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“Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king And a king ain’t satisfied ‘Til he rules everything” Badlands – Bruce Springsteen What a man wants and what he is willing to do to get it are two very different things. There weren’t any lotteries in ancient times. If you wanted to live the…
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The promise was fantastic! Machines would do all the hard work, and we would have loads more free time. All the work that needed doing could be done faster with the help of technology. We could smash the required tasks faster and clock off. The same would apply to household chores and maintenance. All the…
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Glory Days of Home Video #2 I remember hearing at least two separate stories about people getting ripped off by the inaugural video shops. Looking back, it was a shonky business model, but everyone was learning on the run. Those first video shops charged a subscription fee, I believe it was for a year. Once…
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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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My first few jobs were non-union and while they weren’t slave labour conditions (thanks to industrial relations laws fought for and won by the union) we were much more at the whim of our supervisors and managers. Unions do not make assholes disappear, but they do restrain the damage and frustration they can wreak. I…
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A tribal settlement might grow to become a village and would probably have someone like a chief. If this village continues to expand and either merges or takes over surrounding settlements and villages it could well earn itself the title of kingdom! The chief who manages to convince the population that they are the rightful…
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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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