Flexible Ethics

Before I start proper, a link to a story on the BBC which confirms my thoughts about Lego from previous entries. Children are taught things these days, rather than how to think about things. They are taught thinking rather than meta-thinking.

Let this man use his imagination to the highest possible level.



(From http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/html/)

Today's soundtrack - the first for some time - Dead Can Dance 1981 - 1998. This is punk rock for the 15th Century. Having said that, I have just had the thought of John Lydon let loose in Medieval England. I'd give him five minutes before he was toast on some pile of sticks.

Hero of the day - Filippo Brunelleschi if only because the music above seems to fit in some way with the images from the book - Brunelleschi's Dome. There was a story yesterday about people's view of success. It is disheartening to see that the perfect man's ideal job is 'international footballer'. Where did they question these people? At the Gym, the Nail Salon or a home for the terminally naff probably. (Merriam-Webster has no entry for 'Naff' so I suppose I'd have to define it as 'Kitsch with attitude' though 'Naff' does have some credibility by being used as the substitute for stronger four letter words in 'Porridge'). Why do we idolise people like that?

Roll on Lunchtime.