Have you calculated your personal carbon footprint recently? I have, and I'm glad to say that I have very small feet, ecologically speaking, that is. Here's a short post on why that isn't relevant or something

George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars universe and the director of the first six films in the franchise, said that he retired to make experimental movies in his garage. That was the ultimate criticism

Or: Digital Lessons From "Hollow Man". Do you know these movies? I sure do hope so, as they're both not only wildly entertaining, in their own distinctive ways, but also because I'm going to

If there was an Emmy Award for Dishonesty, Fox News and Tucker Carlson would be prime contenders each year. And in 2020 they would have won by a mile. source: YouTube When did we come to accept lies as

Our minds don't function at their best when plagued by an immediate emergency; sometimes, as a defense mechanism, it falls back to a state of "shock". Governments know this, corporations know

While the "war on terror" is advertised as a fight to "spread freedom and democracy" around the world, it is in fact a war against democracy, at home and abroad. This is a short post

The idea that every individual has a right to his or her own version of truth, is in my opinion increasing the polarization we witness in our times. I think that personal truths may be important for

I think we've all heard some version of the fairy tale where the king keeps his daughter locked in a tower until a suitable prince can "win" her hand. Such, and similar, fairy tales depict the

Donald Trump, if re-elected, is committed to expanding the use of the federal death penalty, a deadly appetite he has already shown during the last stretch of his presidency. So let's look at the alleged

The best lies are covered by half truths, like the one about "Cultural Marxism". Hitler was the head of the National Socialist Party, so he must have been a socialist... Even if he explicitly

I live in a relatively healthy nation, and that's for a large part due to the fact that my nation, The Netherlands, has a single-payer healthcare system. This means that no one is denied healthcare when

While capitalism is a scam in itself, as I argued in yesterday's post, I'd like to now briefly highlight one of the many scams by which millions of people have been defrauded out of their hard-earned money.

Have you ever been scammed? Or have you been suspicious and prudent enough to avoid all the scams you've encountered your whole life? If you fancy yourself being part of the latter group, I've got some

If you're at all familiar with the life and works of Edward Bernays, you'll already know what "torches of freedom" are. But even if you do, please keep reading, as I'm about to say some things

Democracy is failing, and the response to that failing is a rejection of, and resentment against politics and politicians as well as other members of "the elite". This means that any politician

Okay, maybe society itself isn't actually something to dispose of. However there's much to say for disposing of it in its current form, as we've literally built it in disposables. source: YouTube Today's

When speaking about the current and future state of affairs in our society, the politics, the economy and the culture, I see in most people a kind of resignation in face of the apocalypse we're collectively

A "genius" is a person of natural intelligence or talent. The word originated in ancient Rome and was linked with a person's birth (from the verb "gignere", meaning "to give

Freedom. When you ask people what it is, or what freedom means to them, you get many different answers. But even then, there's a common thread, and in the end it means to mean the same to almost everyone.

I'm sure you've heard about it; there's a lively public discussion going on about Hollywood's "nepo babies". In this post I'd like to expand on the subject and identify some of the hypocrisy