This & That I like

Words:

  • Attitude and eccentricities

  • Thoroughly sleek (smooth and shiny)

  • Tongue in cheek
    adj. meant to be understood as a joke, although it might appear to be serious:
    E.g. a     firmly tongue-in-cheek look at the world of advertising.

  • Danty: small, delicate, and often moving in a careful way

  • Brash: 傲慢的

  • Elitism: 精英主义

  • Revel: 狂欢

  • Conformism 因循守旧

  • Democratic hedonism 享乐主义

  • Local globalism

  • Cosmopolitan 世界主义的 四海为家的
    a highly cosmopolitan city
    Lisa is a     real cosmopolitan

  • Tastemaker 引领时尚的人

  • Well mannered insolence 傲慢

  • Someone who knows the rules well enough to break them with style

  • Bourgeois punks

  • Square pegs in round holes 

Stories:

  • The three important human journeys:

  • The first humans to Australia

    • First time, humans left the Afro-Asian ecological system

    • The moment the first hunter-gatherer set foot on an Australian beach was the moment that Homo sapiens climbed to the top rung in the food chain.

    • The settlers of Australia.

  • Columbus’ journey to America 

  • Apollo II expedition to the moon 

  • Ecological serial killers

    • The historical record makes Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer.

  • Iron laws: Luxuries tend to become necessities

  • Faustian Bargain

  • A scathing commentary on our corporate hierarchies;
    Gesamtkunstwerk [Total work of art]; 
    Vulnerable media; 
    the context of the modern LLC; 
    the intrinsically duplicitous nature.