Hair

I went to the Melbourne International film festival last night and saw a great – uh – “documentary” called The Yes Men Save the World. These two guys give seminars to important CEOs that take the neo-liberal philosophy behind the free market economy to a wholly new level. Brilliant film. S, A and I were [...]

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King For A Day

  L’ordre du jour pour le roi.-    The day begins: let us begin to order for this day the business and the festivals of our merciful master who is still deigning to rest. His majesty has bad weather today: we shall be careful not to call it bad; we shall not speak of the weather – [...]

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Slave Mentality

I work for a company that researches social issues for various government departments, universities and non-governmental organisations. The company conducts surveys over the telephone and the interviewers will call private numbers from time to to time using what is called, random digit dialling. Random digit dialling involves simply entering the first six or eight numbers [...]

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