The slogan "media = virus" is written on a bridge that my son and I passed, last Saturday. He pointed it out to me. I replied that there is a lot of truth in it. The slogan dates back to the early corona days. Its meaning was different then: the relentless pushing of micro data (eg, infections) while ignoring the macro view. Essentially, nothing has changed...
Cycles and Waves
Society’s farewell to the best & brightest
10 May, 2022
All over the world, former politicians are being handed jobs by current politicians at semi-public organizations. In my view, this explains why the European Central Bank is not following the Fed on interest levels. As a consequence, the euro is near historic lows compared to the US$. Now, we are even importing inflation. Amsterdam Airport is an important airline hub...
China: from pragmatism to ideology?
26 Apr, 2022
American ideological wars have confused non-Western countries, like China and Russia. America (and Europe) look weak and vulnerable in their perspective. This may explain Putin's "historical blunder" by invading Ukraine. As Aristotle already stated: "A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies". I am confused by the apparent transformation of successful...
Quality vs Quantity
25 Apr, 2022
Recently, the Dutch FT published a story about a well-known start-up company facing production problems: from cool to faltering. This story can be summarized by: quantity up, quality down. To a large extent, it resembles capillary action: if you push the liquid in one tube down, the other one goes up, despite gravity. In 1855, Robert Browning wrote his poem Andrea...
The victim to offender cycle
22 Apr, 2022
In past centuries, Russia was invaded several times by (a.o.): Turkey (1570-1572), Poland (1609-1618), Sweden (1708-1709), France (1812), Japan (1918-1922), and Germany (1941). The roles were reversed after WW2. To date, Russia invaded Georgia (2008), Crimea and Donbas (both 2014) and Ukraine (2022). The above paragraph is an (international)...
Fashionable stupidity (Carl Jung)
7 Feb, 2022
Recently, I noticed a quote by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst: "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." The reference to fashionable stupidity is part of his 1920 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England. Clearly, stupidity is not a contemporary issue as it...
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We all like to be needed, wanted or believed
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Society’s farewell to the best & brightest
Drivers of Change: a 2022 update
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Quality vs Quantity
New: a proxy World War
“What is faith?”
The dark side of Hope
From pandemic to endemic
How did we get so far??
The positive power of negativity
Common sense, ignorance, stupidity and wisdom
The big-small principle
2021 Conceptual Framework
Life is a revolving door
Why are human beliefs stronger than our conscience?
Let’s work together
Who is to blame for hospital demand exceeding supply?
Dutch PM: “What more can I do??”
Is ideology responsible for stupidity?
Introspection
How do you help yourself?
Asymptomatic
Asymptomatisch
Mechanization, Automation, AI & Robotics
Needs, Wants, Beliefs, Awakening & Wisdom
Tweedeling in de samenleving
Collateral damage
Emptiness
Is politiek nog relevant in Nederland?
The SpaceTime dimension and the alternate Energy-Matter dimension
We need Knowledge, we want Power, and we believe in Love
Is consciousness a dimension not limited by space and time?
The asymptomatic Covid anomaly
What constitutes a relationship?
Everything follows Why (7): the DIKW model
No More Fear of Dying
Mission, goals, strategy, tactics and operations of viruses
Ideology vs pragmatism
Competition vs cooperation
From Knowledge to Power – the 7 Belief systems in the age of monism
The Art of War
Needs, Wants & Beliefs in reverse
2019 corona virus versus 1918 Spanish flu
Awakening – a conceptual framework (2)
Awakening – a conceptual framework
Our search for the truth
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish (2)
Friendship is a goal for women and a tool for men
One question says more than a thousand answers
The 3 roads to Wisdom
The 7 Belief systems – a 2019 update
The inflation conundrum
Theory of Everything (2) – the Flow
Theory of Everything
The art of compromising
Do people have a right to migrate?
I’m entitled to my own opinion, am I??
The 7 stages of Liberalism
Love, Knowledge and Power
Communication, thoughts and language
Personality, Attitude & Behaviour
Conceptual framework (6)
Knowledge = Power and the Great Filter in civilisations (5)
Drivers of Change
The 7 Belief systems – a conceptual framework
Enlightenment vs False Beliefs
Fast vs Slow thinking (3)
Old and wise
Conceptual framework (4) – drivers of human behaviour
The 4 levels of Consciousness – an integrated framework
Conceptual Framework (3) – update
Humanoid sapiens, our future descendants
The road to recovery from a burn-out (3)
Conceptual Framework (2) – Why does evil exist?
The ignorance of Nationalism and arrogance of Globalism
Arrogance of Left and Ignorance of Right
You can only hurt someone with the truth
Sumerian civilization (5): Soul vs Spirit
Everything follows Why
A conceptual framework
Faith, Beliefs and Willpower
The Road to Recovery from a Burn-out or Depression (2)
A brief narrative of the future
Faith vs Religion
The 10 Commandments
The 7 Belief systems – a summary
White Supremacy (2)
Opinions and criticism
Human Emotions (2) – a revisit
Why are opinions stronger than facts?
Numbers – mathematics, space, time, weights & measurements
The “what if” question
What makes a relationship truly unique?
The Great Flood (16,000 BC – 4,000 BC)
The meaning of Life = living a meaningful life
Weather is Your Mood and Climate is Your Personality
Our individual purpose
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