12 June 2019

• Scrooge: A miserly person. 
• Scrooge posing as Mother Teresa: How hypocritical social responsibility strategies hurt employees and firms. 
• Agglomeration: A mass or collection of things; an assemblage. 
• I had kept this up in Geneva, reciting any agglomeration of letters I came across: MARTINI, PICON, ESSO, HELVITIA. (Orhan Pamuk). 
• Ersatz: (of a product) made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else; not real or genuine 
• Even the success of Green parties in the 2019 European elections fits the formula: it is not be taken as a sign of ecological awakening; it was more an ersatz vote, the preferred franchise of all those who clearly perceive the insufficiency of the hegemonic politics  of the European establishment and reject the nationalist-populist reaction to it, but are not ready to vote for a more radical left. (Zizek)