Essays

Pogingen om iets te zeggen op een manier die ik niet gewend ben

The Virtue of Giving Up
In our culture people who "give up" anything but drugs, are considered losers. Why is that? The logic is as follows: [1] You conscientiously choose a task, and because we consider you a rational being, the task is to achieve a certain purpose; [2] You work hard on the task, and it goes more or ...
To respect us, is to respect this land
So today I can't write a hymn that flows well, but I want one for all the good people trying to live a life of respect for Mother Earth. Would you help me make the lyrics below sound better, express better what we aim for? Don't worry about hurting the "author's" feelings because there should ...
“But you need money”
Money. I've always had enough of it because of my natural thriftiness. So I can't really speak for those who have experienced real poverty (the UN's $1.25 a day kind of poverty), and for whom an empty wallet means an empty stomach. I know the predicament of all too many people: They simply need money ...
The Average Family
Kansas, 2050. - The shit has hit the fan, years ago. The Surveillance State has diabolical proportions and every citizen gives voice to dissent, shows abnormal behavior or otherwise deviates from the average, is arrested. Family Grey has always lived comfortably, and during the first months after the crises (a term that was used mostly ...
Let her do the talking
[series-miru] Miru gets more expressive every day. Her vocal range resembles that of ever more extraordinary songbirds, she can stick out her tongue, pick her father's nose or anything else that fits her fingers, she can stand for several consecutive minutes, smiling proud of her accomplishment, eat with a spoon, decorate her surroundings with food ...
Personal story: How to tell the story of our car explosion
We're doing fine. I'm sitting in a bar in Zaragoza, watching an old man waiting, a glass of brandy in front of him. He looks at his watch. The Chinese children on the bar are yelling, and the television plays football. It is eight and I am here to write. Words are increasing their subjective ...
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation introduces vaccine against Affluenza
SEATTLE, Washington - Following recent outrage over a 16-year drunk driver who got convicted to only some rehabilitation after killing two and wounding several other people, because he suffered from "affluenza" (the disease of being insanely rich), a spokesperson of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that they have successfully developed a vaccine ...
noblesse oublie
Wij hebben tot op het laatst in de restaurants gegeten, lang nadat men begonnen was te zeggen dat de sfeer er grimmig was, omdat de immigranten in de keuken nauwelijks te eten hadden, omdat de energiebedrijven regelmatig hun militia stuurden bij een betalingsachterstand, omdat er steeds weer honden- en duivenvlees werd aangetroffen in de beef ...
Think like a network [draft]
It is nice to focus on our own social group. The search for more community spirit seems to be a common denominator of many people who have fallen, for various reasons, out of love with the individual consumerist worldview and its promise of satisfaction through material saturation. So we head for the exit, we dream ...