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Originally Posted by Skybird
Goes all well into the ear. But simply lacks objectivity and reason. We sell military goods worldwide. Nuclear fuel. We differ between civil and milutary use of nuclear tech. We support tyrants if they are of short-termed use for us, we condemn them, if they are no longer our obedient servents. Our economy and our finances are run beyond reason and solidness. Our monetarian debts amongst each other are beyond imagination. We cause conflict and poverty, dependence and misery all over the globe, and call that our mission in the name of freedom, democracy, free trade - OUR freedom, OUR democarcy, OUR free trade. we excuse our falures by our intentions, and ignore that our intentions never matched our candy-sweet words. We have build the international structures and offices of global administration to our will and intention, because in the short term they promised us immense benefits, at the costs of others. We have created our own fate, and now make it sound as if it is the respnesebility of others, as if we have added nothing to the situation, as if all moral autority is ours.
All this in the face of other powers and factions, beliefs and ideologies that also act in the same way like we do. We live on a small and sinking island of the happy, while all around us people were drowning in the stormy sea by the hundreds of millions.
And today, in the present, many of us think that all what we need is more of that tough double-moral, packed into pithy phrases that directly deliver it into the centre of our emotion's control. You know what? This will solve nothing, because it does not change ourselves, not our selfishness and hypocracy, and it does not change the very rottenb mark and intention of the many systems and institutional interactions that form our so-called civilization.
Should we stop trying and fighting for the better? No. But please spare us the emotional catch-phrases and pithy slogans. Instead of a Kennedy speach, we need a general attitude of mind that share's a samurai's determination to serve, that focusses less on our rights that we define ourselves, and focusses more on our duties, and that repalces all what is rotten and hypocricy and split-tongued in our society and international administrative systems with what serves the best of all at the cost of no one and can rightfully be taken as a reason to claim that this it is what it is worth to fight for, and defend. But when the next elections approach, and you will see the ape's theatre that politicians put on, and the masses applauding that BS and call it "good" and "great" and "just" and "worthy", then you can see the grace and greatness of western man's reason and the worthiness of what is left of western civilization.
But at least you have a chance to get a blue or red abllon for free, and a pencil, and a card with some lying bastard's handwritten signature on it. Isn't that a good reason to fight for?
If Kennedy would be around today - I tell you what, it wouldn't make a difference. The general global trends would remain unaffected. That simple. Our civilization seems to be automatted to such a degree, that it now is run by it's own suicidal self-dynamic. We don't need a better speech-writer. we need new "ourselves".
Sometimes i think it would be good if out in space there would emerge an alien power that threatens all mankind and all earth with extinction. maybe that would motivate us to create a better world. But a thinking of "mine is longer than yours" will make us fight against each other and killing each other until the end of human race.
Keine Macht den Doofen! "There is no other hope than that mankind very quickly becomes reasonable." - Einstein, I think.
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