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Me Tarzan. You Marketing Managers.

I have been disturbed and now, I must speak about it. Thirty-three years on Planet MeglaZoid and though many things have changed over the years, one truth remains absolute: People with power have no higher cognitive abilities. This is apparent when dealing with Marketing Managers and politicians; for the sake of this post however, we will focus on Marketing Managers. Seriously though, for the politician, you see it evident when policies and processes are put in place that seem to have no connect with their target audience; when taxi drivers have a better grasp on what should be done infrastructurally. For the Marketing Manager, it becomes evident when they not only show no true grasp on how to make money for the brand they represent but they also fail to connect with the people they claim to serve. To be fair though, it’s not just the marketing manager’s fault but also the entire marketing team that needs to be drawn and quartered. I thought your job was to make money for the Br...

Me Tarzan. You Darkness (of others)

The older you get the more cognizant you are of the demons of others. Which (of course) is exceedingly difficult when you have a messiah complex or when you think you know of One. I don't believe in (trust/follow/subscribe to the revering of) the demons; I think they're all bastards. But I don't deny they're there. Friendship, I have found, is a great elixir in the combat of demons but -as I said at the beginning- every body has their assigned brood to destroy. And I've noticed that darkness is adept at waiting it out. This is why you'd find that after you've comforted someone; after you've pried the cold hands of the dark off theirs; after all this... Yours still waits in the shower for you.  In Christianity, when dealing with actual demons, the Christ explained that once cast out, a demon goes through arid places looking for rest and if it doesn't, it finds seven demons stronger than itself and returns to ...