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

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How do politicians and many people get the idea to equate security with freedom and to promote it as such? Nobody would consider a prison as an institution of freedom – quite the contrary. Nevertheless, they strive with all their might to install one above everything and everyone. Are we humans already so degenerated that even hair-raising contradictions/antagonisms are accepted?

Exemplarily every anonymization is chased through the stable. On the one hand, every form of privacy is fully advocated as protection of the individual, on the other hand, it is outlawed as a risk to economic growth.

Unfortunately, politicians around the world are making wrong decisions. The perversion of intentions therefore triggers counter-reactions everywhere. Uprising and rebellion become a daily occurrence because corrupt politicians are no longer able to realistically acknowledge their own actions. In addition, a transparent citizen makes any manipulative work easier for them.

Anonymization speaks with split tongue. Means safety, but demands total nakedness. Submission is the price. Anyone who does not want to pay this price is excluded and, at best, thrown to the public as persona non grata. Private? Contradicts social welfare, ergo profit, and is therefore frowned upon.

#Anonymity #Freedom #Prison #Privacy #Profit #Safety

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However, it is obvious who the winners are. One person's suffering is another person's joy. Everybody depends on his own life and is willing to do everything for every extension, but above all to pay every price. It is well known that these future investments are only limited to one's own life and are not intended for future generations, even if they are one's own children. This paradox proves the current climate discussions.

When it comes to the price of life, on the other hand, the pharmaceutical industry is getting bright eyes. They effortlessly turn the price screw upwards, which apparently knows no end. Moral and ethical brakes were abolished by neoliberalism. The same goes for reason and decency, with which no profit can be made.

It is only stupid if these expensive therapies are not worth their costs and it even turns out that more natural methods achieve better results, even if they are impudent enough to be cheaper. In order not to let their own profit sponges degenerate into trickles, the powerful industry is not squeamish. After all, there is enough capital to crush every objection, every doubter the bud. Paid in by patients hungry for life, who may be putting themselves on their own feet. If they are prevented with their money from discovering alternatives that may be more effective, they pay their shortsightedness twice as much.

Today, to use the word health in this context borders on mockery. It is a disease industry that, following the profit maxim, needs an increase in sick people. If the supply is not sufficient, then help is needed. In this respect, the sick system of neoliberalism fits perfectly, whereby these two should have never come together.

In the end, everyone had dug into this pit and had to swallow the bitterest pill.

#Cancer #Neoliberalism #Pharmaceutical #Profit

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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

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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