Category: Corporate Confusion: We’re up to Our Necks in it.
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You were born into a working-class family. The middle sibling of three brothers. Your parents were no longer in love, but they got along. There were occasional arguments and some got very heated, but there was no violence. They both enjoyed a few drinks in the evening and a few more on the weekends. You…
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Avatar (2009) ***spoiler alert*** (plus a massive bummer alert) This wasn’t James Cameron’s first foray into corporate greed, and I will definitely be covering Aliens in a future post. Sci-fi is such a brilliant way to critique the human condition when it is done well, using fantasy to tell the truth. This one is about…
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“Dearly belovedWe are gathered here today to get through this thing called life” Prince “Let’s Go Crazy” I promised I wouldn’t be venturing into philosophy and mysticism, and I still don’t intend to (for now). However, it is crucial to look at the almost countless worldviews of all these humans on this big ball. The…
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***Massive Cynicism Alert*** Things are looking pretty grim for anyone not willing or able to keep up with the accelerating changes, or for those that invest their precious time and energy on the wrong potential source of income. The profit hungry behemoths do not possess sympathy for those that do not generate wealth. Notice how…
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“This used to be a place Where a man could find some work Put together Holdens or a foundry job at worst…” Chorus “They’re shutting down our town They’re cutting down out town No more production line blue collar can be found They’ll tear it to the ground…”…
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The surviving nomadic/ hunter gatherers kept doing what they did best. Some may have found a nice, secluded space and settled. Some of those may have grown and joined the space (as in taking it up) race. Many remained humble and lived a simple life; for as long as they could anyway. As for all…
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The people on the shop floor know they are just numbers, expendable numbers. They look at their supervisors (team leaders, leading hands or whatever other bullshit title) and know that those Schmoes are standing on even thinner ice. No sympathy for them of course, they took the step up, they enforce the shitty rules –…
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Skip forward a handful of generations and some of the booming tribes will have grown into villages. They would be working out the most efficient use of their labour power and ensuring the necessary know-how gets passed along to the next generation. The better they are at this the more fruitful their harvest. Security was…
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Introduction I’m sure you are aware of this thing called ‘The System’. The term gets lobbed around often enough. Whatever you reckon it is, there’s no doubt we are all stuck in it, and apart from becoming a hermit or a corpse, there seems to be no escape. So, what the fuck is IT? And…
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The later film was made 40 years ago from today what’s more! That film was called “Santa Clause: The Movie” (1985). It begins with an origin story, but the drama takes place in the present – or that present – the present time the movie was released – 1985! The other film was titled “Miracle…
MINDLESS MUSINGS 