is what puts the 'Me' into memes,
and makes everyone,
and everything, else subserviant.
Monday, 10 June 2013
Sunday, 9 June 2013
Machiavelli's Paradoxes
The more he tried to expose the prosaic truth
about how effective statesmanship relies on lies,
the less palatable his version of how power works became.
Until what he had written was shared only privately in his lifetime.
Only posthumously was 'The Prince' was fully published.
It was banned soon after. Later it was the private reading.
of many many emperors and future world leaders.
The more he exposed how to make lies successful,
the more those lies stuck to him, not his later readers
or their followers.
For his repeating the leadership formulas of The Medicis,
his original private audience he came to own their sins.
The more his name was blackened by those lies
among a diminishing reading public, the more the public
were banned from either reading or believing what he written.
This was less to preserve the tattered remains of what was left
of his reputation for telling the truth, more to stop them
believing that what he had written about how lies worked
in the past might apply now-in the present and the future.
.
about how effective statesmanship relies on lies,
the less palatable his version of how power works became.
Until what he had written was shared only privately in his lifetime.
Only posthumously was 'The Prince' was fully published.
It was banned soon after. Later it was the private reading.
of many many emperors and future world leaders.
The more he exposed how to make lies successful,
the more those lies stuck to him, not his later readers
or their followers.
For his repeating the leadership formulas of The Medicis,
his original private audience he came to own their sins.
The more his name was blackened by those lies
among a diminishing reading public, the more the public
were banned from either reading or believing what he written.
This was less to preserve the tattered remains of what was left
of his reputation for telling the truth, more to stop them
believing that what he had written about how lies worked
in the past might apply now-in the present and the future.
.
Saturday, 8 June 2013
The Cup Of Life
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| -the emptier it gets the lighter it leaves us feeling, and the more our thoughts are clarified. |
Signs Of Greater Age (18)
1)anticipating the trend for liver spots being sexy,
and wondering what you might do when you get them.
2)Seeing posters for the the latest exhibition
of the local art in your town and knowing
that the poster will be better than the exhibits
-if only because it will exhibit the best part
of the show and will take the least time to view.
and wondering what you might do when you get them.
2)Seeing posters for the the latest exhibition
of the local art in your town and knowing
that the poster will be better than the exhibits
-if only because it will exhibit the best part
of the show and will take the least time to view.
Friday, 7 June 2013
The 'Trickle Down Effect' Is In The News
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| And it sets the news agenda. With the houses behind the board empty, the chattering classes are not chattering with the cold. They wait to re-invest to make even more money out of real estate. |
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Globalisation (2)
When we share about globalisation, it is through,
and in terms of, a media who eclipse the real power
at work, international money, property and copyright law.
Today 39 % of the world's wealth is owned by
1 % of the worlds population, though those proportions
could well have been more extreme during the heights
of The British Empire. Today 80 % of the worlds humanity
get by on under $10 a day, the nominal 'poverty level'.
With humans tearing the world and each other apart
through ownership and law to fulfill to make sure
there is no tomorow, perhaps the richest in the world
are the few who live in undiscovered tribes, in that rarity
of rarites, unspoilt jungle. What they have can't be monetarised.
and in terms of, a media who eclipse the real power
at work, international money, property and copyright law.
Today 39 % of the world's wealth is owned by
1 % of the worlds population, though those proportions
could well have been more extreme during the heights
of The British Empire. Today 80 % of the worlds humanity
get by on under $10 a day, the nominal 'poverty level'.
With humans tearing the world and each other apart
through ownership and law to fulfill to make sure
there is no tomorow, perhaps the richest in the world
are the few who live in undiscovered tribes, in that rarity
of rarites, unspoilt jungle. What they have can't be monetarised.
Globalisation(1)
is often talked about in terms of media reach-
how many people around the world can see
a single broadcast, though that still excludes
how the broadcast washes over the individual
who's experience is more of what surounds them.
For example, if the musicians who performed
at Live Aid in 1985 had not taken the drugs,
required for them to get to the stage, and collectively
donated a sum equal to what they had abstained
from to be there, and they had got to the stage 'clean'
then much much more would have been raised,
and money, though a lot, would have been he least of it,
but then Bob Geldof was never going to be a drugs counsellor....
how many people around the world can see
a single broadcast, though that still excludes
how the broadcast washes over the individual
who's experience is more of what surounds them.
For example, if the musicians who performed
at Live Aid in 1985 had not taken the drugs,
required for them to get to the stage, and collectively
donated a sum equal to what they had abstained
from to be there, and they had got to the stage 'clean'
then much much more would have been raised,
and money, though a lot, would have been he least of it,
but then Bob Geldof was never going to be a drugs counsellor....
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