The loneliness of the wise man
The wise man, namely Homo sapiens sapiens, is the only surviving species of its genus. This is somewhat unusual.
The animals of most genera have...
The Greatest Genocide in Human History
In human History, genocides are such an ordinary phenomenon, that it looks like as if humans are direct descendants of the ants.
From the close...
I consume, therefore I am
In Wim Wenders’ documentary film Buena Vista Social Club about the music of Cuba we see some great old-Cuban musicians playing music and talk...
Malcolm X, the portrait of a free man.
“Our position has never changed. If you sit at the back of the plane and it's going a hundred miles an hour, and you're on the back of the plane, well it can start going a thousand miles an hour; you're going faster, but you're still at the back of the plane. And that's the same way with the Negro in this society, we started out at the rear and we're still in the rear.”
The day that men will become Gods
The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for...
Nip the buds, shoot the kids
"In one day one can experience the horrors of hell; there is plenty of time for that."
Wittgenstein
As a matter of fact, in this century...