Here's a bit of black humour to start off the new year: Ten years from now you'll put on a jacket and find a mask in the pocket. "Oh man, what a weird year that was", you'll chuckle to yourself. Then you'll pick up your machete and continue across the wasteland, keeping to the shadows to avoid the roving gangs of raiders...Perhaps in the twenty-first century populist revolts will be staged not against an economic elite that exploits people, but against an economic elite that does not need them any more. This may well be a losing battle. It is much harder to struggle against irrelevance than against exploitation. Yuval N Harari, ’21 Lessons for the 21st Century’
Gerald's post of the week:
Husband and Wife were out Christmas shopping in a busy shopping centre just before Christmas.
The wife suddenly noticed that her husband was missing - and as they had a lot to do, she called him on the mobile and asked, "Where are you; you know we have lots to do."
Not missing a beat, her husband confessed: "Do you remember the jewellery store that we went into about 10 years ago? You fell in love with that diamond necklace? And although I couldn't afford it at the time, I told you that one day I would get it for you?"
Little tears started to flow down her cheek. She was all choked up, but managed to reply: ..."Yes, I remember that wonderful store."
"Well I am in the golf shop next door to that." [Hold Fire!! I'm only the piano player! ☺ Ed.]