONCLUSION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The urgent need for meaning revitalization on economic development is caused by the pressure of capitalism facts which are dominating the mindset that capital accumulation has solely become the target for the development. The dominant capitalism facts have no indication coming to an end, on the contrary, they tend to minimizing the role of human. Therefore, it is necessary to revitalize the meaning of economic development which does not mean to avoid the facts of capitalism but to minimize resistance against them through human dimension approach. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 3 (three) elements proposed by the writer in an effort to revitalize meaning of economic development within the context of informal sector in urban development, namely: participation, human capital accumulation, and bureaucratic accessability. Participation means to give back the essence of human dignity as the target as well as owner of the development. Human capital accumulation means that the orientation on economic development should not be directed at human as instrument or medium to achieve productivity. However, the human capital accumulation should become instrument or medium to increase productivity which is “free from exploitation” as the consequence for capitalism reality. The capability of bureaucratic access is the ability to adapt with bureaucratic barriers.  Bureaucratic barriers are unavoidable facts specifically when the economic mindest is too dominated in every aspect of human life. Therefore, human dimension in economic development should create bureaucratic adaptability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REFERENCES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Setyawan, Anton A. (2007) Memberdayakan Sektor Informal Perkotaan: Studi &lt;br /&gt;Empirik Pedagang Kaki Lima. Majalah Usahawan No. 03 Th. XXXVI Maret 2007. 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Available at: http://www.un.org/esa/desa/papers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;@ign_heri_sw/2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Appendix:&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-4330352291178037459?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/4330352291178037459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/4330352291178037459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/03/meaning-revitalization-on-economic.html' title='MEANING REVITALIZATION ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5ZLiUmNT3I/AAAAAAAAAUo/cRlKA0n_pJU/s72-c/IMG_3656.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-7034391367910798786</id><published>2010-03-07T05:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.984-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;BERPIKIR REFLEKTIF DAN JERNIH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;ign heri s wangsa&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sebuah kejadian atau peristiwa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ketika kejadian atau peristiwa yang tidak diharapkan muncul, maka (seringkali) yang terlintas dalam pikiran adalah siapa pelaku di balik peristiwa tersebut. Muncul rasa ingin tahu yang mendalam terutama apabila kejadian atau peristiwa tersebut menimbulkan banyak kerugian maupun pengorbanan. Kerugian dalam bentuk kehilangan secara material maupun non-material. Reaksi lainnya adalah ekspresi kekecewaan, kekesalan, bahkan kesedihan sebagai bentuk lain dari upaya “mempertanyakan”. Dalam keadaan seperti itu berpikirpun (seringkali) menjadi tidak rasional, mencoba menghubungkan kejadian atau peristiwa tersebut dengan sejumlah konstruk yang gagal memenuhi unsur-unsur common sense. Simpulan temporer dan instan-pun bermunculan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fenomena lainnya adalah mencoba melakukan analisis secara logis ilmiah (scientific), menghubungkan segala kejadian atau peristiwa sebagai realitas yang selalu dipertanyakan namun juga selalu mampu mendapatkan jawaban.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sebuah kejadian atau peristiwa adalah obyek berpikir. Dan, berpikir itu sendiri adalah sebuah proses mengamati, menghubung-hubungkan, menjelaskan keterkaitan antar hubungan, menganalisa, membuat dugaan, serta simpulan. Konteks reflektif  adalah upaya membuat standarisasi menurut ukuran diri sendiri. Reflektif juga menyangkut tingkat kedalaman, tidak pernah berada di (tingkat) “permukaan”. Reflektif adalah “radikal” dan  mendalam. Selalu berada di tingkat yang “lebih dalam”. Ukuran “dangkal” dan “dalam” adalah persoalan bagaimana proses berpikir dapat dilalui secara lebih lengkap, sadar dan mencakup keseluruhan aspek.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apabila dibaca secara reflektif, seringkali kejadian atau peristiwa menjadi sebuah “tanda” atau gejala (sympton) akan munculnya kejadian atau peristiwa berikutnya. Bisa saja dugaan tersebut adalah munculnya kejadian atau peristiwa yang sama atau sebaliknya munculnya kejadian atau peristiwa yang berbeda. “Keramaian” dugaan seperti ini seringkali menjadi daya tarik ekonomis. Keramaian yang kemudian menghadirkan banyak gosip atau isu yang memiliki nilai jual secara ekonomis. Tragis namun itulah realitanya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Melalui sebuah kejadian atau peristiwa manusia diajak berpikir, dan sebagai makhluk rasional manusia  berusaha mencari jawaban dan makna di balik kejadian tersebut. Intensitas kejadian tertentu juga mempengaruhi tingkat kedalaman berpikir. Muncul pertanyaan klasik reflektif mencoba mengaitkan peristiwa-peristiwa tersebut dalam berbagai “ranah”. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reflektif dan jernih adalah persoalan metoda untuk memahami sebuah persoalan secara lebih “bersih dan lurus”, dan bukannya sebaliknya “spekulatif dan oportunistik”. Banyak media kemudian menampilkan berbagai pemikiran dan wacana yang lebih bersifat spekulatif dan oportunistik atas nama logika “pasar”. Reflektif dan jernih mencoba mengesampingkan dan memisahkan unsur-unsur subyektifitas “emosional”. Reflektif dan jernih tidak pernah berhenti pada persoalan “siapa” di balik terjadinya berbagai peristiwa, tetapi justru sebaliknya melakukan upaya-upaya eksploratif secara teliti, detil, menyeluruh dan tuntas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tidak perlu selesai&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Berpikir reflektif dan jernih tidak perlu harus berhenti dan sampai pada upaya menyelesaikan sebuah permasalahan tetapi terus melakukan elaborasi. Elaborasi tidak dimaksudkan untuk memperlebar cakupan wilayah kompleksitas permasalahan yang diakibatkan oleh sebuah peristiwa atau kejadian. Elaborasi adalah upaya mencari dan mengidentifikasi sebuah bentuk atau format simplifikasi untuk mereduksi kompleksitas permasalahan. Simplifikasi bukan berarti pemotongan jalur proses penyelesaian permasalahan tetapi lebih pada mengurangi simpul-simpul kerumitan sebuah permasalahan. Masalah menjadi lebih terbuka dan sederhana karena tidak memerlukan penjelasan logis yang panjang. Secara metodologis, masalah juga menjadi lebih fleksibel untuk “dibaca” dengan menggunakan berbagai pendekatan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Berbagai peristiwa menyebabkan munculnya persoalan yang datang silih berganti memberi warna dalam kehidupan. Dalam tataran tertentu peristiwa-peristiwa tersebut sulit dipahami. Hal ini seringkali terjadi karena ilusi atmosfir “kenyamanan”. Zona nyaman itu adalah suasana  tenang, nyaman dan damai (yang sangat diinginkan) tiba-tiba berubah menjadi sebuah petaka yang sama sekali tidak pernah dikehendaki, diinginkan dan diimpikan. Keteraturan (regularity) berubah menjadi kekacauan (chaotic) yang tidak pernah bisa dimengerti. Ungkapan kekecewaan, kekesalan, kemarahan bercampur aduk dengan kekhawatiran dan ketakutan. Pikiran yang kalut, kacau kemudian juga memunculkan persoalan tersendiri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sebagai sebuah proses, berpikir adalah upaya mempertanyakan persoalan-persoalan tersebut. Kesadaran akan eksistensi manusia (terhadap dirinya sendiri) ditentukan oleh sejauh mana kegiatan berpikir tersebut mampu dipertahankan. Dengan demikian, proses berpikir dalam upaya mempertanyakan berbagai persoalan (juga) tidak perlu harus selesai karena kegiatan berpikir itu sendiri adalah wujud kesadaran eksistensi manusia. Teruslah berpikir maka akan sampai pada titik ekstrim dimana tersedia berbagai “pilihan” jawaban. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jernih dan bersih&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jernih dan bersih adalah persoalan penyelesaian yang tenang dan bebas intervensi kepentingan atau motif apapun. Pikiran yang jernih dan bersih tidak pernah bermuatan interpretasi yang dipenuhi oleh “kosmetik” kosong (cosmetics of nothing). Pikiran yang jernih dan bersih selalu “lurus”, bebas arogansi dan tidak pernah bisa diintervensi oleh ambisi-ambisi ekonomis sekalipun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jernih dan bersih sebagaimana sumber air yang nampak begitu bening sehingga mampu menampakkan panorama yang berada di dalamnya. Kejernihan itu bisa membuka mata untuk melihat jauh obyek yang ada dibaliknya. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manusiapun mulai belajar untuk merenungkan makna di balik terjadinya peristiwa-peristiwa yang tidak diinginkan. Awal dari pembelajaran untuk dapat mengalami pencerahan di balik terjadinya peristiwa-peristiwa tersebut adalah menemukan sebuah makna. Peristiwa-peristiwa tersebut memberi arti apa dalam hidup ini. Sebuah realitas yang tidak dapat dihindari dan dicegah. Bahkan, kitapun yang mungkin tidak mengalami secara langsung tidak dapat menghindarkan diri untuk “dikondisikan” turut menemukan makna. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sebuah peristiwa akan membawa makna yang berbeda bagi setiap individu. Secara subyektif sebuah peristiwa akan dimaknai menurut tingkat kedalaman perspektif masing-masing individu. Bagi individu yang alam pikirnya (nature of thinking) didominasi oleh perspektif religius, maka makna dari sebuah peristiwa akan ditemukan setelah sejumlah konstruk dihubungkan secara vertikal dengan konsepsi “ketidakterbatasan” (ultimate concept). Individu yang dominan dengan perspektif ekonomis akan selalu “mempertanyakan” dengan menggunakan kalkulasi dan rasionalisasi ekonomis. Dominasi perspektif sains selalu menggunakan kerangka pikir (framework) saintifik.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pernah pada suatu ketika terjadi bencana alam (calamity) secara berturut-turut dalam jarak waktu yang relatif berdekatan pada akhirnya “memaksa” individu untuk menemukan makna. Manusia-pun diajak untuk berpikir secara jernih dan bersih, mengidentifikasi sejumlah konstruk, menghubungkan satu konstruk dengan konstruk lainnya sekaligus mengidentifikasi hubungan antar konstruk. Proses itu akan mengantarkan kepada sebuah kebenaran (truth), yang dengan demikian akan menjadi jawaban. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sebuah peristiwa selalu saja menarik untuk dikaji, secara ekonomis juga memiliki nilai jual. Perkembangan era informasi yang revolusioner menyebabkan informasi kemudian menjadi komoditas mengikuti “logika” pasar. Relevansinya adalah bahwa (seringkali) sebuah peristiwa akhirnya dikemas dalam bentuk infotainment karena “dipaksa” mengikuti mekanisme pasar. Berpikir jernih dan bersih adalah berpikir yang bebas logika pasar. Berpikir jernih dan bersih selalu menggunakan pertimbangan-pertimbangan “keterbatasan wilayah” perspektif yang tidak akan mampu memberikan jawaban “sempurna”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Antara reflektif, jernih dan bersih&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reflektif adalah sarana untuk mencapai proses berpikir yang ideal. Reflektif dan bersih merupakan bentuk lain dari proses berpikir yang menyeluruh (comprehensive) dan bebas intervensi egoistis. Jernih tidak selalu bersih. Oleh karenanya maka jernih harus selalu diikuti oleh bersih. Berpikir secara jernih dan bersih adalah berpikir yang mampu menembus “kedalaman” sebuah persoalan secara jelas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kolaborasi reflektif, jernih dan bersih dalam proses berpikir akan dapat mencapai keutuhan (wholeness) pemahaman sebuah persoalan. Persoalan tidak akan dipahami secara parsial tetapi sebagai  sesuatu yang utuh. Batas-batas persoalan menjadi lebih jelas sebagai upaya mencegah persoalan menjadi melebar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kolaborasi reflektif, jernih dan bersih dalam berpikir adalah manifestasi eksistensi sekaligus bentuk kontribusi pencerahan. Dengan berpikir akan menemukan permasalahan baru yang menarik untuk segera diselesaikan. Penyelesaian permasalahan melalui kegiatan berpikir tidak hanya berhenti pada sebuah jawaban tetapi justru memunculkan pertanyaan baru. Demikian seterusnya, berpikir sebagai sebuah siklus “mencari dan menemukan” yang terus bergerak seiring dengan eksistensi manusia untuk dapat diakui dan diterima. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;@ign_heri_sw/2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-7034391367910798786?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/7034391367910798786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/7034391367910798786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/03/berpikir-reflektif-dan-jernih-ign-heri.html' title=''/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-1705983881548076574</id><published>2010-03-06T02:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-06T04:53:08.999-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>BERMAIN LOGIKA PASAR</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Orientasi pasar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kata “pasar” menjadi demikian sakral karena selalu menjadi orientasi ideal kegiatan-kegiatan yang umumnya bernilai ekonomis. Pasar selalu menjadi tolok ukur (benchmarking) dalam pengambilan keputusan untuk mencapai sebuah tujuan ideal bernilai ekonomis. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Namun demikian, secara filosofis juga sebenarnya setiap aktivitas maupun tindakan-tindakan yang dilakukan oleh manusia, baik bernilai ekonomis maupun non-ekonomis, tidak lepas dari pengertian pasar. Nilai-nilai dalam pengertian pasar adalah nilai-nilai “kolektifitas”, nilai-nilai “kebersamaan”. Ini berarti melepaskan nilai-nilai individualistis, ataupun mengkonversi (entah paksaan atau sukarela) nilai-nilai individualistis menjadi nilai-nilai yang berlaku universal dengan resiko melunturkan nilai-nilai subyektifitas yang sejatinya lebih orisinal dan otentik.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kalau kita melakukan perbuatan “baik” akan lebih mudah diukur dengan menggunakan nilai-nilai kolektifitas, yaitu ketika orang lain (dalam kolektifitas komunal) menilai bahwa memang kita melakukan perbuatan “baik” itu. Eksistensi “baik” secara obyektif diakui secara kolektif dalam cakupan wilayah komunalitas. Walaupun harus bersusah payah untuk menjadi lebih universal karena perlu diakui/pengakuan oleh banyak orang, namun kemudian pembenaran terhadap eksistensi “baik” dikatakan lebih obyektif. Orisinalitas subyektif kemudian harus disesuaikan, bahkan kemudian ditransformasikan kepada nilai-nilai orisinalitas obyektif yang (katanya) lebih universal (dan sahih). Konsepsi ini seringkali dijumpai dalam terminologi “kebersamaan” atau “demi kepentingan orang banyak”. Menjadi semakin parah ketika nilai-nilai kolektif ini mengkristal menjadi egoisme (yang menindas). Atas nama kepentingan bersama, maka kepentingan individual harus dipinggirkan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meminjam logika pasar, maka kepentingan bersama menjadi ukuran yang sangat ideal. Namun patut dipertanyakan apakah demikian mudah menerapkan logika pasar dalam konteks ini. Ketika kepentingan individual (sebagian) harus dikontribusikan untuk kepentingan kolektif, maka kepentingan kolektif kemudian (secara otomatis) menjadi acuan umum. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kalau kehidupan ini (ekonomis maupun non-ekonomis) diserahkan kepada logika pasar, maka yang terjadi adalah dominasi kekuatan pasar sebagai alasan yang kemudian dipaksakan untuk dapat dipertanggungjawabkan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Logika pasar secara ekonomis&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Logika pasar dalam konteks ekonomis adalah logika keseimbangan ekonomis antara permintaan dan penawaran. Keseimbangan pasar itulah kemudian menjadi indikator kehidupan ekonomis yang ideal dimana menurut aliran Smith-ians ada pengakuan bahwa tangan-tangan yang tidak kelihatan (invisible hands) akan (selalu) mengembalikan kekacauan ekonomis (economic chaotic), yang disebabkan oleh karakter homo economicus pelaku-pelakunya, ke arah titik keseimbangan. Titik keseimbangan itulah yang disebut sebagai pasar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karakter homo economicus manusia sebagai subyek kegiatan ekonomis tidak akan pernah selesai dan berhenti pada satu atau beberapa kebutuhan. Sebagai makhluk yang tidak pernah selesai (unfinished man) manusia selalu berusaha melakukan yang terbaik bagi pemenuhan seluruh kebutuhannya. Kebutuhan manusia dalam cakupan kewilayahan atau areal adalah tak mengenal batas (borderless), sedangkan dalam cakupan jumlah (quantity) adalah tak terbatas (unlimited).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bisa dibayangkan seorang manusia yang dapat memenuhi seluruh kebutuhannya (dalam cakupan kewilayahan maupun jumlah) pada tingkat yang ideal, maka (mungkin) dia akan menjadi manusia yang paling bahagia dalam hidupnya. Tapi tentu saja tidak akan berlangsung lama. Masalahnya adalah ketika jumlah manusia bertambah semakin banyak, dimana cakupan kewilayahan dan cakupan jumlah akan “berbenturan” antara manusia yang satu dengan manusia yang lain. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Setiap manusia memiliki kebutuhan yang harus juga dipenuhi secara ideal. Keadaan ini kemudian memunculkan persaingan, yaitu konsumen yang bersaing (dengan konsumen lainnya) untuk mendapatkan kesempatan (opportunity) memenuhi kebutuhannya sehingga tercapai kepuasan maksimal (completely satisfied). Hukum keseimbangan kemudian mengatur itu. Dan, hukum keseimbangan sebenarnya adalah pasar itu sendiri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oleh karenanya eksistensi pasar tergantung dari “ethics” perilaku pelaku-pelakunya, yaitu manusia. Manusia yang terlampau besar “cakupan” kebutuhannya akan mempengaruhi harga keseimbangan pada tingkat dimana harga menjadi sangat “mahal” dan (mungkin) akan menghilangkan kesempatan bagi orang lain terutama yang tidak mempunyai daya beli.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pasar seringkali menjadi indikator yang relatif mudah dipahami ketika membicarakan mengapa kebutuhan manusia tidak pernah selesai, tidak pernah terpenuhi secara ideal, maupun ketika muncul kebutuhan-kebutuhan baru. Dengan menggunakan logika pasar, kalau kebutuhan manusia diletakkan pada sisi permintaan maka yang terjadi adalah bahwa permintaan tersebut kemudian direspon atau diseimbangkan dengan penawaran. Setiap muncul kebutuhan baru selalu akan direspon atau diseimbangkan dengan munculnya penawaran. Demikian juga sebaliknya, munculnya penawaran akan direspon atau diseimbangkan oleh permintaan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Melalui penjelasan ini dapat dikatakan bahwa munculnya kebutuhan (yang seringkali senantiasa baru) disebabkan oleh munculnya penawaran-penawaran (baru). Produk-produk baru inovatif yang dikeluarkan oleh produsen selalu memotivasi konsumen dengan kebutuhan-kebutuhan baru. Dalam konteks ini konsumen selalu berada dalam posisi rentan yang akhirnya (secara tidak sadar) akan terus termotivasi untuk memunculkan kebutuhan-kebutuhan baru. Resistensi konsumen terlihat dari kegagalannya untuk “menghentikan secara sadar dan sukarela” kebutuhan-kebutuhan barunya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Produsen dengan bantuan kecanggihan teknologi terus menciptakan produk-produk baru dalam berbagai format. Format pertama adalah produk-produk yang relatif  “sama sekali baru”. Produk-produk tersebut bersifat substitutif, selalu menggantikan dan “mengalahkan” produk-produk lama dengan core benefit yang sama sekali baru. Format kedua adalah produk-produk lama dengan cosmetic baru. Produk tersebut bersifat complement, melengkapi core benefit produk-produk lama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kekalahan konsumen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mengapa konsumen demikian mudah “dikalahkan”? Logika pasar juga dapat dipakai untuk menjelaskan mengapa konsumen selalu dalam posisi “kalah”, yaitu ketidakberdayaannya terhadap kebutuhan-kebutuhan baru yang selalu saja muncul tanpa pernah diketahui penyebabnya. Kita tahu, misalnya, bagaimana karya-karya JK Rowling dengan “Harry Potter”nya mampu menarik perhatian masyarakat dunia. Seperti kekuatan magis, sebagaimana tema dalam karya-karyanya, yang demikian fenomenal. Kekalahan luar biasa bagi konsumen yang tidak lagi mampu membatasi dan mengetahui esensi dari “konsumsi”. Apakah fair apabila berpendapat seperti itu? Jawabannya menjadi sangat relatif ketika ternyata banyak orang tidak mempermasalahkan “kekalahan” tersebut, bahkan sebaliknya bukanlah “kekalahan” melainkan “kemenangan”. Mereka sangat puas dengan karya-karya Rowling. Namun apabila ditelaah lebih dalam, apakah kepuasan tersebut mampu memotivasi banyak orang untuk semakin “produktif” sehingga konsumsi tersebut adalah benar-benar merupakan tindakan “cerdas” yang dapat “dipertanggungjawabkan”. Apakah kepuasan tersebut mampu menempatkan manusia sebagai subyek yang kemudian secara sadar mengetahui batas-batas perilaku konsumsinya? Jawabannya menjadi sangat “tidak”. Kepuasan itu ternyata menjadi sangat destruktif. Buktinya? Produk-produk Rowling menjadi demikian “serial” dan memiliki “daur hidup” atau lifecycle yang sangat panjang (Harry Potter memiliki tujuh seri!). Apakah bisa lebih dari itu? Tentu saja bisa karena yang menentukan “karakter” serial adalah produsennya dan bukannya konsumen. Konsumen pasti selalu dikalahkan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fenomena irasional konsumen menjadi lumrah dimana konsumen tidak lagi mampu menggunakan nalarnya. Banyak scholar mengatakan bahwa belanja (shopping) memang akhirnya menjadi sangat “miskin” dengan pengertian memberi “pengakuan eksistensi” si pembelanja (shopper), di sisi lain belanja sebenarnya adalah aktivitas yang sarat dengan nilai-nilai konsumtif-reduktif. Belanja menjadi sebuah aktivitas pemenuhan kebutuhan ilusif.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mengapa produsen demikian cepat melakukan inovasi bagi produk-produknya? Apakah bisa dikatakan bahwa produsen sebenarnya juga telah menjadi “korban” kemajuan teknologi? Apakah “kemenangan” konsumen akan bisa dicapai dengan menerapkan konsepsi “konsumen produktif”?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inovasi menjadi demikian cepat dilakukan karena memang dikehendaki oleh “pasar”. Pasar yang demikian otoriter menjadi kekuatan luar biasa bagi intelektualitas produsen (manusia) untuk terus berkreasi. Intelektualitas manusia berada di belakang produk-produk yang inovatif. Bahkan, intelektualitas manusia yang dipengaruhi dengan sangat kuat oleh pasar menjadi irasional ketika tercipta produk-produk “sampah”. Produk-produk “sampah” adalah produk-produk yang menimbulkan tingkat ketergantungan (dependency) sangat tinggi (alcoholic) sekaligus memberdayakan konsumen untuk melakukan konsumsi irasional jangka panjang (long-term irrational consumption).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Akhir logika pasar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apa yang bisa disimpulkan dengan logika pasar? Bahasa lain dari pasar adalah “keseimbangan”, namun abstraksinya bisa sampai pada pengertian “kebersamaan”. Keseimbangan dan kebersamaan sama-sama memiliki “popularitas” untuk menjadi orientasi. Keseimbangan seringkali menjadi idealisme dari karakter yang “lengkap” (complete) dan “selesai” (finished), padahal keseimbangan (khususnya dalam konteks ekonomi) akan dapat dibaca sebagai fenomena konsumsi yang tidak pernah selesai (unfinished consumption). Fenomena ini kemudian bisa dipakai untuk menjawab mengapa akhirnya terjadi “konsumsi sampah” atau konsumsi atas barang atau jasa yang sama sekali tak bernilai atau tak dibutuhkan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Logika pasar mencoba menjelaskan secara rasional bahwa nilai-nilai yang diadopsi dari orientasi “kebersamaan” bisa saja salah arah ketika “kebersamaan” itu sebenarnya dibelokkan oleh kekuatan otorisasi kolektif. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ketika kreatifitas menjadi kata kunci bagi produsen untuk terus mengalahkan konsumen, maka tidak ada jalan lain untuk menghentikan “kekalahan” itu melalui edukasi. Konsumen diharapkan semakin kritis ketika muncul tanda-tanda irasionalisasi konsumsi. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ketika kekuatan otorisasi kolektif mereduksi peran individualistis maka tidak ada jalan lain selain mengakhiri sesat logika pasar yang selalu mengedepankan nilai-nilai kolektifitas, kebersamaan. Itu berarti peran individualistis perlu diberdayakan dan diatur jangan sampai melebar ke wilayah eksklusivitas egoistis. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(ign_heri_sw/2010)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-1705983881548076574?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1705983881548076574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1705983881548076574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/03/bermain-logika-pasar.html' title='BERMAIN LOGIKA PASAR'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-1773000513608375693</id><published>2010-03-01T01:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-01T01:20:47.253-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>LIVING WITH THE PAST</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;JUSCO Shopping Center - Ipoh Garden / Ipoh - Malaysia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Living with the past. Imagination will direct sense of creativity and encourage responsiveness as well. The process continues to grow in the area of completeness being a human. It's a slow movement to adventure the idea of content which is consist of essence. Exploring the deep structure is more than nothingness but the value of being awareness. Sensitivity is a must and will not invade to the destructiveness. Sensitivity is just one way to satisfy the curiosity. Therefore, living with the past is complement with living values. The way to conserve and live with it, then to distribute. You will be reminded by everything in the past. Joyful moments as well as times when you get lost either caused by blindness or a very corruptive system, full of disappointed trials. You are part of what you have made in the past,the foundation that you have built which must be very expensive. It's time now to reconcile with yourself, live with your being. Nothing is wrong with you. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;(ign_heri_sw/2010)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-1773000513608375693?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1773000513608375693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1773000513608375693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/03/living-with-past.html' title='LIVING WITH THE PAST'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-2250109229797674039</id><published>2010-02-28T05:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-06T02:54:54.633-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>PASSION</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pz6ujB1tI/AAAAAAAAASk/onuBv5Jj_CE/s1600-h/packaging+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pz6ujB1tI/AAAAAAAAASk/onuBv5Jj_CE/s400/packaging+005.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443290552395224786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pzy0cj90I/AAAAAAAAASc/WA1oFMd-9mo/s1600-h/penang_1+023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pzy0cj90I/AAAAAAAAASc/WA1oFMd-9mo/s400/penang_1+023.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443290416539760450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pzmfazk9I/AAAAAAAAASU/ecnuIIcolGc/s1600-h/ipoh_temple+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pzmfazk9I/AAAAAAAAASU/ecnuIIcolGc/s400/ipoh_temple+014.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443290204736820178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pzJnVUOfI/AAAAAAAAASM/9fPlEh8Ve1k/s1600-h/ipoh_identity2+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pzJnVUOfI/AAAAAAAAASM/9fPlEh8Ve1k/s400/ipoh_identity2+009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443289708645071346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-2250109229797674039?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2250109229797674039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2250109229797674039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/02/passion.html' title='PASSION'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pz6ujB1tI/AAAAAAAAASk/onuBv5Jj_CE/s72-c/packaging+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-3031406767959694463</id><published>2010-02-28T04:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-28T05:28:49.292-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>LIVING WITH VALUES</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pvWJyJP4I/AAAAAAAAAR0/WpN7DSB_JQ0/s1600-h/ipoh_identity4011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pvWJyJP4I/AAAAAAAAAR0/WpN7DSB_JQ0/s400/ipoh_identity4011.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443285526004711298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pvQKK99wI/AAAAAAAAARs/BHwsjnhU2ZM/s1600-h/ipoh_identity3010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pvQKK99wI/AAAAAAAAARs/BHwsjnhU2ZM/s400/ipoh_identity3010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443285423029614338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pvJD2f3FI/AAAAAAAAARk/9VPHhC9KkNg/s1600-h/ipoh_identity1+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pvJD2f3FI/AAAAAAAAARk/9VPHhC9KkNg/s400/ipoh_identity1+008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443285301074058322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Living with values is not only a slogan for hidden message. It is part of local character. There are many cities living with values as they are able to maintain identity. Local identity which defines the people and their life. The strong local identity can be found in some historical buildings. They are part of the history. It will not be easy to eliminate ideas of local-oriented eagerness when materialism becomes dominant. Hence, the compromise approach could be alternative for peaceful reconciliation between eagerness to have identity and pressure of materialism ego.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Living with values means living with identity. Proud to be myself with colorful uniqueness and optimism of idealism. Identity brings attributes which are rooted from the experience. I am what I experience. I am with ambition that leads me to the direction of meaning. Everything is calculated accurately. Details of each parts are clearly stated. The form, size and color of each parts are storyteller, a witness of process. They are very rich and meaningful. No one can make intervention even in small piece of motives. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at the story behind the physical appearances. They keep alive with their label of strong brand. They are here to present alternatives in the era of modernization, alternatives of living in harmony. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;(ign_heri_sw/2010)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-3031406767959694463?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/3031406767959694463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/3031406767959694463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/02/living-with-values.html' title='LIVING WITH VALUES'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4pvWJyJP4I/AAAAAAAAAR0/WpN7DSB_JQ0/s72-c/ipoh_identity4011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-2168238532565384260</id><published>2010-02-26T16:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.989-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>TRANS-TOYING</title><content type='html'>What is trans-toying? It's an industry term for taking everyday utilitarian objects and turning them into toys. It's turning a shampoo container into a toy by putting a character on top or on a toothbrush. It's turning a Band-Aid into a tattoo, a food into a toy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,995267,00.html#ixzz0ggtzzYdZ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-2168238532565384260?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2168238532565384260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2168238532565384260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/02/trans-toying.html' title='TRANS-TOYING'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-8987223172391071331</id><published>2010-02-25T23:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.989-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>S'PORE INC.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4eCEsURGYI/AAAAAAAAARE/0Jva9A50zVU/s1600-h/colourful+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4eCEsURGYI/AAAAAAAAARE/0Jva9A50zVU/s400/colourful+006.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442461691827788162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4eBdfHsCVI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/aYYUCluvQ3w/s1600-h/happiness+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4eBdfHsCVI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/aYYUCluvQ3w/s400/happiness+003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442461018270468434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Singapore Inc. is working with efficiency by raising productivity and relying less on foreign labour. This strategy will cause the Singapore Inc. become a business entity in which the role of human with his intellectual asset will put in the priority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Less dependency on foreign labour within business context could be interpretated as to give more opportunity for locals to be more concern with their own home. But, this will give price to the existence of market mechanism. The market regime will always make equilibrium between supply and demand. It means that market will look for the most efficient place to live and grow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The competition is not between locals and foreigners but mainly between the most efficient and the less one. In other words, it's about the skills, labour skills. The skillfull individuals will be the winner. This is not the end. Definition of "skilled" individuals is market orientation. Market will define or give the definition. But. this might be a very conventional reason. In fact, there are many alternatives for "non-conventional" reason. In this case authenticity is the best answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(ign_heri_sw/2010)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-8987223172391071331?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8987223172391071331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8987223172391071331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/02/spore-inc.html' title='S&apos;PORE INC.'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4eCEsURGYI/AAAAAAAAARE/0Jva9A50zVU/s72-c/colourful+006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-6059786692769108296</id><published>2010-02-25T23:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.990-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>MESSAGE FROM FLOWER</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4d1nIYMfKI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ZWtML5rBgvY/s1600-h/ipoh_flower1016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4d1nIYMfKI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ZWtML5rBgvY/s200/ipoh_flower1016.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442447989824847010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4d1a1CDuxI/AAAAAAAAAQk/f7UrC4neVcM/s1600-h/ipoh_flower7+027.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4d1a1CDuxI/AAAAAAAAAQk/f7UrC4neVcM/s200/ipoh_flower7+027.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442447778473294610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4d1P8qNJUI/AAAAAAAAAQc/2k76v4_UENc/s1600-h/ipoh_flower5+024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4d1P8qNJUI/AAAAAAAAAQc/2k76v4_UENc/s200/ipoh_flower5+024.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442447591542170946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4d1JQ6oD_I/AAAAAAAAAQU/Py-WQW1usiY/s1600-h/ipoh_flower4+020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4d1JQ6oD_I/AAAAAAAAAQU/Py-WQW1usiY/s200/ipoh_flower4+020.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442447476720668658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4d1AcnRtgI/AAAAAAAAAQM/A4PIjEO7jCk/s1600-h/ipoh_flower3+019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4d1AcnRtgI/AAAAAAAAAQM/A4PIjEO7jCk/s200/ipoh_flower3+019.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442447325241914882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4d06uZAtHI/AAAAAAAAAQE/Z1uxXEhdtOI/s1600-h/ipoh_flower2+018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4d06uZAtHI/AAAAAAAAAQE/Z1uxXEhdtOI/s200/ipoh_flower2+018.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442447226934703218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each flowers have their own colour which means a message. Find, feel and experience it, therefore you will have passion. Think critically that each message is a sign for certain direction. Experience seriously then you will be able to choose. Really it is a guarantee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each flowers are made different. The size, shape, height, weight, and ....colour are not enough. Look at them in details, there you will find the meaning. It is not the beauty of colourful creature, it is the un-answered creativity. How nature works for them creatively and ....timely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each flowers bring eagerness and motivation. Make it into your wholeness. Do it for you will be driven by their spirit. They will tell you many things. Just wait and move. You have it now.....!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;flower_ipoh2010&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-6059786692769108296?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6059786692769108296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6059786692769108296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/02/message-from-flower.html' title='MESSAGE FROM FLOWER'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4d1nIYMfKI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ZWtML5rBgvY/s72-c/ipoh_flower1016.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-2040872712852270287</id><published>2010-02-24T20:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.990-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>Misogyny and Materialism</title><content type='html'>A Steady Stream Of Misogyny And Materialism&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was very disappointed with "Can MTV stay cool?" (Cover Story, Feb. 20). While MTV Networks (VIA ) may be a leader in reinventing its brand, your story made little mention of MTV's dark side, which includes regularly playing music videos that largely feature misogynistic images and lyrics and espouse the "virtues" of materialism. MTV has taken the strategy of appealing to the "lowest common denominator" in order to obtain its widest reach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeffrey Podoshen&lt;br /&gt;Assistant Professor of Marketing&lt;br /&gt;Franklin &amp; Marshall College&lt;br /&gt;Lancaster, Pa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-2040872712852270287?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2040872712852270287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2040872712852270287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/02/misogyny-and-materialism.html' title='Misogyny and Materialism'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-9032639532770890541</id><published>2010-02-24T04:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.991-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>Konsumen Pembelajar</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4eErmdL39I/AAAAAAAAARU/AKIb2OIL84w/s1600-h/penang_2+022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4eErmdL39I/AAAAAAAAARU/AKIb2OIL84w/s400/penang_2+022.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442464559292735442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Konsumen pembelajar dalam masyarakat pembelajar adalah perubahan revolusioner yang ditandai oleh kreatifitas berkelanjutan. Ditandai oleh munculnya berbagai macam terminologi. Berkaitan dengan terminologi, Paul Greenberg (2010) dalam buku terbarunya Customer Relationship Management at the Speed of Light mengatakan bahwa struktur terminologi membawa konten yang berbeda. Era perubahan itu adalah perubahan terminologi, perubahan yang semakin mengembalikan kepentingan konsumen berikut sistem yang memfasilitasi berbagai macam perilakunya. Perubahan terminologi adalah indikasi proses pembelajaran. Melalui “kosa kata” baru konsumen difasilitasi sekaligus dikondisikan untuk belajar. Apa yang dikatakan Hollis Thomases (2010) dalam Twitter Marketing adalah bahwa atas nama “kecepatan” yang bernilai ekonomis, maka pembelajaran itu adalah belajar untuk berkomunikasi secara efektif, pandai meringkas informasi sampai pada “inti persoalan”. Semua dipahami secara ekonomis, memberi yang terbaik bagi orang lain atas nama pertukaran ekonomis.&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;(ign_heri_sw/2010)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-9032639532770890541?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/9032639532770890541'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/9032639532770890541'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/02/konsumen-pembelajar.html' title='Konsumen Pembelajar'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S4eErmdL39I/AAAAAAAAARU/AKIb2OIL84w/s72-c/penang_2+022.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-8770313456247726883</id><published>2010-02-10T22:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-10T22:59:47.309-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>STORY FROM "THE RICH"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S3Oqv131ctI/AAAAAAAAAPc/kuTjXDyKhco/s1600-h/look_at_my_glasses.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S3Oqv131ctI/AAAAAAAAAPc/kuTjXDyKhco/s200/look_at_my_glasses.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436876914058162898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S3Oqvrb9B3I/AAAAAAAAAPU/ERnBHetPxcc/s1600-h/S%27pore_Merlion_Park2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S3Oqvrb9B3I/AAAAAAAAAPU/ERnBHetPxcc/s200/S%27pore_Merlion_Park2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436876911256864626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Karl Rabeder grew up poor and thought that life would be wonderful if he had money. But when he got rich, Karl discovered that he was unhappy … so he decided to give away every penny of his £3 million fortune:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing," he told The Daily Telegraph. "Money is counterproductive – it prevents happiness to come."&lt;br /&gt;Instead, he will move out of his luxury Alpine retreat into a small wooden hut in the mountains or a simple bedsit in Innsbruck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His entire proceeds are going to charities he set up in Central and Latin America, but he will not even take a salary from these.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"For a long time I believed that more wealth and luxury automatically meant more happiness," he said. "I come from a very poor family where the rules were to work more to achieve more material things, and I applied this for many years," said Mr Rabeder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But over time, he had another, conflicting feeling.&lt;br /&gt;"More and more I heard the words: ‘Stop what you are doing now – all this luxury and consumerism – and start your real life’," he said. "I had the feeling I was working as a slave for things that I did not wish for or need. I have the feeling that there are lot of people doing the same thing."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(http://neatorama.cachefly.net/money-happiness.htm)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-8770313456247726883?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8770313456247726883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8770313456247726883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/02/story-from-rich.html' title='STORY FROM &quot;THE RICH&quot;'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S3Oqv131ctI/AAAAAAAAAPc/kuTjXDyKhco/s72-c/look_at_my_glasses.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-6480241090445532647</id><published>2010-02-08T05:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-08T06:05:55.145-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>THE WORLD OF IMAGE</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S3AZ9lN4nVI/AAAAAAAAAO8/b0wi5xxggng/s1600-h/S%27pore_LTA_Academy1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S3AZ9lN4nVI/AAAAAAAAAO8/b0wi5xxggng/s200/S%27pore_LTA_Academy1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435873295989251410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S3AZpIpC13I/AAAAAAAAAO0/EMW1IZfouPw/s1600-h/Singapore5_Jan_2010+036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S3AZpIpC13I/AAAAAAAAAO0/EMW1IZfouPw/s200/Singapore5_Jan_2010+036.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435872944721155954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is interesting to discuss the end “direction” of the world of image. When the cycle of the world of image could be well-maintained for the reason of market mechanism, within the perspective that the presence of the world of image is necessary and consumable for the rationality of supply-demand relation, there will never be “extreme point” for the presence of the world of image. As an authorative spirit, the world of image will never be die. It will continuously evolve into new “faces”. (from "The World of Image" by Ign_Heri_SW)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-6480241090445532647?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6480241090445532647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6480241090445532647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/02/world-of-image.html' title='THE WORLD OF IMAGE'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S3AZ9lN4nVI/AAAAAAAAAO8/b0wi5xxggng/s72-c/S%27pore_LTA_Academy1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-1638235723714576981</id><published>2010-02-08T02:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.992-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>YOUNG PEOPLE AND EASINESS</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2_stliUfdI/AAAAAAAAAOs/yEuXD_-qUeU/s1600-h/Singapore5_Jan_2010+040.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2_stliUfdI/AAAAAAAAAOs/yEuXD_-qUeU/s200/Singapore5_Jan_2010+040.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435823543173807570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Young and easy are two keywords which have complementary relationship, a relation to be complement. Young within the perspective of young people is a dynamic spirit. An energic creature who are filled with passion to have conflict with himself. Many challenges come out, all are eager to be gone through and dominated. Terminology of “easy” refers to medium which contains meaningfully on timeless. Easiness brings the spirit of in-essence which need less of critical thinking. Easiness is meaningless symbolizing the effort to shorten the “distance” between absolute ego and idealism, the idealism which proceeds in relatively short time  because of timeless character. Therefore, easiness usually refers to conceptual meaning of instant. When easy and instant culture have become an orientation of thought and behavior, there will be a culture. Instant culture has the same meaning with culture of easiness, a culture which fails to recognize process and time, a culture which is process-less and time-less. Easy and young which have mutual relationship could be interpreted in case that young people with all of their inherited characters unconsciously consume culture of easiness to meet their ambition. There is a trend of natural “spirituality” of easy engaged in various way&lt;em&gt;.(ign_heri_sw/feb8_2010)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-1638235723714576981?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1638235723714576981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1638235723714576981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/02/young-people-and-easiness.html' title='YOUNG PEOPLE AND EASINESS'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2_stliUfdI/AAAAAAAAAOs/yEuXD_-qUeU/s72-c/Singapore5_Jan_2010+040.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-2636263700223735288</id><published>2010-01-30T06:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.992-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>THE S'POREAN WAY (1)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2RDVOfPkII/AAAAAAAAAOk/lWa-1Qem1Rg/s1600-h/St_stephen_26jan_2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2RDVOfPkII/AAAAAAAAAOk/lWa-1Qem1Rg/s200/St_stephen_26jan_2010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432541082461114498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2RDU9qRWpI/AAAAAAAAAOc/NYV2fTMU5eE/s1600-h/Singapore5_Jan_2010+035.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2RDU9qRWpI/AAAAAAAAAOc/NYV2fTMU5eE/s200/Singapore5_Jan_2010+035.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432541077943966354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2RDT5SYKgI/AAAAAAAAAOE/PYohfUdthXM/s1600-h/Singapore5_Jan_2010+042.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2RDT5SYKgI/AAAAAAAAAOE/PYohfUdthXM/s200/Singapore5_Jan_2010+042.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432541059590138370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2RDUiCC5wI/AAAAAAAAAOU/ncXl6OwJYOs/s1600-h/Singapore5_Jan_2010+029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2RDUiCC5wI/AAAAAAAAAOU/ncXl6OwJYOs/s200/Singapore5_Jan_2010+029.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432541070527489794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2RDUKFIkCI/AAAAAAAAAOM/zYci9NQpWag/s1600-h/Singapore5_Jan_2010+047.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2RDUKFIkCI/AAAAAAAAAOM/zYci9NQpWag/s200/Singapore5_Jan_2010+047.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432541064097992738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-2636263700223735288?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2636263700223735288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2636263700223735288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/01/sporean-way-1.html' title='THE S&apos;POREAN WAY (1)'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2RDVOfPkII/AAAAAAAAAOk/lWa-1Qem1Rg/s72-c/St_stephen_26jan_2010.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-392216335028880752</id><published>2010-01-30T01:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.992-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>KONSUMEN YANG TERUS BELAJAR</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2P8TaLAmPI/AAAAAAAAANw/Td6hmlwBdCw/s1600-h/Singapore5_Jan_2010+032.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432462985912162546" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2P8TaLAmPI/AAAAAAAAANw/Td6hmlwBdCw/s200/Singapore5_Jan_2010+032.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Aleksander Hemon (2010) dalam Best European Fiction 2010 menjelaskan bagaimana cerpen-cerpen karya para pengarang Eropa memberi petunjuk pada sedang terjadinya dinamika transformatif budaya di Eropa. Melalui karya-karya tersebut ditunjukkan bagaimana terjadinya aliran perubahan (flow of change) menuju ke sebuah integrasi. Ada upaya untuk membentuk identitas baru. Ada keinginan untuk terus berubah menuju sebuah kehidupan baru melalui kompromistis jembatan penghubung avant garde dan mainstream. Terjadi dinamika fragmentasi, interaksi dan integrasi. Meminjam analogi Hemon, fenomena konsumen pembelajar adalah bagian dari dinamika aktivitas bernilai ekonomis-komersial dalam sebuah siklus dimana konsumen akhirnya menjadi pembelajar untuk lebih konsumtif. Dari konsepsi semula yang menempatkan konsumen sebagai obyek pasif menjadi subyek aktif. Semula adalah sangat jelas terjadi pemisahan fungsi antara konsumen sebagai obyek dan produsen sebagai subyek, namun sekarang fungsi obyek-subyek sudah terintegrasi. Konsumen adalah sekaligus produsen bagi dirinya sendiri. &lt;em&gt;(ign_heri_sw_2010)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-392216335028880752?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/392216335028880752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/392216335028880752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2010/01/konsumen-yang-terus-belajar.html' title='KONSUMEN YANG TERUS BELAJAR'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S2P8TaLAmPI/AAAAAAAAANw/Td6hmlwBdCw/s72-c/Singapore5_Jan_2010+032.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-70893311015526948</id><published>2009-12-10T23:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.993-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>LOGIKA PASAR</title><content type='html'>Apa yang bisa disimpulkan dengan logika pasar?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Bahasa lain dari pasar adalah "keseimbangan", namun abstraksinya bisa sampai pada pengertian "kebersamaan". Keseimbangan dan kebersamaan sama-sama memiliki "popularitas" untuk menjadi orientasi. Keseimbangan seringkali menjadi idealisme dari karakter yang "lengkap" (complete) dan "selesai" (finished), padahal keseimbangan (khususnya dalam konteks ekonomi) akan dapat dibaca sebagai fenomena konsumsi yang tidak pernah selesai (unfinished consumption). Fenomena ini kemudian bisa dipakai untuk menjawab mengapa akhirnya terjadi "konsumsi sampah" atau konsumsi atas barang atau jasa yang sama sekali tak bernilai atau tak dibutuhkan.  (IGN HERI SW _ DEC. 11, 2009)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-70893311015526948?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/70893311015526948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/70893311015526948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/12/logika-pasar.html' title='LOGIKA PASAR'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-3923711608186082501</id><published>2009-11-21T00:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.993-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>DIALOG BETWEEN MYSELF AND THE MATERIAL WORLD</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SweqgfgLd8I/AAAAAAAAANk/mGnOwaLrVew/s1600/going_2_dark.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SweqgfgLd8I/AAAAAAAAANk/mGnOwaLrVew/s200/going_2_dark.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406477352870574018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the simple, classical level of daily activity, we clearly have an effect on matter. We mould it and make it, we digest it, burn it, cool it, break it down and build it up again, etc. And at this same simple level, matter and its processes clearly have an effect on us. The food that I eat can poison or nourish me, the rock lying on my path can trip me and break my toe, the locked door at the side of the house can stop me from getting into the garden. More basic still, the chemicals in the earth and the sunlight which shines upon them are necessary to the existence and functioning of my body, as are the oxygen that I breathe and the water that I drink. My body and all its physical needs are clear evidence of an essential dialogue between myself and the material world. (DANAH ZOHAR ON THE QUANTUM SELF)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-3923711608186082501?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/3923711608186082501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/3923711608186082501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/dialog-between-myself-and-material.html' title='DIALOG BETWEEN MYSELF AND THE MATERIAL WORLD'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SweqgfgLd8I/AAAAAAAAANk/mGnOwaLrVew/s72-c/going_2_dark.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-3682885494123401904</id><published>2009-11-21T00:17:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.994-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>The beauty of Sipalay - Negros Island - the Philippines</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SwejDqxKsXI/AAAAAAAAAM8/mV4DzydI77U/s1600/sunset_29_oct_at_nataasha.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SwejDqxKsXI/AAAAAAAAAM8/mV4DzydI77U/s200/sunset_29_oct_at_nataasha.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406469161097015666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Swei-l8p27I/AAAAAAAAAM0/cpNhdWznLr4/s1600/BACOLOD_EXP_PROG+24+oct_1+nop+2009+025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Swei-l8p27I/AAAAAAAAAM0/cpNhdWznLr4/s200/BACOLOD_EXP_PROG+24+oct_1+nop+2009+025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406469073903672242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sweiqo6vfmI/AAAAAAAAAMs/_6ELZTznTtY/s1600/BACOLOD_EXP_PROG+24+oct_1+nop+2009+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sweiqo6vfmI/AAAAAAAAAMs/_6ELZTznTtY/s200/BACOLOD_EXP_PROG+24+oct_1+nop+2009+011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406468731103575650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SweijwXw6sI/AAAAAAAAAMk/EUJqdVyrwXk/s1600/BACOLOD_EXP_PROG+24+oct_1+nop+2009+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SweijwXw6sI/AAAAAAAAAMk/EUJqdVyrwXk/s200/BACOLOD_EXP_PROG+24+oct_1+nop+2009+007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406468612845267650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-3682885494123401904?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/3682885494123401904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/3682885494123401904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/beauty-of-sipalay-negros-island.html' title='The beauty of Sipalay - Negros Island - the Philippines'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SwejDqxKsXI/AAAAAAAAAM8/mV4DzydI77U/s72-c/sunset_29_oct_at_nataasha.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-8642450318557203508</id><published>2009-08-20T01:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.994-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>LONELINES</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/So0GgsH09MI/AAAAAAAAAMc/5KP6SL_iEBk/s1600-h/putrikarmel_may_8_10_2009+080.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371957089192441026" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/So0GgsH09MI/AAAAAAAAAMc/5KP6SL_iEBk/s200/putrikarmel_may_8_10_2009+080.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Loneliness is not a rare and curious phenomenon. It is at the centre of every person’s ordinary experience. It is most dangerous when it is not recognised, accepted and worked through creatively. Conversely, it is a tremendously creative and humanising force when it is recognised and lived correctly. (RONALD ROLHEISER)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;(=Kesendirian bukanlah hal aneh. Kesendirian sering dialami oleh banyak orang dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Kesendirian akan menjadi sangat berbahaya apabila tidak mampu dikenali, diterima dan diatasi secara kreatif. Sebaliknya, kesendirian akan menjadi kekuatan kreatif dan "memanusiakan" apabila kita mampu mengenali dan "hidup" didalamnya secara benar.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-8642450318557203508?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8642450318557203508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8642450318557203508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/08/lonelines.html' title='LONELINES'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/So0GgsH09MI/AAAAAAAAAMc/5KP6SL_iEBk/s72-c/putrikarmel_may_8_10_2009+080.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-5706456332903929389</id><published>2009-08-09T00:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.995-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>BECOMING MYSELF</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"&gt;In order to become myself I must cease to be what I always thought I wanted to be, and in order to find myself I must go out of myself, and in order to live I have to die. The reason for this is that I am born in selfishness and therefore my natural efforts to make myself more real and more myself, make me less real and less myself, because they revolve around a lie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; (THOMAS MERTON)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-5706456332903929389?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/5706456332903929389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/5706456332903929389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/08/becoming-myself.html' title='BECOMING MYSELF'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-7771779355487628090</id><published>2009-08-03T08:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.995-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>PRAYER ADDICTION</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#ff6600;"&gt;When ...... prayer is a routine "mechanical" activity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;When ...... prayer is not well-prepared&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;When ...... prayer is not "inviting"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;When ...... prayer is "too creative"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;When ...... prayer is oftenly modified&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;(NN)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-7771779355487628090?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/7771779355487628090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/7771779355487628090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/08/prayer-addiction.html' title='PRAYER ADDICTION'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-2882515171298541803</id><published>2009-08-03T07:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:53.996-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>THE KIDS</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Snb2myI2Z0I/AAAAAAAAAMQ/_3OpQOLM_y0/s1600-h/manila_1+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Snb2myI2Z0I/AAAAAAAAAMQ/_3OpQOLM_y0/s200/manila_1+009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365747152212879170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kids are the same on their ages. They are very active and keen to move around with their activities. Some are playing with their partner. They tend to be more partner-looking. Looking for partner to share with. On the contrary, some enjoy doing with their own. Partners are just competitor who are considered as threats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sense of competitor is very dominant in the matter of tendency to defeat each other. There is winner and losser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sense of heroism could be found when they select TV channel. Cartoon film is one of their favorite channels. It is about funny things, colourful character of the actors, and .....heroism. Becoming a hero seems to be their ideal object. Dream that they always have.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(KUYA CENTER - MANILA / May 26, 2009)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-2882515171298541803?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2882515171298541803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2882515171298541803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/08/kids.html' title='THE KIDS'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Snb2myI2Z0I/AAAAAAAAAMQ/_3OpQOLM_y0/s72-c/manila_1+009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-231940805377237119</id><published>2009-07-28T07:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.017-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>THE PARTY MUST BE OVER</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sm8Mcc5TXkI/AAAAAAAAALw/6P69gTgxWcg/s1600-h/IMG_2006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sm8Mcc5TXkI/AAAAAAAAALw/6P69gTgxWcg/s200/IMG_2006.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363519364153957954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simplicity of happiness has been wrongly devoted to the maxim of ecstasy. Loud laughter has been so busy with emptiness of mind. It's a togetherness......but full of dreaming hopeless and creating nothing instead the unconscious words of alcoholism. The party must be over......and...it is not too late. (MATERIALISM ON HAPPINESS)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-231940805377237119?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/231940805377237119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/231940805377237119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/party-must-be-over.html' title='THE PARTY MUST BE OVER'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sm8Mcc5TXkI/AAAAAAAAALw/6P69gTgxWcg/s72-c/IMG_2006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-4144756504310367787</id><published>2009-07-25T01:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.018-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>THE GIFT...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SmrEfvxEGwI/AAAAAAAAALo/GzK-aDlnzko/s1600-h/IMG_2005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SmrEfvxEGwI/AAAAAAAAALo/GzK-aDlnzko/s200/IMG_2005.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362314356015241986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bennet Cerf relates this touching story about a bus that was bumping along a back road in the South.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In one seat a wispy old man sat holding a bunch of fresh flowers. Across the aisle was a young girl whose eyes came back again and again to the man's flowers. The time came for the old man to get off. Impulsively he thrust the flowers into the girl's lap."I can see you love the flowers," he explained,"and I think my wife would like for you to have them. I'll tell her I gave them to you." The girl accepted the flowers, then watched the old man get off the bus and walk through the gate of a small cemetery. (from Chicken Soup for the Soul)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-4144756504310367787?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/4144756504310367787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/4144756504310367787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/gift.html' title='THE GIFT...'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SmrEfvxEGwI/AAAAAAAAALo/GzK-aDlnzko/s72-c/IMG_2005.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-5063450221783887212</id><published>2009-07-24T19:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-24T19:30:12.726-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>EMBRACING SIMPLICITY</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SmpuLAIz3RI/AAAAAAAAALE/r-iZynZl4ZE/s1600-h/IMG_2067.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SmpuLAIz3RI/AAAAAAAAALE/r-iZynZl4ZE/s200/IMG_2067.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362219441632566546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a good market for simplicity these days, but one can't help wondering if it is really simplicity that is being promoted. Books and magazines that tell people how to live simply often promote a new for of consumerism. Gurus of organization equate simplicity with tidiness. The kind of simplicity that removes clutter from the soul has more to do with poverty of spirit and a contemplative attitude than with orderliness and a taste for the classic. Spiritual simplicity, like material simplicity, depends on the skill of knowing when to let go of what is useful to make room for what is essential. It doesn't take the deprivation of material poverty, but it does take something akin to poverty of spirit. (JANE KOPAS)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-5063450221783887212?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/5063450221783887212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/5063450221783887212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/embracing-simplicity.html' title='EMBRACING SIMPLICITY'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SmpuLAIz3RI/AAAAAAAAALE/r-iZynZl4ZE/s72-c/IMG_2067.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-961110086135686197</id><published>2009-07-19T18:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.022-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>HAPPINESS VS SADNESS</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SmjzHL3oglI/AAAAAAAAAKs/RwMbTMHjzew/s1600-h/IMG_1598.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SmjzHL3oglI/AAAAAAAAAKs/RwMbTMHjzew/s200/IMG_1598.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361802661155340882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no absolute HAPPINESS as some parts of it must be shared to conscience towards sadness of "poverty". There is no absolute SADNESS as some parts of it must be shared to conscience towards happiness of "hope". But .... there is a "safe" zone between them..... we call it as "idealism". (for July 20, 2009)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-961110086135686197?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/961110086135686197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/961110086135686197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/happiness-vs-sadness.html' title='HAPPINESS VS SADNESS'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SmjzHL3oglI/AAAAAAAAAKs/RwMbTMHjzew/s72-c/IMG_1598.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-6984950579421467254</id><published>2009-07-15T06:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.023-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>MATERIALISM VS SALVATION</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sl3aYCV5uvI/AAAAAAAAAI8/of_tsv3k6Qw/s1600-h/singapore_11_15_april_2009+159.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sl3aYCV5uvI/AAAAAAAAAI8/of_tsv3k6Qw/s200/singapore_11_15_april_2009+159.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358679238121208562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Defining in today’s context of salvation is not easy as the world now is full with materialism. To think using materialism way is to think everything measurable, practical and instant. Materialism paradigm can easily be traced by the irrational consumption of symbols. Satisfying need is intended to have better social status and to accumulate “more” or in a very economic term “investment”. Therefore, the consumption is emotionally-driven and unlimited one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It must be a hard effort to convince that God is still exist in that euphoria of symbolic consumption. It needs a better and logical explanation that there is an optimism related to the role of God in making better world in the future. Satisfying explanation may be in the matter to know the fact that world need something better. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God is about goodness and refers to something ideal. He could be in a very abstract form or a real one. He will be very abstract for those who are used to think simply in a materialism way. Those who are questioning how to use everything economically to satisfy the various human needs, and those who do not believe in everything “unlimited”. However, God is very real in the matter of  beliefs in an ideal world, a place or condition or universe that does not cause a sense of wrongness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What comes to the salvation is the tendency that world is getting worse. The gap between rich and poor countries reflects the fact that “something” wrong must be happened. There is capital accumulation character in the sense of speculative behaviour. It is to say that today’s world now is in absence of morality values.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The idea of God’s presence in this world is His role as a Saviour to make world become more prosperous and “rational” through salvation. In a very practical language is that God should come with His salvation to do the good things for the world. The world poverty may not happen if there is better understanding on the equality of income distribution. There would not be happened in case that people bring morality values in economic activity. Within the materialism context morality values will be such a controller to avoid too much symbolic consumption. The idea of God and salvation could be well placed in the morality values.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Materialism in whatever forms can be considered as the trend in which there is something “wrong” with this world as the people become more on material-oriented. That orientation determines way of life in every aspect and may potentially bring the world to self-destruction. This phenomena can be best viewed economically in the form of unrealistic consumption behaviour such as emotional consumption for social status purposes, and consumption for speculative or investment purposes. Consumption which is mainly controlled by emotion will always be uncontrollable. It means that consuming more on the direction to satisfying “in-essential” purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is caused by people who are lack of morality values. There might be critical opponent questioning the impact of morality values towards materialism phenomena. Basically, the morality values promote the truth of finding the “essential” things.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this condition there must be a solution in terms of how morality values could be well-placed as guidance to the “appropriateness”. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God is always represented in the truth of  perfectness. And, what happen to this world by “appropriateness” could be achieved and workable through discussion about the relation between the presence of God and the way he can do with this world. God reveals himself as he who has mercy, faithfulness, and will-to-save through salvation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salvation in this context is more on building capacity of faith using “prophecy” model like what Jesus and Moses do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The discussion of the paper will then focus on “rationalizing” the relation between the variables: materialism as the phenomena of “inappropriateness”, the presence of God in the”prophecy” model, and salvation in terms of promoting morality values. &lt;strong&gt;@ign_heri_sw/2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-6984950579421467254?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6984950579421467254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6984950579421467254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/materialism-vs-salvation.html' title='MATERIALISM VS SALVATION'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sl3aYCV5uvI/AAAAAAAAAI8/of_tsv3k6Qw/s72-c/singapore_11_15_april_2009+159.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-6586169272619116066</id><published>2009-07-14T20:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-15T05:52:45.985-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>TRAVELLING TO NEWNESS</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sl3REQIgt0I/AAAAAAAAAI0/HBDQ_WRN9KE/s1600-h/Picture+024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sl3REQIgt0I/AAAAAAAAAI0/HBDQ_WRN9KE/s200/Picture+024.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358669002621105986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak. So you are like a child just out of the womb. You begin to attach much more importance to the things around you because your survival depends upon them. You begin to be more accessible to others because they may be able to help you in difficult situations. And you accept any small favor from the gods with great delight, as if it were an episode you would remember for the rest of your life....you see only the beauty of them, and ....you feel happy to be alive...&lt;/span&gt;(PAULO COELHO)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-6586169272619116066?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6586169272619116066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6586169272619116066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/travelling-to-newness.html' title='TRAVELLING TO NEWNESS'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sl3REQIgt0I/AAAAAAAAAI0/HBDQ_WRN9KE/s72-c/Picture+024.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-2660585202005065040</id><published>2009-07-13T01:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.023-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>ON REFLECTIVE THINKING</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Slru6SgsY-I/AAAAAAAAAIs/i4h2Vr_5gsw/s1600-h/manila_may_14_2009+180.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Slru6SgsY-I/AAAAAAAAAIs/i4h2Vr_5gsw/s200/manila_may_14_2009+180.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357857391879414754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I very much concern on reflective thinking session as the medium or tools to make better understanding to the definition of God. Reflective thinking is very effective in terms of the way to questioning my existence to this life. Life should be able to be questioned instead it will be a very “dead and meaningless” one. Questioning life is also questioning myself with all strengths and weaknesses. The “quality” of my reflective thinking is questionable to deal with strengths and weaknesses I should work out. In certain cases it is very hard to adjust with flexibility….the same with adjustment in the new atmosphere or environment. Sometimes it is like an “allergic” syndrome to greet the coming of “newness”. Experiencing from my past when I came here as the only “foreigner”. All my fellows here are Filipinos with well-placed attributes in their own cultures, characters, exclusive solidarity, etc. What I feel as excluded person is that the feeling of lonesome, painful…and that being “in despair” questioning the goodness from Him. I am “wrestling” with Him everyday. Where are you God? But, I also have my strength on being systematic person. I am eager to think in a deep sense…..also a very critical one to the concept of truth….truth of this life as well as truth of myself. Slowly I am building a foundation of perspective in an effort to think seriously my existence to this life. Knowing that it is not easy to define God has placed me in the position to collect and memorize all that God has given to me in the time of joy and sorrow. Being systematic person strengthens me to use my systematical reasoning. It has guided and accompanied my journey of “reasoning” to find the truth. It is an unfinished reasoning but also a commitment to have an authentic treasure. In the process of reasoning I have come to a conclusion that life has provided me everything to make better “reasoning”. The challenges are sometimes necessary to be involved in that process. In my sense of humanity the challenges are undeniable. They can not be avoided. Beauty of the journey consists of challenges that I have to deal with….challenges that can be explained using systematic reasoning. I re-assure myself that my strength as a systematic person could help me to work in the my are of weakness - flexibility. The newness should not be perceived negatively but more on putting the perception that it is part of the beauty of life God has granted to me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-2660585202005065040?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2660585202005065040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2660585202005065040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-reflective-thinking.html' title='ON REFLECTIVE THINKING'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Slru6SgsY-I/AAAAAAAAAIs/i4h2Vr_5gsw/s72-c/manila_may_14_2009+180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-6476036781435464906</id><published>2009-07-09T07:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.024-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>ONE MORE ABOUT SPIRITUALITY...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SlYCLZhn8nI/AAAAAAAAAH0/_Mus6XZ3MVM/s1600-h/untitled+70.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SlYCLZhn8nI/AAAAAAAAAH0/_Mus6XZ3MVM/s200/untitled+70.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356471201657516658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;It’s odd that after thousands of years of great spiritual example and literature we have to remind ourselves that spirituality is to be found in everyday life. The world’s sacred poetry, ritual, prayer, and art are filled with images of incarnated divinity, or the eternity that lies, admittedly sometimes hidden, in the temporal, or the transpersonal that animates our personal lives. Hundreds of times painters have taken up theme of the “Annunciation” and have pictured that moment, that eternal moment that is in all our lives, when the angel evident in Tibetan tangkas and in Indian sculptures and when William Blake says, “Eternity is in love with the production of time.” (Thomas Moore)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So....&lt;br /&gt;Spirituality is a mistery in the terms that it is difficult to logically explain instead it is a concept to be experienced. This life offers time to think about it through a number of moments. The high degree of spirituality understanding could be found in the perception of consciousness towards life. Therefore, the meaning of experience within the context of spirituality has been simplified into having the “ability” to interpret every moments in this life. Spirituality that is derived from “consciousness” interpretation towards what happened. The intensity in terms of being more consciousness will determine the degree of spirituality.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-6476036781435464906?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6476036781435464906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6476036781435464906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/one-more-about-spirituality.html' title='ONE MORE ABOUT SPIRITUALITY...'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SlYCLZhn8nI/AAAAAAAAAH0/_Mus6XZ3MVM/s72-c/untitled+70.bmp' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-6268709440037423266</id><published>2009-07-07T01:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.024-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>The Simplicity of Words.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SlMLI8mC8iI/AAAAAAAAAHE/F-ZcGyMXVLI/s1600-h/IMG_1518.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SlMLI8mC8iI/AAAAAAAAAHE/F-ZcGyMXVLI/s200/IMG_1518.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355636630206214690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mostly "word" is used as "cosmetics" for nothing. Mostly "word" is used to make "a win"....BUT "word" is very often used to bring goodness. AND...."word" can do all well. "Word" is in respect of those who use it....NOW..It's your authority to have it&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-6268709440037423266?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6268709440037423266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6268709440037423266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/simplicity-of-words.html' title='The Simplicity of Words.....'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SlMLI8mC8iI/AAAAAAAAAHE/F-ZcGyMXVLI/s72-c/IMG_1518.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-7541863037028358110</id><published>2009-07-06T08:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.025-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>INDAHNYA PERSAHABATAN...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SlIUMfCSsuI/AAAAAAAAAG0/QpEavPn6D-M/s1600-h/asrama_flower_21_march+2009+025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SlIUMfCSsuI/AAAAAAAAAG0/QpEavPn6D-M/s200/asrama_flower_21_march+2009+025.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355365111619039970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A friendship is between two or more. And, they all know how to make a unity of similarities. The spirit of togetherness that always brings fairness and that no one will lose his face but ....... gain victory.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-7541863037028358110?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/7541863037028358110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/7541863037028358110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/indahnya-persahabatan.html' title='INDAHNYA PERSAHABATAN...'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SlIUMfCSsuI/AAAAAAAAAG0/QpEavPn6D-M/s72-c/asrama_flower_21_march+2009+025.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-2031440272749683783</id><published>2009-07-05T01:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.025-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>MISTERI WAKTU (1) ........</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SlBptt6bZSI/AAAAAAAAAGU/a0aD_YVoBKM/s1600-h/IMG_1792.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SlBptt6bZSI/AAAAAAAAAGU/a0aD_YVoBKM/s200/IMG_1792.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354896191083210018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Masa lalu seringkali memberi kesan indah. Masa yang akan datang seringkali tidak diketahui "arahnya".... Yang harus dikerjakan saat ini adalah........? membuat kesan indah bagi masa yang akan datang.......SELAMAT BERKARYA !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-2031440272749683783?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2031440272749683783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2031440272749683783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/misteri-waktu-1.html' title='MISTERI WAKTU (1) ........'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SlBptt6bZSI/AAAAAAAAAGU/a0aD_YVoBKM/s72-c/IMG_1792.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-6765185665078022645</id><published>2009-07-04T05:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.025-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>THE BEAUTY OF "PESSIMISM"....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SldX0JvXwHI/AAAAAAAAAIc/f8FYwt_P8WY/s1600-h/IMG_1903.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SldX0JvXwHI/AAAAAAAAAIc/f8FYwt_P8WY/s200/IMG_1903.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356846835259916402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Orang yang pesimis terhadap hidup sejatinya adalah orang yang selalu mempertanyakan eksistensi hidupnya. Dan oleh karenanya, orang tersebut akan terus berpikir......yang akan berhenti pada suatu "titik" dimana disitu ada harapan. Nah, mulai sekarang kita mesti belajar dari pesimistis......&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-6765185665078022645?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6765185665078022645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/6765185665078022645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/pesimistis.html' title='THE BEAUTY OF &quot;PESSIMISM&quot;....'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SldX0JvXwHI/AAAAAAAAAIc/f8FYwt_P8WY/s72-c/IMG_1903.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-1535769269816791840</id><published>2009-07-04T04:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-04T05:05:08.981-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>Oh life (2) .......</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sk9FXwtCHqI/AAAAAAAAAF8/1nIg_PKrmYw/s1600-h/IMG_1555.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sk9FXwtCHqI/AAAAAAAAAF8/1nIg_PKrmYw/s200/IMG_1555.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354574756479901346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mengapa kita harus memberi lebih banyak? Karena kita telah mendapatkan apa yang seharusnya kita dapatkan dalam jumlah yang lebih dari cukup. Berilah maka kamu akan mendapatkan. Dengan memberi lebih banyak, maka kita mengalami kekurangan. Tapi kekurangan itu akan segera dipenuhi oleh "banyak kesempatan" untuk menghasilkan kelebihan.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-1535769269816791840?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1535769269816791840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1535769269816791840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/oh-life-2.html' title='Oh life (2) .......'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sk9FXwtCHqI/AAAAAAAAAF8/1nIg_PKrmYw/s72-c/IMG_1555.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-1584218718669330881</id><published>2009-07-02T00:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-04T00:34:16.449-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>Oh life (1) ........</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sk8F7RNniBI/AAAAAAAAAFg/2Vt4Gk90pUQ/s1600-h/IMG_1577.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sk8F7RNniBI/AAAAAAAAAFg/2Vt4Gk90pUQ/s200/IMG_1577.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354504997757749266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ada banyak hal yang bisa kita lakukan dalam hidup ini. Sekecil apapun hal yang kita kerjakan ternyata mempunyai arti apabila kita mampu memahaminya. Oleh karenanya, kita tidak perlu melakukan hal-hal yang besar. Yang perlu dilakukan adalah mengerjakan hal-hal yang mempunyai arti. Semakin banyak hal yang berarti yang kita kerjakan, maka semakin besar kesempatan kita mengalami hari-hari yang menyenangkan dalam hidup ini. Masalahnya adalah kadang kita kesulitan memahami sebuah pekerjaan sebagai sesuatu yang memiliki arti atau tidak. Tapi, orang bijak mengatakan pekerjaan yang mempunyai arti adalah pekerjaan yang dilakukan untuk kepentingan orang lain. Apapun itu bentuknya....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-1584218718669330881?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1584218718669330881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1584218718669330881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/oh-life-1.html' title='Oh life (1) ........'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sk8F7RNniBI/AAAAAAAAAFg/2Vt4Gk90pUQ/s72-c/IMG_1577.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-8180937857905763360</id><published>2009-06-29T05:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.026-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time to think'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>KEBANGKITAN YANG MEMULIHKAN....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Ski1LC7EuGI/AAAAAAAAAEo/BINg7fwazU8/s1600-h/FeedMySheep-LeicesterCathedral.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 125px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Ski1LC7EuGI/AAAAAAAAAEo/BINg7fwazU8/s200/FeedMySheep-LeicesterCathedral.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352727358497667170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KEBANGKITAN (KRISTUS)YANG MEMULIHKAN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Momentum pemulihan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kristus telah wafat di kayu salib. Kematian yang sangat mahal hargaNya. Sebuah pengorbanan bagi penghapusan dosa-dosa manusia. Namun, wafatNya kemudian disertai kebangkitan sebagai simbol kemenangan atas maut. Maut dan dosa tidak lagi mampu mengalahkan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dipulihkan berarti pembaharuan iman untuk hidup baru yang bersih dari dosa. Meninggalkan hidup lama menuju hidup baru yang lebih menjanjikan sebagaimana Kristus sendiri telah berkata “Di rumah Bapa-Ku banyak tempat tinggal, jika tidak demikian, tentu Aku mengatakannya kepadamu. Sebab Aku pergi ke situ untuk menyediakan tempat bagimu. Dan apabila Aku telah pergi ke situ dan telah menyediakan tempat bagimu, Aku akan datang kembali dan membawa kamu ke tempat-Ku, supaya di tempat di mana Aku berada, kamu pun berada.” (Yohanes, 14:1-3). Dia yang berjanji, dan Dia yang menyediakan tempat untuk kita kelak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Janji Kristus sebagaimana “garansi” bagi mereka yang mengikuti jalanNya. Dan, itu pasi ditepatiNya karena Dia adalah Allah yang setia seperti yang dilakukanNya terhadap Ayub “Lalu Tuhan memulihkan keadaan Ayub, setelah ia meminta doa untuk sahabat-sahabatnya, dan Tuhan memberikan kepada Ayub dua kali lipat dari segala kepunyaannya dahulu. Tuhan memberkati Ayub dalam hidupnya yang selanjutnya lebih dari pada dalam hidupnya yang dahulu…” (Ayub, 42:10, 12a)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dipulihkan juga berarti mengikat komitmen dari kita untuk memiliki iman yang aktif. Inisiatif merupakan bentuk penghargaan atas panggilanNya. Menjawab panggilanNya secara aktif dengan membangun hubungan yang lebih terarah, tegas, dan manusiawi dengan diri sendiri. Terarah artinya relasi itu langsung menuju kepada jalanNya yaitu Yesus itu sendiri sebagaimana dikatakan “…Akulah jalan kebenaran dan hidup. Tidak ada seorang pun yang datang kepada Bapa, kalau tidak melalui Aku” (Yohanes, 14:6). Relasi yang lebih terarah, dan tidak melewati “jalan lain”. Untuk itu perlu sikap tegas namun manusiawi. Ketegasan tersebut adalah kedewasaan untuk menentukan pilihan. Bebas namun pilihan itu harus diambil, yaitu satu pilihan saja.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pemahaman terhadap jalan Kristus mesti dilalui dalam sebuah proses dan bahkan “misteri” yang seringkali tidak mampu diketahui. Seringkali, tidak ada logika yang mampu menjelaskan karena logika manusiawi sangatlah terbatas, sedangkan Allah adalah “ketidakterbatasan”. Sesuatu yang absolut dan tidak mampu “dijangkau” oleh logika manusia. Manusia hanyalah menerima dan menyaksikan karyaNya yang agung. Dengan demikian pemulihan juga berarti “penyegaran” terhadap pemahaman akan jalan Kristus dari sesuatu yang abstrak dan sulit dimengerti menjadi sebuah harapan yang sangat dirindukan. Pemulihan adalah pelepasan sekat-sekat kerumitan pola pikir manusia yang dipenuhi oleh egoisme radikal yang melahirkan ambisi untuk mengalahkan bahkan “menghilangkan” orang lain. Kesesatan pola pikir manusia yang terlalu berlebihan dalam mengandalkan ke”aku”an-nya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Penyegaran terhadap pemahaman akan jalan Kristus sejatinya adalah buah-buah ketekunan kehidupan doa. Dengan doa kita diingatkan. Doa yang dilakukan secara teratur senantiasa memulihkan ingatan. Menyegarkan ingatan bahwa kehidupan ada yang menciptakan, mengatur. Menyegarkan ingatan akan Yang Absolut – sumber inspirasi bagi siapapun yang ingin mempertanyakan hakikat dari hidup ini.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pemahaman yang disegarkan dan diperbaharui bukan berarti menggantikan pemahaman lama. Jalan Kristus dari dulu sampai sekarang adalah satu dan tidak pernah tergantikan. “Tidak ada seorangpun yang telah naik ke sorga, selain dari pada Dia yang telah turun dari sorga, yaitu Anak Manusia” (Yohanes, 3:13). Jalan keselamatan itu adalah Yesus sang Anak Manusia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bahwa Kristus telah wafat di kayu salib satu kali saja sebagai sebuah pengorbanan yang sangat heroik. Mengalahkan nalar manusiawi. Nampak sebagai “kesia-siaan” bagaimana seorang “raja” bisa mati di “kehinaan” kayu salib. Dia yang tidak pernah berdosa harus mati dengan sia-sia. Apa artinya itu?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;St. Paul preached that the resurrection is the very core of Christianity; it is the belief around which the church grew. If Jesus is not raised from the dead “than all is in vain,” he wrote. For Paul resurrection is first of all about new life now. It is about putting on Christ in baptism and then putting on Christ everyday thereafter. After the resurrection Jesus was alive not dead. It is the living Christ we experience at baptism and when we receive the Eucharist. Jesus comes into us and imbues us with his very life (John P Schlegel, S.J.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Menurut Schlegel kebangkitan Kristus adalah inti dari Kristianitas. Gereja tumbuh dari ajaran tersebut karena perannya menghadirkan ekaristi sebagai simbol kehadiran Kristus. Kehadiran Kristus dalam ekaristi berarti kesempatan bagi kita untuk berjumpa denganNya, dan memohon kekuatan dalam menghadapi cobaan hidup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kebangkitan Kristus yang dirayakan setiap tahun menjadi peringatan bahwa manusia telah mati bersama dengan dosa dan “bangkit” mengawali hidup baru sebagai manusia baru. Momentum sentral “pemulihan” itu terjadi setiap tahun bersamaan dengan peringatan Paskah. Momentum itu merupakan pelita yang senantiasa memberikan cahaya bagi kehadiran Kristus dalam setiap perayaan ekaristi maupun kehidupan doa yang kita bangun. Pelita yang senantiasa memberikan ajakan sebagaimana dikatakan Paulus “Sadarlah kembali sebaik-baiknya dan jangan berbuat dosa lagi! Ada di antara kamu yang tidak mengenal Allah. Hal ini kukatakan, supaya kamu merasa malu” (I Kor 15:34). Death has no hold on us, and so many of our fears would melt away. If we realized our ultimate home is heaven, our spirits would be lighter and we would walk around more gratefully. Tidak ada lagi belenggu kematian dan ketakutan karena roh telah menjadi pelita untuk membimbing kita ke jalan surga, jalan yang kita lalui dengan penuh rasa syukur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pemulihan untuk cinta yang inklusif&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dalam beberapa kali kesempatan Penulis berjumpa dan berinteraksi dengan orang-orang lokal khususnya di kota Nabawan kesan yang muncul adalah orang-orang yang mudah akrab. Berjumpa dengan orang tidak dikenal bisa diikuti oleh pemberian salam entah itu dalam bentuk lambaian tangan, senyum, maupun sekedar sapaan ramah. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sebuah perwujudan iman yang nyata dan sangat mudah diterapkan apabila mampu ditumbuhkan melalui semangat iman yang aktif. Iman yang senantiasa berbuah kebaikan karena terbebas dari belenggu egoisme. Belenggu egoisme yang menghasilkan cinta eksklusif dan sangat terbatas atau dibatasi. Cinta yang terlampau membatasi sampai akhirnya bersifat destruktif, merusak. Agaknya sebuah lagu yang berjudul “too much love will kill you” hanya untuk cinta yang eksklusif. Cinta eksklusif yang terlalu berlebihan dan “salah arah” akan merusak diri sendiri. Tetapi, momentum pemulihan melalui Kebangkitan Kristus akan mengembalikan eksistensi manusia untuk saling berbagi cinta karena Kristus sendiri telah membuktikan cintaNya melalui kematian di kayu salib. Cinta yang tidak “salah arah” adalah membentuk cinta yang inklusif dan mempersatukan. Cinta yang kemudian dibagikan (distributing love) mampu membangun komunitas damai. Dalam bentuk yang mudah dipahami dan dipraktekkan cinta dapat berupa ungkapan perhatian yang dimulai dengan sapaan. Apabila memungkinkan, cinta dapat diberikan dalam bentuk kesungguhan untuk lebih banyak “mendengar”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Di tempat tinggal Penulis, Asrama Butitin – Nabawan, para boarders (penghuni asrama) dididik untuk memiliki kedisiplinan dalam mengatur diri sendiri (self-management). Mereka dibiasakan untuk hidup secara teratur dan seimbang. Keseimbangan antara aktivitas fisik (membersihkan lingkungan asrama, berkebun, olah raga) dan aktivitas rohani (berdoa bersama). Keseimbangan hidup yang sangat sulit untuk didapatkan dalam era modernisasi seperti sekarang. Manusia modern yang tinggal dan hidup di kota-kota besar sulit mendapatkan keseimbangan hidup karena terbelenggu oleh kesibukan semu bercorak kapitalistis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disini, para boarders menjalani rutinitas yang penuh makna. Sekecil apapun itu apabila dilakukan dengan cinta, maka akan berbuah kebaikan. Mereka adalah komunitas yang mempromosikan buah-buah iman kristiani yang aktif. Berharap dari komunitas tersebut menjadi kekuatan yang memicu (triggering power) bagi terciptanya lingkungan sosial yang damai dan penuh cinta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pendidikan bisa dilakukan dalam bentuk yang lebih menyeluruh (holistic). Anak-anak dibentuk menjadi sosok mandiri yang kelak mampu menolong dirinya sendiri. Krisis di masa mendatang adalah krisis identitas diri. Ancaman krisis manusia yang asing dengan dirinya sendiri (aliegnation) tidaklah dapat diremehkan begitu saja. Dalam tataran yang sangat serius krisis alienasi atau pengasingan diri akan menuju kepada kehancuran peradaban.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oleh karenanya pemulihan cinta yang inklusif diikuti oleh upaya inisiatif untuk terus membangun keterbukaan yang berawal terhadap diri sendiri. Membangun sebuah tempat dimana Kristus sendiri hadir di dalamnya. Berdamai dulu dengan diri sendiri untuk kemudian berdamai dengan sesama.@ign.heri.sw/2009&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-8180937857905763360?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8180937857905763360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8180937857905763360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/kebangkitan-yang-memulihkan.html' title='KEBANGKITAN YANG MEMULIHKAN....'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Ski1LC7EuGI/AAAAAAAAAEo/BINg7fwazU8/s72-c/FeedMySheep-LeicesterCathedral.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-8190887221386760257</id><published>2009-06-28T22:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.026-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>THE SINGAPOREAN WAY....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sk9GLNaaPcI/AAAAAAAAAGE/MbZVasgd2N8/s1600-h/IMG_0536.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sk9GLNaaPcI/AAAAAAAAAGE/MbZVasgd2N8/s200/IMG_0536.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354575640359747010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SkhSGXYp8VI/AAAAAAAAADg/RJBczsPVz6w/s1600-h/singapore_11_15_april_2009+194.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SkhSGXYp8VI/AAAAAAAAADg/RJBczsPVz6w/s200/singapore_11_15_april_2009+194.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352618426439954770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE SINGAPOREAN WAY: EGOISME NEGARA-KOTA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sebuah gereja Katolik yang terletak di Chapel Road, Singapore mengadakan Misa Paskah pagi pukul 7.15 pada sebuah hari Minggu tanggal 12 April 2009. Hari itu udara cukup cerah walau agak mendung. Gereja yang cukup megah dengan umat yang sebagian besar datang menggunakan mobil (mewah) pribadi. Walau tidak terlalu banyak dihadiri umat namun suasana misa berjalan lancar dan cukup khidmat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seluruh petugas misa memakai jas. Sangat formal, serius dengan mengikuti tatacara misa yang telah direncanakan dengan baik. Misa dilakukan dengan menggunakan bahasa Inggris. Pembaca bacaan membaca dengan intonasi yang sangat jelas dan sedikit terdengar Singaporean-styled pronunciation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Namun demikian tatacara dan suasana misa terlihat sangat berbeda dibandingkan pengalaman yang pernah diikuti oleh Penulis baik di Indonesia maupun Malaysia. Disini gaya kota sangat terasa. Nampak jelas sosok negara-kota seperti Singapore hanyalah menghasilkan egoisme. Salam damai dalam bentuk jabat tangan diganti dengan sekedar tatapan dan senyuman tanpa arti yang (sebenarnya) lebih bermakna formalitas sekedar mengikuti tatacara misa yang sudah diwariskan sebelumnya. Sebuah rutinitas yang dilakukan secara tidak sadar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rutinitas akan membelenggu ketika rutinitas itu sendiri dilakukan secara tidak sadar. Dan semakin terlihat egoisme negara-kota seperti Singapore pada hari ini mendominasi kehidupan kota-kota besar di dunia. Egoisme yang sangat dinikmati dimana manusia memuja secara berlebihan dirinya sendiri sekaligus memihak kepentingan-kepentingan yang berhubungan dengan dirinya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rutinitas tersebut juga tidak membawa makna yang “menguntungkan” kecuali menjadi pondasi yang kokoh bagi egoisme yang membawa makna “tidak menguntungkan”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Orang-orang Cina memang terkenal sebagai pekerja keras. Sama dengan penduduk Singapore yang sebagian besar terdiri dari orang-orang Cina maupun keturunan Cina yang sangat “gila kerja” seolah-olah waktu adalah uang (time is money). Waktu adalah sumber daya yang sangat langka, dan oleh karenanya harus digunakan sebaik mungkin. Prinsip efektivitas dan efisiensi diterapkan dengan ketat melampaui batas-batas humanistis. Tanpa sadar prinsip tersebut yang awalnya cocok untuk benda mati dilogikakan dan diterapkan “seadanya” pada manusia. Atas kehendak dan kemauan manusia itu sendiri prinsip efektivitas dan efisiensi dipakai untuk mengukur sesuatu yang “ideal” dan harus dicapai. Akhirnya, manusia menerapkan prinsip efektivitas dan efisiensi sebagai sarana untuk mengumpulkan “surplus”. Surplus berarti keuntungan. Semakin besar surplus yang diperoleh, semakin besar keuntungan yang bisa didapatkan. Realitas ini kemudian menjadi sebuah “mesin otomatis” yang tidak lagi mampu dikontrol. “Mesin yang tak berpemilik” inilah yang akhirnya merusak peradaban manusia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apabila dapat dijelaskan dengan menggunakan logika tersebut maka patut diwaspadai bahwa rutinitas yang membelenggu dan memperkokoh egoisme berpotensi merusak dan “menghilangkan” hakikat manusia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Banyak media massa memuat berita-berita seputar krisis ekonomi global. Banyak istilah bermunculan menggambarkan situasi ekonomi saat ini. Mulai dari kemunduran ekonomi (economic downturn) sampai dengan ekonomi yang sedang lesu (worse economic situation). Pasar yang sedang lesu dan mengurangi permintaan (demand) karena daya beli yang lemah. Banyak pendapat disampaikan dalam bentuk artikel-artikel bisnis yang dijumpai Penulis ketika mengunjungi toko buku Borders di Marine Parade Road, Singapore. Di antara banyak pendapat yang disampaikan mencoba memberi “resep jitu” bagi pemulihan krisis ekonomi. Berbagai kombinasi pendekatan digunakan untuk menjelaskan permasalahan krisis sekaligus memberi solusi. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Banyak yang mengatakan sebagai krisis dimana keserakahan manusia mencapai puncaknya. Keserakahan manusia yang tak lagi mampu dikenali sebagai “sesuatu” yang merusak. Sejatinya belumlah ada pendapat yang secara tepat mampu menjelaskan dengan baik permasalahan krisis maupun pemecahannya. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pengalaman Penulis dalam sebuah perkuliahan di Indonesia terdapat pendapat yang agak radikal dan ceroboh bahwa permasalahan krisis ekonomi dunia bisa diselesaikan dengan melalui perubahan sistem ekonomi kapitalisme menjadi ekonomi moral. Semudah itukah? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Egoisme yang berlebihan sebagai produk kapitalisme kota seperti yang terjadi di Singapore tidak akan bersifat destruktif atau merusak apabila egoisme tersebut mampu dinetralkan sikap yang toleran untuk “sedikit berbagi” kepada orang lain. Namun mekanisme ini harus mampu dijaga oleh sebuah “otoritas independen” bukan dalam bentuk aturan formal dengan segala konsekuensinya “tegas”nya, namun sebuah kekuatan moral yang lebih banyak memberi contoh, pola ataupun patron tanpa memberi beban konsekuensi apapun bentuknya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Produk negara-kota seperti halnya Singapore yang seringkali disalahkan sebagai penyebab tumbuh suburnya kapitalisme yang berakar dari budaya egoisme tidaklah dapat diselesaikan dengan merubah total sistem yang ada. Egoisme tidak bisa dihilangkan begitu saja karena melekat dalam keberadaan manusia itu sendiri. Egoisme semakin dibentuk ketika manusia tidak lagi percaya adanya “sosok” yang memiliki “ketidakterbatasan”. Kekuatan “aku” manusia kemudian dipakai sebagai pembenaran absolut terhadap berbagai hal. Manusia yang terjebak dalam pembenaran untuk dirinya sendiri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sebagai salah satu kota metropolitan dunia, Singapore menjadi zona nyaman (comfort zone) bagi aktivitas bernilai ekonomis. Semua dihitung melalui mekanisme untung-rugi. Semakin banyak memberi semakin banyak menuntut “hak mendapatkan”. Namun, dalam realitas tidak ada konsepsi semakin sedikit memberi semakin sedikit pula “porsi hak mendapatkan”. Artinya, mekanisme itupun kemudian menjadi “semu” dan tidak “fair”. Manusia hanya ingin memberi sedikit untuk mendapatkan yang lebih banyak. Dan, yang lebih memprihatinkan adalah ketika aset intelektual dipakai untuk menyelesaikan “logika” tersebut. Keserakahan adalah jawabannya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apa yang ingin disampaikan adalah bahwa zona nyaman bagi aktivitas bernilai ekonomis disana seringkali hanya menyediakan “permainan kotor” yang menghasilkan kesenjangan antara mereka yang mendapatkan “bagian yang lebih banyak” dengan mereka yang mendapatkan “bagian yang lebih sedikit”. Juga, manusia yang semakin teralienasi, diasingkan oleh dirinya sendiri. @ign.heri.sw/2009&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-8190887221386760257?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8190887221386760257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/8190887221386760257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/singaporean-way-egoisme-negara-kota.html' title='THE SINGAPOREAN WAY....'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/Sk9GLNaaPcI/AAAAAAAAAGE/MbZVasgd2N8/s72-c/IMG_0536.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-3738194101015516896</id><published>2009-06-28T20:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.027-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>The beauty of authenticity....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SkgzPLe_5II/AAAAAAAAAC4/Fq7ujjpWv3Q/s1600-h/manila_may_14_2009+032.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SkgzPLe_5II/AAAAAAAAAC4/Fq7ujjpWv3Q/s200/manila_may_14_2009+032.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352584493003695234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It goes beyond logical perception. It's about authenticity.... the beauty of Mount Kinabalu.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-3738194101015516896?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/3738194101015516896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/3738194101015516896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/beauty-of-authenticity.html' title='The beauty of authenticity....'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SkgzPLe_5II/AAAAAAAAAC4/Fq7ujjpWv3Q/s72-c/manila_may_14_2009+032.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-1624382081299078142</id><published>2009-06-28T08:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-28T22:08:21.283-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>Karakter Globalisasi vs Simplisitis</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SkhMKAg9KJI/AAAAAAAAADI/ylRkayJdEMI/s1600-h/singapore_11_15_april_2009+171.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SkhMKAg9KJI/AAAAAAAAADI/ylRkayJdEMI/s200/singapore_11_15_april_2009+171.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352611891950463122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Karakter globalisasi dan destruksi identitas manusia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Globalisasi yang arahnya kepada penghancuran identitas (diri). Globalisasi yang merusak. Kalau toh membawa manfaat sebatas manfaat di permukaan (surface benefit), yaitu manfaat yang tidak memiliki arti (meaningless). Manfaat yang sebenarnya tidak bermakna. Logika ekonomis (mungkin) dapat menjelaskan konsepsi surface benefit ini. Manfaat dihasilkan oleh sumber daya yang harus terus menerus diperbaharui. Manfaat harus bisa menghasilkan pengembalian (return) kepada pemulihan kapasitas sumber daya. Dengan demikian sumber daya tersebut bisa terus menghasilkan manfaat. Surface benefit juga merupakan manfaat semu (pseudo benefit) sebagai akibat arus budaya komersialisasi yang sulit dibendung. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saat ini teknologi diciptakan dan dikembangkan (diduga) untuk menghasilkan manfaat semu karena ternyata cost-nya sangat besar. Edukatif yang konsumtif. Dan, itu terutama harus ditanggung oleh mereka yang tidak fasih teknologi. Teknologi telah membentuk masyarakat yang fasih teknologi sekaligus masyarakat yang (sebenarnya) sangat rentan untuk dimanipulasi. Teknologi telah membodohkan masyarakat dengan permainan-permainan systemic yang seolah-olah memberdayakan, mendidik. Teknologi tidak pernah berhenti berinovasi. Teknologi yang dynamics sejatinya adalah destruktif karena masyarakat menjadi sangat tergantung di dalamnya.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Menjadi sangat relevan dikatakan bahwa globalisasi sama sekali tidak membawa manfaat. Bahasa efisiensi dan efektivitas memang melekat dalam karakter globalisasi tetapi ternyata mereduksi peran manusia. Manusia akhirnya mereduksi, mengurangi perannya sebagai obyek. Efisiensi dan efektivitas tidak akan pernah membawa manfaat bagi manusia karena biayanya tidaklah "lebih sedikit" dibandingkan dengan in-efisiensi dan in-efektivitas. Efisiensi dan efektivitas yang tercemar oleh budaya komersialisasi kemudian lebih banyak berurusan dengan penciptaan pasar (demand-supply relation). Orientasi pasar selalu berupaya menyeimbangkan antara permintaan (demand) dan penawaran (supply). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Globalisasi juga berwajah seram karena menghasilkan manusia-manusia yang selalu harus berkompetisi. Kompetisi yang "mengalahkan dan menghilangkan" orang lain. Bersaing untuk kepentingan-kepentingan material. Kekayaan material. Kompetisi yang terarah kepada konsumsi simbolistis. Lihat saja di sekolah siswa yang terus dimotivasi untuk berkompetisi mendapatkan nilai yang tinggi. Dalam konteks pendidikan konsumsi simbolistis adalah mengejar angka (numbering) sebagai tujuan dari pendidikan. Tidak pernah berbicara bagaimana siswa mendapatkan "pengalaman indah" dalam proses pendidikannya. Lihat saja status sosial ideal diukur dari kekayaan material yang dimiliki. Kekayaan material seringkali menjadi acuan. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spirit kompetitif juga seringkali terjebak pada upaya-upaya membentuk karakter konsumtif. Sejalan dengan itu kemudian memunculkan kebutuhan-kebutuhan baru melalui mekanisme pasar. Karakter konsumtif yang terus menerus dibentuk akan akan "mencari pasangannya" yaitu karakter produktif, yaitu karakter untuk terus "memproduksi". Dalam hal ini teknologi seringkali berpihak kepada keduanya. Karakter konsumtif dibentuk oleh teknologi melalui sifat ketergantungan (dependensi) karena kelebihan-kelebihan (benefit) yang ditawarkan oleh teknologi seperti kecepatan (speedness) dan keakuratan (accuracy). Kecepatan dan keakuratan sangat mudah direkayasa oleh teknologi, yaitu direvisi pada titik maksimum ketika pasar membutuhkan itu ataupun direvisi pada titik minimal untuk menciptakan "kebutuhan baru". Kita menjadi sangat tergantung pada kebutuhan untuk "lebih cepat" dan "lebih akurat". &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pertanyaan selanjutnya adalah bagaimana meng-counter fenomena globalisasi yang cenderung mereduksi indentitas manusia itu? Apakah simplisitis bisa menjadi salah satu alternatif pemecahan permasalahan itu? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simplisitis tidak berarti pemiskinan kapasitas ataupun reduksi yang terencana secara sistematis sehingga merusak logika manusia menjadi manusia yang merusak dirinya sendiri. Dalam konteks keep your life simple….berarti hidup yang semestinya sesuai ukuran yang ada. Konsep ini menjadi semakin populer yang kemudian dipertentangkan dengan materialisme. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Konsep materialisme berarti penumpukan material (material accumulation). Sebuah ambisi egoistis dimana material menjadi satu-satunya kekuatan yang "disembah" dan sangat diyakini., bahkan dianut sebagai "agama". Kekuatan simplisitis kemudian menjadi acuan ketika kekuatan material ternyata memiliki "usia" yang terbatas. Sebuah komputer baru tidak akan memiliki "keawetan pakai" di atas 5 tahun karena kehebatan teknologi yang mampu "mengosongkan" teknologi lama. Apakah kemudian komputer mesti ditinggalkan? Jawabannya tentu saja "tidak", tetapi sebelum memberikan jawaban itu mesti dipertanyakan dulu kenapa komputer masih diperlukan. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kalau kita menulis sebuah esai apakah harus terlebih dulu bertanya kita hendak menulis dengan menggunakan apa (HOW). Atau, justru sebaliknya yang perlu dipertanyakan terlebih dulu adalah isi dari esai itu seperti apa (WHAT).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simplisitis berarti penyederhanaan. Dalam konteks ekonomi misalnya simplisitis berarti "pemotongan" sejumlah jalur atau rantai (chain) untuk menghilangkan bagian-bagian yang "tidak bernilai ekonomis". Simplisitis yang sudah menjadi budaya akan mencegah manusia dari ketergantungan teknologi. Dengan budaya simplisitis maka manusia tidak lagi membutuhkan teknologi karena tidak ada lagi kebutuhan untuk "lebih cepat" dan "lebih akurat". Yang ada adalah bagaimana kebutuhan itu dapat dipenuhi pada tingkat "porsi yang rasional" (rational portion). Pada tingkat dimana pemenuhan kebutuhan itu hanyalah sebatas "menggantikan bagian" yang hilang dan harus digunakan saat itu. Tidak untuk "menumpuk kelebihan" semacam "investasi" yang antisipatif, yaitu sebagai antisipasi munculnya kebutuhan di masa mendatang. Kebutuhan "saat itu" harus segera dipenuhi pada "saat itu" juga. Barang atau jasa yang dipakai untuk memenuhi kebutuhan tersebut harus "habis" pada saat itu juga. Tidak lagi ada "sisa" atau "kelebihan" dalam konsepsi "investatif". &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simplisitis sebagai sebuah spirit akan senantiasa "tergerak" untuk melawan globalisasi yang penuh dengan ancaman menciptakan kebutuhan baru. Jebakan kebutuhan-kebutuhan baru yang membuat manusia harus semakin konsumtif. Sampai dimana? Sampai manusia tidak lagi mampu memenuhi kebutuhannya. Pada titik terendah dimana manusia tidak lagi mampu menjadi subyek atas dirinya sendiri sehingga dia tidak lagi mampu berkuasa atas dirinya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simplisitis berarti kontra-produktif globalisasi. Tidak lagi pada kebutuhan "kecepatan" dan "akurasi" tetapi bagaimana kebutuhan itu dapat dipenuhi secara rasional. Tidak melebihi kapasitasnya untuk dapat memenuhi kebutuhan tersebut. Juga, konsumsi yang dilakukan hanyalah sebatas pada "menggantikan bagian yang hilang". Simplisitis berasal dari kata simple yang berarti sederhana atau "secukupnya". Penyederhanaan tidak berarti "pemotongan jalur" karena motivasi apatis ataupun pesimistis, tidak juga berarti "jalan pintas" yang mengurangi kepentingan orang lain. Simplisitis tidak berarti efisien dan efektif karena memang tidak berurusan bahasa ekonomis. Simplisitis berarti penyederhanaan terhadap segala bentuk "kerumitan" pola pikir yang justru disebabkan oleh motif-motif efisiensi dan efektivitas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karena pertimbangan nilai ekonomis maka Pemutusan Hubungan Kerja (PHK) menjadi sangat rasional-ekonomis, maka disitulah diharapkan terbentuk efisiensi dan efektivitas. Tentu saja simplisitis tidak bermaksud demikian melainkan menurunkan tingkat keuntungan pada titik "aman". Titik yang "paling seimbang". Simplisitis atau penyederhanaan juga masuk pada area dimana tidak ada lagi "kebutuhan-kebutuhan baru". Kerumitan ataupun kompleksitas kebutuhan dapat terurai menjadi kebutuhan-kebutuhan yang "paling dibutuhkan".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kenapa mesti ada kebutuhan untuk "lebih cepat" dan "lebih akurat"? Karena manusia sudah terjebak di dalam sistem untuk menjadi "lebih cepat" dan "lebih akurat". Jebakan sistemik entah dirasakan atau tidak akan menyebabkan masuknya manusia dalam "kotak ketidakberdayaan" sekaligus cepat atau lambat akan "melunturkan" hakikat kemanusiaannya sendiri. Apakah menjadi "lebih cepat" dan "lebih akurat" memang dibutuhkan? Mungkin penekanannya bukan pada "lebih cepat" dan "lebih akurat" tetapi lebih pada bagaimana kecepatan dan akurasi tersebut dapat mengembalikan kepada "titik keseimbangan".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Sebaliknya, kebutuhan yang tinggi akan kecepatan dan akurasi tidak pernah bermotif mengembalikan kepada keseimbangan ekonomis tetapi selalu berorientasi kepada penumpukan modal (capital accumulating). Ambisi penumpukan modal yang tak pernah selesai sampai akhirnya harus dihentikan oleh "hukum keseimbangan".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simplisitis juga akan lebih mudah dijelaskan dalam motivasi membeli barang. Apa yang lebih dipentingkan? Content atau packaging-nya? Isi atau "bungkus"nya? Oleh karenanya simplisitis mengembalikan pada konsepsi inti atau content-based. Isi adalah lebih penting daripada bungkusnya. Membeli pakaian secara rasional lebih pada fungsi dari pakaian itu sendiri untuk apa. Seringkali pertimbangan-pertimbangan emosional menjadi sangat dominan. Sehingga membeli pakaian juga untuk kebutuhan "dapat diterima secara sosial". Pakaian dan nilai sosial memang kemudian dapat dibenarkan untuk saling dihubungkan. Tetapi, apakah kebutuhan pengakuan secara sosial memang sudah layak untuk dimunculkan? Apakah kebutuhan tersebut sudah sesuai dengan kapasitas (ekonomis) yang dimiliki? @ign.heri.sw/2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-1624382081299078142?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1624382081299078142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/1624382081299078142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/karakter-globalisasi-vs-simplisitis.html' title='Karakter Globalisasi vs Simplisitis'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/SkhMKAg9KJI/AAAAAAAAADI/ylRkayJdEMI/s72-c/singapore_11_15_april_2009+171.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311858187632140878.post-2819899949189983791</id><published>2009-06-27T23:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T18:27:54.027-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inspiration'/><title type='text'>meaning of simplicity</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Simplicity means nothing without enthusiasm. It will bring you passion to live peacefully with materialism. Simplicity will not defeat materialism. But, it has ability to keep in distance. It starts from the fact that today's world is over polluted with the dominance of egoism. The various kind of needs are created. It is very innovated to the way promoting the values of irrational consumption. Simplicity knows well that reality. It becomes reflective partner for those who like to think critically. We welcome you........ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8311858187632140878-2819899949189983791?l=simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2819899949189983791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8311858187632140878/posts/default/2819899949189983791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simplicityforyourlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/meaning-of-simplicity.html' title='meaning of simplicity'/><author><name>Ign Heri Satrya Wangsa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12058713615675272470</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HpY8Qvfd098/S5j3nE4-rDI/AAAAAAAAAWg/ouUPgd9k9ik/S220/IMG_3673.JPG'/></author></entry></feed>
