Don’t talk to the driver!
Imagine this scene: it's nighttime, the road is empty, it's raining, you're driving on the highway. The car starts sliding and swirling. You start pressing all possible pedals, turning the
Barefoot cities
In the rhythm of sweat under hot lasers brushing broken glass on a dance floor - Bucharest. Mango pulp between my toes, every footprint is a fiesta - Panama City.
Human powerlessness against dehumanized power
The key challenge for humanity is our irresponsibility. Our global society allows individuals to accumulate power without responsibility and that's a recipe for disaster. We live in a chronically one-way
Conservation of humanness
How to answer a question by a student from Mozambique, related to my book Human: Instructions for Use: "What do you thinking about the current world in the context of
Take things in your own hands … if you dare!
The problem is that you are facing: 1. coercive institutions, 2. public media, and 3. social pressure. You can have all the scientific arguments and common sense on your side,
The shackles of indoctorination
"You are a fart, and you believe to smell of violets." -- Wilhelm Reich Why not accompany Sunday’s workout by listening to the provocative, long-censored words of a controversial author
Urine to nuts experiment
Decades ago in rural Estonia, children (supposedly) had each their own hazel and they would pee under it. When the harvest came they would compete whose hazel bush yielded more
We don’t know s..t!
You've probably noticed that when people want to believe in something--by all means--they tend to be annoying to the point of being a pain in the a.s. Or -- when
Good people have time
Duško Radović--I quote him a lot. He was quite a genius with words. I'm not sure what exactly he meant when he coined the phrase in the title of this
I got the most out of my infection
Imagine being alone in the wilderness, far away from people, and contracting a dreadful disease from rats! That happened to me, wild-camping in Greece at a cost some 30-40 km