Author: Dina-Perla Portnaar

Dina-Perla Portnaar is a small business owner of a global agency, a critical thinker, and an author. Born in 1985, she escaped a restrictive upbringing, a journey she chronicles in her book, Exodus uit de Vuurtoren. Her philosophical novel, Memos from the Edge, includes ideas of her own philosophy called humanecy. She combines deep, free, and critical thinking with storytelling on morality, ethics, and integrity.
Dina-Perla Portnaar07/11/2025

The Queen of Transformations: Claiming Freedom and Sovereignty in Life

Freedom begins where necessity ends, and the body remembers first ~ Ilse Midgard, philosopher of […]
Maria Corina Machado has won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Photo courtesy Bloomberg.
Dina-Perla Portnaar23/10/2025

María Corina Machado and the Humanetic Challenges

In October 2025, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar11/10/2025

Spirituality has not failed: Why humanity needs Humanecy

In recent years, some thinkers have declared that the age of spirituality is over. They […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar06/10/2025

Abortion and the Soul: A Philosophical and Spiritual Perspective

Abortion remains one of the most difficult ethical questions for me. It touches the core […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar27/09/2025

Authentic Art celebrates the Essence of our Existence

Machines now write, paint, compose and design. What was once the result of personal struggle, […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar16/09/2025

Integrity as Symbolic Politics: How Companies Shoot Themselves in the Foot

The Nestlé case shows how corporate rules are becoming an end in themselves. But is […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar02/09/2025

Why the Darkest Characters Lead the Smartest Minds on the Right

Something tragic is unfolding on the intellectual right. At a time when some of the […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar22/08/2025

Why Barbie defines the Normative Boundary

Whoever wants to understand the gravity of what happened in Noisy-le-Sec must read my book Exodus […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar08/08/2025

As a walking archive of eugenics, I find Sydney Sweeney beautiful

Give me a turned-up nose, freckles, red or blonde hair, green, blue, or grey eyes, […]
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