Ooit, lang, lang, lang geleden kochten wij voor 5 frank Snoecks
miniatuurboekjes. Dat waren kleinoden van hooguit 10 cm hoog over de
meest diverse onderwerpen. Zo herinner ik me de elementaire regels van
het schaken onder de knie gekregen te hebben, de geheimen van pendel en
wichelroede, iets over natuur,... dat was nog vóór we ons aan
Jongens&Wetenschap bezondigden. Canvas
biedt nu ook van die minihapjes aan voor mensen met weinig tijd, geduld
of gewoon beetje lui. Tot lering en vermaak een voorbeeldje:
De wereld begrijpen en er een plaats in vinden is een oefening in afstand nemen én actief deel zijn. Onderhavige teksten zijn sporen van die oefening: reacties op de actualiteit of meedenken over samenleven. Ik zette deze blog op in 2006 bij wijze van test om te zien hoe zoiets werkt. Ik probeer er nu en dan aan te denken maar de praktijk leert dat ik met mijn hoofd meestal elders zit dan in de virtuele ruimte. Verwacht dus geen al te grote regelmaat. We doen ons best.
Veel leesplezier.
maandag 21 november 2016
vrijdag 18 november 2016
Nasty Gal
The queen of real mean funk. Why don''t I ever hear this on the radio ?
dinsdag 15 november 2016
Springtime for Hitler
Can't imagine why I felt a sudden urge to find this clip and share it right now.
vrijdag 11 november 2016
What the fuck, did this really happen ?
Now the unthinkable materialised right before our eyes, everybody seems
eager to comment on it: each one his own post factum logic to balsam our
conscience bruises. If this exercise is an honest one it could make us
more cautious at the spread of dangerous populism
that threatens the old world as much as it is engulfing the United
States. We have absolutely no reason to look down on "these stupid
Americans". Tomorrow we could awaken in exactly the same earthshaking
reality at home.
Mind you, Trumpism will not show its ugliest teeth at once. He will continue to act as the sympathetic leader of the righteous people's movement and the shifting in the people's minds will take place step by step. At first many of us will feel relieved because Trumpian reforms will seem less radical then his campaign promised. Not such a bad guy after all. The contamination of the American culture, what people think and feel, of their souls, will happen almost imperceptible to many. That's how populism works. But wait and see what will have happened 4 years from now.
Global warming? Just part of the Jewish/black conspiracy to frighten real Americans and keep them calm while they ruin our oil industry and these leftist queers in New York and San Francisco spend all our money. Of course making coarse comparisons depicting Trump with a little moustache and a swastika on his arm is all too easy: populism of another kind, that is. But still: history has shown us how a whole nation of honest, well thinking and hard working people can be lured into accepting and even committing the worst atrocities against fellow humans. "Wir haben das nicht gewusst" is not an explanation and will never be. We do see what is happening, we must see it and we must act upon it.
Hereby I just want to remind us how Michael Moore had warned us in July but nobody (and I include myself) has taken it too seriously then. We were really so convinced he was exaggerating. Unthinkable? Well, here we are now. What are we going to do about it ? Americans but also we Europeans who are facing the rise of pied pipers as Le Pen, Wilders, Farage and the like. Let's be vigilant.
Mind you, Trumpism will not show its ugliest teeth at once. He will continue to act as the sympathetic leader of the righteous people's movement and the shifting in the people's minds will take place step by step. At first many of us will feel relieved because Trumpian reforms will seem less radical then his campaign promised. Not such a bad guy after all. The contamination of the American culture, what people think and feel, of their souls, will happen almost imperceptible to many. That's how populism works. But wait and see what will have happened 4 years from now.
Global warming? Just part of the Jewish/black conspiracy to frighten real Americans and keep them calm while they ruin our oil industry and these leftist queers in New York and San Francisco spend all our money. Of course making coarse comparisons depicting Trump with a little moustache and a swastika on his arm is all too easy: populism of another kind, that is. But still: history has shown us how a whole nation of honest, well thinking and hard working people can be lured into accepting and even committing the worst atrocities against fellow humans. "Wir haben das nicht gewusst" is not an explanation and will never be. We do see what is happening, we must see it and we must act upon it.
Hereby I just want to remind us how Michael Moore had warned us in July but nobody (and I include myself) has taken it too seriously then. We were really so convinced he was exaggerating. Unthinkable? Well, here we are now. What are we going to do about it ? Americans but also we Europeans who are facing the rise of pied pipers as Le Pen, Wilders, Farage and the like. Let's be vigilant.
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