Denizen One: Blackboard Adventures

I've taken to popping quotes up on a public backboard in the middle of Hobart City. The results have been surprising

The backboard is in Mathers Lane, which cuts through a block in the middle of town. All kinds of people pass through there every day.

For those of you who don't know, Hobart the small capital city of the state of Tasmania, Australia. It's not very big, and you can walk the span of the city centre in a couple of minutes.

So to begin with, I put this one up. I was feeling a little frustrated that day, and I think perhaps it shows. You're going to have to ignore the glaring errors, like the "It's" in the Friedrich Schiller quote above. I get very nervous and do it all the time. Ooops!

It may be difficult to read. It says:

"Successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The next time the government cries poor, remember: around half the worlds wealth is funneled through tax havens."

I had fun doing it, and got the thumbs up from a passer by.

It was wiped down immediately. I went down the next day to find someone had removed it.

I was a bit miffed, so I went back home, got some more chalk and did this one:

The top part is the Vice Chair of the Panama Papers Committee Eva Joly Mep, and it's a quote I got from the documentary 'The Spiders Web: Britain's Second Empire':

"We need the citizens to understand what is happening. That they are the ones who are carrying the burden. And that some individuals having the power are exonerating themselves [I misspelled exonerating by the look of it!] Ordinary people are paying taxes, rich people are not. So this is inequality, and it is leading up to populism because it shows so clearly that the people today leading the world are not able to take care of the interests of ordinary people."

Below, I have Sandford F Shram:
"Social work increasingly comprises forms of psychological services focuses on helping realise the disciplinary demands of the neoliberalising state, which is now ever more dedicated to managing rather than serving disposable populations. It is the end of social work as we know it, and the ascendancy of a neoliberal regime that disciplines subordinate populations to be market compliant regardless of the consequences."

Then theres Keith Payne, from his book 'The Broken Ladder':
"...the mother of all biases: Most people rate themselves as more objective and less biased than the average person."

And economist John Maynard Keynes:
"Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."

That one stayed up for awhile.

Then I kept going:

This meme might be easier to read:

From Brooke Harrington's 'Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers of the One Percent':

A bit of Curtis White:

This meme might be easier to read:

I had a bit of agreement on this one:

A bit of Kurt Vonnegut:

Then I had a bit of an interaction. First I put this up:

But someone kept putting "Trump 2020" up on the board, and it kept sparking mad left/right warfare. So instead of rubbing it down, I did used the "Trump 2020" in a sentence.

It says:

"Failing to look after the interests of ordinary people only increases the chances that someone like... 'Trumpo 2020' ...will win. Because when people are angry, when people are desperate, they lose their ability to be rational. Meet the precariat, the new global class fueling the rise of populism."

Then I put some information on Guy Standing and a URL to more information.

I saw people taking photos later that day.

Then I thought I'd put up a few varieties of precariat, and the URL for my blog.