As a result, we are able to grasp dimensions, but not to understand them. When in Indonesia an area as big as ten football fields is cleared per hour, this may be an understandable comparison, but it does not give us an idea of its full extent – and certainly not of its consequences and interrelationships.

This behaved just as the size of our planet. We can look at the bare figures, stand in Russia's taiga or the Sahara and yet only see everything up to the horizon. It doesn't matter whether the complexity overwhelms us, it stands in the way of our efforts to dominate. Depending on our position domination preciousness demands submission and possession of everything that can be achieved. We can only rise on the backs of others and rise above others, including natural resources.

The terms prosperity, wealth and possession may differ in detail, but in terms of content they aim at the same meaning: to have more, to be more than others. General consensus is that we don't just literally go over dead bodies for this. Because even if only a few people put their finger directly on the trigger of a gun, their decisions have comparable effects. This is where the aforementioned limitations come in handy. If everyone were to consider the chain of their decisions, we would have a different world. But because our own prosperity comes before everything else, we are not interested in the cruel effects. For the same reason, we reject both guilt and responsibility.

Coffee in small aluminium capsules are chic and convenient. If there were pictures of destroyed nature and of people who died as a result, they would probably not be as useful. However, the frightening pictures on cigarette packets show that humans still think more about fulfilling our well-being than about dealing with the consequences. Even if enjoyment makes us ill and causes us to die prematurely.

No matter what it takes reflects the invisible part of our life motto; the visible thrifty is nifty. We want everything at a small price. Again, limitations make us believe that this attitude is perfectly fine, after all, it's for our own good. The fact that the actual bill is far more extensive and far-reaching, lies beyond our horizon and therefore does not come into play.

Economy is run by people and differs from the individual only by the much greater might. Like a monstrous vacuum cleaner, large corporations suck capital and resources from markets and floors. What is devastating here is that the politicians, who are actually installed as the regulating layer, participate in this disastrous undertaking. But since the same mentality of thinking, including limitations, prevails across all borders, levels and strata, the community raid is not surprising.

With the intelligence mentioned at the beginning, we are merely acquiring tools to drive the speed of exploitation. Like a cancer we kill our livelihood. What appears to be a more than stupid approach can once again be explained by present narrowness. We cannot comprehend the temporal dimensions. If our actions have an effect in 100 years, we may grasp the numbers, but not the complex context. Most of the processes we trigger lie beyond our horizon and concern, making them irrelevant.

We could do otherwise, but we already fail at the idea. That is why we stubbornly follow the path we have chosen, ignoring warning signs and simply making sure that we reach our own end as unharmed as possible. As far as limitations are concerned, we should be close to perfection. The waste of our potential is regrettable and a shame.

#Act #Collapse #Egocentricity #Exploitation #Future #Masterhood #Property

(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

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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)

Over the years, 20 % of the railway lines were closed down and hundreds of kilometres of new roads were built. The railways have not been neglected, they have shrunk to nothing. As a state-owned enterprise, it had no choice but to give way to the car industry – including heavy goods traffic. As a reward for billions of dollars in profits and rich profits for greedy managers and insatiable shareholders, the car bosses installed a cunning fraud system. But instead of those responsible pondering behind Swedish curtains about their wayward character, the ordinary citizen pays the bill.

Now, out of the blue, another climate crisis has appeared, climate change, and politicians have been caught off guard. A well-developed and reliably functioning rail network could help to overcome the challenges that the government recently set itself in the Paris Agreement. But now it is not only necessary to dig deep into one's pockets, but also to make up for lost time in a jolt.

Sufficient investment in the railways would not only have created many jobs but would also have helped to protect the climate. It's true that grandiose announcements are still being made, but the car industry is once again being promoted with great publicity. Of all industries, the one that has not overslept the connection to e-mobility, but actively ignored it, wants to rise from nothing to become a pioneer. The state is donating bonuses for people switching over to e-mobility. In other words, it is the taxpayer who pays the bonus himself. The winners are the manufacturers who profit from the unplanned car purchases.

So what about CO²? Take it easy and don't rush things.

#Absurd #Climate #Collapse #Consumer #Corporatism #Deceiving #Dishonest #Environment #Ruthless

(Deutsche Version)

Mistakes are allowed, even desirable for learning effects, as long as no irreparable damage is caused. Trying over studying, how the wisdom of last conclusion is trumped into us early on. In practice, weaknesses are revealed that can lead to successful developments.

However, a reinterpretation into facts bursting with errors is not simply a lie, but intended manipulation. Such psychological methods are used by those who want to trigger and stir up the power of negative emotions in unstable characters. Only for the satisfaction of selfish motives. To create discord in order to refresh oneself from the hatred aroused and to abuse its destructive powers for an end in itself. Like a too slow sprinter who gives his opponents legs to win.

The opinion of autocratic leaders about their stupid sheep was proven by the appearance of the Austrian Vice Chancellor. Not more than slaughter cattle for feeding themselves. But those who expected a loud outcry of indignation remained speechless about its absence. Affectionate bearing comes into its own with lower instincts and is cheered submissively.

Citizens are familiar with broken promises from politics. It is frightening that the frustration is now enough to let untruths numb the senses. If common sense is abandoned, regret ends where it becomes an escalating danger for the community. This ulcer must be dealt with decisively in order to contain its spread.

#Fears #Asocial #Egomania #Society #Conscienceless #Might #Manipulation #Splitting #Lying #Values #Collapse

(Deutsche Version)

With the drug consumption effects can be controlled as far as possible and channelled quite well. The economy does much for it, in order to satisfy the need at addictive substances in each conceivable way. However an increased problem emerges, which grows on the one hand daily and is caused and fed on the other hand by the economy: Lack of money. The means of being able to participate in the constantly growing range of products and services are continually decreasing.

Like dealers, the economy tries to sell something on every corner to make our daily lives more bearable. Everything offered is supposed to serve only our well-being; our comfort; our user experience. And because we have been trickled into this like a prayer wheel, we not only believe this ourselves, but are convinced that this is the way it is, must be the way it is and that we want it to be the way we want it to be. Just as successful brainwashing should work. That's why we don't question it, or even less, don't fight it. It would be like a fight against ourselves, against our own will, against our own decisions. Nobody does that.

As regrettable as it may be, the takeover of our brains has already achieved very far-reaching successes. Of course this is vehemently denied. Especially from the elites, who either consider themselves too intelligent or sit at the gears themselves. However the burgeoning nationalism is a consequence of these manipulations, under utilization of all factors in the interaction. If the addicts are deprived, a tiny spark is enough to ignite the most powerful impulse in us humans: Fear. Once this has been fueled, the firefighters have an easy time steering, shaping and spreading the fire. Fear eliminates rational thinking. Consideration has no place and there is no time for reason. Everyone is closest to himself.

With the spread of neoliberalism, this development was inevitable, especially because supposedly social parties betrayed their agenda to prostitute themselves as supporters. In this respect, current situations are not surprising. The path was mapped out and the results expected. On the other hand, it is questionable why the initiators overlooked the significance of their actions. Was this deliberately ignored? Or talked small? Or was one's own arrogance and greed so great that warnings were thrown into the wind because one was convinced that one could control every conceivable situation? But as we all know, erring is human.

From a human perspective, one should assume that current tendencies are undesirable and that counteracting steps are being taken. After all, there would be a frighteningly simple solution: give people more money to satisfy the addictions initiated by the economy. Spread the existing masses of money more evenly and prevent the emergence of new divergences.

Of course, these suggestions have long been put forward by more important personalities, and yet the course will be maintained. It can therefore be assumed that everything is still on track. Which one? From whom? With which goals? In fact, in view of what is happening all over the world, profound questions arise. Since, however, obviously parallel habitats have emerged whose intermediate layers allow only a limited osmosis with selected components, they are likely to remain unanswered.

The last resort is true power on this planet: the earth itself. The self-proclaimed ruler always has a flush of anger in his face, and he has to nibble hard at his defeats, nature rebukes him. Nevertheless, he refuses to acknowledge this fact and challenges Mother Earth again and again. Only with the time-consuming reactions of the environment does the driven mankind find it difficult, which is why presented receipts reach only later generations, which are then understandably mightily angry.

Of course, we could also renounce indoctrinated dependencies and deal with the one true thing that always stands above everything else: Life. No, we don't, but maybe other times more. Until then we can either continue to be misused as puppets or practice our own thinking. No, most people think, but they don't. Why do I say that? A look at the world and a bit of humanity is enough.

#Dependent #Fears #Neoliberalism #Consumption #Loss #Collapse #Profit