http://japanizmo.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/mottainai-don%e2%80%99t-be-wasteful/ Japanese Trends, Culture, etc. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:58:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://japanizmo.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/mottainai-don%e2%80%99t-be-wasteful/#comment-53 Pirikara Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:52:12 +0000 http://japanizmo.wordpress.com/?2007/10/29/mottainai-don%e2%80%99t-be-wasteful/#comment-53 Hello Musings... Yes, I can't agree more. Overconsumption has taken over the best of us. Health, environment... you can even see it in our soaring credit card debt. Sometimes it's nice to take a short retreat outside that world, like going to the wilderness and living in a log cabin. Heheh. Easier said than done though, I know. Hello Musings… Yes, I can’t agree more. Overconsumption has taken over the best of us. Health, environment… you can even see it in our soaring credit card debt. Sometimes it’s nice to take a short retreat outside that world, like going to the wilderness and living in a log cabin. Heheh. Easier said than done though, I know.

]]> http://japanizmo.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/mottainai-don%e2%80%99t-be-wasteful/#comment-52 musingsofabittergirl Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:30:43 +0000 http://japanizmo.wordpress.com/?2007/10/29/mottainai-don%e2%80%99t-be-wasteful/#comment-52 What a great philosophy. You'd think after similar issues with starvation during the Great Depression in the 1930s in the USA, more people would be feeling similarly in this culture. But it seems to me it's only people in their 80s now who feel this way and they are looked down upon by the younger generation as 'silly' for feeling that way - because in the US, you were taught growing up that it was the 'land of plenty' and kids are brought up in a throw away culture, land is plentiful (or was) and big business was all too happy to take advantage of promoting ideas like having a new car every year, even if the old one still worked fine - it sold more for the companies. The US is run as a consumer wonderland, to the detriment of the environment and the health of all around them. What a great philosophy. You’d think after similar issues with starvation during the Great Depression in the 1930s in the USA, more people would be feeling similarly in this culture. But it seems to me it’s only people in their 80s now who feel this way and they are looked down upon by the younger generation as ’silly’ for feeling that way – because in the US, you were taught growing up that it was the ‘land of plenty’ and kids are brought up in a throw away culture, land is plentiful (or was) and big business was all too happy to take advantage of promoting ideas like having a new car every year, even if the old one still worked fine – it sold more for the companies. The US is run as a consumer wonderland, to the detriment of the environment and the health of all around them.

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