The work of American archaeologist Mary Settegast (1934-2020) shows how many of the contradictions and controversies that arise from archaeological […]
Category: History
The Age of Ignorabimus: Its Humble Beginning and Chaotic End
A renewal is taking place in science, an untelevised one. Tension has been building in recent years regarding the ‘puzzle’ […]
The Fearless Bookseller
Three centuries ago, in 1721, a 21-year-old young man named Johannes van Septeren established a publishing house and bookselling business […]
The Hungry Post-Materialist
After approximately five centuries of materialist science, post-materialist scientists are coming of age. Scientific impulses have gradually moved from observing […]
The Future Critic
Future Critics do not exist yet. They arrive at doorsteps, email inboxes or soapboxes at very specific moments. Those moments […]
Against His Time
There exists an English 1960 translation of Rudolf Steiner’s 1895 book about Friedrich Nietzsche called ‘Friedrich Nietzsche, Fighter for Freedom’. […]
The Lowest Heaven
Researcher Donald Hoffman calls it a headset, biophysicist Wilhelm Reich called it a sieve, Plato called it a cave wall, […]
Kant’s Cave
Inside one of the most studied caves in the world, the one Plato described during the fourth century BC, people […]
Isaac
In the winter of 1821, a boy named Isaac Tange was born in a coastal town on the North Sea, […]
People of the Past
Much of our modern world depends on selling the future. When selling anything from mortgages to new medication, the latest […]
Empire of Distrust
Centuries ago, the Italian philosopher and priest Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) wrote, “Good can exist without evil, whereas evil can not […]
The Last Analyst
In the ever-fascinating realm of information, where anything from timeless wisdom to the analysis of current events is flowing or […]
Marx Attacks!
Jordan Peterson recently made an attempt to equate philosopher Karl Marx (1818-1883) to the devil, but this was nothing but […]
The Daily Boycott
The boycott is incredibly powerful as a means to dismantle and undermine anything unrighteous. It has been a few years […]
Until Morale Improves
The beatings will continue until morale improves. Cartoonist and illustrator Gerald Scarfe (1936) Many years ago a friend of mine […]
The Meaning of Semantics
To discover meaning it is sometimes sufficient to discover what is meaningless. In public debate the careless usage of words […]
Skies and Limits
Among the participants of an international conference in the Belgian city of Ghent in May 2010, it was well known […]
The Memetic Heretics
Memetics, the science of information flows, existed long before the internet, but a Belgian court went against long-held knowledge when […]
The Little Man
In the summer of 1945 psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) wrote a riveting essay entitled Listen, Little Man! – addressing all […]
‘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), […]
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 […]
The Modern Hero
Last week a Dutch biography of the murdered artist Theo van Gogh (1957-2004) was published. Even after seven years of […]
The Triviality Trap
In our world today the good needs strengthening through resistance, protection and creation. The bad needs closure through demolition, justice […]
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 […]
The Conditionality Curse
Freedom is the absence of conditionality. In this industrial, mechanical, technical era, however, conditionality is the ever-expanding center of existence. […]
When the Worst Won
In a kakistocracy the worst of all people are in charge. This Greek word can be applied to any governed […]
Heroic Historians
Without a somewhat accurate, reliable account of our common history we can’t work towards a better future. Sometimes time will […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s Human Nature?
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world […]