heh, it reminds me of some talking head business leader i heard in the background on da toob today saying: 'the idea is to get maximum market share without anyone realising it'

softly softly...

i used to massage a famous modern artist, lauded internationally, exhibiting and lecturing all over.

i always wondered if some of his tension came from having to go out and 'dress the emperor' as a paying gig on a regular basis, when he wasn't winning prizes for smearing stuff onto other stuff.

it was enlightening seeing the gilded cage of 'successful identity' up so close. i lacked the necessary talents to do much for him, regrettably, though his kind wife wanted it to work so badly so i chipped away notwithstanding my obvious inability to achieve my goal.

the adoring gullibility of unthinking fans never ceases to amaze, a visceral clutch for meaning, a rescue from the mortal fear of missing some cultural bus, getting left behind to drown in clueless insignificance.

so human!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty