Year of the Floating Pig
Photo: Du Shi Xiong/ WeiboArtist Du Shi Xiong takes a satirical stance on the pig carcasses that currently infest Shanghai’s Huangpu River. Masses of pigs are floating down rivers upstream […]
The Giant Dickensian Circumlocution Office
The world is being overrun by the technocrats – bankers, management consultants, analysts. Company boards and the political landscape are being stacked with professional systems massagers and paper shufflers – […]
One Grand Scheme to Rule Them All
If you thought Bernie Madoff was running the biggest scam ever, then think again. The Western world has been running a giant Ponzi Scheme for decades. Ponzi financing is where the scheme operator doesn’t have enough cash […]
The Strangers We Connect To Everyday
We are all connected through a mesh of energy. I like to see it as a sea of consciousness pervading all things. But what about the more tangible stuff? All the physical things you have in your possession and the things you touch and see, the screen on which you […]
Ancient Greeks and Advertising
I don’t dislike all advertising – just most of it. So I don’t watch much tele or listen to the radio – it’s usually loud, crass and stupid. Diogenes of […]
Ambition and Digging Holes
I have been posting a bit about goal setting and wanted to clarify something. What if the goal you are looking at is all wrong? You want to start a […]
History Rhymes
“History may not repeat but it rhymes”. I don’t know who to quote for that but its a good one. I love to study history but am not interested in forming opinions on Afghanistan, 9/11, who killed more people than who. History overwhelms it all. Woody Allen said “The history […]
Listening to Christmas
meditate on it My earliest memory of a profound discourse was a little sermon given by the minister of our local church just before Christmas. I was around 8 years old and going to church was the biggest bore. My mother would rotate us children in this holy duty, so it was penance for […]
A Burger and an M16 To Go Please
I learnt to shoot a gun as a child aged 14. Living on the land our father had a .22 semi-automatic rifle (such guns are now banned in Australia). The only time my father […]
End of the World. Not.
mayan pyramid I’ve never been a believer in doomsday scenarios. And the Mayans were not predicting the end of the world with their calendar cycle – just the end of […]
Stuck? Ask for Help.
Ever get stuck in life? I’ve always found asking for help is the way to go. As I do my fair share of travelling about, I seem to ask for […]
Sublime Music and Slight Bemusement at a Wedding
Along with a couple of billion others I watched the recent royal wedding and while I found it quite bemusing I tuned in solely for the music. For me the […]
