Nature thrives in chaos, we should learn from her
It’s very easy, when you witness the disaster unfolding around you, to become depressed. If you find that you are powerless against the machine, if […]
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Old Master Winnie the Pooh
When you give birth to something fundamentally new, you’re going to change society in a manner that you can’t properly anticipate. The reason for this […]
A break from writing
There are two main problems I continue to run into throughout my life: I dislike nine out of ten people and I’m hopelessly naïve. I […]
Dark Americana: My new favorite microgenre
Since the rise of social media, small new subcultures tend to exist entirely online, rather than offline. They only start to gain an offline […]
Neurotypical people don’t say what they mean
At my work and in my direct environment, I encounter quite a few people who have some form of high-functioning autism, typically Asperger’s syndrome. Lately […]
A day of grief
Today has been a day of grief. There are no proper words I know of that can do justice to what has happened. If you […]
The Dutch succumb to ecological collapse, but pretend not to notice
I. I wish to make this clear and concise. Carbon dioxide is entering our environment at a rate unprecedented in the past 66 million years. As […]
A change of scenery: My stay in Berlin
A few days ago I came back from Berlin. I had planned on visiting earlier, but the severe heatwave made me decide to delay my […]
Collybia: A new salvia-like psychedelic mushroom that is legal around the world
What are you willing to do to make yourself immortal? Well, here’s a way to immortalize yourself: A new psychedelic has been discovered. There are […]
Libra signals the start of corporate neofeudalism
There are a few trends I’ve noticed in recent years that I want to discuss, because I think the implications for our future are interesting. […]