This self-deception goes so far that we threaten to drive the fully loaded cart with full force against the wall and still it is not acknowledged, identified, talked down, completely ignored or immediately rejected and denied. Admonishers and spotter become enemies. All indications and evidence are dismissed, if necessary twisted and punished as scare tactics. Which is understandable from the point of view, since every acknowledgement in the same breath is a commitment to changes that are contrary to the efforts that have been brought up. Who wants to leave their comfort zone?

That's why, out of the gigantic flood of information that comes over us every day, we block out everything that contradicts our own well-being. The supposed truth is selected, bent and adjusted. We refuse to accept the worsening conditions and do not accept to be responsible for them ourselves. Therefore we loudly blame others and ask them to redesign everything with a magic switch. Because if the ingrained circumstances dictate an unfamiliar behavior, we reflexively resist, making the circumstances worse.

Absurdly enough, no one rebels against the dictatorship of Google, Amazon and Facebook because there is a lack of understanding. Moreover, the opportunities on offer are far too tempting to question. The excessive monitoring and spying by business and the state only acknowledges the state's desire with barking, but ultimately accepts it with annoyance. Nobody wants to do without the nice new conveniences and keeps his intoxication with twisted arguments.

We set the wrong priorities by rising above everything and putting our own pacification first. Although this may have been necessary for the survival of our Stone Age ancestors, we have moved miles away from the living conditions of that time – with the exception of our thinking, which cannot stop thinking about its lust for power and domination. Surprisingly, it adapts itself to the respective conditions, but refuses any further development – it does not learn.

One consequence of this is that we demand facts. But nature and climate cannot be set in stone. We cannot even grasp that the ground beneath our feet is constantly in motion. Even in regions that directly feel the forces of earthquakes and/or volcanic eruptions, attempts are made to tame the monsters rather than give in.

We struggle with the stigma of not being able to see into the future, which is our greatest longing. However, we have found our best, most patient and inexhaustible victim, where all our guilt can be dumped. Reliable forecasts about the effects of our actions cannot be made seriously, otherwise we would most likely live completely differently. The assumption is that our entire history would have been different.

What we have always been able to do, however, and what we have improved and refined over the course of evolution, is to interpret signs and draw conclusions. Whereby any signs originate from our wealth of experience and knowledge and are therefore constantly increasing. In the meantime, algorithms that have been transferred to the digital world are able to predict our actions and/or adapt the environment to them, in order to otherwise gently guide us in desired directions.

Only our arrogance refuses any insight, because in the course of our development it has become firmly burnt into our brains that truths taste bitter and disgusting. In addition, they regularly demand restrictions and renunciations from us. In times where profit, i.e. enrichment, is everything, these are not acceptable variables. We prefer to walk into a battle with our visor open and convince ourselves that we are already winning it, because we do not tolerate, allow or expect any other result. According to the motto created for the banking crisis – too big to fail – a collapse on our part is impossible.

As is well known, pride comes before a fall, but reveals another weakness in our thinking: limitation. The crux of the matter is that it also ensures not being discovered. Except in its material counterpart, life, which is why its inevitable limits tempt us to maximum debauchery. Compounded by the uncertainty of when we will reach it. Therefore, everyone is next to himself. Why should the enjoyment of one's own life be based on how it will affect the future? Each generation had to cope with the existing conditions and could not choose those, so future generations must be satisfied with what they will leave behind.

What served for bare survival for our ancestors has developed into mania: Might. Seizing superiority expresses our daily aspirations in a frighteningly impressive way. As obvious as it is unrecognized. Visible only to a few who are not under this bondage. Yet our hoarding is merely a redistribution. What one receives is taken elsewhere. Just because we generate fictitious money in digital times, there is no compensatory value. We have merely cast our old dream of turning lead into gold into modern form.

We arrogantly overlook that all factors show exponential increases. Those who can grasp the connections try to take advantage of them, which usually means a further fueling of the fatal development. The manageable time frame of each life, in connection with the growing abilities of tools at our side, only feeds our greed. The greed for more and more to rise above the rest. Long-term and/or social thinking slow down or even negate such aspirations, why they are ostracized.

In those days, the introduction of payment merely served to facilitate the prevailing business principle. Barter was certainly not very comfortable and filled with all kinds of adversity, but at least real values were involved. Over the centuries, these paper notes were not only increasingly refined in visual appearance, but their existence was given more and more weight. At latest by the beginning of the industrial age, at the end of the 19th century, money became the focus of attention. How quickly and strongly we became dependent on it was already evident in October 1929, when New York Stock Exchange collapsed, triggering a world economic crisis that did not bottom out until 1932. In the meantime we have raised money to the status of a deity and laid our existence at his feet.

The immaterial means of payment still requires a material equivalent. 50 Euros in the hand are just coloured paper. Only at the checkout in the supermarket it turns into a valuable credit. This is also the dimension in which the mass of people can grasp the interaction. In contrast, the actual event is a diffuse world whose dominance is only perceived when complications arise there.

Nevertheless, the illusory world needs material content to prove its existence and to establish its value. Work performance is part of it, but is one of the annoying factors, why it's constantly being minimized. In the main, ownership still marks actual significance. These material counterparts can be resources or products of themselves and therefore have one thing in common: they are limited. Because this planet is all that is available to us. Everything from which we can draw.

Our development so far has therefore serious consequences, because at its end there can only be total, complete exploitation. The fatal thing now is that we know this, but our animal instincts do not allow us to derive other courses of action from it. The saying, after me the deluge, illustrates our point of view. We reproduce because our genes more or less force us to. However, in the short time span of our existence the attitude towards this has changed fundamentally, but has not yet entered our consciousness. While all living things want to preserve their species, we make this obligation beautiful and create additional evil spirits in our heads. The likewise genetically programmed potential for dominance has now reached the top of our construction kit. Envy travels in the wake of the associated domination airs and graces. This is directed at everything and knows no relation. For if we were more tolerant through foresight, we would not be able to satisfy the penetrating greed in our own lives. This creates an inner pressure, whose valve is preferably aggression, because its clumsy structure can release a lot of stored energy.

Mercilessly we exploit everything because we only allow ourselves everything. Not even our own children and at the same time we are unable to admit this. We resist this point of view, which may be understandable, but is equally stupid. In a broader or indirect sense we are cannibals. Nobody wants to hear that, of course. We also vehemently deny that we are heading towards collective genocide. We ignore the harmful and only allow the pleasurable to enter our sphere of perception. By our absurd behaviour we create an imbalance and endanger all life – including ours.

Exploitation #Dominance #Egomania #Greed #Profit

(Deutsche Version mit zahlreichen Links)

{Translated with the help of Deepl}

#Asocial #Climate #Collapse #Conscienceless #Criminal #Environment #Excessive #Future #Greed #Incompetent #Insanity #Irresponsible #Neoliberalism #Unleash #Worldwide

(Deutsche Version)

Simply dismissing it as power horniness no longer does justice to developments. Rather, progress and behavior drift apart. The more high-tech the former becomes, the more primitive the latter becomes. Instincts long believed to have been overcome are pushing their way from the depths of our evolution to the front row. Values and ways of dealing that have been painstakingly built up and have been described as human in their origin are mercilessly chased away.

Especially now, when calls for more equality and care are growing louder, they seem to be inciting fears of loss. If loss and fear can be emotionally challenging on their own, their connection quickly becomes unbearable. Countermeasures are activated like reflexes. Every possession must be defended with all means. Lawfulness is not at issue here because, according to our claim, everything always belongs to us for our well-being. Those who threaten this will be fought. Even if it is the neighbor with whom we have always got along well. There are no friends in the battle for the benefices, only enemies.

Worldwide falling barriers displease the mighty more and more. First they force globalization on us and now they are surprised to find out what hard bandages are in use here and that their own players are increasingly falling behind. In the war of profits no prisoners are made, but destroyed, which places itself in the way. It is easy to see how the forces are distributed around the world. But instead of looking for progressive solutions, lower instincts are given in and the claws are extended.

Only those who position themselves as opponents are immune to this activation. Whoever stands up for an open and peaceful world is an outright enemy. Who thinks beyond that of future generations and acts accordingly prudently, thus betraying his own taking of advantage, must reckon with serious complications for his life. The more cosmopolitan people become noticeable, the more nervous the other side becomes and strengthens its defensive measures. While the former take care of everyone, the latter only takes care of themselves.

How easy it is to ignite supposedly comfortable structures is shown by the already existing majority. Government princes no longer have to formulate complicated demands, but only press the right buttons. Discrimination, control, suppression and demarcation are a simple language that everyone understands. Of course, this always means only one point of view: from one's own point of view – everything for me, nothing for the others. This also applies to each other, which is why people are divided everywhere.

Globally, a dangerous course has been embarked upon, the effects of which are pushing back unmistakable signs. Fascinated, we hunt technical developments from climax to climax without understanding the underlying danger. Arrogant, we cling to the dogma of being able to control everything. We continue to let ourselves be dictated by the maxim that the economy must grow indefinitely without questioning this. Obvious untruths are believed when they support the threats previously put forward.

Dictatorship and slavery are on the rise, even if it is carefully avoided calling them so. It is only a matter of standing on the supposedly right side.

The political powers are stirring up this fight for distribution, only to be careful not to fall under their own wheels. So that they do not sink, they sharpen their knives. Because, of course, they do not dirty their own hands, they stir up their people and spread destructive hatred over them. Form and dosage do not matter, the main thing is that it has an effect.

The success of this development lies in the success of its cause: peaceful prosperity eats its children. Man is overwhelmed with the complexity he has created himself and yearns for simplified structures. Instigated by himself, he becomes a victim of his own holiness. However, the interrelations exceed all those who are able to think beyond their heads. Violence is then based on the frustration of not being able to deal with one's own inner conflicts.

The simple fact that we are all equal and that our basic needs are identical makes totalitarian desires for domination impossible and is therefore successfully expelled.

The greatest danger is hidden in the momentum that is absorbed and nourished by the frictions that are generated. Stopping this is becoming increasingly hopeless. Constructive counter-movements, such as #FridaysForFuture, unintentionally deepen the trenches. The necessary changes exceed the imagination of rooted and hardened ideologies. Implementation would mean hell, which is therefore prevented by all means. If one were to deny one's own small-mindedness, one would already lack the cognitive faculty to do so.

What is difficult to discern in the processes taking place are the weak points with the most comprehensive power: politicians inside. Through mud battles against their peers, they have eliminated any inhibitions and established a rude way of dealing with each other. This is precisely why populist screamers are most heard. In an absurd way, it nourishes a paradox: the call for a strong leadership hand.

Solutions would be obvious if one thought about the inherent reason instead of having it stolen. However, killing swings up to the ultimate satisfaction, to the maximum stimulus, as the peak of power, with which our peculiarity is nothing more than a lie, a self-deception: humanity.

Probably evolution will judge it. That it is accompanied by painful teachings may belong together inextricably.

We can be different. Unfortunately, we have not yet reached maturity for this.

#Fears #Dictatorship #Society #Violence #Greed #Control #Might #Splitting #Worldwide #Values #Collapse

(Deutsche Version)

On the other hand, we are idiotic enough to produce food with the addition of poisons and/or to consume it in unhealthy quantities. We like to believe that this is also for our own good, because the products are cheaper than healthier alternatives. In other words, because it makes more profit for the economy, we have got used to eating them. The cold-bloodedness of doing this to one's fellow human beings should be mentioned here as a thought-provoking suggestion, but not carried out.

In order to prevent the damage from escalating uncontrollably, limit values have at least been set for substances of concern and have been made mandatory in regulations. Not only directly consumed substances (e.g. mercury) are affected, but also externally acting substances (e.g. nitric oxide NO²). What sounds like reasonable regulations for all sides, nevertheless has a loser. Because of its sacred position, everything dances to its tune, especially when obstacles stand in the way of its development. No, profit is not to be trifled with.

If the economy starts its lament about the lack of development potential, politicians will stand at attention and thank them for the given instructions to adjust obstructive limits. Which of course means increasing and spitting in front of all scientific knowledge. Exemplary perversion of intentions.

#Absurd #Chemistry #Consumer #Criminal #Environment #Food #Greed #Profit #Ruthless

(Deutsche Version)

#Greed #Dazzle #Unleash

In principle, insurances are a meaningful institution. Their repugnant behavior and possibilities to destroy existences should be finally abolished however – to the emergency by law, if they do not stop their dirty machinations from alone.

A portal, on which all badness of the insurance companies is collected and thus the clenched ugliness is demonstrated, would be desirable. My search for something adequate remained unsuccessful. If I overlooked something, I am pleased about appropriate information. I suspect, however, that such plans are being nipped in the bud by the industry or may already have been.

#Insurance #Greed #Malpractice