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Blogging on various topics regarding current social and economic issues, writing aphorisms and drawing cartoons tackling many hot topics we are annoyed with almost each single day.

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Writing aphorisms and blogging in connection with modern socio-economic hot issues that form our commonly accepted consciousness on widespread global crisis. I am not bad at drawing satirical cartoons

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  A comment on Conversation: What is your favourite quote and why?

  Mar 22 2012: I write aphorisms, so it is very hard job to select only one favorite quote. However, there is a small selection:
  Don’t build prisons; close the borders.
  All human organs are biological except the brain, which is ideological.
  After arrest, the writer figured out the point of proverb ‘Silence is golden’.
  The writer is still at large; the police cannot make out what his metaphors mean.
  I think, therefore I am an anachronism.
  Ouch, I really hope I won’t be run over by the wheel of progress.
  It’s not called a crisis here; it’s called the economic cycle.
  Our politicians are very hygienic; they substituted brainwashing for money laundering.
  Upon the advice of my lawyer I stopped writing aphorisms.
  You do not need to stand on your head to get a different view of world.
  History is written in blood. Only the signatures are in ink.
  Heaven and Hell have been united; they are now a border-free zone.
  Robots will make great aphorists. They like to communicate in short sentences.
  We live virtually but die for real.
  Morals make saints; breaking morals makes human beings.
  Morality is a barrier between men and women.
  They lift their foreheads so high in order not to see what’s happening on the ground.
  Eternal vigilance leads to permanent insomnia.
  As oil prices get closer to the maximum, the value of human lives gets closer to the minimum.
  Even the dead are unequal; some are in mausoleums.
  The cult of personality has nothing to do with culture.Not everything is black, the firefly said while looking at another firefly’s ass.
  They say, “You are on the right path.” I think I am at a crossroads.
  The revolution that eats its children starves to death.
  If size mattered, dinosaurs would rule the world.
  If the Internet had been in ancient Greece, then Plato would have been a blogger.
  When life is a lottery, poverty is a dominant destiny.
  The truth is revoked again by superior goals.
  Negotiations are a matter of democracy; therefore, humans must talk to devils.
  Love is a side effect of sex.

• A comment on Conversation: Does the media choose our presidential candidates for us?

  Feb 8 2012: No, media does not choose presidential candidates and/or presidents for us, but it does have tremendous impact on forming public opinion. However, final decision is on us. Good marketing is very important in presidential race. It is well known that one must have money to pay ads, so the more expensive campaign, more chancest to win. There is no quality that can compnensate publicity. Media must be deployed to form best possible public opinion, otherwise defeat is inevitable.
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  A comment on Conversation: How should economy system that comes after capitalism look like?

  Feb 6 2012: Who knows, weather forecast is reliable for 5 days, and capitalism is, judging by lasting of previous socio-economic systems (feudal and slavery) in its early age. It means that even in year 3,000 capitalism will be our global reality. That is really too far away from 2012, so even Nobel Prize winners for economics are not capable to answer that question. It could be some new form of ISM unseen so far.
  
  I guess, Capitalism will not surrender so easily, it will change "multi-step", "multi phase" changes, claiming it as temporary crisis, rather than make revolutionary breakthrough. Why should tycoons and extremely rich change anything? They need investment opportunities, higher profits not more human society, it’s enough human and democratic for them. It is much more in interest of ordinary people and workers with average income to change than world than CEOs and politicians.
  
  Many economists say Capitalism is sliding to State Capitalism. How? It could be only "State assisted Capitalism", not State Capitalism. State intervention is attribute of socialism (communism) not system based on market principles and values. Interfering of State in communist countries were once upon a time even mocked, not only by western artists, but by their economists, businessmen and politicians too. State, "sui generis", should be on side of great majority, average, poor and poorest people, not to serve interests of a few extremely rich, that is not case now. Namely, Interference of State today in Capitalism is more providing better investment opportunities, than fighting poverty.
  
  Western politicians try to increase taxes to rich for 2, 5 or 7 % to make more "fair society". It’s more cosmetics, than crucial change. Governments will have more funds in budget, what does not necessarily mean that poor will get more.
  Talking to poor and, even, people with average income that bank CEOs bonuses are cut from 20 to 15 million dollars is more mocking than serious policy.
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  A comment on Conversation: Are there any merits to the idea that Communism is "feminine"?

  Feb 3 2012: Once upon a time I live in communist country that was called Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, under rule of lifetime president Josip Broz Tito. I do not think that Communism is "feminine", rights of women today in a remain of country (Serbia) once I lived in are, in my opinion, greater, there are more women CEOs and politicians. They are equal to men in police and army too. I can see women in police uniform each day on Belgrade streets. They are truck and trolley bus drivers today. I could not see nor a single woman driving the bus when I was young. If we look at women as mothers it was much easier in communism for ordinary women (no lay offs, longer maternity leave, cheaper baby equipment). That`s why communism always takes side of average, ordinary people, so they once felt more protected by State than today, when Corporation is supreme commander of State and Government.
  In communism there were no public, explicit hardcore pornography, so many women had feeling that their dignity had been respected. Family as basic social unit was much more protected by state laws in communism, that was very important for woman as element who keeps family united and compact. Today, State is on side of Investors, not ordinary people and workers, whom it consider only pure taxpayers and human working force who is on the face of the Earth just to increase profit of Corporations and its top Management.
  However, one has to weigh advantages and disadvantages of communism for women. Frankly, Yugoslavian communism was much more liberal than Soviet or Chinese at that point.
  Bottom line is that there are no good proof that Communism is "feminine"? Somebody can do cross analysis on this issue, but result is, for sure, uncertain and relative.