The title of the last issue of the Polish wine periodical Ferment laconically indicates,  wo liegt der  Hund begraben. Well, wine and the whole culture around it are nothing but money. The entire superstructure is about the relationship between people, and those in the final see summarise in profit and loss, in earning to survive, […]

In my old head, because of the emptiness that prevails, complex solutions will never be nested. It must be piece by piece and as thoroughly as possible, because once it becomes more difficult, it will wrap and spin and the brain will not withstand it. Unfortunately, aspiring to stay at a candlestick and within one […]

All this discussion reprehends some to condemnation, pushing others to eternal glory. I think it’s not worth anything, also because it is not entirely clear who both groups are. Fortunately, human reality is so receptive that it can accommodate everyone, and the world will continue to develop in its way what I would rather call […]

And immediately I am retracing an advertisement for “a real Italian coffee“. Such ads bemuse us. A subliminal transmission shoots into cells, seeps the pores of the skin, interferes with behavioural algorithms. Then some manipulators try to persuade us that it comes from the Supreme Force. The same occurs with wine. By becoming a person […]

So to conclude these rather cursory considerations, which (if time is enough) could someday become the core of something bigger. Reality must be divided into pieces and described separately, and then combined in a cause-and-effect chain. Yes, you can emotionally create the poetry of a film or a book, as Nossiter does, but making such […]

I dream of such a discourse in which the word sign would fully correspond to the described phenomenon, that is as if defined by linguists, signifiant  =  signifié. Then we would altogether avoid misunderstandings, and by telling each level separately, we would create a clear picture of reality in our heads, which would pretend actually […]

Jonathan Nossiter helps me in my reflections on Parker. His approach to wine, however, seems to me too poetic, too high a rock in the clouds, because things are, in my opinion, much more straightforward. After all, everything can (and must be) reduced to the simplest elements. Culture too often hides behind juggling words of […]

It seems that the most difficult is just in front of me. In the first entry in this series, I wrote that there were many levels and that each of them should have been treated separately to get the description straightforward. Describing the individual stories, however, it is easy to lose an overall plan. I […]

When the UK Decanter admitted Robert Parker Jr to his Hall of Fame for 2020, they wrote in a well-crafted online article: „He has received the highest civilian honours offered to individuals in France (an Officier of the Légion d’Honneur, bestowed by President Chirac), Italy (a Commendatore in the National Order of Merit, bestowed by […]

Some have long dreamed of globalisation, McLuhan wrote about the global village back in the  1960s. There have been euphoric moments when globalisation has been confused with progress, forgetting that both concepts are merely categories of world view and realistically exist only in human heads. Progress, however, has an evaluative tinge. Still, globalisation is a […]