Elon Musk is trolling ‘Socialists’, self-proclaimed ‘Lefties’ and ‘Europe’ whenever he gets a chance. He receives plenty of heat because of it, and ‘Europe’ is after ‘X’ and ‘Grok’, the ‘AI’ embedded in ‘X’, or to be used as ‘stand alone’ assistant. At the same time, he exposes stupid ‘Right Wingers…
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Is it a cure, or the cause?
In ancient Greece, the philosopher Socrates warned the people that if they failed to educated the young, democracy would fail. Plato, his pupil, concluded that democracy would necessarily end in tyranny. His point of view carried much weight among the ‘Founding Fathers’ in the USA, who rejected demo…
It is lonely at the top
Decades ago I picked up a book at a bookstore on Venice Beach, doubling as the ‘Side Walk Café’, with the tantalizing title: ‘You are being lied to’. On the cover it said it was ‘The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths’. One of the contributors listed …
The end of the line
For us, human beings, death and decay is the end of the line, unless you subscribe to some form of ‘afterlife’, or ‘rebirth’. Being sentient as a species refers to the awareness of the ‘end’, feeding our drive to accomplish things before we are too old, and the lights go out. Elon Musk posited that …
The writing is on the wall
From the early stone-age till today, people have used walls to convey messages to their fellow men. In the form of pictures, and later in words by the time the witten language developed into a more sophisticated tool. The internet is one huge ‘message-board’. It contains serious articles, and ugly g…
Send someone serious
By the looks of it, Trump prevented a *massive* escalation of the war with Russia, for the moment, as he ordered Zelensky to call off the dogs. Yes, that is assuming that Zelensky had a plan to launch an attack on Moscow during the May 9 Victory Day celebrations. We cannot know if he had such plans,…
A pattern emerges
We, the 'common people', are fed events through the news-services and we generate our own individual observations through our actions. Even without consciously thinking, but thinking nevertheless, we try to fit all these events and observations in our existing worldview. We create 'explanations'. On…
Obscured by clouds
Though I'm a fan of Pink Floyd, this article is not about the album by that name, or Babet Schroeder's movie for which it was the soundtrack, although it is fitting. The search for humanity, not obscured by our own subjective ideas of 'civilisation', has always been close to me. It most certainly is…
What will happen on May Ninth?
As the world is holding it's breath over what will come out of the latest developments in the Middle East, there was this interview with former Secretary of State Blinken, who defended dropping Afghanistan like a hot potato, because they needed the 80.000 mercenaries (contractors) for the next war, …
A new world with every passing day
That's life. Well, not for everybody, but Frank Sinatra sang about it. 'Riding High in April, Shot Down in May'. Typically the sort of life people in 'Showbiz' lead. Gamblers. 'Life is a casino'. Speculators. Politicians. Not investors or people planning a career in the *real* economy. The version o…