Just A Conversation

The way I approach these blog-posts is that they are 'just a conversation between friends' or hypothetical friends, anyway. Some people I know personally, don't necessarily leave comments here and I speak with them regularly.

But even for those of you who neither leave comments or email and so on, the general intent of what I am saying is not supposed to be something set in stone and that 'no one can disagree with ever!' On the whole though, I'm sure you yourself have found that virtually every 'luxury channel' will refrain from open or outright criticism of any of the brands or subject matter of their content - and that is because they are, clearly, operating from the position of in some way acting for the brand or brands; promoting and marketing them in some respect.

These are just bottles you can buy - they are
'etched apothecary bottles' with clever words on them!

The trouble with this kind of myopia though, from the brand houses and their commercial supporters, is that regularly they literally bury themselves by digging heedlessly in some errant direction - they can and often have ruined their own brand franchise by their own bloody-mindedness to enforce some kind of change in style or standard of the brand and its product.

My own experience of people has been that ordinary normal people all have a very good sense of what 'high quality' is - they don't particularly need advice as such, probably only key information if it happens to be scant on that front.

I suppose one of the saddest things is that a significant brand or branded product has built up its strength over time, and the power in its value can last a long time, even when it is assailed by lessening standards or miscreant owners and managers. And the underlying presumption in this 'sad thing' is that it is all too often the case that whatever mentality is in management control of something often gets to that position in the first place entirely without genuine merit - and even institutions can be subverted silently over time and what is automatically taken on the outside as 'merit-based' is in fact a fallacious assumption to be indulging in by some observer.

You do not need me to tell you what 'things' you ought to buy!   

But how do 'the wrong kinds' get into power and control - of material things and organizations and human institutions of influence? Because everything that has a good or great reputation is desired after widely - and lusted after also by the most devious and miscreant. And they have no boundaries of ethics or morality. 

A lot of other, bottles...

The amazing thing about this universe, is that scattered in the dust, among the detritus and the rocks and flints, are things of staggering import and value and desirability - and that are undetected and unseen by the unworthy; and if they but knew, they would kill and stand over heads and bodies clambering to grasp.

I personally have no need to 'see' aliens arriving to hand over all this precious 'technology' they are presumed to possess  - and surely will possess, if indeed they had to 'get here' from some extreme distance away through space...

I do need to know where there are a half a dozen interesting, worthy, intelligent human or human-like individuals whose personality and character provide a suitable template - an example - we might use to guide our own thinking and style and styles of behavior.