A few days ago, a charming, older and very well established friend of a friend told me “You’re so cute. If you weren’t that intelligent, I would ask you out for dinner.” I was torn apart between liking him for the honesty and hating him for the prejudice.
And I wondered if life would be easier with a smaller brain and bigger breasts….
“Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well-informed mind, is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
Jane Austin, Northanger Abbey
Newsfreak
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008I just skipped through a copy of Newsweek. And I realized in shock that the ads, or more precisely, the products being advertised, show the most precise image of the degeneracy of our society. Here the list of the ads:
1 ad for asthma medicine nicknamed “Corporate Climber” (!!??)
2 ads for luxury travel
2 ads for retirement funds
1 ad for a luxury car
1 ad for Air Force (?)
1 ad for luxury luggage
1 ad for a mobile computer
1 ad for an overnight stress release device
1 ad for sleeping pills
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