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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 1 year, 4 months ago
Story of the Red Bear The Story of the Red Bear Many years ago, at a flea market on the parking lot of a seedy pizzeria next to the highway, my daughter […]
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 2 years, 8 months ago
The city I live in, Geneva, has many strange aspects. In some ways it’s a city like no other. It is very small, but likes to see itself as very big. Somewhat like that image of a little Pussycat looking at self […]
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Marton Radkai commented on the post, Easter Meditation 3 years ago
Thank you Grace! I do think that the one lesson to learn is: You can change yourself, it’s not easy, but a lot easier than trying to change others. And having some IFUs is always handy!
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 3 years, 1 month ago
Easter Meditation Easter doesn’t end with the egg-search on Sunday. It goes on for at least another week, and so it should, otherwise, why bother? Here some stuff […]
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 3 years, 1 month ago
We’ve become used to economic crises, since they are endemic to our system. And some of us might remember the oil crises of the ‘70s (from which we learned very little) and the brown-outs and black-outs, and the […]
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 3 years, 5 months ago
What happened? It’s time to come back to reality. Fear and loathing and ridiculous conspiracy theories that have no proof are not how we’ll meet the challenges […]
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Marton Radkai commented on the post, The revolution is permanent noise 3 years, 6 months ago
Thank you for the reply! I posted this two years ago, originally, and I re-read it and found it to be quite accurate. We are all addicted, because we are watching a carnival barker without the slightest […]
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Marton Radkai commented on the post, The revolution is permanent noise 3 years, 6 months ago
It is in two parts, too… 😉
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 3 years, 7 months ago
The coming confirmation hearing of Amy Coney Barrett is something of a double-edged sword for both parties. It’s being done at a time when the US, and even the planet, are exhausted by Trump’s grand guignol s […]
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 3 years, 8 months ago
When the Davids win I’m waiting for Hollywood to pick up this story: For the past years, R. T. Custer (no one knows his real name except his parents, I think) […]
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 3 years, 8 months ago
Are you getting tired of the circus around wearing masks? The demonstrations that some say had 500,000 people, others 20,000? The sick comparisons that say “mask = yellow star?”The professors and doctors coming […]
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 3 years, 8 months ago
This is the last section on conspiracy theories (for the moment). It is written to bear witness to what I see as a genuine poison in discussions these days about matters political and social. More and more […]
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 3 years, 9 months ago
My last post was a general explanation about why I feel it’s important to expose conspiracy theories for what they are: in short, dangerous bullshit (cf. Harry Frankfurt On Bullshit). Dangerous because they get […]
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 3 years, 9 months ago
Parallel Worlds (Part 1) The following is the tip of an iceberg that I have been writing and gathering information on for ages it would seem. I’ve cut the st […]
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 3 years, 10 months ago
In 2015, thanks to the Baselworld jungle
drum, I landed an appointment with a man named R. T. Custer. It’s his name, by
the way, and he insists on the initials – his parents’ choice?– because he’s […] -
Marton Radkai wrote a new post 3 years, 11 months ago
Black and White Issue Rubric: Racism is not just a knee on a neck…. It’s bigger than that, and it’s deeper. In the wee hours of June 12, as every morning, I […]
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 4 years ago
A word from the front lines
Every day since the “confinement” began, we, the confined, have come out in one way or another to applaud and thank those who have been out and about, facing the cor […]
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 4 years ago
The view from outside
When the announcement came through on March 13 that schools would be shut down for an indeterminate period, the kids were a little bit thrilled. At least the ones I teach were, and I […]
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 4 years, 1 month ago
Numbers Game The trick to enhance positives and mitigate negatives Just a few weeks ago, after days and days of strenuous deflection, gesticulation, […]
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Marton Radkai wrote a new post 4 years, 1 month ago
Settling in, finding the rhythm, absorbing the shock, observing. This is even shorter than the last installment.
Sometimes the weather fits the mood, sometimes vice versa
The week started with […]
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