After taking a nice long summer break, I'm back, having seen a huge amount of theater, new museum installations and public art beginning to address what's going on in politics. The biggest theme seems to be that people say one thing and do another.
In the theatrical realm a lot of old shows are back on the ticket if they include content on saying what you mean, doing what you say...though often the results include other behaviors. New shows are exploring people doing bad things in the name of something good and other complicated set ups leading to failed outcomes.
I've spent the last year reading Nassim Taleb (The Black Swan) and Daniel Kahnemen (www.edge.org) on psychological economics and David Brooks (NYT) on politics and the face of conservatism and the psychology of power. And recently I attended an event featuring Dan Hill and his book "Emotionomics" in which he makes an argument that rational decision making is rare and most of us make a gut decision and then rationalize that (the real decision and the good decision). All of these writers seem to have been waiting for today's events. Brooks NYT column dated 10/29 points to all but Hill as writers and I think he would be interested in what Hill has to say as a marketing consultant focusing on advertising media.
The old adage that tough times give us lots of black automobiles and plenty of cleavage is giving way to some very thinky theater and some well written journalism. I'm hoping this bodes well for the long term future. For certainly we have some more short term labor and teeth gritting to get through.
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