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Babies Are Cute!

Most people find babies cute, and for good evolutionary reasons. A newborn human is more completely dependent on the care of its parents than any other mammal (there probably is an exception to this rule, but for the purpose of this article, we go with the clich'e). I just want to share an experience with ...

Gezocht: dichtertje

Gisteren herlas ik 't dichtertje van Nescio, een verhaal van bijna honderd jaar geleden dat speelt in Amsterdam. Het verhaal maakte een frisse indruk omdat ik het associeerde met mijn ervaringen van Amsterdam: stond er iets over een tram, dacht ik aan de moderne trams en stond er iets over een ontmoeting met de Duivel ...

Unsubscribe: all

Over the course of the last few days, I received dozens of e-mails from organisations I didn't knew I knew about, and I invariably clicked on their 'unsubscribe' link. Political campaigns, real estate listings, environmental actions, job openings, social networks, online marketplaces, and so on. It feels a little bit like the mise-en-scène of an ...

Smokkelwaar

Geen inspiratie, dus een gedicht over het schrijven. schakel in woorden het juk en het jorem dit is smokkelwaar in een wereld waar woorden nooit meer dan symbolen zijn treefjes voor de jouissance in een wereld die verrekt een wereld vol "content" dit is smokkelwaar en het blijft onder ons, gelijkenden onder ons wezens die ...

Carried Away By No Photo

Here's the scandal: My baby is three weeks old and the photo of my baby is still not all over the Internet, despite the fact that the most common reaction is -"Congratulations! Photos?" Of course as a healthy-grumpy-cynical philosopher I recognize how mindless this reflex is, and how we as members of a predominantly visual ...

Infinite gross, revisited

We hold this truth to be self-evident, that we cannot grow the material economy indefinitely on a finite planet.* Such growth however, is exactly what is needed to keep the economic system from falling apart, as many studies have shown.**

What about the "service economy"? Could it be the solution to grow an economy indefinitely? Of ...

Grace

I remember watching the Tour de France on television on Sunday mornings as a teenager. I remember wonderful names such as Indurain, Ullrich or Janukovitsch. I remember motorcycles patiently following a courageous and ambitious cyclist as he forged ahead alone on a steep col. The camera sometimes showed the beautiful mountains and the road that ...

Finally thought I understood something about the Internet

What follows is the post scriptum for a facebook group I founded, entitled Future sustainable living village, a group I couldn't continue to be a member of for reasons explained below
This group was started by me a few months ago to seriously consider a future sustainable living group using a facebook "group".
But seems to be ...

Naming Miru

It is our invitation to the cultured realm of existence: giving her a name. It is the first "act" and symbolic gift we bestow upon her. Naming has played an important role in every religion, and newborns have almost always been named after something or someone. Naming preserved a lineage, honored the founding elders on ...