Did All That Money Really Help People?
Religion, capital, technology — what are we actually building? I ask again, this time with people at the center.
You may not believe in any religion. But there's no denying that, for some people — myself included — a church or a temple becomes a psychologically important space.
Temples are the same.
Walking through the mountains, breathing in the scent of incense, sitting in silence. In those moments, a person recovers their own pace.
What religion created may have been a god, but at times it was also a rhythmic structure built for people.
I find myself thinking: "If there had been no god, would these spaces not exist either?"
Maybe so. Because the frame of religion existed, places of rest for people came into being within it.
But as time passes, the question turns toward something more essential.
This isn't a problem unique to religion. Capital, government, technology — they all have to stand before the same question.
Right now, I'm designing a new structure. Its names are Ma-eum, and SunSet.
It's not for a god, nor for money. It's a system that puts people at the center.
This structure asks a question.
And one more thing.
I believe that technology, brand, organization — all of it — only has meaning if it's a structure that truly lets people live.
Not a structure that merely looks pretty, but one where sincerity flows back and forth. Not money, but—
A structure that sustains the flow between people.
That, right now, is the order I'm building.