Column

Wekelijkse notities in de kantlijn van waar de wereld over praat. En waarover ik vind dat de wereld moet praten.

De maandagcolumn is een institutie in niemandsland.

Bullying!

Bullying! that's the solution. All we need is thousands of anonymous people following the decision makers of the big corporations (Monsanto, DOW, Bayer, Pfizer, Shell, Chevron, Conoco, Vale, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, BP, Coca Cola, Nestle, Apple, Samsung, Goldman Sachs, ...) everywhere they go. Make graffiti, pee in their gardens, block their garages and lawns, ...
Best of humanity
"This is not a vacation, gentlemen" sounded the speaker of the space shuttle. A group of five distinguished white males looked at each other but didn't seem the least uncomfortable. "You have been democratically elected because you are the most promising individuals to continue humankind. We the people have voted for you. Don't let us ...
The real truth of infinite growth

Extinguish everyone that is not us, everything that is not human, let every organism go extinct, with the exception of us, homo sapiens, let the mammals die, the reptiles, the bees, the plankton - never mind our primitive ancestors once were dependent on them for their survival. We won't be. We will have machines ...
Idea of Do NOT consume

I did it. I have alluded to the greatest possible crime against "the Economy". I have created a facebook page entitled "do not consume" on which I post a prohibition sign with the picture of a consumer item. It is intended to be a repetitive, mind-numbing message in exactly the same way the big ...
What is needed?
Some call it the greed at the heart of the capitalist system, others call it the impossibility of infinite profit on a finite planet, still others call it the dead-urge of our entire industrial civilization. What we can - and should - all agree on, is that we are heading towards the biggest disaster in the ...
Finding Your Right Languages To Write In
It sounds arrogant or strange, but I believe that the clarity of our expression can sometimes benefit if we become guests in another language and say in her what we have to say. We enter her, admire her portal and marvel at the subtleties that are new to our ears. As we proceed, we incorporate ...
Night in the City
night lights in the big city. millions of eyes we imagine staring. But I do know what the manin apartment 12.04 is doing the man is readinguntil three am and then he turns off the lightevery single day so it is like we are having aconversation the man and me, and I think abouttomorrow when I ...
Frustrations with a slow computer

Sometimes frustrations are more bearable when shared. And who knows, we might also learn something from them if we try to put them into words. Take, for example, the case of a ridiculously slow, old computer. I'm sure you know what I mean. Look this up on the Internet and you get thousands of ...
“Neo-Malthusian” “populationists”
The straw man used to "debunk" people who countThe business-as-usual people like to portray anyone who raises concerns about the exponential growth of the world population, given our finite habitat, as a misanthropic pessimist who doesn't believe in progress. These people - whatever their motives are, I find it hard to believe they aren't bought ...