The Financial Times reports that the European commissioner Peter Mandelson has reached an agreement where the landlords of the markets agreed to clamp down on the fakes of various labels.
My question is, if the fakes themselves become rare, does their scarcity make them valuable? Are there times when fakes are better than the real thing? Is there merit to having a fake if it is for the intention of revealing the deceptions of status and wealth? Yes – fakes rely on deception. But what of when we deceive the deceivers?
Fakes help explain the nature, and the deceptiviness of branding and capital. And I suspect, it may reveal the elusiveness of finding God.
LOL... that was brilliant... never thought of religion as branding, but its so obvious.
Have to beware of those Nike fakes made in Bangladesh for 13 cents, not the real thing made in China for 12 cents.
Posted by: Sun Warrior | Jun 09, 2006 at 09:31 AM
We Anglicans have been called "fake Catholics." So my next question is, what is the problem - the fakery or the Catholicism?
Posted by: John Wilkins | Jun 09, 2006 at 10:03 AM
I care to think of Anglicans as the happy medium. You can taste the Catholicism and Reform. I think that is why I feel the most comfortable in them, and not my United Church of Canada (a combination Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist amalgam). It still hasn't gone to the extremes of intellectualism, but has deflated the mitre of the Vatican. Perhaps I find them the most open-minded.
Blessings,
Sun Warrior
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