Heaven and Earth

I have always been intrigued by people - how we can be so different and yet the same.

Here is something I read recently that explained the mindsets of 2 different groups. It is no wonder that if they happen to live in the same household, sparks will fly - for better or for worse.

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Culture: Philosophy, Mythology, History, Literature, The Arts

"As a technological, economic and political animal, the Singaporean generally thinks, plans and acts with time spans measured in hours, days, months, years and sometimes decades - spans within a person's living experience.

On the other hand, historians discourse in millennia, philosophers probe eternity, and writers and artists juxtapose times past/present/ future.

In substance, technological, economic and political animals always deal with tangibles ... and often producing concrete, material things.

On the other hand, philosophers, writers and artists always deal in intangibles, often originating and initiating behaviours that are physically difficult to discern:  they are subjective, elusive, fantastic and sometimes even considered quite mad by their contemporaries (whose judgments as often overturned decades or centuries later)."

~   Essays and Speeches by Kuo Pao Kun, Volume 7 (2008)