Some people have deep connections. Others have not. Deep connections survive about everything. Other connections will (ultimately) fail. My diagram is about the ingredients of such connections, like the how, what, when, where, & who. The presence of ingredients will provide a (good or bad) mix. Most ingredients are from my 2022 blog The 7 elements that define...
On April 23, I published my blog Done with USA and largely switched to other topics. Since that blog, matters only deteriorated. Each day, USA finds a new low. Since some weeks, I'm no longer taking that country any serious. Increasingly, USA is behaving like autocracies (eg, FT, China, Russia). Are you able taking USA serious? If so, how and why ?? Feel free to...
Finally, the question has arrived that I had feared: “President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to eliminate a key tool that lower courts have used to block various aspects of his agenda.” (Politico). I do hope that the U.S. Supreme Court (a.k.a. SCOTUS) will respect the U.S. Constitution. Nevertheless, I doubt that all SCOTUS members will respect their...
Op 9 januari 2025 stuurde De Telegraaf mij een e-mail update met de titel: PVV-kiezers teleurgesteld in kabinet en in gedrag van Wilders: ‘Voldoet totaal niet aan verwachtingen’. Ik vroeg me toen al af wat de intenties waren. Op 10 januari veranderde diezelfde journalist (Wierd Duk) reeds van mening in een bescheiden Telegraaf artikel, inclusief video interview: “De...
I’m in a new phase of my rollercoaster of solitude and loneliness. I failed to see this coming, despite part 6 of this blog series from October 2024. My comforting feeing of solitude seems to have vanished into thin air. Feelings of (temporary) loneliness have replaced my solitude. I can hardly remember such feelings. I’m not sure if I ever experienced those...
My blog title is borrowed from a recent PS article that caught my interest. Wealth has always been a metric for Power. It’s very hard to imagine that Big Tech billionaires could - let alone would - be considered a metric for wisdom. Nevertheless, the quote below suggests differently. “In an America where wealth has increasingly become the primary source of social...
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