Marketers Understand Authenticity, So Well — Keywords: primitive, authentic, stupid Why are people so stupid? Well, they are; or, the majority of them. In Europe the contest was about who could show a little intelligence. The country that could would jump out ahead of all other dummies: Europe, east, south, west, and north. As it turns out England won this…

Not yet! We aren’t dead! And I love profits! So there!! — One outcome, of capitalism, comes when we see that it renders effects untraceable back to causes. We cannot see that line of causality, because all we do see is a product that has a name (e.g. “gasoline”). Yes, the modern economic system does create complexity. Life gets more complex but…

TRANS — False All Over A TRANS person talks about “ the circumstances under which we need or want that experience” and I notice the two verbs “need” and “want.” It’s optional, a matter of style. Done as an art form, not as a compulsion. I think this is the difference. And…

How do the rich stay in power in this country? — One idea, which I have held for some period of time, is that the rich want the others to be stupid. This is secret. It is not something they can reveal, so they jealously guard their secret. This is a free, capitalistic society, so how can one group prevent others…

The Great Marx-Smith debate — Let’s look at a quote. It is from the text, “An Inquiry into the causes of the Wealth of Nations,” by the aforesaid, prof Smith. This great increase in the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing…

this week, in the Ukrainian war zone — It’s a war in which messages are passed back and forth. In the Internet Age, there are plenty ways — plenty of ways in which others can hear what you are thinking. …

!— — — M— — — —Yay — hey, wait: is “journey” still trending? Doh . . . . Here is the story of me and Medium.com. I don’t feel like writing a regular Medium.com essay/story today so what better time than to do a good “how to write” piece? At first I wanted to interact with the…