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MATERIAL ORIENTATION

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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. 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 poo

BEING A LOSER

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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. ©ign_heri_sw/2010

ENERGY OF CREATIVITY

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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" meani