Onlangs kreeg ik het pas verschenen boekje Generation Freedom getipt. Generation Freedom. The Middle east Uprisings and the Remaking of the Modern World van de New York Times columnist Bruce Feiler over de generatie opstandelingen in Noord Afrika die wellicht overeenkomsten hebben met die uit London van afgelopen maand. Nu zal deze blogpost niet over deze opstanden, maar over deze generatie jongeren, jonger dan 30 jaar, gaan. Kunnen we het nog hebben over generatie Einstein en Generation Y? Of is het tijd om deze geëngageerde jongeren eens een nieuwe naam te geven? Mijn idee Generation A (Generation Re-Start) of Generation Freedom. Continue Reading

Aldous Huxley was a great writer and novelist. And more than that – he was an essayist as well and maybe one of the best trend forecasters in history. At least he was the best trend-forecaster of the 20^th century, I think.

I’ve read a lot of his novels like Island or Eyeless in Gaza. And off course, like everyone of my age I had to read Brave New World at school. All his books are great. Wonderful stories, some more utopian, some less, some more critical, others more poetic, but each of them has been written by its own purpose. And each of them is immersed with realities about people and society. Till now I thought Aldous Huxley was great… Continue Reading