Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material.
Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories