seedless watermelons insult men
Seedless watermelons are another chapter in the emasculation of men. Just say no to seedless watermelons!
big ideas
look up and think big
too good for government work
“Of all the millions of people, nine of ten hold no official position: how could all of them be High-minded Men?” So observed Meng Lou, a scholar-recluse, quoted in the mid-seventh-century Chinese text, “Accounts of Reclusion and Disengagement.” In Chinese history, refusing to take up an official position in the government bureaucracy was celebrated as … Continue reading too good for government work
understanding the real business of content
Leading twentieth-century artist Yves Klein helped to generate enormous growth in art. His influence is readily apparent in major recent works of contemporary fine art such as Maximillian Miles’ sensuous and provocative Masterwork in Bluish. Klein’s work, however, has much broader importance. Klein pioneered marketing “zones of immaterial pictorial sensibility” — what media businesspersons today … Continue reading understanding the real business of content
bian-wen text shows economic development in hell
A bian-wen text copied in China in 921 describes highly industrialized punishments in hell. Punishment in Dante’s Inferno is less technological. … Read the post bian-wen text shows economic development in hell
insipidity of modern poetry
“No literary complaint is more frequent and general than that of the insipidity of Modern Poetry.” From John Aikin, Essay on the Application of Natural History to Poetry (1777). Personally, I prefer street-fair entertainment.