Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
-Tom Stoppard
You are a modern day slave. There is no scope for personal fulfilment. You work for your pay-check at the end of the month, full stop It's pointless to try to change the system. Opposing it simply makes it stronger
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Corinne Maier's manifesto
Bored by meaningless work, management jargon, memos and meetings, a new type of professional slacker has emerged - the actively disengaged.
Rather than quitting and moving to the coast, this species avoids work where possible and puts up with corporate drudgery just to bank their pay. In the biggest companies seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets
• Three cheers for the office bludger - the zero who became a hero [If you've ever dreamt of writing a feature film, you might have been seized by the idea of capturing the delicious essence of ordinary, everyday life Film: Look Both Ways ; Balgo is literally a dot on the map of the vast empty central desert of Australia Balgo: Art of Darkness]
• · More than 400 years after his death, Tsar Ivan IV, also known as Ivan the Terrible, continues to fascinate historians. Infamous for his cruelty, sexual misconduct and, possibly, madness, he has remained a mystery due to the lack of credible source materials about his personal life The Terrible Tsar ; As the fall season approaches, the book world is still searching for this year's great American novel Pickings Thin for 2005 Literary Fiction ; Future perfect: how to be a 'real' man again
• · · Control alt divorce - how internet affairs can ruin your marriage ; Virtual adultery; We rarely talk about sexual attraction between professors and students Talking About It
• · · · What is the greatest sin? One common response is that all sins are equally bad in God's eyes. But this makes little sense Why God hates terrorists more than gamblers ; There is an architectural danger of a withdrawal to gated communities - an irrational and useless response. When faced with this kind of terrorism a bunker mentality emerges. After 9/11 almost every building in the US became like a fortress The Fall of Public Man
• · · · · If you love reading, which I happen to, life without books is unthinkable; that's very true Victoria Beckham: The tyranny of reading ; When you're buried in books ; Have you heard the one about. . . Political satire is making a big comeback
• · · · · · New Yorkers are great at leaving something extra. Tourists suck. A cocktail waitress spills the beans. The Tipping Point ; The cumulative genius of Overheard in New York The Word on the Street ; Overheard in New York