On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-radical-pessimists-guide-to-the-next-10-years/article1750609/print/
Douglas Coupland
A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years
A radical American pessimist's guide
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:43:31AM +0200, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
A radical American pessimist's guide to the next 10 years I think. The
Of course. (Though radical he's not).
author seems to have confused the concept of the world and USA, I have
It's quite obvious that he's writing about
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:16 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
Overcriminalization of society already exists (in many places). The criminals
stay out of jail. The world will feel like jail for anyone who doesn't belong
I guess.
In the US it's a particular aberration of the free markets - they
On Tuesday 12 Oct 2010 10:54:59 am Udhay Shankar N wrote:
42) You'll spend a lot of time shopping online from your jail cell
Over-criminalization of the populace, paired with the triumph of
shopping as a dominant cultural activity, will create a world where
the two poles of society are
Hat tip: Eugen. I like a number of these, and several of them are a
product of the law of unintended consequences. I suspect ~100% of this
list is afflicted with some form of the disease described in #21. :)
Udhay
