Joseph Campbell once said, "We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." Meghan Cleary in this month’s JC Report writes an interesting piece about the trend for this search for ‘Bliss’.
All this doom and gloom, she says, is giving birth to a new kind of realization: Be yourself. Follow your own path.
Going straight for your Bliss means inventing your own course of action. The fashion business is already seeing the impact of Bliss as Meghan reports:
"Putting intellectualism, individualism, and creativity above conventional business considerations, both Jil Sander and Helmut Lang have recently taken leave of the Prada group. Alber Elbaz, Roland Mouret and Sophia Kokosolaki all turned down offers from LVMH to design for Givenchy, each believing they had a better shot at success (and happiness) if they held their own creative reins.
The masses are following suit, creating and consuming self-help tomes focused on going for pleasure over deprivation, like bestsellers Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts, Your Best Life Now, and The Purpose-Driven Life, as well as debunking fashion uniforms for individual eclecticism."
Like our ChangeThis Manifesto, its all about the TRUTH. There is Yoga in turning down the big job offer to do your own thing.
Following the trend, Nicole Beland also has a book coming out in June called Girl Seeks Bliss: Zen and the Art of Modern Life Maintenance, about how regular girls (and boys too we guess) can use basic principles of Buddhism to cope.
You ready for a little bit of Bliss, PSFKers?
JC Report
Meghan Cleary’s Blog
Joseph Campbell’s Follow The Bliss
Related PSFK Posts
2005 Trends: Idividualism
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Thought, if society is the reflection of self, ie. It was a time of war = everyone is a warrior, it was a time of celebrity = everyone wants to be a celebrity then: it was a time of the inner soul = the search for bliss (Truth). Also as a backlash against fame, celebrity and all its trappings this is credible as it’s about somthing that everyone can accomplish.
After all we all now have our wooden floors, white walls etc. Lily Cole is the model of the 90’s – Why, not traditionally beautiful. Are we starting to love imperfection becuase we know nothing is every going to be as perfect as Brad and Jens relationship – Is this a sign!!!
February 9th, 2005 at 9:30 am
There is a lot to be said about all of this. I think one of the most pertinent things to remember about all this is that all of it is cyclical. Think hippies, beatniks and McCarthyism. It going round and round. We were due for this a whole ago.
Here is a link to something of interest regarding this sort of thing.
Marvin Harris
This spiritual quest is as old as Zen, Puritans, and Marxist commodity fetishism.
“All this doom and gloom, she says, is giving birth to a new kind of realization: Be yourself. Follow your own path.” Not quite but interesting none the less.
February 9th, 2005 at 12:20 pm
I guess the html link thing doesn’t work in the posts?
heres the url:
http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Harris/Index.htm
February 9th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
beutiful
August 2nd, 2007 at 3:35 am