Category Archives: Co-owning the Earth

December 7 2022. OUR MARCH OF FOLLY Then you better start swimmin’Or you’ll sink like a stoneFor the times they are a-changin’ —Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are A-Changin’” I have this book, bought in 1985, The March of Folly, by Barbara W. … Continue reading →

November 30 2022 DOOM HAS GONE MAINSTREAM I subscribe to the New Yorker. Each week a 90 pages issue arrives in my mailbox on the highway where I live, some 5 km – 3 miles – from the hub of … Continue reading →

November 23 2022 SOCCER: THE SELECT FEW.  When I was in elementary school in Groningen, an old University City, I played soccer in two ways. We played a game called, ‘putje’, where the street on which I lived, was the … Continue reading →

November 16 2022 SAVE OUR SOULS The concept of S.O.S is well known. This disaster signal certainly applies to our world today, as COP 27 shows, where it is actually, more a S.O.B affair: Save Our Bodies, while ‘Save Our … Continue reading →

November 9 2022 DARKNESS AT NOON “Since the invention of the steam engine, the world has been permanently in an abnormal state”.  That’s what Arthur Koestler wrote in his depressing book, Darkness at Noon, in 1940. He also wrote, “The capitalist system will … Continue reading →

November 2 2022 THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD. Early last month “THE ECONOMIST”, Great Britain’s celebrated weekly, had a cover, shoutingTHE PRINCE, in fat letters, showing a picture of China’s President Xi Jinping, whom this magazine called, “the world’s most … Continue reading →