Aug 31, 2011

DER MENSCH UND SEINE SELBST ANGELEGTEN KETTEN

Der Mensch hat noch eine lange spannende Reise ins Jenseits vor sich. Ins Jenseits des Selbst. Des Erkennens und des Verstehens. Schließlich um des reinen Willens eben um sein eigenes edles Geschlecht von jenen Ketten zu befreien, die er sich selbst angelegt hat. Wann war denn der Moment gekommen, an dem er sie sich diese überhaupt angelegt hatte? Was hatte ihn in solch einen Wahnsinn getrieben? Konnte er nicht anders als sich dieses Leid hinzuzufügen um damit ein größeres Übel abzuwenden? Hatte er schlechthin um den Fortbestand seines edlen Samens willen sich die trügerischen Gesetze auferlegt um seinen schlechten Dämon den er in sich trug einzudämmen. Wo kein Menschengesetz, dort ist das Gesetz der Natur. Und das Gesetz der Natur kann grausam sein. Der Stärkere wird dem Schwächeren unter seine Herrschaft zwingen, er füge sich oder bezahle mit dem Tod. Die Hierarchie der Natur kann wahrhaftig grausam sein, auch wenn sie für die nötige Ordnung sorgt. Doch hätte der Schwächere den Aufstieg nicht erlangen können in dem er sich dem Reichtum seines Geistes betätigte, so wären wir doch wohl heute noch in einem dunklen Kämmerchen ohne Licht und müssten noch bevor draußen die Sonne aufgeht in die Kälte hinaus um täglich unseren Acker zu versorgen, damit wir im ausreichenden Maße unser Brot bekämen. Technologie würde sich dann doch nur ganz langsam entwickeln und nicht in dem rasanten Tempo, so wie wir es heute erleben. Sind wir denn aber am Ende unserer Grenzen angelangt? Gibt es nicht eine noch höhere Freiheit gegen die der Mensch anstreben soll, ja gar das seine Bestimmung ist. Ganz gewiss gibt es diese. Schaut man in seine eigentliche vernünftige Natur, so sieht man seine unersättliche Energie in seinen Augen funkeln, die er doch nur für das Positive nutzen müsste.

Ich habe einen interessanten Bericht im Internet gelesen. Es ging über das alte Fabriksystem das heute immer noch in den Schulen als Bildungssystem benutzt wird. Die Lernenden werden wie in  einem Manufaktur-Prozess zu einem allgemeinwissenden Wesen ausgebildet. Es gibt verschiedene Stationen, die er alle durchgehen muss, ohne dass er dabei eine Wahl hätte. Es geht letztendlich um ein Standardprodukt, dass alle Mindestanforderungen an Qualität erfüllen müsse, etwas das produziert wird und dem Konsumenten, d.i. der Weltgesellschaft mit Geschmacksverstärker zum zwanghaften Verzehr hingeworfen wird. Das erinnert mich an McDonalds. Es muss überall auf der Welt gleich schlecht aussehen und schmecken. Kreative freie Rezepte dürfen nicht vorkommen. Natürliche Anlagen die das kreative Kind besitzt, die freien Interessen die das Kind hat werden restlos unterdrückt. Ausschuss wird aussortiert, sie wird in der Gesellschaft nicht ganz funktionsfähig sein und wird daher auf den Müllhaufen verdonnert.






Wo genau ist also der Zeitpunkt an dem dem Menschen Ketten angelegt wurden? Fängt er mit der Geburt und Erziehung der Eltern an? Wenn das Kind Glück hat, dann fördern die klugen Eltern ihr Kind, obwohl das bedauerlicherweise nicht immer der Fall ist. Also geschieht es spätestens in der Schule? Ja, unbedingt. Und was ist mit den Institutionen Religion und Staat? Natürlich! Soll es deswegen aber keine Schulen, Religion oder einen Staat geben? Doch soll es! Aber die Bedürfnisse der Individuen  müssen in den Mittelpunkt rücken, nicht die Anforderungen der Gesellschaft, die sich selbst ohnehin künstlich mit jeder Generation erneuert. Allerdings sind die Prinzipien der Sicherheit und Ordnung nicht zu gefährden. Doch Ordnung muss ja gerade manchmal im Streit und Streik gefährdet werden, damit es zu einem progressiven Erneuerungsprozess kommen kann, falls die alte Ordnung zum Wohle des Menschengeschlechts verbessert werden kann. Doch sollte hier das utilitaristische Durchschnitts-Prinzip Anwendung finden? Wäre es gerechtfertigt den Tod von einer Million Menschen in Kauf zu nehmen um das Leben von zwei Millionen zu schützen? Von 100 Millionen? Vom ganzen Menschengeschlecht? Man sieht es ist keine leichte Frage? Wo zieht man die Grenzen? Wer bestimmt über diese? Wer sind die Menschenrepräsentanten, wenn solche gewählt werden sollten, die über diese großen Entscheidungen bestimmen dürfen? Wie werden diese gewählt und kontrolliert? Bekanntlich verdirbt Macht den Menschen, es weckt den schlummernden Dämon in ihm und es ist nur allzu schwer einen Exorzisten zu finden, der diesen heilen kann.


Gott sei mit uns.

Aug 22, 2011

Such a wonderful story

A post from one of my favorite authors Paulo Coelho with images from Ken Crane:


THE POWER OF LOVE

The only thing that can save us is being unconditionally in love with humanity. Getting mad, protesting, asking for a change of system and disobedience won't bring us anywhere unless it leads us to a revolution of love. No matter if we jump from capitalism to communism or vice-versa (or any other political or economical system in that respect), take down capitalistic banks or "freedom-of-speech-oppressing" dictators such as Gaddafi or Castro and put all violators of law behind bars. A short time later, if love is missing, all measures will lead to the same kind of terror, only this time with different players and different names. Why is that? The truth is simple. It would only be a change from one tyranny to another tyranny of discontent. 2 unhappy persons, for two different reasons, are still called unhappy.  A society is merely a mirror image of its own values, so are its systems that are constantly being reproduced by society itself. Therefore, what mankind really needs is love, this is the only right cure for our disease so that any kind of further exploitation won't be reproduced anymore. 

We can overthrow regimes, change political and economical systems, give every human being on earth 1 Million € or $, buy everyone a villa and a Ferrari, but in less than a few years, there will be poverty, injustice, mistrust, war and murder all over the place again. 

As a former Procter & Gamble (one of the largest companies in the world) CEO once said, "If you leave us our money, our buildings, and our brands, but take away our people, the Company will fail. But if you take away our money, our buildings, and our brands, but leave us our people, we can rebuild the whole thing in a decade."

People are the only key. This is also true for societies. We can change the state of the world for good only if we change the people in the first place, the system change will automatically follow. That is only possible by giving and teaching unconditional love to the current and especially to next generations to come. Love means amongst other things showing affection, donating enough of your time, respecting different views and accepting others for who they really are, regardless of their flaws. Nobody is perfect. The least women are as lucky as to look like Heidi Klum after being alive for 38 years (and 3 marriages) and giving birth to 4 babies. We men surely are all no George Clooneys or Johnny Depps. I’m sure there are even some who actually don’t think that these guys are perfectly beautiful. Because there is no real perfection and even if there was, it is different for everyone. Are we, the other 99% worth less just because we don’t look like famous actors or models, do not have the same qualities like Tiger Woods, George W. Bush or Paris Hilton? I’m just saying that everyone makes mistakes and we will continue to make them because we are humane. Someone once said, „I err therefore I’m human. “ By the way, if you haven’t guessed the answer yet, it’s a no, we are all worth the same. All in our very unique way, we all have different talents; we just need to figure them out. That is why we all deserve love. Even if we talk about very nice guys like Sadam Hussein or Bin Laden that have spread terror around the world. Those guys did what they did probably because they grew up around people who didn’t show them enough true love, a love that they longed after since they were little kids and even now as grown-ups.

Consequently, we first need to start working on ourselves. We have to ask, how do I behave to my neighbors, to my colleagues, to my friends and to my family, to unfamiliar people on the street, to Mother Nature, to other religions including non-believers, people with different sexual tastes and most importantly to myself? If you don’t love yourself, you pretty much won’t be able to love anybody else anyway. What do you think how kids will behave later in their lives when they haven’t received love from their parents, have been left alone, when they were mocked for once not knowing an answer or just for being different than the unicolor group? When they feel in a 24h race of Lemans of who is the smartest in mathematics, who wears the most fashionable branded cloths or who can beat a kid up the worst. The one who wins the race gets the love. Well, guess what, at one point in life, you start to hear your shocking voice asking yourself some inconvenient questions whether that love was/is honest and once you realize the rightful blasphemy that you charge yourself with, you try to forget about these unholy questions as fast as possible. I say, listen to your voice, because it is the voice of your heart. Do not fear the consequences. Once you taste the real world, like Neo did in Matrix, you may fear it, but don’t try to resist it. Reality is always sweeter than the illusion, even if it hurts at the beginning, you will set your soul free and your world will soon turn into paradise. 

What goes around comes around. Well, the reality is that once we give love to everyone, the world will stop hating, murdering, deceiving and oppressing and will give that love back to us. Violent regimes, financially exploitative private (central) banks and companies thinking of man as machines will cease to exist and convert to „institutions of love“. The meaning of „power“ will change. In the last centuries power meant accumulation of money, political fame or Hollywood-type fame. In the 21st century, the revolution of love will bring real power to us. 


ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE. The Beatles had it all figured out already in 1967. What are you waiting for? Go out and start loving! :) I love you ALL.



Aug 20, 2011

I have a dream...


Once upon a time Martin Luther King had a dream. He rightfully dreamed of the same rights granted for his people, independent of skin color or descent, in a country that had promised freedom and equality for all men since its independence. The same rights that were already declared on the historic day of June 12th, 1776: "That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety (Article 1, Virginia Declaration of Human Rights)." 

But if I look at the current state of the world, I see too much unhappiness, poverty, unemployment, inequality, discrimination, competition, fear of losing, separation etc. all build on false dreams. Greed and Egoism are the dominant reasons for this. We as human beings are raised in this way from the early beginning of childhood. Our parents want us to start speaking and walking faster than other babies. If we do, they love us. If we are later than "the usual", something is wrong with us. In schools and at our jobs we are always put in competition with each other. We are measured in grades, in efficiency. Maximum quality produced in a minimum of time. Who gets a better output with a relatively small input is the winner. THE WINNER. Yes, being a winner. That's what we are told. We have to be winners. But if there are winners, there also have to be losers. It is like the game "musical chairs" (in German: Die Reise nach Jerusalem). At least one person has to lose. Our capitalistic system has surely brought unmatched levels of innovation to the world. But the capitalistic system has now turned into a monster, a giant octopus that spreads its tentacles all around the world on every nation and on every man. The octopus now strangles us with its long and strong tentacles. It has made us its slaves. It's time to rise against this ugly oppressor of ours like many of our ancestors have done in the past. Like Martin Luther King has done on his march to Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.

Now it's time that we start dreaming again. We need to start dreaming of rights that we as human beings deserve by state of nature and by law enacted by a just society - fighting against any forces that intend to deprive us of these. On the front, (central) banks, multinational conglomerates and other powerful lobbies are destroying our dreams. Even worse, they give us false dreams and create illusions of scarcity to keep us in their slavery. But behind this veil of hypocrisy, there is the pure and simple character of greed of the very few. Greed for power and control. In ancient times, while this was done through slavery and imperialism, in modern times it is done through capitalism of which its sole task now is to maximize profit, market share and ultimately shareholder value. In other words, greed for power and control.

Well, now I have a dream. I have a dream that one day all companies' efforts are to maximize bliss instead of profit. Not only for a few powerful men that nobody knows of, but also for its employees that give their valuable labor to the company. I have a dream that employees, clients, customers, consumers and employers work together to bring about true happiness instead of greed and competition. Everyone will go to a work which they actually love going to, not to just some job which they hate or are indifferent about. Their hearts will be endlessly rich and abundance will be widespread across every nation and within every family and individual. I have a dream... 

Thanks Mr. King. Also thanks to capitalism for all the good things it has brought to humanity. But now it is time to say good-bye.