Play, not deliberation

The Dutch are so beautiful and clearly smarter than average, but so deliberate, crushing every free flow. Honest, but rarely playful, aware yet detached. Defensive mechanism par excellence contra modernity?

I've seen hints of this in Holland but it stands out unmistakably in the Dutch students interning in Aruba, even when the students and visitors are both there for the same purposes.

Even a surplus of beauty cannot make up for or begin to mask defects in character or personality.

Life is fun and necessitates vigorous and absurd play. To suffocate that possibility with seriousness is a sin.