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Criticism/analysis

See also:
- my Youtube channel: critical analysis of events/situations and the people responsible for them
I discuss there for example Bhagwan, and Rabobank's vanity building in Roelofarendsveen...
- my youtube channel "WHS reviews" where I discuss general topics about issues in society and reviews of bicicle parts.

Index

• Psychological topics:
  • Psychology: (not yet complete) Patric Gagne: Article in NY times: What it is like to be a sociopath: How a psychopath tries to justify herself and (similar to what Keith Raniere did in NXIVM about such people, because he knew he is such a person, similar to Ayn Rand extolling the virtue of selfishness in the psychopath's bible "Atlas shrugged", to justify her own anti-social behaviour), to show that others need to accept people like her, similar to how all fringe groups have been trying to do that since about the early 1970s. I disagree: avoid these people like the plague! Further I show that she is totally uninteresting. [ 2025-6-2 ]
  • Psychology: Discussions on forums and newsgroups: What's the point? The problems in discussing things on forums, that are often caused by people who don't understand other people, and don't care about other people. They reason illogically, make inappropriate comments, etc. To deal with that you need to know about it first, then you understand and you can decide how to reply or to ignore. [ published in 2012 ]
  • Big channels on youtube are almost always worthless and take away people's attention from good smaller channels [ 2023-5-4 ]
  • Psychology: Example of psychological analysis: A woman from Nigeria, studying in Ukraine to be a doctor, likely a psychopath [ 2017-11-1 ]
  • Psychology: Uploaded middle of Nov. 2024 (youtube, channel "WHS reviews"): A video on "cognito hazards", the stupidest concept I have encountered in a long time.
  • Psychology: To come: Review of the film "Fountainhead", which is based on the book by the same name by Ayn Rand. This is obviously the predecessor to "Atlas shrugged", with the same insane views of life. It is one of the stupidest films I have ever watched. [ All written down, need to HTML-ise it ]
  • Psychology: See how a narcissist interacts in an interview: Jesse Lee Peterson tells guest "you have to look professional at work" [ 2024-9-23 ]
  • Psychology/society: Ripoffs in NL: If you think in NL everything is very civilised, here are examples of my experiences, with an electrician and a plumber. [ 2022-2-12 ]
  • Psychology: Analysis of the replies of an anti-social moron: Youtube comments: PzH2000/ channel: military history visualized. The person from that channel (and several other channels about similar topics) replies to my comments in a manner that show that he is an anti-social person, a know-it-all, with extremely limited understanding of analysis. [ 2022-5-2 ]
    
    
• Analysis of people and groups doing meditation and in cults:
  • Cults: To come: What is enlightenment? (Needed to deal with deciding on for example 'Sadhguru', whether he is enlightened or not). I already dealt with this on my page about bhagwan, but I will go into more detail here.
  • Cults: To come: Siddharta Gautama (buddha): My conclusions about him and stated goals and the consequences for people and countries
  • Cults: To come: Related to the previous point: Ego, rationality (thinking) and the question: What have been the greatest influences to increase awareness of how life works?
  • Cults: To come: How to immediately recognise that people organising meditation groups are scammers
  • Cult: Chandra Mohan Jain a.k.a. rajneesh/bhagwan/osho: Anatomy of a blockhead (2018-7-23, update in 2020, 2nd update from 2023 was not completed, that will be in part 2): This guy was not intelligent, not wise and definitely not enlightened, as I show in my analysis. He was a narcissistic psychopath. In part 2 I go into more detail and show what a pervert he was...
  • Cult: Chandra Mohan Jain a.k.a. rajneesh/bhagwan/osho, part 2: Update July 2026: analyses of videos and parts of books such as the one from Lin Stevens. I show using more sources that he was not enlightened and I show what a pervert he was. [ Analysis done, web page to come. ]
  • Cult: Prem rawat/master of the universe: scammer, started in the 1970s.
  • Cult: Sadhguru: scammer/businessman, not enlightened. You can deduce this esp. from his story about the bull and pheasant, and there are many signs such as that he laughs so much during talks. [ Analysis done, web page to come. ]
  • Cult/self help related: J.Krishnamurti, not enlightened, reasonable understanding but nothing impressive. [ Analysis mostly done, will do a bit more before publishing it. ]
  • Cult: Shunyamurti, anatomy of a blockhead. shunyamurti=Robert Shubow, his group is called 'satyoga'. This guy has some standard insights about life, nothing deep, but he is totally misguided and clearly not a truth seeker as shown by the nonsense he states about Russia vs. Ukraine. His statements show that his talk about letting go of the ego is something he has not mastered himself otherwise he would be a truth seeker. He purports to give 'transformational teachings' but he is like most people who publish self-help books and videos, unable to properly convey what makes sense and from that already you can see that he has not mastered that about which he talks. [ 2023-7-1 ]
  • Cult: Interview via email with a former member of satyoga ('shunyamurti'). [ To come in Nov. 2024, if all goes well Published 2025-3-7 ]
  • Cult: Analysis of Shunyamurti's list of vows/commitments. [ To come middle Nov. 2024 Published 2024-11-10 ]
  • Russian indoctrination: Indoctrinated woman from Yalta, Crimea, email from 2014-3-22 I analyse the email, which means to show the lies, show the indoctrination and so on, and give background information. It also contains an overview of groups doing meditation, Hare krishna, I will place that on a separate page too [ 2024-1-2 ]
  • Cult: Some analysis of a guy called Bikram Choudry using in particular the documentary "Bikram, yogi, guru, predator" (2019). I had never heard of this crackpot until Oct. 2024 but he is yet another in the long line of cult scammers/narcissists... [ To come middle of Nov. 2024: Published 2024-11-19 ]
  • Cult: Rael, the alien prophet, Netflix series: comments about the scammer Claude Vorhillion and his group [ 2024-10-18 ]
  • Cult: The malignant cult nxivm (K.Raniere) [ 2020-10-31 ]
  • Meditation/idealistic group: A group that aims for 'ecological/sustainable living', Kharkov, 2016-2018, showing (again) that idealists are often anti-social. Anti-social also means destructive... I tell of my experiences with some people of this group and the experiences that a (former) friend had with them. [ 2024-1-8 ]
  • Cults: To come: Are Jehova's witnesses and the Amish cults?
  
  
  
• Book reviews:
  I am very critical about most books, in particular self-help books: If you give advice you should have mastered the topic, just like a teacher at secondary school needs a university degree: To have mastered the topic so as to be able to properly explain.
  • book: Dutch book about Ukraine, one of the worst books I have ever read...
  • book: Alice Munro: voyeuristic tales from her writings [ I read this after discussions with a woman from Simferopol, 2013 ]
  • book: self help: Dale Carnegie: "How to win friends and influence people". These methods don't work... [ I read this after recommendations from people in Ukraine, ca. 2012 ]
  • book: self help: Covey: "7 habits of highly effective people". Stupid book, similar in methods to Dale Carnegie, that turns you into a list making robot. [ I read this after recommendations from people in Ukraine, 2016 ]
  • book: psychology: Robert Cialdini: "Influence, science and practice". The author is unstable and doesn't understand things that should be obvious to anyone thinking about why people behave the way they do. [ I read this book after recommendations from people in Ukraine, ca. 2016? ]
  • book: self help: "A guide to the good life", about stoicism as a way to live. This is one of the stupidest books I ever read, and so after 100 pages I skipped to near the end, also full of nonsense, and I ended reading it there. Review written, need to make a web page with it. [ I read this in 2025 ]
  • book: self help: "Essentialism". Not insightful. Review written, need to make a web page with it. [ I read this in 2025 ]
  • book: self help: "Atomic habits". This was recommended in Nov. 2025 when I organised the 1st talk/discussion in the Goncharenko centre in Lviv. I read about 35 pages in Jan. 2026 and in July 2026 I am continuing to read this book while making notes about it. It is full of nonsense, so I may stop before the end as I did with "A guide to the good life"...
  • book: self help/history: Viktor Frankl: Title in German: "Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager" (1946), literal translation of the titke is "a psychologist experiences a concentration camp", the actual English translation has a quite different title: "Man’s search for meaning" (1959),. I read it in German. Review in mixed languages (Dutch/English/German) and review in English, or maybe I will combine them. The first part of the book is a reasonable though incomplete description of life in a concentration camp, the 2nd part after his release from the camp is not very good, the last part of a play with figures from history is the best part. Review written, need to make a web page with it.
  • book: self help: To come: Eckhart Tolle: "The power of now": I wanted to read it in 2018, didn't get round to it, wrote my list of life in 2024, which is based on my attitude towards what happens to you in life, and found similarities in what a critical review about the book stated you should do in life (how to deal with problems), which didn't make sense to that reader and I realised that what Tolle tried to convey is correct but he can't properly explain it, also evidenced by his statement that some people will not be ready for that wisdom. It is not wisdom, but logic! From that you can deduce he hasn't mastered it well enough to properly explain it. I saw the same in some brief sections that I read of Berthold Gunster's book "Huh?" (Dutch). I will read and analyse both...
  • book: self help: To come: Berthold Gunster: "Huh?" (Dutch). I will review it in English, just as example of how people writing self-help books do not master that topic well enough to properly explain it.
  • book: about meditation, enlightenment, bhagwan/osho: Lin Stevens: "Een schijn van heiligheid" (1979, in Dutch), experiences in and around rajneesh/bhagwan's ashram in Poona, India, showing how selfish and stupid people there were and how anti-social he was. Review with the most interesting parts listed with quotes, in the original Dutch + English translation. This book is pretty good from the criticism that the writer gives, the descriptions of life there are good. The writer shows in the latter 2/3 of the book that she has quite a bit in common with the others in that ashram... All written down, I still need to translate that from Dutch and make a web page for it.
• Various topics:
  • 2026: The ING bank is on my boycott list. The cancelled my bank account because I transferred money to Ukraine to buy a house. Account of what happened to be added. I will not ever do business with these morons/aholes ever again.
  • Long ago already banks in NL annoyed me with their BS. I vowed after selling my house to never do business with banks again for anything more than a payment account + savings account. No loans! Only in Dutch at the moment:
    • [ NL ] Amateuristische bank mannetjes bij Rabobank & Florius (Bouwfounds) Echt onvoorstelbare incompetentie en hufterigheid. Dat de banken verantwoordelijk zijn voor de financiele 'crisis', daar verbaas ik me niet over na deze ervaringen.
    • [ NL ] Oplichters: Hoe marktplaats en de ING ze helpen, geholpen door de incompetentie en niet-actie van de politie.
• Caused by the psychopath putin: Russia's war against Ukraine:
  • Russia vs. Ukraine war: Overview of events after 1 year [ 2023-3-9 ]
  • Russia vs. Ukraine war: Predictions from end of July 2022 of Russia vs. Ukraine: Bruno vs. Wouter [ 2022-7-30 ]
    Update 2026-7-10: My predictions are all correct.
  • To come: The methods of ruzzian propagandists.

• • The following about Airport Schiphol was one of the first analyses in my criticism section on my site, from ca. 2003-2005 where I encountered unbelievable levels of stupidity and anti-social behaviour.

    [ NL ] Welkom in de bananenrepubliek der Nederlanden!

    Schiphol oftewel Shithol een verslag over ongebreideld amateurisme en hufterigheid.

    U betreedt hier een magische wereld vol intellectuele dwergen, demente apen en dwangmatige leugenaars.

    [ EN ] Welcome to the banana-republic of the Netherlands!

    English translation of key parts of the above experiences related to Schiphol will come: Antisocial aircraft industry nutters exposed... Shows how the people who claim Schiphol is important are liars and sociopaths/psychopaths. Also shows how institutes like NLR who do aircraft noise calculations don't know what they're talking about. This isn't just happening in some isolated part of society btw., it's happening everywhere with antisocial nutters being part of the boards of companies and universities for example. These same nutters give other nutters (their friends) positions and appointments such as professor for some bogus course. These pervert the universities and do much more harm to society than any terrorist by their antisocial actions and (moronic) reasoning, causing average people to think this is 'normal'. Another part of the problem is the media who have no analytical capability whatsoever and are in fact just advertising the opinions of these nutters in many articles. And then there are the politicians, discounting the 'antisocial bastards party' VVD, politicians such as Balkenende are really really stupid on the one hand, lying and manipulating on the other. What they especially like to do is blame people for the current state of society by saying people are too interested in their own affairs, and not caring about others (as if that's much different from 20 years ago), then using this unproven hogwash to play out their own ideas and changes. They won't get too much opposition this way. This is apparantly a well known tactic in politics: Blame other people of something they're not doing, then do whatever you want as those you accused are too busy defending themselves against the accusations or dare not oppose for fear of further similar criticisms (however untrue they are).

    Schiphol is an example of all this, and of unbridled amateurism and stupidity. If it weren't so sad, I'd be laughing my head off...

  • Schiphol incompetence: Update 2018-7-14: NOS and TU delft. State (propaganda) broadcaster NOS says people should complain less about aircraft noise...

From the old index page, published criticism, to be incorporated above. Published in reverse date order:

• [ EN ] 2024-9-24 + later updates: Review: Matt Walsh' documentary "What is a woman?" with commentary on the behaviour of the people who were interviewed

• [ EN ] 2023-3-8: Russia vs. Ukraine war: Why Russia destroyed the Nordstream pipelines (this is the only logical option, recent information about who did it from 2026 may or may not be correct, I think other explanations are possible)

• [ NL + EN ] Kritisch, maar ook humoristisch: email over soap series.

• [ NL ] Kleuternederlands, je hoort het steeds meer!

Scams and anti-social behaviour in the Netherlands:

• [ NL ] Neckermann, willen geen oude apparaten meenemen (waar je wel voor betaalt!) , dit met kulredenaties en leugens die niet onder doen voor de hufterigheid die ik bij Schiphol ben tegengekomen

• [ NL ] Problemen van grotere orde: Kritiek op Israel: Een onbeschaafd land met een mentaliteit van voor Christus.

List of updates and plans

Plans/To come:

• Cult: Some analysis of Rama/Frederick Lenz, a wimp, narcissist, former follower of Sri Chinmoy who himself was a crackpot or narcissist/psychopath as so often in self-help and with people teaching meditation... Related to this: On 2024-11-10 I uploaded a video on youtube discussing a few things about them but also about J.Krishnamurti, and why Orwell's books "Animal farm" and "Nineteen eighty four", which should have been handled in school in English classes, don't prevent people from entering cults though they describe what goes on in them...
• Stupidity in Alphen a.d. Rijn, the city hall that cost 32 million euros up to 2014, including the renovation from 2013 (http://www.inboskoop.nl/nieuws/gemeente/2377,verbouw-gemeentehuis-alphen-loopt-in-miljoenen.html), a design by a moron, architect "van Egeraat", including 'his' idea of a different way of making a street where pedestrians and cyclists and the occasional bus battle it out for where to ride. In reality that is just going back to chaos, i.e. his 'idea' was not a new idea. Also this city hall with all glass exterior can't be kept at constant reasonable temperatures, there is a big open area of several floors high that means heat goes up which worsens this problem, not having sidewalks means one corner in paticular is very dangerous as you tend to ride towards it on the bike, not seeing what comes around it (which can be cyclist or a bus) which was recently, ca. Aug. 2018, finally improved by putting big pots with flowers at the corner, and finally the glass cleaning bill is 50,000 euro per year...
• Stupidity in bicycling: Moeve in how they promote their variable length crank. Actually a design by someone else but they made a production bike out of it. It has a varying length crank which can be useful, but the problem is their behaviour and their claims of what it does, and thus of what it can do...
• Psychology: Alan Watts: Video on youtube: "Give it away and it will come back": It is not insightful! People who teach meditation, awareness etc. invariably are not at a level at which they can actually make it clear to others. They understand some things well enough for themselves, but not to teach others. I go over what is stated in this video and tell you what is wrong with what he says. [ A big problem as I found in 2025 and posted about on my youtube channel is that there are many channels putting out videos with fake Alan Watts voices, using texts that ard not by him... The AI voice synthesis works well enough that it is hard to know which ones are real. Is this one real? ]
• Psychology/Cult: Analysis of a video with Janja Lalich in which I show that she talks bollocks about various topics.
• Society/religion: Criticism of Christopher Hitchens, a not very intelligent anti-religion guy. So many people say/write what a loss his death was, and that he was so good in his criticism: No he wasn't! From what I saw/read so far, he was a moron!
• Society/religion: an analysis of U.G. Krishnamurti.
• Society: An analysis of Ayn Rand, the crackpot who wrote e.g. Atlas shrugged", which is the psychopath's bible... and its predecessor "fountainhead". I will put my review of the film here, and maybe a bit but not as detailed about "atlas shrugged". The latter is liked by psychopaths like Keith Raniere, Larry Ellison (who is the founder of Oracle, note that Oracle is a name coming from Ayn Rand's books) etc. If someone has this book on his book shelf, avoid that person!
• 2024-3-10: Analysis of some incompetent and/or mentally unstable psychologists, but also a few of which I don't know yet how to classify them as I only had a very brief look. Esp.:
  - Jordan Peterson (emotion poor, incompetent + mentally unstable),
  - Kirk Honda (from psychology in Seattle, puts videos on youtube, relatively normal but he is incompetent and he is a wuss who does not use his knowledge where he should in daily life, further he would not find it pleasant if there were people at his work who didn't like him, as he stated in one video, which is just pathetic!),
  - Robert Cialdini, who wrote the not very good book "Influence, science and practice". I already published a video featuring him/his book on my youtube channel in 2023, while walking in Kiev, in which I show how incompetent and unstable he is.
  - Dr. Phil (seems somewhat narcissistic, unless his chest thumping is to show sponsors what he has produced)
  - Todd Grande, who puts out videos on youtube (I only had a very brief look at one video, but something is off in that guy). I asked a relative and just based on the thumbnail picture with his face she said: "he could be a guy with multiple wives", then I said: "he looks like a wimp", then she said :"that is the same" and I said: "correct". Is this preliminary impression correct? I will see when I get round to analysing him...
  

For reference: Old index with list of updates and plans.

Last modified: 2026-7-6