Bernie that is. You know who I am talking about. The Ponzi Artist. Should he be called an artist? After all there are con artists, right?
Who's to blame? The one who made off with the money or the gullibles that got made? The dupeworthy or the super duper?
History repeated itself with the announcement, make that expression of guilt from the one who used all his strong arm tactics to convince the world to watch people ride cycles on a hill. You know who I am talking about. The one and only Lance who made people wear yellow rubber bands. Was that supposed to make us feel good about our postal service? Which although has vans to deliver mail seems to be slower like they were on a cycle? That would be India circa 1980s..
Are those that got taken to the rubber to blame or the one who rode on rubber wheels?
I think frankly that for every scam there is a scamee waiting to be scammed. To take advantage of people's inevitable ability to get suckered is also equally human. How else did capitalism come about?
For that matter communism too. In the former man exploits man and in the latter they said it was the other way round.
Go figure!
On an informal mission to read one book a week as long as the eyes allow for such ambition. Fiction or non is not important as long as it entertains and /or educates. To that end the past few weeks have brought a bounty in the form of some wonderful and then not so engaging literature. Among the notables are - Non fiction category: 1. Good arguments by Bo Seo (how to handle a dispute or debate the most efficient way possible) 2. Genesis by Eric Schmidt (and former US Secy of State Henry Kissinger, who recently passed) - how AI might affect our lives as we know it 3. One in a billion - Zarna Garg (an autobiographical look at an Indian born American woman with a bindi narrated in a standup format - yes it is at times cliched but still funny) Fiction: 1. Personal by Lee Child (a vigilante story with Jack Reacher the giant, nomad protagonist of Child's novels goes hunting for a sniper) 2. Ramayana unraveled by Ami Ganatra (she might disagree about it being a work of fiction but oh wel...
isms are more or less alike..the difference is the umber of years it takes you to figure it out...so like fashion, they will come and go, and come back. As for con artists, they are proof that man can be creative..or else we might have been apes still..or fish!
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