The Grey Man: Talk is cheap, but action is precarious
Primal Storytelling founder and contrarian, Kurt McGuiness, regresses to his smarmy university self to interrogate the latest spate of brand-funded cause awareness campaigns.
I was a real jerk in my university days.
I probably still am if you ask some people; but during those years in my late teens/early twenties I was at my most insufferable; especially during undergrad philosophy lectures.
There’s a special kind of churlishness that washes over pasty-faced first-year philosophy upstarts. Old enough to buy a beer, but unaware of the problems of the world beyond the price of a schooner, – I’m convinced I didn’t grow facial hair until I left uni (the first time around – I did a masters later on and was a different kind of insufferable) because I’d destroyed my chin-pube follicles from all that pensive scratching.
