Lithuanian DJ Ten Walls (Marijus Adomaitis) has been introduced this week to the power of social media and the free market. After he posted some homophobic statements on his Facebook […]
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Author: Peter A. Dykstra
Happy Energy and The Human Age
One year ago today, Dutch astronaut Wubbo Ockels passed away. He left behind an uplifting and empowering message warning us of the direction humanity has taken, and offering possibilities for […]
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Apathy will be our undoing
Edmund Burke noted that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing (John Stuart Mill and Albert Einstein have said similar things), and if we […]
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Freedom is inevitable
Violence and coercion are signs of weakness, needed only by those who know that their arguments are not good enough to speak for themselves. Whether it applies to a government […]
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Charlie Hebdo
After the birth of my daughter I was hoping to return to writing with a more upbeat message, but that is obviously very difficult at the moment. So if the […]
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Sharing in the economy of the future
3D printed cars are driving us into the future, and they present us with a challenge to reshape our economy accordingly. We have a long way to go, from a […]
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Embracing our cultural mortality
We have seen civilizations and religions come and go, but there is a still tendency in each culture to assume that their system is the definitive one; their religion is […]
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The true Utopia
Beyond The System describes our civilization as being built around the institutions of government, economy and religion. My thesis is that this system has brought us as far as it […]
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Don’t fear freedom: we are stronger than Big Business
A news report from earlier this month had all the hallmarks of becoming a major scandal when it had been shown that more than one third of all food products […]
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Beyond The System
Every Star has its own Nature, which is ‘Right’ for it. We are not to be missionaries, with ideal standards of dress and morals, and such hard-ideas. We are to […]
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