Tag Archives: Eric Idle

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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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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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

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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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