A Song Of Ice And Fire -

We see that the acclaimed HBO series, Game of Thrones, has opened a new season.  Big whoop.  To listen to the tittering critical community, one would think that George R. R. Martin's costumed dreck is actually literature, and that the on-screen version has been directed by Martin Scorsese under an assumed name.

The epic work is actually soft-core porn, cleverly interspersing horrific slaughter, magic, and nekkid ladies.  For it to pretend to be anything more would be akin to Peter Dinklage standing up really straight in hopes of being mistaken for the late (in the show) Sean Bean.

We face some parallels in the supply chain management realm, in which functions and concepts that some might hope constitute supply chain management, are elevated beyond their actuality, perhaps in hopes of being mistaken for being the same as what is embedded in supply chains.  Much of our world is over-populated with Peter Dinklages running about and calling themselves "Sean." 

The rest of it involves no magic, but lots of hard work, and a moderate amount of slaughter, or at least winners and losers.  We are woefully short of nekkid ladies, which could be a sign that we dwell in a world of reality, and can only make do with the illusions that accompany fantasy.