And now it begins

'Jesus rose after 3 days. Spcogg rises...after 3 months?' - OJ

So, the time's finally come for the revival. After many false starts and dead cat bounces, hopefully this is the real deal. I suppose I just have to work to make it so. In short it means we're back in business: wasting time constructively by writing it down, so future generations won't have to. It's always been for a noble cause, nevermind the fact that I've gone the past 5 days of the exam period without writing down a single thing.

After a 2 year hiatus I have been recently released from an ongoing obligation which partially caused the demise of the original blogs (for anyone that remembers/knows about it). This new and improved version will hopefully cover additional topics to keep things fresh and allow me to exercise more creatively and write across more perspectives. Funny how so much can change in two years but also how things still stay the same.

I have been holed up at home reading a book called 'The Great Deformation' by a certain David Stockman. I'll probably do a full review/synopsis of it because of the sheer length of it clocking at over 700 pages, the book itself is a polemic (I had to look that word up) book looking at the current economic state of the US and by extension, the world economy focusing on the role of the government. The opening chapters are on the handling of the '08 financial crisis, and if you ever thought that there was something fishy about the hundreds of billions spent on insolvent banks, the book attempts to explain why. The argument is that the US has essentially stopped being a free market once the government got free rein over the printing press and started to finance its spendings by borrowing money.


The writing style is very much of a rant against pretty much everyone past or present and the arguments do go around in circles sometimes, but overall would recommend for a perspective of how the state of affairs came do be. Whether it's all true or no I can't say, but it is very logical and definitely puts a lot of new ideas on the table. You will need a basic understanding of economics and US history to get the most out of it.




In other news, I won a trivia night for the first time the other night with K, Bill and Marto. Did you know for example, that the days of the week are named after Viking gods. As in, Thurs day is like, Thor's day. That's this guy:



Which they're making another movie about over in Hollywood.