When we are in need of advice or knowledge, we turn to the professionals in their field; people who have spent an incalculable amount of time practicing their craft and skills to the point of authority: to financial planners when we need retirement advice; to lawyers when we need to get out of jail; to stockbrokers when we need to trade on that inside information; to trades people when we don’t have a clue on how to assemble that Ikea bookshelf or to doctors when we don’t know what the weird growth on my head is.
When there are no professionals to offer advice, we turn to the leaders in the field for guidance. The AFR when we need politically unbiased editorial with a no-sports policy or to PC World for geek related news or to www.dictionary.com when we don’t know the meaning of one of the multi-syllabic words I use or to Motor magazine when we need to know the performance of the new BMW M5 or to Gourmet Traveller when we need that restaurant review or to Conde Naste Traveller when we need know the thread count of the new super luxury hotel in tsunami ravaged Sri Lanka or to Vogue when we need to know the latest fashion designs and looks.
That is why it was so surprising when I opened up the latest issue of the Bulletin where it claims that it will cost over $1 million to raise a child. That claim is obviously false but the Bulletin isn’t known for its accurate news articles, but more for its morally charged voice, which paradoxically is also the morally charged voice of Australia’s wealthiest person. But towards the end of the Bulletin, in the new Enterprise section, a single line spoke of insurmountable truth, free of bias and cash for comments which is practically scripture upon itself.
The sentence as written by Elisabeth King – "A man looks much more in control of the game if he keeps his keys, money, mobile and documents in a Louis Vuitton travel wallet."
posted by tykang @ 7/06/2005 01:39:00 PM
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