Art, the low incomst countries and tattoos

At the bookcafe at work, there an exhibition with photos from Bangladesh. The photograph supports a movement that educates girls in Bangladesh. So far so good. What I reacted to is that they educated the girls in "small-scale crafts". To me it sounds like, and note that this is just my thoughts as a dilettante on the developing world, a romantic fantasy. I’m not saying all girls in rural Bangladesh should grow up to make cutting edge research on quantum physics or genomics or A.I. or whatever, but is “small-scale crafts” really the future?

It made me think about Freeman Dyson article Our Biotech Future that now ten years old. ( Read more... )

 

 The other thing from work I want to share is that I saw a photo of a peace monument from 1955 in Sweden. The thought of a peace monument made me think that if I ever get another tattoo it would be of the Non-Violence monument outside the United Nations Headquarters, New York (pic: Wikimedia).



About the Swedish monument. The thing is that the statute i question celebrate the peaceful splitting of the union between Sweden and Norway in 1905. That was 50 years after the dissolution, a hundred years after the dissolution we let american artist Jenny Holtzer make an exhibition about it. End of lecture.