Jolly Japanese Get Gas

Agamedes stomach churns, as emotion bypasses fact.

Do you need new -- lateral -- thinking for your own problems? email nick leth at gmail dot com. Need solutions? No worries. Now.

Good grief! What a stomach-churning exercise in blatant manipulation of the mind! Are we really stupid enough to believe this rubbish:

Oh gosh! The Yoshida children are so full of energy! And so cuuuute, too! Aaaahhh, shucks...

And there's that little logo, down below the cutesy picture. A little logo for the oil company which did not spill oil in the Gulf of Mexico. That friendly oil company which just wants to help the oh-so-cute Yoshida family to prepare tonight's bowl of warming noodles.

Oh please.

Shell are a multinational company. They are in the business of making money -- the more, the better.

But what if they blow up a processing plant? Or pour oil into otherwise clear waters? Or leak huge volumes of gas into the atmosphere?

Shhhhh... don't even think it... Just look at the nice Japanese family.

What if there's a delay getting the next environment-destroying plant up and running? Oh dear, that cute little Japanese girl will be so sad! Boohoo! You're not going to put the nasty environment in front of those sweet children who may have children of their own, surely...

I mean, there's so much more environment that we won't have destroyed, yet... So why stop and think? And just look at the cute children!

Are we really that stupid?

Well, the Shell marketing people certainly think so.

Independent thinking & independent analysis of your problems by Agamedes Consulting. Support for your thought: email nick leth at gmail dot com