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 […]
