One of my students insisted that I needed to see Zeitgeist – The Movie. I found the movie to be factually incorrect, but more importantly achieving the very funcion that it blames on everyone else. It (and most consipracy theories) encaurages fear, mistrust and enslaves people. Even if everything in it was true (it is [...]
Entries from July 2008
Why I hate conspiracy theories
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: 8. Eternal Mission · Politics
Nazism raising its head in Europe
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
An event that did not make it on American news, but may well be a warning of things to come has recently transpired in Europe. Italy has created a law requiring all gypsy (roma) to register and be fingerprinted. This law came in to effect almost exactly 70 years after the exact same law was [...]
Tags: Politics
Idiation – The way my mind works
July 20th, 2008 · No Comments
A while back I was reading through the book “Now, discover your strengths”, a sequel to “What the great managers do differently” and came across the term idiation. I had no idea what the word meant, so I looked it up. Basically, it means connetcting seemingly unrelated ideas together.
It hit me like a ton of bricks. [...]
Tags: Innovation
What does it take for a revitalization
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments
In history there are many examples of towns that were left devastated when a major employer left. Many find themselves in a downward spiral, becoming poorer and poor with time. Yet there are a few exceptions. They are the cities that have chosen to reinvent themselves, completely change their identity, but most of all figured [...]
Tags: Economics