Beste vrienden,
Stef Bos en ik gaan spreken. Soms spreek je met iemand en wenkt er in de woorden een wereld die werkelijker is dan de gestalten die je met je ogen waarneemt en de vormen die je met je vingers voelt.
Soms klinkt er iets in de woorden van een gesprek dat je moeilijk…

The man who makes no mistakes, usually doesn't make anything at all - Phelps or someone else.

How you treat your enemies during the revolution, will be exactly how you treat your friends after the revolution.

A few paragraphs from my latest article ‘Suicidal Society’ -
'Upon a closer examination, the sentimental ‘protection of the elderly’ during the corona crisis was rather cruel and absurd. For instance: why were the elderly dying in hospitals not allowed to see their children and…

Another one of Aldous Huxley. Excessive will-to-order (alluding to the Will-to-power of Nietzsche) is one of the driving forces behind totalitarianism:
‘It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous. Here the…

Here you go people. Aldous Huxley quoting Eric Fromm (Brave New World - Revisited). It’s about normal people:

‘The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our…

Dear friends,
yesterday I arrived in Iceland, for a lecture about my book on totalitarianism. I am often abroad for that reason, but Iceland is one of a kind.
This morning the window of my hotelroom showed me the scenery below. The quiet of this frozen, volcanic world is a…

Here you go (credits to Annelies Van Belle for bringing this quote to my attention).

Can you believe someone wrote this 70 years ago?
'By means of ever more effective methods of mind manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms - elections, parliaments, supreme courts, and all the rest - will remain.
The underlying substance will…

Last Monday, I had the honor of being invited by US Senator Ron Johnson to engage in a panel discussion held at the US Senate, titled 'Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel: What Are They Hiding?'. You can find my speech here: words.mattiasdesmet.org/p/my-speech-at…