I was watching television, like I do here often, and a show was talking about how everyone goes into new trends. It is a trend to jump into a new trend as fast as possible. I found this funny yet perplexing of why people fall for trends. Now a days people here about a new trends a millisecond thanks to twitter, facebook and other social media items. So my thought process on this was, how the heck did older cultures spreed new trends, or did they even do that.
I know through history, each area had different things going on. For example during the times of Samurai in Japan, warriors had very sophisticated armour and weapons that no other culture had. While in Europe they were just developing proper metal alloys to make a strong steel for weapons. So as one can tell the trend in Japan was at a much different rate then in Europe. Years later isolation in Japan caused there trends to fall greatly behind other nations in the world and their technology looked out.
So as I am typing this, I just realized that trends are part of our evaluation. With out new trends to push towards or to find a better one, we might not be where we are today. If you look at Japan now and how they have developed after opening up to the world again they have become a technology super power. China has been doing the same collecting as much as they can from other cultures to become even more powerful. Its simple amazing.
Now there is the issue of going after the wrong trends. For example here in America we want to jump in the newest fashion trends and spend billions in catching the new trends.Yet we do not spend anything near the amount on fashion trends as we should on scientific trends. From what I see America has begun to isolate its self from the rest of the world in technology and science in exchange for a better looking jacket. If this is what older culture would have done in past we would not be near the place we are today.
Hopefully we walk into a new trend where we follow academics instead of fashion. Making us the stronger trend setter for something much better then a shoes.
"Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends."
~Janice Dickinson
I know through history, each area had different things going on. For example during the times of Samurai in Japan, warriors had very sophisticated armour and weapons that no other culture had. While in Europe they were just developing proper metal alloys to make a strong steel for weapons. So as one can tell the trend in Japan was at a much different rate then in Europe. Years later isolation in Japan caused there trends to fall greatly behind other nations in the world and their technology looked out.
So as I am typing this, I just realized that trends are part of our evaluation. With out new trends to push towards or to find a better one, we might not be where we are today. If you look at Japan now and how they have developed after opening up to the world again they have become a technology super power. China has been doing the same collecting as much as they can from other cultures to become even more powerful. Its simple amazing.
Now there is the issue of going after the wrong trends. For example here in America we want to jump in the newest fashion trends and spend billions in catching the new trends.Yet we do not spend anything near the amount on fashion trends as we should on scientific trends. From what I see America has begun to isolate its self from the rest of the world in technology and science in exchange for a better looking jacket. If this is what older culture would have done in past we would not be near the place we are today.
Hopefully we walk into a new trend where we follow academics instead of fashion. Making us the stronger trend setter for something much better then a shoes.
"Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends."
~Janice Dickinson
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