Why (Warum)

[matrixmann]

Überall brennt der Baum, regiert die Unzufriedenheit und jeder wünscht sich, dass die Welt anders läuft als sie's aktuell tut...
Aber warum, trotz all der Unerträglichkeiten, läuft alles ungebremst weiter wie bisher?
Die Wahrheit ist: Es gibt kein Alternativsystem mehr. Es gibt keine Idee für eine alternative Ordnung mehr, die funktionieren würde und nicht das Leben für die meisten ins Chaos stürzt.
Yep, das ist der Grund.

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Everywhere turmoil pops up, discontent reigns and everybody wishes the world to work differently than it currently does...
But why everything keeps on going on without brakes as before, despite all the intolerablenesses?
The truth is: There is no alternative system anymore. There is no idea of an alternative order around anymore which could function properly and wouldn't throw life for most people into chaos.
Yep, that's the reason.

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[maadmike.livejournal.com]

"The truth is: There is no alternative system anymore. There is no idea of an alternative order around anymore which could function properly and wouldn't throw life for most people into chaos.
Yep, that's the reason."

Why are you so pessimistic? There are the stable countries around the world with totally different mechanisms of state working... Japan, China, India... Totally different mechanics of functioning but they are stable and life of folks is not a havoc...?

[matrixmann]

Pessimistic? I rather call that a "the Emperor has no clothes" moment.

"Stable" is a relative viewpoint on it, depending on which criteria you select to support that view.
Btw, "stable" does not mean "humans get to live the best life under these conditions". Sometimes things are stable, with no big movement in the overall picture, but those who carry the situation just swallow their anger down and shut up. Just because breaking the cycle is harder than fitting in into a system that demands you to bend your back 360 degrees.

And when it comes down to that - almost nothing these days is stable.
Because the basic scheme pressing people into their way of functioning is present everywhere: Capitalism.
You cannot escape from that.
And as it's a time again where the fight for the good life, for resources, for a "going on as previously", is desperate, sooner or later all these nationally different systems of capitalism will turn into the inhuman shark "eat or be eaten" capitalism, if they haven't turned to be it already.

That is the state of things which there is no alternative for anymore.
People curse and groan and break under that conditions what this radical capitalism demands from them, but they stay with it because there is no functioning idea around, no thought, how it could be any different.
It's like when a child is used to the abuse that regularly happens to it. It just accepts that this is the way life has designated for it. (Unless somebody demonstrates to it before it's own eyes "NO! This isn't true!".)

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

Could you tell me when it was different? People were always struggling here and the far behind the worse it was - no pension, no medication, no education, no nothing but only the good will of your parents, family, state if these would like to act good for everybody's prosperity.
So, I don't see no difference today - some are trying hard to bring something helpful here on Earth while sonebody making strange mistakes again and again, they are lying to themselves and after getting into a corner blaming all around about the problems they have got by yheir own will.
It is intresting how stupidly tolerate people have brcome nowadays. For ex, I am asking Americans your president telling he is a Christian and he numerously was caught on lie, how do you think it is possible - they are saying - Oh, it is quite alright, he is politician and he had to lie all the time. And so on with everybody - he is a manager, he is a scientist, businessman, doctor, genetal... We are making all the circle around us, so why be whining it is so worse country we are living in today, it is so forked up nature, so forked up financial system and so on...

[matrixmann]

In the developed world, they once took the path to do it differently - just because the social misery was pressing the reigning class to do that. Survive or be downed one day - that was the situation they found before them.
And they, even themselves, rather took the option "let the plebs have a little, so we can go on existing".
Even though it did not help them everywhere - see the rise of Communism.
That was the fate of the reigning class if they decided it wasn't necessary to care about the plebs' social misery...

The big pain these days is: Little by little, bit by bit, they reduce these achievments for the plebs again. Thinking the same idiotic shit "oh, this is just a waste of time and money".

In Cold War times, they fought hard to prevent the spread of social measures for the plebs all around the globe.
This would have been the fate for people that was better than the previous path... In other words: These accomplishments should have spread from the developed world to the rest of it.
But the wealthy were strongly against that - greedy and obesessed with the lots they already have and which they still wanted to achieve.

Now one's facing that same behavior in the developed world - the gradual destruction of all of these social accomplishments.
What for? For the greed of those which were greedy through the last 50 years and thought like all of the world's net worth is all theirs...
Things happen as they totally should be.

But these days it's even harder to fight against that - as only the structure that these money-greedy old geezers still exists within the national states. Former communist states which once functioned differently adaped the working pattern of the capitalist states. Even people themselves adapted the thinking patterns from this system!

As time passes by, those people gettting older which still have witnessed ONE different order of daily practice, the time more and more runs out and the possibilities shrink to build up something else which works differently which is NO product of the self-absorbedness of the wealthy middle class in capitalism which has gone to university and is bored within their golden cage of daily boredom.
You understand? The knowledge of a differently-arranged version of living, which worked even though, slowly dies away...
And from capitalism alone, such ideas and visions are born no more. None that would be able to continue a modern and technological advanced society.

In times where capitalism had a competitor system, even this deeply cutthroat system had to sacrifice a few crumbs of the cake in order to keep its people pleased and from running to the other system.
Now with it being there no more, guess if it's still is in need of it...?
Reality shows it thinks it's not.
Reality shows it thinks it's won the competition for all eternity and now it can do as it pleases.
To the misery of the people which shall keep that ship up and running...
Which, in the end, even includes oneself.

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

"The big pain these days is: Little by little, bit by bit, they reduce these achievments for the plebs again. Thinking the same idiotic shit "oh, this is just a waste of time and money"."

Yes, but do you know that there is an idea that financial help to Africa had more problems than solved... They had multipled successfuly as all their problems ad well? What I want to say that it is not only rich guys were getting more and more cold blooded about the poors matters but the plebs as you had called'em have been getting more and more relaxed too through the last decades. I don't know how it is in Europe but here in Russia around me there are at least tens of young men which jave everything to prosper but they are playing fools for years... I can describe you many examples when poor taxi driver was taking a credit for decade to buy one toom flat... How on Earth it is possible I don't know but here we are. Others are drinking for years, working time to time. One other guy had s credit and bought three old Soviet Union small garages. When friends are asking him why he couldn't answer and so on and on. Nearly every second youngster in Russia is renting flat rarning around 10000$ dollars for year and don't want to buy a site of land for 5000$...
So, what I want to tell is that the plebs need also a mighty kick in the ass to start thinking straight and to not work for rich felas for trinkets buying twice expensive trinkets after, telling that they have nothing to eat...

[matrixmann]

Africa I know some tales about...
How much of foreign-sent money disappears in dark channels of rich or reigning family clans... Just because in Africa, they have no sense of "solidarity" and regarding their neighbor as something to work together with in order to have more than just a primitive tent and barely something to eat.
Modern political correctness wants to call such view "racist", but it's even Africans themselves which say this, once they've made it to leave their own cultural circle for a while and be socialized with different customs and a different overall mindset.

Yes, I won't deny that security also has its disadvantages...
Human brain doesn't seem to handle that well. If it's got too much free time, it gets to rack its brains about all kinds of stupid or meaningless things - or create the strangest of the strangest ideologies (like religion, American Identity Politics).

Still... what I mean in that point is: For example, once such structures as postal services and public transportation were intended for supply of the people and in order to make the industrialized complex economy work at all.
These days, those kinds of services are privatized and treated like luxury goods. Like you're attempting to buy a Rolex wristwatch.
Even though their importance for the overall system of society and economy to function hasn't ceased.
So... what is this? Technically, this is destabilization - because it moves system-relevant services away from the task of supplying people and being easily available to them to being something that is like and "extra" in this system, which could be dropped in times of only keeping of the necessary.
But because latter thing isn't factually correct, it's a moving something away from being a carrier of society and economy for no apparent reason.
And this is destabilization.
Taking things away simple humans fought hard for, decades and centuries ago, to wrest them from their rulers in order to live a better life than they were used to up until this point.
This is turning back the hands of time to circumstances when the plebs had nothing and the rulers reasoned it with destiny created by God...

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

"In times where capitalism had a competitor system, even this deeply cutthroat system had to sacrifice a few crumbs of the cake in order to keep its people pleased and from running to the other system."

I don't know... I'd lived at USSR times and I am still living now and yes there are some differences but they are not critical... Actually, I don't know maybe I have only one child but I don't feel as poor in Russia or as a man which has no perspectives to develop, to earn whatever money I like. Instead I feel that nowadays I have much perspectives to do everything I want - I can build whatever I want ( if it will be save of course), I could travel where ever I want, start a business, buy land... Nobody is pushing me to spend my life to work for some other rich guy dreams, some like some work but I am working for myself. So I don’t know what is so wrong about capitalism you are telling now, I think I have to visit Germany or France myself to get a clue...

[matrixmann]

Well...
I will admit that I'm very much aware of that fact that politics at the very core of the Cold War were different than in its periphery.
Things were very, VERY much more fiercely fought about.
You see... it's the "little" strip of land where two opposing blocks of nuclear missiles stared at each other.

So... when you're at the heart of real socialism looking at you and looking back at it, people are much more likely to take notice of what the other side offers. This creates a situation of "make the hell sure you offer your own people something, so they don't walk over the border and never return again!".
Western propaganda about wealth (which also came at the cost of all the other nations in Europe under the American thumb) lured a lot of people to West Germany and created a lot of myths, of GDR being a failed state and such things...
But, just guess, would that have been possible if you already lived in that West Germany of these days? Where social benefits, health insurance and the school system had been deteriorated over decades? Where hospitals and smaller courts had been closed? Where huge administraive districts have been created that move state services far away from your reach?
Where you get to feel in many ways "your task as a citizen is not to question our stupid shit, but to obey the laws and do as you're told!"?
With that Germany from these days that West German administration has created, they had hardly ever won the Cold War. I'll claim that for certain.
They needed that bit of social democracy in order to just win a flower pot in that game.
Austerity, bankrupt communities, village fire brigades which have to operate with vehicles left from the socialist times still... That's all not the kind of stuff to demonstrate to someone "we're so fucking rich" or to signalize to him "you're king here in this country as a simple citizen".

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

“But, just guess, would that have been possible if you already lived in that West Germany of these days? Where social benefits, health insurance and the school system had been deteriorated over decades? Where hospitals and smaller courts had been closed? Where huge administraive districts have been created that move state services far away from your reach?”

Again, I wasn’t at any country of EU still to see the differences to Russia. I am living in capitalistic Russia now and it is not bad to compare it to USSR… There were multiple good and bad things at USSR and there are such in modern Russia, the thing is if you are healthy, educated, and not lazy - you would have lived well in both systems – if you are invalid, uneducated, lazy, inflexible, not adventurous, and sick - it is certainly better to live in USSR. I don’t know what is going on in Germany, Greece, or some Eastern Europe small countries – where all old industries built in USSR have gone to history… maybe these countries had lost in common with decomposing of USSR though again, people living at these countries are happy to be free from USSR control and are even threatening us with all the dirty tricks while forced to be licking the boots of Americans soldiers… I don’t know, I couldn’t blame them – nobody like when somebody has taken you freedom telling you what is good and what is bad, even when this somebody would had been talking truth…

[matrixmann]

if you are invalid, uneducated, lazy, inflexible, not adventurous, and sick - it is certainly better to live in USSR

I think this is a good phrase to summarize it.
If you are needy, in some way, if you have to struggle with a couple of factors in your life before making it to actually deal with the question of doing a job for pay, then this system is in a continuous state of telling you "Fuck you!" and "Please die soon!".
Not that I wanna claim that real socialism didn't have such elements too - on my end, I'm pretty much ideologically at war with its Lutheran work morals here. Work 'til you drop isn't a medicine for everything - neither does it harmonize with a planet overpopulated with humans.

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

"I think this is a good phrase to summarize it.
If you are needy, in some way, if you have to struggle with a couple of factors in your life before making it to actually deal with the question of doing a job for pay, then this system is in a continuous state of telling you "Fuck you!" and "Please die soon!"."

The same here... if you are sick then you are out of game and out of life... nobody will be helping you if not your relatives...
Our free medicine is a myth - the last three months have forced me to see it with all the clarity - a hernia of a friend's brother’s back - 200 thousand rubles or stand in a queue until you die, my cousin’s thyroid cancer prevention procedure is only in the Moscow region and also 200 thousand rubles, my friend’s mother’s broken arm the next day after her dismissal - no payments at work and thirty thousand rubles to doctors for prosthesis, etc.

"Work 'til you drop isn't a medicine for everything - neither does it harmonize with a planet overpopulated with humans."

At early USSR things were very unusual with work too - most of the people were the real slaves without documents and possibility to flee, many were massively dying in camps... so there is no need to idealize USSR here...

[morgenstern74.livejournal.com]

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[matrixmann]

Civil conversation tone here, okay?

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

Это к чему?