The Armani Soundtrack

I am happy to tell you, that not much more than about 800 people worldwide read this blog... And that is not because it could not be more, but it is very limited intentionally because I wanted to see how many would get here of their own accord. My own purpose was, at some point, to start to divulge views into a world not popularly known.

Is there such a thing as an absolute hierarchical set of intellectual or aesthetic values? Beyond the apparent arbitrariness of taste, and the influence of monied interests, may there be an ascending set of values across a whole spectrum of human pleasures? I don't say that there is – it isn't evident to me that there is if you go by the fashions that come and go in music or art or literature or film. There appears to be some type of sense of quality or meaningfulness or consistent positive sensatory reaction in audiences, but it is not clear to me that this is particularly sophisticated even though it can be very elaborate.

So let us not say that what I am about to divulge or discuss is at the top. But I will say that it will be sophisticated. Why I chose to keep this blog relatively unheralded, is that I don't appreciate the number of times that whatever I was discussing in my office in Allendale Square next to the Quantum Fund's office here, suddenly turned up seemingly to have come from George Soros. Okay, maybe it was just synergy – I do believe he is a very very bright man. Having said that though, no sooner had I stopped enunciating my own strategies and thoughts on a vast swathe of subjects, than they stopped appearing in the newspapers and in the media in the mouths of others.

'Cross-Reflexivity In Bio-mechanical Nervous Systems Applied To Other Spheres,' drafted in Edith Cowan University under Doctor Thomas W. Odgers' department, turned up as George Soros's by-now famous 'Reflexivity In Markets' theory. The fact that James Wolfenson swept through Cowan once or twice around the same time is of course, just another mere co-incidence.

Have you noticed though, how nothing of any serious note or merit has been advanced in financial markets over recent years? How there is a total lack of creativity? How there is this monolithic megalithic attitude about everything financial? Maybe quite a few more than just me realized what was going on... It isn't a conspiracy theory - there is a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry about it in the United Kngdom right now! Frankly I think that Inquiry is making Rupert Murdoch look like the arrogant fool he always was but had gotten away with things previously.

How on earth is it possible for an investment bank to fear the default of a sovereign debt?? Surely, they can fear falling currencies, but hardly should this be the reason for a catastrophic Euro Zone financial crisis requiring the bailing out by taxpayers worldwide and austerity everywhere...

No I rather think we have at last entered the phase in which those who really can, do, and all others merely appear to do in the media because they control that media. Which at last brings me to divulge my personal tastes in things that idle people like me do. And I know that these things will leave some people cold.

You see, the fact is that when it comes to really big money, some people appear to think there is an absolute hierarchy of taste. I have earlier pointed out my own admiration for Karl Lagerfeld. The enormously wealthy Dubai rulers commissioned Armani to add design elements to eponymous hotels and resorts located there. And what truly brilliant places they are. One needn't actually go there to experience the style values and themes. I recommend you Google-up 'Armani Hotels & Resorts' and merely listen to the soundtrack behind his website to see that these artists understand a thing or two. But I think many people struggle to understand in their gut what is really being said. And I think that from around 800 individuals, perhaps 200 will acount for those who can understand. But then, I take that from the movie Half Moon Street, do I not?

I have sometimes taunted a woman with the statement that I prefer the company of women who are able to deserve ah, ah,ah, mah-ney.

JW/CJB!