Facing the daily, ever-unsettling and shocking news, we try to understand the changes and make sense of them. The latest scientistic studies in brain research and the new findings about the different functions of the two hemispheres are a way to get closer to a kind of understanding the disturbing social changes, the alarming developments […]
Month: March 2025
David Weiss: Synecdoche and its Discontents
for Matthew Lippman *Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole
Bernie Sanders on Elon Musk’s Takeover
“I do not often find myself in the habit of thanking Elon Musk, but I must confess that he has done an exceptional job of demonstrating a point that a few of us have been making for years, and that is the reality that we live in an oligarchic society in which billionaires dominate not […]
Metameaning – the Podcast
Since February 2025 we run our podcast “Metameaning”, where we inquire into the topics that we also address here on the website. In December 2024 we were invited to “Shrinking Trump”, the podcast of our wonderful friends Dr. Harry Segal and Dr. John Gardner. The exchange was so beneficial and inspiring that we wanted to […]
Lies, Bullshit and the Love of Truth
One of the greatest dangers our Sense-Making for a healthy society is exposed to: Disinformation, Bullshit (according to the famous essay by Harry Frankfurt: “On Bullshit”) and propaganda. It is always shocking how and why people believe what Trump or some far-right-wing politicians in Germany or some self-proclaimed experts claim – when it seems so easy to prove that it is […]
Sebastian Haffner: ” …a warning smell in my nose”
Sebastian Haffner, born in Berlin in 1907, was a war journalist, publicist, historian and writer. During the Second World War he began writing for the “Observer” in British exile. In the 1950s he returned to Germany. His writings on Adolf Hitler and National Socialism in particular have received lasting attention. We do not want to […]