![]() ![]() Eno - Roxy Music keyboardist, ambient music pioneer, and uber-producer - created the deck with his friend Peter Schmidt, a painter, to provide inspiration when facing an artistic block. In case you don’t know, Oblique Strategies is a deck of cards. Last week, I wondered if the administration was making policy on Syria using Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies. ![]() Someone send that man a copy of Here Come the Warm Jets. But then John Kerry opened his big mouth and stumbled his way out of the morass that is the president's policy on Syrian chemical weapons. Honour thy error as a hidden intention, indeed! I had been kidding about the whole Eno thing. ![]() "The function of the Oblique Strategies was, initially, to serve as a series of prompts," Eno explained, "which said, 'Don't forget that you could adopt this attitude,' or 'Don't forget you could adopt that attitude.' The first Oblique Strategy said 'Honour thy error as a hidden intention.'" Subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas, each card in the deck is printed with a cryptic aphorism - e.g., "Change specifics to ambiguities." Selecting a card at random is intended to encourage you to look at a problem differently. In case you don't know, Oblique Strategies is a deck of cards. Last week, I wondered if the administration was making policy on Syria using Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies. ![]()
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