Pioneers, not babblers!

[matrixmann]

People miss guts in this time episode. All feel as courageous to want to join the table, join the discussion and contribute their ideas, but when it comes down to standing out, standing by one's own ideas, risking a head for it and speaking up, defending it, then most of them play the cowards and hide behind the bush. Have a birthday party to organize. A tree to plant. A household shopping to do. Hold back. Try to satisfy the zeitgeist's picture of a good public image. And, above all, try to not to be a leader. Try not to be someone who inspires others, but just who staccatoes down its arguments like a record stuck on replay and who could be stolen from a factory which produces these guys from a mass mold.

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[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Being defines consciousness. People don't just pop up and do something out of blue. They do whatever the environment dictates. Some are more progressive in their thinking but very few. The society as a whole does what what economic conditions predetermine them to do.

[matrixmann]

I see that in those times you don't really get encouraged to be a personality that can lead others. The main focus is more on administration, or to bite them all on your way to the top of the ladder. Be a reckless asshole that knows no friends, except money bills and power.

But, I even know the complaints that nobody wanted to do positions with a lot of responsibility even in GDR times.
All people had a lot to complain, but if you asked for them doing it differently, taking a position where they could practice influence and power, then people again often had to do different things on the weekend. Nobody liked to kill the time with this work, they rather liked to spend their days at home with their families and the stuff they could do within the frame given or conquered by themselves.
...So, this is not entirely a problem of these.
I don't know if it's a German problem, specific for people from Central Europe that are considered as "German territory".
And I really feel like it's a phenomenon through the times... You know, even those people I witnessed in the same age - I can still tell tales about those times where it wasn't so self-evidently to run around dressed in black all year long, listen to harder Metal music, be a Goth and just be different from others in any other way. When you were the first in your class to start wearing spiked bracelets.
One and two years later, others doing it too, it being like "Well, where's the news now?".
...Yes, I can still recall that times.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know but the late GDR as well as Soviet Union at the point had capitalism system restored and petty-bourgeois mentality prevailed when people do not think in terms of society but rather like individualists.

[matrixmann]

I think it had to do, first, because the leading party did its own thing in politics, and this was totally as far away from the reality of the normal citizens as it can be - just as nowadays.
Second but is, I think at some point in time, it's being spoiled too much. Seeing, things always get run by somebody, always somebody can be found to do it, but these don't drop out of nowhere. Even these are only potatoes like them who make it there.
And I'd think, at some point in time, people just only saw as far as their own lives, they didn't think about "I demand this and that, but there's always got to be someone who does it". They just wished for it, like a little child, but weren't ready to do something on their own for it. Like I said: When you rather want to spend your weekend with your family, when you're never ready to do one extra hour, when you just always say "oh, some other day!". But complain, complain and complain...
When you want to have a say in politics, but just don't even TRY to understand the matter...

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree, lots of people prefer to sit and wait till someone does it for them. And on top, they dare to criticize like some mother-f-en spectators.

[matrixmann]

Yep, that's how I get it. Besides the thing with the leaders leading only for themselves and claiming they do everything the right way...

I don't know, as said, it seems to me like a German problem.
Like German mind deeply still hasn't overcome its Kaiser and learned to take care of its business on its own.
It's like they still demand for some monarch being there and doing the difficult business, so they don't have to...