Who woulda guessed?

Wide boy is a British term for a man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing.

So, when being associated with a certain Rake I get this; “He is a Sydney wideboy. Loves his league, women and pretends a type of amorality when what he really hates is ‘can’t’ (as in a dislike of hypocrisy and dogma). There are some similarities.”

As much as I have, in the past, hated hypocrisy (except my own of course) I have learned to live with it, almost contentedly. This is important since it appears to be the de facto currency of the new millennia.

Bugger the Big Mac index; bring on the Hypocrisy Index. Hypocrisy is correlated strongly to GDP per capita and even more strongly to the gap in GDP per capita within a country.

It’s almost as if human nature automatically turns to hypocrisy as the motivating force to unequally divide up the spoils of unnecessary wealth.

And getting in the way of human nature is almost as dangerous as getting between an academic and a research dollar.