There exists an English 1960 translation of Rudolf Steiner’s 1895 book about Friedrich Nietzsche called ‘Friedrich Nietzsche, Fighter for Freedom’. This title was translated from German, Friedrich Nietzsche, ein Kämpfer […]
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The Lowest Heaven
Researcher Donald Hoffman calls it a headset, biophysicist Wilhelm Reich called it a sieve, Plato called it a cave wall, the Buddhists and Hindus called it ‘Maya’ and the Quran […]
Kant’s Cave
Inside one of the most studied caves in the world, the one Plato described during the fourth century BC, people were sitting down, watching the shadows on the wall created […]
The Good, the Bad & the Bad
In these increasingly surrealistic times, public discourse is highly focused on trying to discern which political leaders, public figures, influencers and billionaires are Good and which ones are Bad. To […]
Isaac
In the winter of 1821, a boy named Isaac Tange was born in a coastal town on the North Sea, Vrouwenpolder, in the United Kingdom of The Netherlands. Ten years […]
People of the Past
Much of our modern world depends on selling the future. When selling anything from mortgages to new medication, the latest vacuum cleaner or tickets to a luxury cruise, the promise […]
Empire of Distrust
Centuries ago, the Italian philosopher and priest Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) wrote, “Good can exist without evil, whereas evil can not exist without good.” The good does not need evil, it […]
The Last Analyst
In the ever-fascinating realm of information, where anything from timeless wisdom to the analysis of current events is flowing or contained, those who have the most important things to say […]
Marx Attacks!
Jordan Peterson recently made an attempt to equate philosopher Karl Marx (1818-1883) to the devil, but this was nothing but an insult to the devil –and a definite end to […]
The Daily Boycott
The boycott is incredibly powerful as a means to dismantle and undermine anything unrighteous. It has been a few years since I have spent a euro at the big blue […]
Until Morale Improves
The beatings will continue until morale improves. Cartoonist and illustrator Gerald Scarfe (1936) Many years ago a friend of mine was managing a sales team. One evening, at a house […]
The Meaning of Semantics
To discover meaning it is sometimes sufficient to discover what is meaningless. In public debate the careless usage of words is as popular as it is problematic, rendering words meaningless. […]
Skies and Limits
Among the participants of an international conference in the Belgian city of Ghent in May 2010, it was well known that the modification of cirrus clouds had been ongoing for […]
The Memetic Heretics
Memetics, the science of information flows, existed long before the internet, but a Belgian court went against long-held knowledge when it sentenced a group of digital Memetic Heretics last week. […]
The Little Man
In the summer of 1945 psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) wrote a riveting essay entitled Listen, Little Man! – addressing all the forms of the ‘Little Man’ and ‘Little Woman’ who […]
‘Davos Men’ and ‘Dead Souls’: 20 Years Later
Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite was an essay published twenty years ago by Samuel P. Huntington (1927-2008), a prominent political scientist who taught at Harvard University. One […]
Computer Still Says No
Humor is often prophetic. The sketch from Little Britain –‘Computer says No’– is exactly twenty years old. An unfriendly, cold-hearted hospital receptionist conveniently suspends all of her humanity and responsibility […]
The Modern Hero
Last week a Dutch biography of the murdered artist Theo van Gogh (1957-2004) was published. Even after seven years of work, his biographer admitted in a television interview that he […]
The Triviality Trap
In our world today the good needs strengthening through resistance, protection and creation. The bad needs closure through demolition, justice and learning. The past needs reexamination and the future needs […]
Old Wild Horses
All wisdom found outside the rational mind has consistently received a bad rap, particularly during the last fifty to one hundred years. Much attention was given to academics, researchers and […]
The End of Short-Term Thinking
All institutions and companies have short-term thinkers and long-term thinkers. Short-term thinking is the prioritization of obvious, easy gains over lasting value; it is a form of self-sabotage and short-sightedness. […]
The Conditionality Curse
Freedom is the absence of conditionality. In this industrial, mechanical, technical era, however, conditionality is the ever-expanding center of existence. All of our appliances and software revolve around the concept […]
When the Worst Won
In a kakistocracy the worst of all people are in charge. This Greek word can be applied to any governed entity, a country, an institution, a company, et cetera, and […]
Heroic Historians
Without a somewhat accurate, reliable account of our common history we can’t work towards a better future. Sometimes time will tell. Sometimes time will set the record straight, but time […]
Between Coincidence and Conspiracy
There is one specific article by Edward Snowden that has been inspiring me since its publication in August 2021. It’s called Apophenia – How the Internet Transforms the Individual into […]
From Individual Power to Collective Shame
In 1919, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays (1891-1995) founded America’s first public relations firm, applying psychoanalytic discoveries to promote consumerism and to use latent sexual energy to manipulate the masses […]
It’s Human Nature?
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed […]
Building the Non-Lie
It’s harder than it seems to build a truthful venture atop the ruins of a World of Lies. Whoever has had the courage to start such a new venture is […]
The FBI and the Why of the Blue Sky
The biggest censorship case in modern history is that of the brilliant Austrian-American psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), who worked closely with Sigmund Freud. On August 23, 1956, the FBI burned […]
Myths and Constitutions
Freedom and power are oftentimes inversely related, similar to the way social norms and moral codes can be inversely related. In times like these, when causes and consequences are continuously […]