A person needs very little these days to get depressed. But let’s not crawl into a dark corner to sob. Being HEVIG helps a little. Translation: “Hevig” means intense, profound, forceful. It is a Dutch word.
Here I publish my writings, in Dutch and English, with the intention that you read them. Just do it. I have nothing to lose, but YOU would really miss out on content that can be qualitative, inspiring, clear, creative, critical, sometimes a bit activist (yes, that’s a must!), socially sensitive, philosophical, empowering, poetic, colorful, alternative, cozy, humorous, absurdist, stimulating, uplifting, analytical, geopolitical and local, timeless and contemporary, mind-expanding and distracting, to the point and sometimes completely without a filter, if I would finally start writing properly. Oh well – you can judge that best yourself as a reader and expert on everything, right? Your opinion obviously counts more than mine, so it is my job to agree with you. Or not, provocatively and preemptively I make a case for the other side. They are absolutely right, at least if you look at it from their perspective.
There is an epic battle going on between concentrations of power – the super-rich and autocrats – and the people. But this is only slowly reaching our consciousness. In any case, the richest people on earth are getting richer, fast. And we the people are getting poorer, just as fast. We are fighting against figures like Trump, Musk and Putin, who love nothing more than to create chaos and replace the destabilized democratic governments with straw men for the club of the super-rich and autocrats. Not only in the US and Russia, but everywhere they can. More money, more power for them and less rights and freedoms for citizens, for you and me. We are slowly waking up when the chaos reaches us. This new normal, where truth and law are replaced by lies and injustice, is where we are now. There is no government that has our best interests at heart. They are career politicians who are too afraid to stick their necks out, to go against the interests of the rich, and against their parties. If they took their mandate, which is implicit in the contract between them and the people, seriously, they would start by taxing the snot out of the super-rich. Oh shit, now I’m sounding like a socialist here. Ah, labels.
