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Whispers in a

Gathering Storm

 

• Extra Muros »

Voyager tells it all:

The story of Grand Voyages through wild and wide spaces on earth. It may leave you breathless, perhaps exalted.

 

• Conatus »

Rebadour wonders aloud:

Where did Spinoza and Darwin meet? To the heart of the mesmerizing matter.

 

• Inter Lineas »

Grimmburger observes:

A grim(m) view of the world around us, thus hoping to change it for the better.

 

 

Grimmburger

welcomes you to the Website of

Voyager & Rebadour

 

 

Whispers in a Gathering Storm ...

asking questions, wondering about things around us, looking for pieces of answers, discovering parcels of world

 

Our world - Western Civilisation - is in turmoil and in transit: a cherished ship on an ocean undisclosed, battling storms that are ill understood. Its captain and its officers nowadays seem to hail from another planet, or from hell. "Media" has engulfed all decision-making, has chased away most rational thought, has reduced Life to nothing more than a stage, where differences between onlookers and actors are vanishing fast: en eerie reality show 

 

In this media-dominated world, truth has become a a needle in a haystack, and spin is the truth-killing weapon of choice. Objective messaging is hard to come by: all communication is encoded and self-serving, sheer volume as well as myred complexity make unraveling it a herculean challenge, at best. Where does all this leave our celebrated democratic system?

 

We believe that time has come for a movement to restore measures of truthfulness, and to re-establish basic values of honesty in talking with and within the world community. We realize our actions and words will be just whispers. Then again, we firmly believe that the flapping wings of a butterfly in Brittany can eventually create a storm over the Atlantic. Here we go flapping...  

 

If you want to know opinion about world events around us, click on Inter Lineas

If you want to read the introspective reflections en route, click on Conatus

If you are interested in the grand travel experiences, click on Extra Muros 

 

 

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Grimmburger & Rebadour are "Brothers in One Soul": often at arms with each other, they are an odd couple. To widen their horizons and learn together, they decided to call upon the Voyager within them. Thus it happened, that this not so holy trinity, has gone in search of truths, or just more opinions.