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.

Comments

[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...