Ethos, Passport Stamped, Morals Still in Customs By the time your flight from Singapore touches down in São Paulo, the word “ethos” has already collected more stamps than your passport. In business lounges it is printed on recycled napkins; in Davos chalets it’s embroidered on cashmere scarves; in Qatari boardrooms it’s projected onto LED walls…
The Good Place: A Global Audit of the Afterlife’s Balance Sheet By Dave’s Locker International Desk Let us begin with the obvious: if the universe were a multinational corporation, The Good Place would be its glossy sustainability report—equal parts aspirational fiction and creative accounting. While NBC’s sitcom wrapped in 2020, its premise keeps ricocheting around…
Wicked for Good: A Global Morality Play Where the Villains Pretend to Reform By the time you finish this sentence, a multinational mining conglomerate will have announced a glossy “net-positive biodiversity” plan while quietly dynamiting another chunk of the Amazon. Somewhere in Davos, a cigarette-peddling CEO will tweet about “purpose beyond profit” between drags of…
Ananta Game: How a Mobile App About Reincarnation Became the World’s Quietest Geopolitical Weapon ≈600 words Somewhere between the sixth and seventh screen-tap you realize that Ananta Game is not really a game at all. It is a cosmic DMV queue disguised as pastel pixels, a Buddhist slot machine where your next life depends on…
Debora Estrella: A Name for the End of the World By Our Correspondent in Transit, Somewhere Between Time Zones and Existential Dread If you’ve never heard of Debora Estrella, congratulations—you still possess the innocence the rest of us surrendered at the last global summit, the one where the coffee was ethically sourced but the futures…
Wicked, in the Original Global Sense Dave’s Locker International Desk – 23 June 2024 “Wicked” used to be a moral verdict handed down by men in sandals who had just invented monotheism and were feeling smug about it. Now it’s a Tony-winning musical, a TikTok filter, and—depending on the hemisphere—either a compliment shouted at a…
