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One of the ways to take our society to a higher level is through more meta-thinking. What does meta mean? What does it entail in concrete terms? And what are the benefits? Meta-thinking is literally thinking on a higher level. Namely, thinking about the mechanisms, the way of thinking. History When studying the Second World War, you can examine everything that went wrong. For the sake of the healing process, we can identify crimes, victims and perpetrators. That is what has b

This morning, I read an article in the Bloovi newsletter that I feel touches on a subject that is important if we as a society want to take things to the next level. It also reminded me of a book that is very near to my heart, Levenszin (The Meaning of Life). It is a work written by Jessie Dezutter. She is a professor of psychology at KU Leuven and this work is the result of years of scientific research. Stephan Bostoen Waarom zovelen leeglopen in een tijd vol kansen. We heb

Monday, 27 October 2025, headline in the Belgian news: Isabelle Adam reveals that her first manager not only left her with a financial hangover, but also had paedophile tendencies. She managed to keep him at bay, but the memories of him were still clearly painful. Isabelle Adam is better known as the singer Isabelle A. since she was 11 years old. She says she has forgiven him. The journalist interviewing her is Eric Goens. As a journalist, he has been through a lot. He was o

Christophe Busch has written a book. It has turned out to be quite a tome, an opus of over 800 pages. It is a very smooth and readable book: De duivel in elk van ons, Van Holocaust tot terrorisme: hoe gewone mensen in staat zijn tot buitengewoon kwaad   ( The devil in each of us, From the Holocaust to terrorism: how ordinary people are capable of extraordinary evil ) ( Borgerhoff & Lamberigts , also available at Standaard Boekhandel , Bol ) I found it particularly interesting

Humankind, A Hopeful History is the title of the English translation of the book written in 2019 by Dutch historian Rutger Bregman. It's title in Dutch: De meeste mensen deugen, Een nieuwe geschiedenis van de mens . (Englis h: Most people are good, A new history of humankind ) It has since been translated into 46 languages and has sold over one and a half million copies worldwide. Content in bullet points Humans are naturally “good,”, they are, more inclined to cooperate t

This is the first blog on this website. What would I like to write about? Quite a lot, actually. About what can take our society to the next level. We are vulnerable beings and we are complex beings. Most of us want to do good. That is what Rutger Bregman writes in his book Human Kind , which I highly recommend. The title of the Dutch version is De meeste mensen deugen, what translates as Most people are good . And this is no detail. He writes "de meeste" (or: “most”) in this