Antipodean Angst – part 10

Subversion as a tool To understand how a thing works you must understand the mechanics of a thing. The principles of subversion are ancient. Refining and adapting those principles to the era and the environment they exist in is more or less fine-tuning. Sun-Tzu, the Chinese military strategist was poking around roughly in 500BC and

In a Time of Madness

It increasingly seems that we are living in a time of madness. Just when you think that the craziness that has come to mark the 2020’s could not get worse, it does. I am referring in large part Australia, and then in the interests of inclusion and diversity include the remainder of the world. Australia

Antipodean Angst – part 9

Collective and Public Memory ‘Public memory was never short rather always selective.’ – Subharalin Thakuria ‘It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.’ – Mark Twain  Anecdotally, it is said that the public memory is no more than six months. How true that is entirely subjective to the people

Antipodean Angst – part 8

The Business of Business There is a lot of importance given to business, globally and domestically, and the ways in which they operate, employ staff, and renumerate staff. There have been fundamental changes to all aspects of the ways business operates and the environments they operate in. While this has worked for the past thirty

Twainsplaining

‘What is joy without sorrow? What is success without failure? What is a win without a loss? What is health without illness? You have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. There is always going to be suffering. It’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will

Come and take a shower comrade

There are times when you take a step back from the avalanche of noise which is the modern world and look at the big picture, it is in those moments that you experience a sense of despondency at humanity and the path it is taking. It is in those moments that you despair at if

Everyone is an Idiot

Not a very woke title for an essay, but at least it is inclusive. Like it or not, admit it or not, absolutely everyone is tarred with the shameful brush of idiocy at some point or another in the span of their lives. Some have cornered the market on it, while others make life decisions