Selective Amnesia There was a point to this. But I forgot.

I heard it on the Radio.

Reactions to a couple of podcasts this last week.

One from the BBC History Magazine. It says that the privateer Captain William Kidd was innocent of the crimes he was accused of. And wrongly hanged.
Poor Kidd.
This goes to prove that kids these days have it easy. They aren’t hanged. More puns present themselves. Some harsh. I shall handle it with Kidd gloves.

The other is from PRI’s Studio 360-Design for the Real World.
It talks of a redesign for the popular game Monopoly. The contention is that the world of Capitalism has changed much, and that trade etc these days aren’t as they used to be. So, kids need better training in business, trade, commerce and monopolistic practices.

India didn’t have a game for trade (and hence established that we were spiritual, not religious, people existing on a plane above crass material possessions.) but we did give the world Chess. A game of high power, politics and kingship. Perhaps it is time for us to redesign our game. To take in new, welcome practices in the profession of politics. No more mere Queens and Kings and Pawns on a square board. I propose our first move should be to include a new rank of chessmen – #CivilSociety.
I am afraid these guys will do nothing in a game, cannot be moved, and will get in the way of other chessmen around them. But boy, won’t the game be that much more interesting?