death of a consumer

21Oct08

I wanted to post a nice long rant about how being a customer has changed in the last 10 years. I wanted to rant about how we are “lucky” to get eye contact from a clerk (when not forced to use a machine), let alone anything resembling courteous conversation.
However, I just can’t get worked up [...]

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Tags: business, consumer, customer, customer service, society, transaction

morality or modesty

03Jun08

I am thinking about morality and modesty today. What are these two terms in our culture? Are they the same or just closely related. I know the definitions, but I am thinking about their implications in our day to day behaviour.
Here is the Modesty entry in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesty
It is interesting how closely modesty is tied to religious [...]

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Tags: behavior, culture, modesty, morality, religion, society, virtue, wikipedia

subversive continued

23May08

A comment yesterday got me thinking further than just “how would our lives change if we didn’t have personal cars”. Fae’s comment got me thinking – how much would we change as a society if we were forced to take communal transport? Whether that is mass transit, or subsidized carpooling…
Originally, I was thinking internally, as [...]

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Tags: cars, driving, life, social conciousness, society, transit, transportation