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happy faces: necessary delusions
Maybe it is better to go through life with an upside down smile. And maybe not always choose the sunny side of the street. It is a critique of the multi-billion-dollar positive-thinking industry which runs the entire gamut of books,seminars, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barbara Ehrenreich, Deepak Chopra, dr. ruhab shah, Elmer Gantry, Eric Idle, George Clooney, Harold Bloom, jenni murray, lucy ellmann, mary baker eddy, Monty Python Life of Brian, napoleon hill, norman vincent peale, phineas parkhurst quimby, reverend ike, rhonda byrne, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, zig ziglar
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ADAM SMITH & PONZI NATION: WEALTH OF RATIONS
Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776 – not as a textbook, but as a polemical cannon aimed at governments that were subsidizing and protecting their merchants, their farmers, their manufacturers, against “unfair” competition, at home or from … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adam Smith, Adam Smith Wealth of Nation, Adam Smith Wealth of Nations, American Revolution, Bernie Madoff, Carter Glass, Chen Wenling, Christine O'Donnell, David Hume, Edward Gibbon, Eric Idle, Fabrice Taylor, Helaine Olen, Jack Morgan, John Rae, Jonathan Weil, Leo Rosten, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lya Graf, Matt Rittberg, Maureen Tkacik, Michael Douglas, Millard Fillmore, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Nouriel Roubini, Oliver Stone, Pecora Commission, Senator Duncan Fletcher, Thorstein Veblen, Voltaire
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BARBARIANS & BLINDED BY THE DARKNESS
It’s been a long time, since anyone has been successfully convincing that with the collapse of the Roman empire, an objectively superior civilisation somehow ‘fell’, whatever that means, leading to ‘dark ages’ from which the peoples of Europe would … Continue reading →
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
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Tagged Adrian Murdoch, Attila the Hun, Ben Stiller Night at the Museum, Constantine Petrou Cavafy, Coppergate Helmet, David Frum, Eric Idle, Garth Williams British Museum, Harold Lamb, Historian Strabo, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, John Cleese, Jonathan Swift, Julius Ceasar, Monty Python Flying Circus, Monty Python Life of Brian, mud-brick.com, Rene Chateaubriand, Rugero Deodato, Ruggero Deodato, staffordshire hoard, Tacitus, Tacitus Roman Historian, Teutoburg Forest Battle, The Dark Ages, The Dark Ages Society united Kingdom, The Noble Savage, www.darkagessociety.co.uk, York helmet
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Jung & the Monty Python Flying Complex
Absurd. To create a comedy show, that would redefine the idiom and defy imitation. The Monty Python Flying Circus television series actively offended against the limits of moral code in terms of content and style of presentation. Most of the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Add new tag, Carl Jung, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Mark Jenkins, Michael Palin, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
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