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Reviving the Toy Kingdom: How LEGO Transformed Sales with a Simple Insight
The LEGO Company was founded in the 1940s and is a famous toy manufacturer in the world. The various series of splicing building blocks it develops are ever-changing, attracting the hearts of children of all sizes around the world, and also making Lego famous and known as the national treasure of Denmark. But no one expected that such a toy kingdom would run into sales difficulties in 2003 and almost go bankrupt. At that time, the Danish cultural industry was developing rapidly, people began to pay attention to the intellectual investment in children, and many toy companies sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Although they are not as “old”…
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Hannah Arendt: The Thinker Who Escaped Totalitarianism
Experience is the sole object of our thinking! Nothing else!” This was Hannah Arendt’s declaration at the “Hannah Arendt Works Seminar” in 1972. The event was organized by the Toronto Society for the Study of Social and Political Thought. Arendt was originally invited as a guest, but she insisted on giving a speech at the conference. Hannah Arendt’s oeuvre is largely concerned with thinking. In her “Thought Diary” she asked: “Is there a non-authoritarian way of thinking?” At the outset of “The Human Condition”, she stated her intention: “What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.” When she went to…
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The Godfather of British Literature and His Dark Satire
British author Martin Amis (Martin Amis) succumbed to esophageal cancer at his residence in Florida, USA, on May 19, 2023 local time. He was 73 years old. Amis emerged as a dazzling star in the British literary scene after his debut novel “The Rachel Papers” won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1973: a brilliant prodigy who liberated his spirit and unleashed astonishing creativity. He ascended to the pinnacle of the literary world in the 1980s with a series of stylized works: “Money – A Suicide Note” (1984) was included in Time magazine’s “100 Best English-language Novels”; “Time’s Arrow – The Nature of Crime” (1991) and “Yellow Dog” (2003) were shortlisted…
