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Born back in the fifties. Brussels, of all places. Was a little boy at the time, still am in a sense. It takes a long time to get old, shed some of the stupidity one's been raised to embrace. We live in difficult times, rather void of sound cultural props. Samuel Johnson for instance, or Gotthold Lessing, nobody gives a hoot.
Imagine, just for a second, Plato reading a piece on the Newsline of his Facebook-page. It's a laugh. He'd never ever. So why do we? Ask the tech' giants...
Populism, totemism, stupidism. That's in a nutshell. Magic thinking is a journey into meaningsless
2017 ain't 1917. Wrote a book spanning those yrs. Talked about it too. In public. Geez...
This is our new fakenews department. News not fit to be printed, or read, or talked about. Tags: Decodex, Jacques Sapir, Ignacio Ramonet, Åsa Linderborg...
If you ever consider buying a smartphone, buy Waugh. Or Tucholsky, or Gorki, or Aron. Whatever. You'll be sure to connect with lost world. Live! Take my advice
From smartphones to Bolivia and back again. What's the idea? Some kind of transition? You must be joking...
Clinton & Trump, the warmonger missus or the conservative hophead? Does the choice connect with the happiness business? You could always ask Tucholsky...
WSJ on a talkative (noisy) US expat. TLS & its Incomprehensivity Prize. Vrij Nederland on the Internet Jail (aka Gafam). A quick word too on the Katyn storytelling.
Twitter's for sale. Price tag on all of us. Not to worry: it happens all the time. The commodification of everything.
