Wartime

Lately microplastics have become a hot topic in the section of "environmental pollution caused by humans".

Well, let's put this short and straight: If anyone was so concerned about this being around everywhere, get the fuck down to ask yourself who introduced this wide range of plastic materials anyway? It didn't drop from the sky, neither was it there from one to the other day out of the blue. Someone made it so that it's there where it is today.
And, just like always there have been early indications for nearly everything that something "man" thinks of it is handy, but actually it's harmful, don't say that this hasn't been known before! Don't say this is something new!
The warning voices have only been silenced or bought by whoever made profit from the plastics.

Nun dreht sich also das Personalkarussell wieder und der aktuelle Chef des Verfassungsschutzes wird abgesetzt...
Irgendwie wird man den Eindruck nicht los, als wenn es von Anfang an bloß darum ging.
Meldungen über vereitelte Anschläge, vorherige Verfehlungen und wahrscheinlich auch noch irgendwelche Dinge in der Vergangenheit (so wie es immer ist) - all das war kein Grund, den Typen vorher zu beanstanden. Nein.
Aber eine Äußerung über ein im Internet verbreitetes Video, die scheinbar in ihrer Bedeutung irgendjemandem nicht gepasst hat, dafür darf der Mann jetzt gehen!
Man muss nicht mal auf der Seite dieser Regierung und ihren anderen Personalien stehen, um das als das offensichtlichen "Kindergarten" zu bezeichnen.
Kam diese Regierung zwischendurch überhaupt mal schon zum regieren? Jede Woche wird irgendeine neue Sau durchs Dorf getrieben. Jede Woche darf sich irgendeiner vor der Presse zum Idioten machen, weil irgendwer auf Twitter seinen Tonfall oder seine Wortwahl nicht in Ordnung fand - oder weil derjenige es schlichtweg darauf angelegt hat, aber dann doch mit den Reaktionen darauf nicht umgehen kann (will!).
Und sollte es mal bei irgendeinem Thema ernsthaft um hetzerische Wortwahl gehen, die jedem Leser ins Auge springt (so z. B. wenn es um Russen oder die russische Regierung geht), dann nimmt jeder das billigend hin und es regt niemanden auf.
Es geht von einem Wind im Glas zum nächsten wegen eigentlich nichts...
Wenn so noch die kommende Jahre von Merkels (immer wahrscheinlicher werdende) letzter Amtszeit aussehen sollen - na dann, viel Spaß noch! Das ist nicht besser als in Übersee, wo man sich jede Woche über irgendetwas von einem Präsidenten Trump aufregt. "Gibt es nichts zum Aufregen, sehen wird doch einmal in Social Media nach, da finden wir garantiert was..." So kommt es einem vor. Man weiß schon nicht mehr, worüber man sich aufregen soll und womit man das Personalkarussell zum Drehen bringen soll. Also bläht man Sachen überproportional auf.
Erinnert sich eigentlich jemand noch an den Fall "Wulff"?
Wochen über Wochen neue Schlagzeilen und die Presse konnte nicht genug in die Tasten hauen, so viel wie sie geschrieben und in die anderen Medien in Umlauf gebracht haben!
Genau das gleiche Phänomen beobachtet man jetzt bei jedem wöchentlichen Mini-Skandal und allen, die keine eigentlich sind. Jede noch so kleine Erbse wird drei Mal ausgewertet, als wenn es hier um den Weltfrieden und nicht die Blödheit irgendwelcher fehlplatzierten Menschen ginge! Oder geht es das wohlmöglich doch?! Sagt Bescheid, wenn der Eindruck doch richtig ist.

Man hat sich ja schon nach den ersten Wochen mit dieser neuen Regierung Merkel IV gesagt, dass dies ein reines Horrorkabinett ist, weil so viele Positionen falsch besetzt wurden wie es nur ging und dann noch teilweise mit der Essenz der bekloppten Persönlichkeiten von der Resterampe von der vorherigen.
Aber dann jetzt noch, dass jede Woche ein kleiner Skandal produziert wird, irgendetwas passiert, und man die koordinierte Unfähigkeit als auch Unwilligkeit jedes Mal in Aktion erleben darf und merkt, wie verdammt und verloren man ist, es setzt diesem Alptraum, den nicht mal Freddy Krueger produzieren könnte, noch einmal die Krone auf...
Was soll daraus werden?
Da braucht man sich ja wirklich nicht über eine braune Machtübernahme wundern...
Die Einzigen, die munter und aktiv innerhalb des von ihnen selbst gesteckten Rahmens sind, sind nun mal LEIDER sie!
Jedes neue Versagen, jedes neue "wir ziehen einfach unser Programm durch" spielt diesen Kräften in die Hände, weil der Rest dieses Schmierentheaters für den gemeinen Bürger als nutzlos empfunden wird!
Und was macht man mit nutzlosem Zeug? Richtig, man verstaut es ein paar Jahre noch im Keller oder in der Garage, schlussendlich wirft man es aber irgendwann in den Müll, weil man keinen Platz mehr dafür hat.
Der Bürger sagt sich "wir leben billiger ohne diese schlechten Schauspieler!", und wenn da einer ankommt, der seine Dienste in diese Richtung anbietet, na, was meint man, was da wohl passiert... Der notgeile Mann sagt wohl nein zu der Prostituierten, oder was?!

Wenn dieser "worst case" nicht irgendwann mal zutreffen soll, dann müssen so einige aber zuerst ihr Verständnis von "Demokratie" ändern - es ist nicht "wir regieren, ihr fresst es"! -, danach im Anschluss sollen sich bitte alle verziehen, die meinen, sie wollen nichts von diesem hier mehr auf ihre Kappe nehmen.
Demokratie hängt schon immer mit den Konsequenzen von Aktionen begangen in Freiheit zusammen - also, alle, die sich nicht bereit oder in der Lage sehen, damit umzugehen, bitte heraustreten und GEHEN! Es gibt nicht das eine ohne das andere! Wer meint, das ist so, der hat in der Theoriestunde nicht aufgepasst!
Vielleicht wird es dann mal was mit was anderem außer irgendeiner braunen Nachfolge...
Demokratie ist nicht mal einfach nur da und fällt vom Himmel, wird extern vom lieben Gott verwaltet; sie muss auch mit Leben gefüllt werden!
Das kann sie aber nur von Individuen, die sowohl fähig als auch willens sind, seine Regeln zu akzeptieren! Wer das nicht kann oder beides nicht als Persönlichkeit vorhanden hat, soll sich bitte raushalten und sich auf die Beobachterbank setzen. Damit richtet er noch den wenigsten Schaden an und behindert die anderen nicht!
Wer nur einen Posten mit hohem Ansehen, Geld und einer sicheren hohen Rente haben will - kratzt doch mal bei der Wirtschaft an der Tür! Da wird man übrigens auch reicher als in der Politik... Könnte nur mi dem hohen Ansehen nicht klappen. Aber wer braucht das schon für Befehlsgewalt?
Was ist schließlich eindrucksvoller - 20000 auf einen Schlag feuern zu können und sie können nichts dagegen unternehmen, nicht einmal mit den Mitteln des Rechtsstaates (wenn man es sich gut hindreht), oder beispielsweise eine Schrottarmee unter sich zu haben, die praktisch nicht einsatzfähig ist? Diverse Teile des städtischen Wohnungsbaus aufkaufen und legal die Mieter mit Wucherpreisen und Luxussanierungen daraus vertreiben können, oder sich mit regelmäßig einem ungelösten Problem von bezahlbaren öffentlichen Wohnraum quälen? Man sieht zwar als Minister besser aus als einer, für den sie bei Konzern X extra einen Posten schaffen mussten, aber sei man doch ehrlich, das bessere Aussehen in der Öffentlichkeit macht doch die Schelte nicht wett, wenn man eigentlich nur einen prunkvollen Lebensstil und eine sichere Altersvorsorge haben will...
Also, daher: Bitte geht und sucht euch was anderes, die nur Freiheit, aber keine Verantwortung haben wollen! (Schwadronieren die größten Maulhelden der Demokratie nicht übrigens ständig von letzterem?)
Vielleicht kann dann der lumpige Rest, der noch Bock auf mitgestalten hat, diesen Seelenverkäufer noch retten... Oder wenigstens sicher in den nächsten Hafen bringen.

Structures in adult life are just the same like when you are a school kid.
It's either hanging out with the right or the wrong people (those with high status or those with lower status), it's either doing what is seen as "highly virtuous" by the definitions of the group - or doing what is not appreciated by them -, it's either saying, meaning and standing for the right or the wrong thing (what just gets you the most "friends"), and it's either joining the race for climbing to the top of the hierarchy or finding oneself unable or unwilling to do that.
It's about owning and wearing shiny things, about acting big, about smiling and seeming happy, about not showing up with anything uncomfortable - it's about agreeing with popular opinion or getting excluded, about supporting the right or the wrong subject, it's about following the mainstream and deeming it the way to attain happiness.
You shall crave for the sun and 30°C while it actually burns your skin.
You shall do objectively stupid things and buy a lot of useless stuff, later boast with it to everyone else and feel like the king/queen of the world, while actually you're foolish like a clown.
You shall accept all stimulus with what you get surrounded with and never question the ideas you get told attributed with "positive" and "negative". You shall regard them as God-given and "natural", something that everyone supposedly harbors.
And you shall get on all nerves with that towards the people that surround you.
So that everyone who doesn't feel the same thinks of himself as less valuable, as sick or weird, as someone who doesn't show enough gratitude and is a bad person.
Even though this is a bubble that doesn't withstand facts or scientific proof...

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Somewhat related: https://matrixmann.dreamwidth.org/163063.html

In times of scapegoats and strong enemy images, everyone can become a hero through catching one.
Catch one, deliver him, receive your medal or your star on your jacket.
You're a fucking hero! You saved society from somebody!
Although we don't know if he's really a threat or if it's just us who don't want to understand him...
Gone with the shit we can't calculate, gone with it what appears threatening to us! Even though the only one who scares anyone is ourselves...
So, brave soldier, be smug about your action! Flatter yourself all day long about your trophies and show them to everyone!
Now that's what you call a "valuable member of society"!
People smarming over the rules which the top class of the hierarchy decides on - in this reign, in that reign, like a weather vane!
Who said that you can't sleep with someone for the promotion with even no need to touch a centimeter of his skin?

In a third world country, they call it "dictatorship" or "monarchy" in the West, when some leader can pass down the power to his spouse or his children.
Last election in the US, they tried to sell that as a positive accomplishment when a certain former leader's wife made it to the presidential position, and they presented it in the public as "ain't no alternative", even going on with citing her biological sex as the perfect reason why she should be there.
Now tell the fuck what is so different about that mindset than the one from the third world country?
What is so different about people from the same dynasties offering themselves as leaders for the election over and over again, presenting themselves as a holy gift of God that needs to be chosen?
Like politics got nobody else to offer who's also talented for the job?
And, at all, what makes the people to elect those think, because their spouse, their father/mother or anybody else from the family was a good politician, that they're good politicians too?
What is the difference in here what distinguishes one aristocracy from the other and gives it the positive moral attribute?

"We need to stop fascism...!"
"You know what? Fascism is already there again. The seed has been sown. And you know why?
Because the real moneybags of this world are paying to get it back, just like last century - like all the other times when fascism appeared out of nowhere.
Let me tell you why they make it happen: Their own vassals are failing to deliver them more profit - seemingly, the border to achieve some by the usual means of reducing production costs and costs for personnel just gets hit. There's no more big space to get lower anymore. Call it "the wisdom of the current reigning system has met its end". The scheme doesn't drop it anymore.
But these people still want profit, like they're used to get it, because it's their way of life, it's their imagination how things should be like.
So - when one vassal doesn't make it anymore, get some other.
Or, better do it that way: Don't just choose another right away. Create some competition. This looks less like a coup d'état and also it lends wings to the efforts being undertaken to please you. Nothing better than a vassal for fearing for his privileges to fade away...
So let it come slowly. Let it look like "still anything's possible for all of you", that is the best fuel for letting humans work their ass off.
The competition is also needed because the current vassals slowly start to ask questions. Not all of them, but quite enough. Seemingly, they seem to get the scheme that it's not about prosperity for all, but just for a limited amount of individuals among mankind. More than that, maybe they even see how disposable they are themselves. And that's not the contract some signed to personally when they entered those businesses they are active in.
They start asking questions and they also see how much they fail more and more often to sell this scheme to the rest of the world outside that seems to put even their lives on the line.
Of course, these questions are not desired, and here it comes where the competition with other vassals comes into play. "Do as we say or even your privileges are gonna be taken away!", that's what it is.
And when you fail to find vassals who do it for money and little favors, then get some which are deeply convinced of the nonsense they do. That's what fascists are.
Besides, they also have no problem with torturing anyone and even lowering the borderline of making profit happen one more time at other peoples' cost.
The current vassals got the choice: You wanna do as we want or you wanna be dropped out of the upper class and sit on the other side of the table - on the side which is losing meat?
Some will subscribe to it one more time of doing as demanded in order to keep their own privileges - that's what you see happen when suddenly even people in high offices who are not famous for talking far right ideology start to talk and even more start to act the same way.
It's fear of losing one's own position as well as, in some cases, having signed to the new scheme that the moneybags are preparing.
And those, who already feel it coming, they greatly underestimate the power of manipulation, of mass psychology and of media, especially their own minds, so they fail to get it they're already being presented and their ideas promoted in a way that makes people be opposed to them. Which is part of the scheme of introducing fascism in a broader manner and creating competition among the potential vassals.
So to say, it all is made to run in a certain way to make it look like fascism is the only way of practicing political opposition, but that exactly is what the big moneybags want in order to push their plans to get the last bit of profit out of society.
In other words: Fascism doesn't take over because people have become far right, it's because fascism is getting provoked as a reaction from the people because all other political players on the field do their best to ignore the essential problems that small man has (in order to deliver the moneybags what they demand), so it makes the fascists appear like they're the only people who care about those problems (which they only do in exchange for power and for sitting on the other side of the wealth table, not because they really do care, but this is something that doesn't interest someone in desperate need). It's a thing attacking from two sides, so that all except for the moneybags lose - more than that, the moneybags win this way or that way, no matter how the story ends. In the end, they'll have some loyal vassals at the top positions anyway which will bring through their agendas they want to have realized.
Small man will be the one to suffer both ways - either in the form of those ones pursued by the Nazi regime or through being crushed by crime throwing him to the dogs and nobody doing anything against it."

Reisefreiheit setzt auch voraus, dass man Fremdsprachen - oder wenigstens eine Verkehrssprache - beherrscht.


Freedom to travel also requires you to speak other languages than your mother tongue - or at least a lingua franca.

...One thing that all people being tempted with electromobility need to reconsider: The age where one general technology can be used all over the planet is over. There are too many people who are in need of using an automated vehicle in any kind - and whether this is fueled by fossil energy sources or electricity or even water, it doesn't change the fact that these many people daily consume a substance and produce waste along with it. This needed amount to consume must be produced anywhere and doesn't drop from the sky!
Producing electric energy in this category of masses is no cleaner than burning rotten dinosaurs and plants! Needless to say: It doesn't make a general price for electric energy drop around the world!
You thought that somebody of the reigning system currently would do that for you - or for anybody in the poor part of India?

If you rely on one source of energy supply, strategy lessons already tell: It makes you vulnerable to people disturbing that circle.
This as the first thing, then go on with the second: While technology must be able to take the outside circumstance of the climate zones you want to erect it in, also you need to make sure that the new technology is accessible to all the people who used the previous one. Or your fucking logistic system of the days before breaks down.
Wishing alone doesn't donate power poles to Africa, neither does it gift them power stations!
And third: What do you think how all that energy gets produced that also needs to share its purpose with you wanting three computers, a mobile telephone with computer functions, a big TV and intelligent furniture in your household? Only because people drive electric cars, they don't give up the rest of their equipment they want to afford themselves...
So, where's the crap supposed to come from? From energy suppliers who boycott solar energy 'cause they don't want cooperatives owning photo voltaic cells on their roofs to supply energy as a collective to them to distribute? From power suppliers who take their sweet time to link one windmill in the Baltic Sea to the power energy grid? From "producers" who don't want to change anything in their system - who don't want to share profit, who don't want to work the slightest bit in the interest of the rest of mankind? Who just say goodbye and disappear, leaving you without supply, if something isn't as attractive to them anymore?

You're pretty naive in thinking just change the materia that supplies energy and all of mankind's problems with mobility producing waste will be solved...
Ever heard about "diversity" not in the social meaning?
'Cause that's what you need here. Each place of the earth using its own method of producing energy, adapted to the circumstances the local surroundings offer.
Wouldn't that be better than trying for another time to make nature fit into the concepts mankind has thought up in its fairy tale fantasies in its stupid little bird brain?

Goddamn drop that idea of all places in the world being the same, people living under the same circumstances and being equally rich everywhere!
'Cause that is what your "one energy source"-concept is based upon! It works only where people have nearly the same circumstances around and where all people can afford that crap. And this will be the first world, just like always!

...The very feeling belonging nowhere, being caught between two chairs, knowing no place you can go to, always the same phrases again your ideas are not desired, you think the wrong way, look at things the wrong way, all of the rest of the world does his own thing without asking you for your opinion, presenting you with a fait accompli all too often, and simply there's nothing you can feel routed to, believe in and just take as it is?
And you think, that homelessness can be filled with a party, with an elite club, with money, with sex, with entertainment, with things you can own, with children you procreate, with people you save, with sacrifice you practice daily, with consuming all that your mouth can find, with hate, with calling your mother soil the greatest country in the world, with waving your hands for a pop star, with religion, with humility and doing all kinds of things people tell you to do?
Don't be a fool! The loss is never going to disappear, no matter what you try to fill that hole with!
You can eat a thousand drugs and pretend ten thousand tons of stuff to your mind, still that wound will remain and it'll continue to bleed endlessly! You feel it in your every cell of your body!
Nothing can cover or change the situation living in a world that constantly says "Fuck off!" to you and "Your survival is none of my business!", unless should you fuck destiny back!
There's no deliverance from it, no relief, and no outer entity can make it disappear!
All that you try to make you forget is just temporary stuff - one year it's one thing, the next it's the other and another measure in the third year, all your life long!
Once you've become, you'll always remain the loner, solitude, a wanderer; all that crap telling you it can revoke that, it's a lie!
Better get a grip on it and learn to endure it every day instead of running after ratcatcher after ratcather that doesn't really make you happy permanently!

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The hypocrisy of the rockers - bragging to create something of great importance and pretending this to the audience, but in fact it's the same every time they bring out a new album or go on tour. The same phrases, the same talking... Lyrics stay the same, music style stays the same - little variation.
Where is the great revolution you talk about? Seems like more trivial than there really is.
You produce the same kind of junkfood sound for the masses like all other empty hip popstars. You try to sell it as something else, but who listens carefully recognizes that it's always nearly the same like before. Not really much different than the rest of the commercialized circus...