Creating the perfect situation for electoral reform is difficult. Parties out of power want it. The moment they get into power, they don’t want it; witness the federal Liberals this year. But British Columbia is in a unique situation with a minority government imminent. The Green Party, which speaks for enough voters to swing the…
Month: May 2017
Social Commentary
Cultural Appropriation
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Our society has many rules that protect an artist from having his work stolen. Copyright, trademark, public domain etcetera. But those statutes were created within our culture, to protect members of our group from each other. There have been no such rules created to deal with the art of a whole people. In fact, our copyright laws…
Election Watch, Politics
2017 Election Trends
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A few interesting trends came out of the latest provincial election, no matter who wins in the end. The Losers The first election trend that is inescapable is the loss of votes for Christie’s Conservatives. It’s pretty obvious that, as many business-friendly parties have discovered in the past, a constant stream of “Economy, economy, economy”…
Social Commentary
The Echo Chamber
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I mentioned the echo chamber effect in passing in a previous post, and I think it deserves a little more time, because it has a key effect on our society. Modern Usage The new definition comes from social media. In this metaphor, we post our ideas to our social media feeds, which are populated by…
Social Commentary
Fun and Games in the TV Industry
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Apologies to my regular readers, but the incisive mind of the Renaissance writer, instead of producing the usual entertaining and insightful missive, is off on a one-track tangent. It all has to do with having a son in the TV/Movie business. He’s a production designer in Toronto, but every once in a while he gets…