Today’s Read XV – Personal Branding, Open Tenders, and Global Conflict

  1. “To reduce ourselves to brands… is to do violence to our personhood.” – another reminder of why we must resist this current madness for “influencing” and performative broadcasting: our very Humanity is at stake.
  2. An Umno politician waxing lyrical about the advantages of open tender for public projects – will wonders never cease?
  3. Our own Andrew Sheng co-writes an intriguing analysis of East/West and North/South divides in contemporary international affairs, and points out the obvious: “everyone loses In a fractured world.” And yet – surely we are headed nowhere but towards increasing conflict and probably even outright war, soon enough.