No regrets. No guilt. — Another movie star pays for his life of parties. A football team loses the game in stoppage time because they stopped pushing after 90 minutes. Getting a sun tan gives skin cancer. Smoking kills. Any of these sentences shocked you? No, I did not think so. We are culturally programmed…

I never really got Magritte’s most famous painting. That is, until a few weeks ago. Sure, what it means is written on it: “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, which means “This is not a pipe”. Yes, I can read the subtitles. It always sounded to me like one of these…

31 years ago, I was glued to my TV screen watching the first bombs falling on Baghdad. It was on CNN. And it gave a new meaning to “live reporting”. Today, concerned by the war in Ukraine, I watch live streaming from Kiev and frontline combat videos uploaded a few…

First we had Disease. Now we have War screaming out from our screens. Some already predicted Famine is around the corner. The disruption of the world’s granary made it even nearer. Death has stalked our private lives for the past 2 years. It is now unleashed in Ukraine. Technically, the…

Our societies, our self-styled spokespeople, ourselves claim to care more and more about individual mental welfare. We are ready to unfurl the flags and go up the trench against physical exploitation. And then every 2 years, we watch the global sports elite compete. And every two years, similar abuse scandals…

Your attention is up for grabs. Your customers, your employer, your employees, the authorities, products, information, entertainment, all vie for a piece of it. Everyone wants a piece of your time. As the competition for attention intensified, what could have a been a better way to win than to get…

Or, we live both simultaneously and exclusively in linear, cyclical and circular timelines — You create time. Every day. From the get go, you decide when your day start and when it ends. You decide its pauses and rhythms. Your time is not everyone’s. It is yours. Worst punishment you can inflict on someone? Steal from that person the ability to decide on her/his…

We are herd animals. We all have precise expectations from groups. Sometimes high expectations, sometimes no expectations at all. We need to understand how groups will impact us. The question is whether balance and peace are a group ‘s baseline. Or maybe constant sparks are. In my previous article, I…

What is real? What is unreal? Knowing the difference makes you sane and sound — or not. Yet, today it is largely an irrelevant skill. We are better off knowing which of the realities we are currently in. They are however not mutually exclusive. The most memorable moment in the…