Prose

Narrative writings: essays, reviews, polemics, short stories, etc

Open letter to the Russian Embassy
Dear Russian Embassy, As a Dutch citizen, I would like to express my explicit condemnation of the atrocities that the Russian Federation is currently conducting in Ukraine, as well as the attempts to deny these horrendous acts in the television program Buitenhof by your ambassador, Mr. Shulgin. My heart goes out to all the victims ...
Commoning with my daughter
O my 43th birthday, I took my bicycle to a nearby town to pick up a shovel that I had bought online. I was going to build a club house with my daughter, next to a small river on public land. We found two trees and a log that fit perfectly on the branches. We ...
Philosophy is a profession
"Everybody is a philosopher in their own way." Everybody is an artist in their own way. Everybody is a doctor in their own way. Everybody is a lawyer in their own way. Everybody is a pilot in their own way. Go fuck yourself in your own way.
Don’t think and work
The idea that you get paid for doing your own thinking (which I once regarded naively to be the job description of an academic philosopher). You can think anything, as long as... Your critical thinking is appreciated, provided that... There always has to be a forbidden door. And I am the kind of thinker that ...
There is a point where we go mad when we consider ourselves the agent of all our actions and a point where we go mad when we consider ourselves the agent of none of them. Free will is the perceived space in between. - kc
Let’s engage with websites!
I use the free website annotation tool hypothes.is to add comments to websites. Made for education, it can also "enhance" (for lack of a better word) public discourse. If nothing else, it makes you read articles more actively, like you're engaging in a conversation with the author. Example:
Or we would have to live forever…
Cioran once said that he was glad that the concept of suicide existed because otherwise, he would kill himself. Perhaps this also applies to transhumanism: without the concept and idea that it is technologically not impossible, of eternal life, we would just have to live forever.
The only reason you are not a slave is that you are more productive if you are not a slave.