Memory of June
Another June, another summer solstice passed. Bright was the month and shorter are the days to come. Slowly yet sudden, autumn will be here. Winters ahead, this June will be fresh. Like ...
The Small Yellow T-Shirt
A yellow t-shirt from my childhood, one of the few things that made it through after the war along with my father's 35mm camera and a small box of film rolls. The ...
Fakery, Simulation Theory & Cognitive Dissonance
Everything can be visually faked and rendered indistinguishable from real footage with modern CGI power. How far will this evolve? Are we already NPC's in a simulated world? In the Matrix? Or ...
Our Collective Years – Does Life Speed Up?
A year in the life of a child in its seventh year is about fourteen percent of a lifetime for them. Compared to a person in their fortieth year, which is only ...
Low-Tech Mindwashing
Our imagination makes creativity possible, it makes communication and interpretation of texts, music and art possible. It is also what is controlling us if we aren't aware of its workings. https://youtu.be/16SvEfpCLnA
Trump Strengthens Israel, Not America
Trump is doing more for Israel than for the USA. Not a brick of wall has been put at the Mexican border. While he signs a paper of approval that Israel can ...
EU Hypocrisy on Bosnia’s Chinese Credit for a New (Cleaner) Coal Plant
EU gives €357 million for a Croatian bridge construction that is contracted to the Chinese. Meaning that EU money directly benefits China instead of a common EU country. At the same time ...
Total Parenting
Here's a walk n' talk video on some total parenting ideas. And the traditional yearly video of whatever thoughts about the new year I have. This year it’s more practically oriented than ...
Biometric Data in Schools? Forget It.
We don't need biometric scanners in classrooms. We don't need RFID chips in our students. We don't need surveillance cameras in schools. However. We do need classical education on logic, philosophy, geometry, ...
The Lukewarm Trap in Life
On this cold and chilly morning, I want to talk about something warm and about this thing of being lukewarm towards life. https://youtu.be/Mt6qnost7JE I remember listening to Alexander Scourby's audio version of the Bible ...
2019
Another cycle of light is upon us. The more years one can count by memory the more one feels like making out of the time here. https://youtu.be/wUpb0wQNdsM
A Swedish Slave in Morocco (Svensk Slav i Marocko)
Author: Marcus Berg (1714-1761) Captured August 23, 1754 Freed August 30, 1756 This isn’t really about a specific book, but more a tip or a reminder of biographies and experiences written down long ago. It’s ...
Creating Your Thriving Enclave in the System
A handfull of something is what we really want. Many are the things we were indoctrinated into wanting. Many more are the delusions we want/ed that were built up by delusions mixed ...
We Arrived at Our Winter Abode
After some days of intensive packing, cleaning, preparing, traveling and then the reverse of unpacking, cleaning the new place etc. We finally settled in and are feeling at home here in Split. ...
Away We Go Again
After a quick Swedish autumn we are about to leave south for the winter. This intermezzo was quick. September began somewhere in Bosnia, we had fun in Croatia and in Sweden the ...
Niccolò Machiavelli Was a Renaissance Whistleblower
Niccolò Machiavelli's book The Prince is a very raw and unedited description of the mechanism of power. How to gain power and maintain power. In his book which is very short, less than ...