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In de geest van de dictator
De dictator, hij die het voor het zeggen heeft, komt alleen in mannelijke uitvoering. Op de één of andere manier – revolutie, coup, troonopvolging – lukt het hem om met anderen alleen te regeren.
Aarden in het moeras van het leven
De tragiek van het leven ligt in de combinatie van groei naar het einde en het besef hiervan. Kleine mensjes komen ter aarde en het eerste wat hen verteld kan worden: gij zult eens niet meer leven. Alles wat u ziet, is een keer niet meer.
Is price speculation a bad thing?
Over the years speculators have become increasingly dominant in the commodity markets. With that, price speculation, especially on basic goods like food, has come under public attack. On the nature of speculation and judging its value.
Een leven zonder deining
En zo trekt het leven aan ons voorbij zonder dat er iets noemenswaardigs gebeurt. We lijken in afwachting van lijden en schaarste. Van pijn die ons uit een trance haalt en ons weer laat liefhebben in plaats van alleen te hebben.
My TV will go to heaven
Is there a hereafter for TVs ? How many cars fit in a coffin? Why on earth are we hoarding so many things when it is only of use to us while we are alive? If only we would know how we are taking from future generations.
How the intelligent treat the less intelligent
The intelligent have chosen to buy off the disadvantaged less intelligent and at same time subdued them with a threat to the continued existence of the herd. This all happens under the cloak of progress and prosperity that supposedly benefits...
How authoritarianism might save us
Over the centuries a sense of cultural pride has disappeared from us. We could pinpoint this to the fact that our societies have put greater value on who we, as individual human beings, are. We have forgotten about the collective, about...
Individuals and groups
Most human beings take for granted that they are coexisting with others. It will not come to their minds to seek seclusion and to live like hermits. There are no organisations that encourage voluntary isolation by individuals. Even political...
Declining value of money
Money is one of the most important things in the life of a human being. Money buys a way out of poverty, diseases and homelessness. Money brings status and friends. Money, though, is more than a piece of paper. It is linked to the world...
Minimum wage paradox
Over decades the idea has grown that the collective is responsible for arranging ‘morally justifiable’ wages. It has become more difficult to directly attribute performance to payment. Differences in wealth stimulated the eruption of...