Bhutan

[helen99]

rialian was just reading me an excerpt from a book called Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle by David Wann. The excerpt was about a country called Bhutan. They measure wealth according to something called, "Gross National Happiness."

Maybe it's a result of living independently of words for at least part of the time...

Comments

[jolantru.livejournal.com]

Bhutan is a fantastic place. And they do measure wealth, not on material means, but emotional and spiritual ones. I like it. It is different from the dominant world-view of wealth=money... which I think is ultimately unhealthy for the body.

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

I keep picking up that book at j. random local bookstore and being quite impressed. And then I think that I *know* most of these things, deep down, and it's reminding me I ought not to be buying so much stuff, thus I wind up deciding not to buy it.

d'oh.