This one isn’t about advertising; rather its a forwarded email I got from Andrew (my biz partner), which he got from his sister in Australia (now you know my content sources). In it is a Chinese man named Liu Bo Lin that literally paints himself into the background. It’s pretty cool in a weird sort of way; so I figured I’d post it and share this Friday after-work oddity with you.
Digging a bit deeper than the obvious entertainment value; we can see glimpses of the Chinese point of view, particularly if you’re on the lower rung of society; feelings of invisibility as the engine of capitalism zooms by; feeling faded into the background, unable to move, unable to catch progress as it sweeps up your “betters” and takes them to the “promise land”.
Just one of one billion; now you see him, now you don’t.
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I was thinking about an expression of not seeing the forest fore the trees, I guess this is not seeing the population fore the progress…kind of.
Best regards,
Vladimir
Ya something like that; the progress covers the sacrifice made for progress. Can’t say its wrong or right; just that its happening today, tomorrow.