Orderly chaos yin-yang evolution of revolution Traveling the human psyche
Milky Way
Joined February 2023
- Tweets14.1K
- Following330
- Followers348
- Likes37.6K
Pinned Tweet
These are some weird times, man! Sometimes i wonder if we, "normal" people, ain't nothing more than playable characters in some strange, dystopian game designed by an evil mastermind, just for the rich men's amusement...
Bjorn Desmet retweeted
Epistemic invalidation is when someone dismisses your lived experience, questions your version of events, or acts as though their interpretation of what you went through matters more than your own.
Bjorn Desmet retweeted
If someone spends years trying to ruin your reputation, just think about that. If you were truly as terrible as they say, they wouldn't need to keep convincing everyone else.
Maybe the biggest danger with A.I. is that we blindfoldedly believe everything it presents to us.
We see it as this superhuman feat, no questions asked.
Dangerous in the hands of spindoctors..
Never before it was this easy to distort realty.
Bjorn Desmet retweeted
Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris, studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, taught in provincial schools, and eventually became one of the most famous intellectuals in France. He never married, maintained a lifelong unconventional relationship with Simone de Beauvoir, and spent decades writing about freedom, responsibility, bad faith, and the absurdity of human existence. He wrote novels, plays, philosophical treatises, and political essays, often working in cafés surrounded by cigarette smoke. He believed that human beings were condemned to be free, rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, and died in Paris in 1980, having spent much of his life arguing that nobody could escape responsibility for their choices.
Sartre was the classic example of the "radically independent overthinker": he rejected conventional relationships, questioned social expectations, refused prestigious honours, and then explained that every choice, including refusing to choose, carried consequences. If you are the type of person who dislikes being told what to do, distrusts conventional success, and insists on making your own decisions even when they complicate your life, know that you are in excellent company. Although Sartre would probably remind you that you are entirely responsible for the complications.
Bjorn Desmet retweeted
Hans Bevers, hoofdeconoom van Argenta, voelt wel iets voor het limitarisme van Ingrid Robeyns, die vindt dat niemand een vermogen van meer dan een miljoen euro (all in) zou mogen bezitten. Voor een sterkere herverdeling moet u blijkbaar bij de banken zijn die uw geld beheren.
Bjorn Desmet retweeted
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.”
― Bukowski
Bjorn Desmet retweeted
"A Harvard study revealed that people spend 46.9% of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they are currently doing."
Bjorn Desmet retweeted
“All American politicians are bought and paid for by American lobbyists. We no longer have representative government here.
We breed monsters like Kissinger...
Our senate and congress are run by pay-offs and special interest money. And the fun part is that most Americans are asleep about it.
Give 'em a new SUV and a good J-Lo or Tom Cruise kung-fu flick... and everybody seems to stay content. Wasn't it Churchill that said any society gets exactly the government it deserves?”
― Dan Fante
Most of us are afraid of bees, spiders and the likes.
At the same time we trust our fellow humans wholeheartedly.
Big mistake if you ask me...
Bjorn Desmet retweeted
Billions of light years we've surveyed.
But we've yet to find anything
so intelligent as a snail.
Yet here we are,
the miracle of self-knowing awareness,
telling ourselves
thousands of times each day
that we're not enough.
Bjorn Desmet retweeted
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
J.D. Salinger
Calm evening
Bjorn Desmet retweeted
Your kids aren't learning from your lectures.
They're learning from how you act when you're tired, late, and annoyed.
Kids copy what they watch, not what they're told. Bandura showed it decades ago with the Bobo doll.
My two sons have never once repeated my advice back to me.
They repeat my tone word for word.
Bjorn Desmet retweeted
Mocht België een privébedrijf zijn, dan stond de deurwaarder al met zijn boekentaske aan de deur.
Wat doet een firma die jaar na jaar meer uitgeeft dan ze binnenkrijgt, haar schulden ziet oplopen en een personeelsapparaat meesleurt dat ze zich niet meer kan permitteren? Die snijdt in haar kosten, schrapt overbodige functies en laat personeel afvloeien. Anders gaat ze gewoon failliet.
Maar de firma België? Zes regeringen, dubbele administraties, overbodige bestuurslagen en een leger politieke postjes. En dan dat peperdure ambtenarenapparaat met zijn verworven privileges. Daar het mes in zetten? Precies of iemand de kroonjuwelen komt stelen.
Dus wat doet onze directie? Die stuurt haar klanten gewoon een hogere factuur. Jaar na jaar. Met de arrogantie van een monopolist die perfect weet dat niemand naar de concurrentie kan.
En terwijl diezelfde klanten hun eigen uitgaven moeten terugschroeven, blijft de firma België haar personeel, structuren en privileges beschermen alsof de staatskas een bodemloze geldautomaat is.
Die privileges kunnen we ons allang niet meer permitteren, de vip behandeling vreet letterlijk onze Belgische economie op.
Dus ja spijtig om te concluderen dat men liever ons land naar de afgrond wil dan één ambtenarenprivilege naar de uitgang.
