After we eat of the Apple of Knowledge, however, all of us start to be aware of ourselves, and our consciousness starts to be divided from our being. We start to have an image of...

I can’t understand how people can have grown up in the eighties, amidst all this competitive spirit, gangster battles, hiphop – and still pretend that artists are ‘colleagues’ that should be bloody nice to each...

In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become ‘normal’, the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.

Modern politics is like watching a film with only bad guys. It soon starts to get really boring, because one of the points of stories is that they should have some sort of redeeming character,...

I know its totally senseless to attempt to write something ‘great’ in a time where people seem mostly concerned with bashing each other heads in, there’s only 1 bestseller a year that a 12 year...

Literature is impossible, in exactly this sense: every new generation has so much ‘catching up’ to do that the real choice that presents itself soon is the following one: one either spends ones entire life...

Talent is 98% hard work – even Brel said so. The best signal for lack of talent is therefore quite simply low production. That does of course not mean high production guarantees talent, so something...

I have been investigating this modern problem of decline in readership and my conclusion is that it has little to do with bad readership and a whole lot with a difference in information speed. Frankly,...

Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer (why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are mediocre?) but its deemed socially unacceptable to actually speak out such thoughts. So,...

I have female friends that get mails from publishers that read ‘Hey. I heard you write about sex. This is a very popular topic now’.

What does it mean to be an ‘open source’ society? What does one mean when one says one has an ‘open mind’? Open source means that its a society everybody can work on improving. It...

Something went greatly wrong in our collective history and the starting point of it was the industrial revolution. Our school systems are focussed on a single objective: to produce model citizens for society in order...

Ramadan is not fasting. Ramadan is an Islamic feast where one stuffs oneself twice a day with food, and in between lets ones intestines dry out. To describe that process as ‘fasting’ seems rather ubiquitous...

Thinking outside the box’ is ridiculous nonsense, since whatever you can do in a ‘box’ or closed environment is not ‘thinking’. If I ‘think’ about a problem but limit my thoughts to certain dimensions –...