Warning, may be sensitive reading for some, others may say "gosh, he's really old" and he rambles.
Anyhow..food for thought on a very slow Sunday in Oklahoma .(Its 92 outside 50% humidity and the NBA game is hours away)
Back in the day, Superman comics were a dime.
I got a weekly dime allowance for chores, and that dime bought a DC comic, 1st choice Superman, 2nd Batman 3rd Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern,or Dr Strange.
4th choice- some nasty looking alien-monster about to eat a scantily dressed damsel in distress.
Anyhow a recurring character was an odd looking pasty chiseled face copy of Superman named Bizarro.
On Bizarro's world, everyone did things backwards of Earth. People on Bizarro world walked backwards, greeted you with a "Goodbye", they drove cars backwards, the clocks even ran backwards. Really a goofy spin-off of Earth.
The following article questions if we are now actually the real Bizarro World. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tales-from-bizarro-world-erico-matias-tavares
A few segments follow.
A google search of ?Kim Kardashian? generates 197 MILLION results.
A famous actor passionately demands in front of a UN assembly that world governments take drastic action to reduce carbon emissions and tackle global warming. Maybe they could start with him.
Just a few months earlier he rented a mega yacht (complete with its own helipad) off Rio de Janeiro to watch the World Cup in style and supposedly flew his mother and himself multiple times on a private jet while shooting one movie in the US.
If you want to market a new medicine, first you need to spend years in a very expensive approval process to make sure it is completely safe to the public.
However, at the same time, any adult can buy a particular and ubiquitous consumer product where it is clearly written in the package that if you use it will eventually kill you and all those around you
Obesity is estimated to kill three times as many as malnutrition
World governments spend trillions on weapons every year when we already have the capacity to blow up the planet many times over.
But they always come up short when it comes to cleaning water supplies, providing healthcare, upgrading infrastructure, restoring nature and feeding people.
How does a desert-like region such as Southern California decide to become so dominant in food production? All the water exported in the form of fresh produce, dairy, fresh fruits, rice and so on will NEVER return to that ecosystem.
Hemp consumption can become a destructive addiction; but so can alcohol consumption. Why is only one of them illegal, or, depending on your views on the matter, why aren?t both legal in the same places?
Most parents unconditionally love their children and would do anything to secure their future. So why are we bequeathing a world with ballooning financial debts, less freedoms, lower education standards and increasingly broken ecosystems
Some 30-40% of global food production is wasted.
Western leaders, once the biggest supporters of free markets, now spend trillions intervening in the economy.
The US government has been the world's biggest employer for many years.
Everyone talks about the need to reduce debt levels, and yet since 2007 total debt around the world has increased by almost US$60 trillion
Politicians in the US seem to have gotten into the habit of approving major legislation without reading it
A country known as the "Land of the Free" has one of the largest prison populations on the planet; another with "Order and Progress" written on its flag has 19 of the world?s 50 most dangerous cities.
In China, provincial governments have spent billions building new cities when most of their citizens can't afford living there. Many remain empty
The West's financial system received trillions in financial support in 2008 to avoid an implosion of the global economy. However, it has since become even bigger and more concentrated, and as such the associated systemic risk might now be larger than ever. The people who designed this financial system are also doing better than ever.
Countries with the most abundant natural resources often have the poorest people.
In his book ?1984? George Orwell created his own version of an inverted world, where ?war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength?. That was quite a frightening vision.
If we indeed live in the Bizarro World, what does that look like to you?
Anyhow..food for thought on a very slow Sunday in Oklahoma .(Its 92 outside 50% humidity and the NBA game is hours away)
Back in the day, Superman comics were a dime.
I got a weekly dime allowance for chores, and that dime bought a DC comic, 1st choice Superman, 2nd Batman 3rd Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern,or Dr Strange.
4th choice- some nasty looking alien-monster about to eat a scantily dressed damsel in distress.
Anyhow a recurring character was an odd looking pasty chiseled face copy of Superman named Bizarro.
On Bizarro's world, everyone did things backwards of Earth. People on Bizarro world walked backwards, greeted you with a "Goodbye", they drove cars backwards, the clocks even ran backwards. Really a goofy spin-off of Earth.
The following article questions if we are now actually the real Bizarro World. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tales-from-bizarro-world-erico-matias-tavares
A few segments follow.
A google search of ?Kim Kardashian? generates 197 MILLION results.
A famous actor passionately demands in front of a UN assembly that world governments take drastic action to reduce carbon emissions and tackle global warming. Maybe they could start with him.
Just a few months earlier he rented a mega yacht (complete with its own helipad) off Rio de Janeiro to watch the World Cup in style and supposedly flew his mother and himself multiple times on a private jet while shooting one movie in the US.
If you want to market a new medicine, first you need to spend years in a very expensive approval process to make sure it is completely safe to the public.
However, at the same time, any adult can buy a particular and ubiquitous consumer product where it is clearly written in the package that if you use it will eventually kill you and all those around you
Obesity is estimated to kill three times as many as malnutrition
World governments spend trillions on weapons every year when we already have the capacity to blow up the planet many times over.
But they always come up short when it comes to cleaning water supplies, providing healthcare, upgrading infrastructure, restoring nature and feeding people.
How does a desert-like region such as Southern California decide to become so dominant in food production? All the water exported in the form of fresh produce, dairy, fresh fruits, rice and so on will NEVER return to that ecosystem.
Hemp consumption can become a destructive addiction; but so can alcohol consumption. Why is only one of them illegal, or, depending on your views on the matter, why aren?t both legal in the same places?
Most parents unconditionally love their children and would do anything to secure their future. So why are we bequeathing a world with ballooning financial debts, less freedoms, lower education standards and increasingly broken ecosystems
Some 30-40% of global food production is wasted.
Western leaders, once the biggest supporters of free markets, now spend trillions intervening in the economy.
The US government has been the world's biggest employer for many years.
Everyone talks about the need to reduce debt levels, and yet since 2007 total debt around the world has increased by almost US$60 trillion
Politicians in the US seem to have gotten into the habit of approving major legislation without reading it
A country known as the "Land of the Free" has one of the largest prison populations on the planet; another with "Order and Progress" written on its flag has 19 of the world?s 50 most dangerous cities.
In China, provincial governments have spent billions building new cities when most of their citizens can't afford living there. Many remain empty
The West's financial system received trillions in financial support in 2008 to avoid an implosion of the global economy. However, it has since become even bigger and more concentrated, and as such the associated systemic risk might now be larger than ever. The people who designed this financial system are also doing better than ever.
Countries with the most abundant natural resources often have the poorest people.
In his book ?1984? George Orwell created his own version of an inverted world, where ?war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength?. That was quite a frightening vision.
If we indeed live in the Bizarro World, what does that look like to you?
