If you are the owner of a business, there are sometimes a few helpful hints that can't be dismissed. But you would probably resist massive interference or even regulation, wouldn't you? As long as you act legal, you want to run your business the way you want, right? Fine.

Basically, nobody can force anyone to do something against their will, because we don't live in a dictatorship – at least not yet. Are we compliant so far? Fine.

Then why do you, as a user, lament and moan about the business practices of others and even call for policy to be regulated from there? Nobody's forcing you to eat the disgusting candy. Established and at least equivalent alternatives already exist. But then you come up with flimsy excuses to justify your addiction and inability to change. Most popular is the argument of missing mass elsewhere. Which makes you a dim-witted addict for whom even irrational reasons are not cheap enough. Awkward. Kinky.

If you waste your energy with stupid jabbering and not invest it in a change, no mass can be built elsewhere. The current top dogs were also boring and empty in their beginnings. So stop complaining about data collection and other unpleasant side effects, but reorient yourself. Right now! That' all!

#Dependent #Fools #Lethargy #Privacy #Unable

(Deutsche Version)

{Translated with the help of Deepl}

Therefore, we ignore the vulnerability of the system and, above all, the effects that a disruption of the processes would cause. As if one would cover one's eyes in a crowd of people and believe that the others no longer see one because one no longer sees them oneself. Idiot? Of course, but that's what we do. Every day and with an increasing tendency.

If you put on a wetsuit, you can move well. If you get into a second one, you can certainly do that as well. On three and four? I don't know ... Five and six? I've never worn one before, so I can't judge it, but I suspect a very limited freedom of movement. We practice similar things with technical progress. We are only too happy to let ourselves be taken in by it, it promises a great deal of comfort. We refuse, however, to make any attempt to become aware of the connections between them. Our defence mechanisms are not directed against the dangerous, negative consequences they are actually there to protect, but against the warnings themselves.

It is a logical consequence, which is ignored again and thus activates a devastating spiral, that all basic programming in our heads gets mixed up and turns into fears, depressions and other illnesses, which are caused by irritations, such as cancer. But that's just a side note.

Without question, our achievements are remarkable and extremely pleasant. Which, of course, is a prerequisite for being taken completely out of hand. Corporations have long since taken over the dominion and we have surrendered to their machinations.

But it is not the technology or abstruseness of declaring data the most valuable commodity that should cause concern, but the associated fragility of the entire system. In neoliberal turbo-mode, we are maneuvering ourselves unchecked into a dead end, which we do not want to admit in the usual manner. All over the world fuses are already firing and when it comes to the first explosion is hardly interesting any more, but rather where. Because depending upon origin different effects result. Whereby it doesn't matter in the end, because the bottom line is a disaster in any case.

So far, we humans have let technology work for us. We have used machines to support us. Although we still insist that this is the case, we are lying into our own pockets. We have entered the bondage of the technology we have created. Stoically, we hold on to the misbelief of ruling and controlling everything, especially what we have created.

The network of built up dependencies is highly sensitive and accordingly vulnerable. Thoughtlessly we readily feed a construct that has long outgrown our hair.

A wrong click, a failing server, a disturbed node, a bank in turbulence, a branch falls, an economy behind, a war in tow, an end.

It's not about condemning and banishing technology, but about adjusting circumstances. The necessary insights and changes, however, are utopian hopes. Such an extensive reorientation of spiritual attitudes will not happen by reasonable means. It is hopeless to assume that we could muster so much decency. So in principle we would already be able to do that, but the spirits we called ...

We've given up humanity, even if no one admits it. Whether we have lost it or it has been stolen from us is irrelevant at first. Only through this loss are the current developments possible. The lack of courage, or at least the lack of courage, prevents us from perceiving reality. This is the only reason why we do not perceive the pretended deception as such, but submit ourselves to the homely whispering. The shaky structure itself promotes its instability. If self-preservation takes the lead instead of collective forces, the system collapses.

Social is no gimmick, no bonus, no icing on the cake, no extra and certainly not a punishment. It is the cause, the basis, the basic prerequisite for life. Why we let ourselves be wrapped up in fraudulent machinations, when we supposedly are so intelligent, should seriously burden us and make us think. Which brings me – once again – to the basic problem.

#Dependent #Society #Authority #Control

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