video Niet zonder ons More on this: nonfiXe ‘The biggest threat to humanity, is not the evil of the bad persons. It is the passivity of the good ones!’ Martin Luther King by Frank van Empel Nationalism is always just one step... (Lees verder)
by Frank van Empel What also works is the way Europe decides. A revolution in disguise. The EU is more than a federation of nation states or a steering system of regions, it is a grass root movement where development... (Lees verder)
Sir Richard, A farmer from Kentucky, Wendell Berry, wrote in Standing by Words (1983) about a system of nested systems – the individual human within the family within the community, et cetera. Berry: ‘If at any point the hierarchy is... (Lees verder)
Conventional banks are outdated. They don’t deliver what they were created for: trust and cheap money to make the world a better place to live in. They failed. So let’s skip the banks and replace them by ‘common units’ that... (Lees verder)
Politicians and businessmen have one handicap in common. They both are focused on the short term. They may have reason for that, but by short track thinking nothing is going to change. By Frank van Empel First the politician’s handicap;... (Lees verder)
(Escape From The Make-UP World II) The first part of this story was focused on experts, governors, managers and politicians as powers that want to control the lives of wilful individuals, but have to fight against a rather new phenomenon:... (Lees verder)
Why expectations almost never come true, why things work out in chaotic ways, and who’s to blame. By Frank van Empel Bluntly stated, more recapitulating than arguing, because it seems so clear in it self: management, marketing and manipulating have... (Lees verder)
In een economie waar de vraag naar woningen, auto’s en koelkasten het aanbod ver overtreft, nemen producenten het door de bank genomen niet zo nauw met de materiaalkeuze. Toch zou dat wel moeten. De keuze en het gebruik van materialen... (Lees verder)
Het idealisme van de Verlichting, tot uiting komend in de grote verhalen (metarécrits) is ten einde. Althans, volgens Jean-François Lyotard. Dat geldt volgens de Fransman met name voor het Marxisme, dat de vooruitgang, de bevrijding en de emancipatie van de... (Lees verder)
It’s money that makes the world go around. So, follow the money and you go around the world too. In Denmark and Sweden, you’ll find out, you can get money without paying interest, from banks that are 100% solvable. How does... (Lees verder)