The Loss of Innocence
Well, what is your hobby then? people were asked decades ago. Duh, I play golf, they replied.Or: I collect half-rusted cake tins from the interwar period.Or also: I like to rummage under my Opel Kadett 1963 … vintage car you…
The System is dead – time for solutions?
We will not get around it. The system is definitely and seriously broke.It no longer serves people in the community.It now obviously takes the lives of people.Everyone can now see it – if they dare to choose to see. The…
The Cult
It used to mean something else. The word CULT. Something other than what we understand by cult today. We live in times when old concepts undergo a perversion. Like the word myth. Once it meant epic world explanation, storytelling, today…
Possessed
Possession – what do we think? Do we get the association of our earthly possession, ownership or maybe stolen goods? Or do we come to think of the kind of obsession / possession we have seen in movies like The…
Anthropomorphic A-Z
AAnt are the starting letters of Anthropos. Aren’t we just like ants? The ground dwellers in a society of workers and warriors with at fat queen in her chamber perpetuously fed with goodies in order for her to lay eggs.…
You can’t say that!
An Englishman was in the United States sometime in the 1980s when he was talking to an American – no wonder. He remembers to his great astonishment that at one point he got a forefinger from the American, where he…
The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales
Its for children! For children, you say. We’ll see about that. We have most of our adventures for children from sources in the early 1800s. In particular, the Brothers Grimm, who were not only children’s book authors but competent historians,…
An interview with myself
This is an auto interview, meaning I am interviewing me-myself. I find it convenient as a mind trick for stepping backwards and deliberately splitting my brain. I am distancing I-myself from me. I: How did you get to know all…
Chivalry – Truth and Nothingness
We live in times where universal human values and concepts able to describe them are vanishing. Often they seem lost or so changed in their core, that they are no longer adequate. In some cases values and concepts are so exposed to scorn, censorship, condemnation or attacked…
Get out of Town
GET OUT OF TOWN! The city is an ambivalent place.It is attractive and repulsive at the same time.It is a cultural magnet and a decadent fly paper. It has a creative pulse and it has destructive stress.The amount of people broadens the possibilities and narrows the free space.It…
ISMS for Dummies
Mammonism: Nihilistic displacement of God with money, via mafia structures created by the global mammon-oligarchy. It involves monopolization and usury and constant war. Societies run by mammonists are places of non-production¸non-self-sustenance, non-employment and no future. Example par excellence these days: the British society run by the mammonists…
The Power of Play
Some years ago I was walking the Haute Randonnée Pyrénéenne, which is the High Route of the Pyrennees. It is a path that crosses the highest passes of the mountain chain from the Mediterranian to the Atlantic Ocean more or…
