Tag: revealing

Secret Agent

Posted on by Olaf

Have you noticed how everyone loves a secret? Some people are like Blackbirds scouring the lawn of life for them and yanking them out of others like juicy worms!  Some are keen to confide, others are not.  Some can be trusted but many can’t.  It is wise to be wary of those with the Blackbird tendency for such types are prone to gossip. A thing becomes a secret because it commonly has power to harm another person, community or country.  For these reasons and the innate desire of humans to want domination, countries have agents, secret agents and even double agents. This photo is reminiscent of a scene from 1974 ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ by John le Carré, a former spy himself. You may never have considered yourself to be like a ‘secret agent’ but peruse this a little more before dismissing the idea.

  • ‘Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent’ – Alex Berenson
  • ‘I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent’ – Timothy Dalton

Fake

Posted on by Olaf

So much of what we see and hear in the world today is fake!  Who can you believe in this the age of phishing, scams, hoaxes and deception?  When is it safe to click on a hyperlink or to open an email attachment? What happened to the world where people generally mean what they say and where you can turn on your computer without fear of ransomware or the need for antivirus software?  Since the dawn of time there have been half-truths, heists and frauds but it has infiltrated modern life at every level, aided, abetted and accelerated by technology. The wise person knows all that glitters is not gold but cannot always detect the counterfeit because it looks so genuine.  Back in the day, old bank notes like these shown were held up to the light to distinguish the false from the real currency.  Now it is more complicated, to the point that you can’t even be sure whether media news is true let alone the notes in your wallet, that is if you still use them.   

  • ‘Fake news and rumours thrive online because few verify what's real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases’ – Ryan Higa