Return to Alice's Wonder Land

The art of storytelling is still thriving. Few stories are more familiar than "Alice in Wonder Land", but it does tend to get told in the same way. We have a team of artists who are revolutionizing the stories, making it into an immersive experience for a select audience. It sounds as though the audience member is going to feel like he is in a real-life videogame. The story moreover also delves into some of the shadowy background that has always been a part of the story, albeit usually left unspoken.

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Class War

According to Krugman, if more Americans are not angry over the vast inequality in our society, it may be because most Americans do not even know bad it is.

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In fact, most Americans have no idea just how unequal our society has become.... We may notice, and feel aggrieved about, college kids driving luxury cars; but we don’t see private equity managers commuting by helicopter to their immense mansions in the Hamptons. The commanding heights of our economy are invisible because they’re lost in the clouds.

[We may know about the great wealth of celebrities, but ...]

celebrities make up only a tiny fraction of the wealthy, and even the biggest stars earn far less than the financial barons who really dominate the upper strata. For example, according to Forbes, Robert Downey Jr. is the highest-paid actor in America, making $75 million last year. According to the same publication, in 2013 the top 25 hedge fund managers took home, on average, almost a billion dollars each."

-- Paul Krugman at The New York Times

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How To Kill Someone

“How to kill someone:
Hold their hand and then never touch their skin again,
See them nearly everyday and pretend they don’t exist,
Act like everything you ever said to them was a lie.”

-- Anonymous