A long fruitless crusade

[matrixmann]

Regarding the zeitgeisty mumbo jumbo surrounding a 16-year-old girl from Sweden named Greta Thunberg, it's always good to remember the past and bring it upon the table: There have been other environmental activists before, acting even more fierce than her and following a recognizable agenda instead of a plain social media hype that still lacks content after months.
One of these people was a Swiss man named Bruno Manser.

(Thanks to a person I only got to know under the nickname "Sanni" for once teaching me about him.)

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[matrixmann]

Okay, in this point I have to back down. I know myself I can be not the best person to have discussions with, depending on the topic... Even the more it is in topics which I have connection with or where I think I spotted something that everyone else seems to be missing.

"The world is terrifying" - well, let me say this from the perspective of someone who thinks he knows what "character changes through trauma" can mean: If you interfere early enough, if such bad experiences happen, then you can get to convince a brain to shrug it off as a one-time life experience because you can deliver dozens of disproofs that leave back the impression to it "this was an extraordinary experience, this is not the rule of the whole world".

If extraordinary bad experiences happen, and that dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of times, then it'll be a struggle to convince that brain to believe into the same. Because, internalized, something else is the rule to it.

...It comes from this umbrella, that's my opinion.
And I don't see much of that changing in the future in me because - not just this world is crazy, this country and its way of thinking, it's crazy. It's Täterstaat and it's Anscheißerstaat.
One dumb person can fuck up your routines - and these get fed with fear, with hysteria, with misinformation and lack of education, and with means to act that out at the expense of those who don't live that square lifestyle as these philistines.
So to say, the way I think, the things that interest me, the things I know about - they make me an easy target for dumbness.
And dumbness increasingly receives more belief to its "concerns".
The mentality of the 90s and early years after 2000 would be a relief for me 'cause I could be more outspoken without risking anything every time. 'Cause even law and authorities then would tell some people "Damn, don't waste my time with your hearing fleas cough and your cognitive stupidity!".
But I know these times won't come back on a larger social scale... So I'll have to deal with the zeitgeist that is on in this spot on the earth. And this means hiding a lot and being paranoid. Ergo: "the world is a dangerous place" (if you mean "Germany" or "your surroundings" with "world").
I have no real reason to believe in something different. Just judging from the practical circumstances.
I'll have to handpick my people and spheres for which I needn't act like this.
That's how it is for me...
Can't help it.

[vit-r.livejournal.com]

- The things that have happened to me are terrifying.

- You have read Bettelheim's book about the survival in concentration camps. This was terrifying.

Two minutes of silence...

- Yes, you are right. My complains are nothing in comparison to this.

The German school teach to be afraid as Anna Frank but the experience of people who had win against the system in most dangerous conditions remains unknown. This produces hopelessness.

Durability is a skill that could be learned and trained. My son had broken through a system in the conditions that anyone who had heard our story calls "terrifying" in one day.