Guy Smith | December 19, 2011
Seth Godin, the homeliest man since Henry Waxman, presents never-ending and hyper intelligent insights into what works and what doesn’t. Waxman has yet been spotted saying anything intelligent, which demonstrates that the traits of diminished physical beauty and smarts are not linked.
One recent Godin missive accurately dissected the difference between failure and mistakes, where failures [...]
Guy Smith | December 2, 2011
The best way to get on your feet is to get off of your back.
Guy Smith | November 28, 2011
We are the 100%.
Politics, like any other marketing snowjob, is about segmentation – dividing the market into small, manageable groups that have common traits. Politicians, who are highly corrupt marketers, love segmenting their constituents and selling to different groups differently. When politicians cannot adeptly cajole diverse groups with contradictory messages, they commit monogamy with the [...]
Guy Smith | October 14, 2011
The Taliban had a blast blowing up non-Islamic icons.
Iconic footage (pun intended) of pre 9/11 Taliban tanks blasting ancient and historically significant Buddha statues demonstrate the demonic desires of those who deign to design societies (a.k.a. politicians and terrorists, if I may be redundant). Their goal was to obliterate knowledge of competing religious beliefs, which [...]
Guy Smith | October 12, 2011
Perspective poisons prejudice, which is why so many people avoid it.
Prejudices are comfortable blankets of selective ignorance. Though not necessarily evil (my prejudice against broccoli harms nobody) prejudice limits one to narrow insights and inflexibility. Gaining broad perspective is an elegant cure that has fallen into disuse.
Compare Naples and Naples, the Italian and Floridian varieties. [...]
