I would like to propose a new idea.

Let’s start a movement (petition wise or something) that raises votes to abolish the arms industry. Completely shut it down, I mean, you can’t wage war if there’s no weapons to do so with, and if you still want to, you can go at each other with sticks and knifes or something, no longer bothering innocent people with your bullocks.

The idea to push governments to shut down the investment in weapons and closing down the military seems reasonably impossible and –no doubt, people’ll start calling me a short-sighted idealist again. Then first of I’d like to point them to the philosophical argument of being an idealist (because I agree, I am one, yet not a short-sighted one), which would be idealism is; the philosophical theory that maintains that the ultimate nature of reality is based on mind or ideas.

-So, if a realist would come to me and argue of safety, I’d challenge him or her to quantify safety as an independent entity. Safety is a psychological entity that only exists in ideas or mind. I assure you that by abolishing the weapons industry we will be ‘safer’ as there are lesser external threads on the internal concept of safety. So that’s point one, point two would be that the world is more and more connected, and more and more people seem willing to overcome nationality, background, or ‘cultural heritage’ in favour of collaborating, discussing and creating a world that is ‘one’. Making it increasingly viable to –well, just give it a try. Governments are to be (especially in countries that claim to be democratic) subject to the people, and this would be an interesting chance to see whether or not we truly do live in a democracy.

Who’s with me?

Join the facebook group please.

Anyway just to say that today as well, 30-90 Afghan civilians were killed by an american airstrike . Of course he’s not in office yet, but, still it shows how much change the world needs, coming from Mr. Obama. The point is that NOW is actually the time to press subjects that need change upon the US and the only way this will happen is through our voice.

You can do so at Mr. Obama’s website for change where you can write your thoughts and ideas. Also through organisations such as Avaaz.org ‘The world in Action’, an independent organisation for social change that has set up a ‘Wall of Change’ in the centre of Washington DC, which has the messages of people calling out for change from allover the world. You can send your message here

But enough on politics for today.

Yesterday I was invited by Herbert to join him to the Sprout Challenger Day. A day organised by the Dutch entrepreneur magazine Sprout. I met some interesting people and even got to do an interview for an Internet TV-channel. The channel is Talk & Do TV run by Edo van Santen. Edo is a friend of Herbert and was willing to give me a shot at talking about Cradle of Design for which I am very thankful.

Besides that I also ran into the guy that organises the Dutch Entrepreneur Week; Tristan and he invited me to all sorts of cool events in a week or 2, sweet as and more on that later on this month! =)

On top of all that I had the pleasure to meet the mother and daughter running the country’s smallest Wellness Centre; Sauna Hotstones who invited me to come and stay there for a night so I will soon go and check out together with Elisa. Besides that I might help think out their concept a bit more which is always fun to do, especially for people who have heart for their job!

All and all a great day, which got even better with the last keynote speaker Dan Germain (Innocent Drinks) who had a very refreshing presentation after being in and out of concentration due to trails of thought of all sorts and lack of external stimulation, Dan, together with Ruud Koornstra were the two highlights for me during this day. Dan had a great talk on how to say; ‘I’ll do it my way, just by saying, yes we can’ type of approach, which always appeals to me.

I hope to get in contact with him in the future (I’ll find you Dan! =)) and see whether there are possibilities to be part of a cewl brand as Innocent (or it’s foundation Innocent Foundation which is granted 10% of Innocent’s profit a year) in whatever way possible.

That’s it for today, I’d like to thank Herbert for his invite and the opportunity to put myself in the middle of his network.

Love & Peace.

Len