Wartime

The beginning of recession, no matter how much the "experts" want to deny it in front of everyone.
Economic decline becomes visible slowly but surely, but increasingly obvious.
Another year that shows an old world order and the domination of a certain empire and its lackeys comes to an end.
Needing more or less proto-fascist methods and means to cover it and keep itself up for some more time until all the "important" people have brought their belongings into safety, tells a lot about the state of those countries and "players" who behave like that. And there is only one conclusion to draw from it: Downfall.

But, questionable at the same time is what will replace it. Will the order and domination by another or several other players be better for everyone?

For as long as human economy, multiplying human money and intentionally/approvingly increasing the human world population still are the most important things to bother the humans or any construct or any tool of them, (AI) there can arise whatever new empire that wants to, it won't improve the state of the planet everyone lives on - and, through that, in the long term, the conditions the humans live in (plus all the other living creatures upon this blue ball in the solar system)...

(Who will need humans to populate the planet lavishly anyway, if AI keeps on improving itself, so that the humans can give up some more shares of their cognitive capacity/potential again?)

Ultrarechte, Erzkonservative, Nazis und der angebliche Kampf für Meinungsfreiheit - das hat sich eigentlich schon von der ersten Stunde an widersprochen...
(Denn diese Gruppierungen haben schon immer von Natur aus nur die Meinung geduldet, die mit ihrer übereinstimmt, oder ihr zumindest entgegen kommt und ihr zuarbeitet.)

In reaction to a text from onb2017, I get upon the following:

As a Westerner speaking from within the West, I don't really see a unification to stand up against those forces which want to keep the workforce and majority of the population of the world down ever coming so soon.

The reason is the following: Everyone - differing groups - can't even agree on the color of turd.
How do you want to achieve a higher and more complex goal like that, if you can't even manage that triviality?

On the other hand, there is to be considered and has to be admitted: Do I want to work together with feminists, with intersectionalists, with Identity Politics disciples, which want to tell me that the suffering of a woman or a black person is always bigger than mine, if I happen to be a paleface and are not female?
Do I want to work together with people whose primary business every day is first offending me, ridiculing me and telling me that I'm the source of the evil of the world because I have the wrong sex (or want to convert into the wrong sex)?

These people should check out health problems with biological origins... Then they would learn that the problems they refer to - social problems - are solvable, if everyone really wants to, while biological health problems rarely are that solvable that they'll be gone completely. Plus, you can't run away from them, as you carry them with you wherever your go, even to the edge of the world with no other humans around anymore.

What I want to say by this: You stupid fools, obsessing with your social/human problems... Get a life. This will keep both of your hands busy with enough to do.
Even if human-made problems can be quite nasty, evil, violent, brutal and malevolent - still they are solvable (because it "simply" requires human agreement on a common basis and fairness), while problems resulting from bad material, material that cannot be exchanged after developing anymore, often aren't.
This type of problems can hit everyone, regarless of skin color, regarless of sex, regardless of ethnicity or wherever you were born on this planet.
Regardless of what you believe in, prefer or think is right and wrong.

And as long as there are larger groups of people which put their reverse racism and sexism as the top priority on their list instead of recognizing the usefullness in achieving something which everyone benefits from, the road to working together for a particular goal is going to be blocked.
Same for people who subscribed to esoteric nonsense, fucked up conspiracy theories and religious faith, who are hostile to fact-based edcuation and well-established medicine (and/or only accept the "education" and "medicine" which they approve of), who react aggressively if they get put in their place once in their lives - who only put an interest in getting themselves and their kin the best life and the best resources, making their children and grand-children and parents survive and leave everyone else to die.

You can't act together if there is no common ground and if each group is only interested in lobbyism for the social group they want to represent because they think their group is the best of all living creatures and everyone else is unworthy trash.
You can't act together if hate and despise for each other is the greatest point you have in common.
And if those who still want to be fair are being laughed at, silenced and then trampled upon - like, what they want and demand from everyone is totally impossible to achieve, or even "ignorant of all the wrongs being done to group X in history".

At least I find, I can't work together with people brain-washed and self-obesessed like that.
(They only want to change to the other side of the table anyway... That's what the character of their acting and their mindset strongly implies.)

Parts of them you even don't want to be seen with because their stupidity and greed is embarrassing as hell.

...Therefore, even if not wanting to subscribe to all that crap that divides everyone, there is no real way around having to surrender to parts of it because the differing social groups in society are so mutually incompatible with each other (also with your own viewpoints) - it's like wanting to make a lion work together with a type of animal that is its natural prey.

Sometimes you wonder if the people who work for the (mass) media think of themselves like having a little of the touch of a deity. Totally overestimate their role in and for society and the services in practice they deliver.
Because - how could it be otherwise that alpha journalists who are economically relatively safe mindlessly repeat propaganda over and over again aggressively that screams of being such, or even join creating fake shit where it’s obvious later if you see it that it’s made up, that it’s been created, artificially arranged and cut together? If people from the outside can find out without the use of higher science that something is arranged circus, how come that the journalists who report the crap can’t recognize it similarly?
If that’s the case, there’s only one option... That they know they present fake and arranged shit. But they either don’t care or harbor the mentality “the ends justify the means”.
Meaning: They imagine being on a mission from the Lord himself or some sort of that.
Think like they have truth, justice and rightfulness on their side, and what they proclaim is totally unquestionable. Only a fool would dare to do that.

Because - it’s noticeable that acting as a tool of propaganda and war factories isn’t solely done by people who work for the media whose position is in economically precarious conditions, that they have to do that as part of their job because they don’t have the necessary personal freedom to refuse doing something.
Even more it’s being done by people who rather have made it up to the highest ranks, who are in an economically favorable position, who are firmly employed and don’t have to worry so soon about not getting engaged anymore by certain media houses, fired or dropped by the whole “craft” itself because of supposedly “having gone crazy” or “having joined the enemy side/the side of the unreasonable ones”.
So... if you can factually afford refusing, but don’t do it and even hang around at the front of the information war directly, rehashing the crap of the powerful ones or crap that’s supposed to influence the powerful ones (especially from politics), then there is nothing left but assuming a targeted will and belief in the shit that you spread and propagate.
Combined with probably overestimating yourself and your personal role for the ongoings of the world outside of human society, and subscribing to some sort of megalomania “I’m the news content because I make the news content!” (similarly to “I am the law!”) - the same arbitrariness that one can see with people who are self-righteous from the depths of their hearts and are little tyrants below the surface.

Mal eine andere Betrachtungsweise zu dem herumgegangenen Video der reichen Sprösslinge auf Sylt, die da meinten, besoffen ihr "Deutschland den Deutschen" singen zu müssen:

Ich weiß nicht, ob es der Sache gerecht wird, es allein auf Rassismus und Ausländerfeindlichkeit reduzieren.

Letztes Jahr grölten sie alle was von "und seine Puffmama heißt Layla", weil das der einschlägige und eingängige Party-Hit in den Festzelten und auf Feierlichkeiten war.
Wie so immer war es auch da schon merklich so: Dem besoffenen Publikum auf solchen Veranstaltungen ist es ziemlich egal, was sie da mitgrölen. Hautsache, es ist so eingängig, dass man es auch noch in der größten geistigen Umnebelung schafft. - Gesangeskünste: Überhaupt keine Voraussetzung. Je schiefer erlaubt, desto besser.

Irgendeinem Idioten, am wahrscheinlichsten aus dem rechten Spektrum, wird natürlich irgendwann einmal aufgefallen sein, dass man die Parole "Deutschland den Deutschen, Ausländer 'raus" zum Takt von Gigi D'Agostinos "L'amour toujours" grölen kann, weil der Takt und die Silbenanzahl annähernd passt.
Und der wird damit mal angefangen haben, diesen Unsinn von irgendwo aus als Startpunkt zu verbreiten. Sodass es sich von dort aus seinen Weg tiefer und breiter ins Internet gefunden hat und andere diese Unsitte nachgeahmt haben.

Nun hat sich - so ekelhaft das klingt - diese Geschmacklosigkeit wie eine Art neuer Party-Hit weiter verbreitet und Leute wie die auf Sylt grölen es (mit), weil es in ihren Hirnen gar nicht verstanden wird, gar nicht ankommt, dass es sich dabei um eine rechte Parole handelt. Für sie ist es nur ein weiteres "Lied" bzw. ein weiterer Feierbrauch, bei dem sie im Suff zum Spaß (!) mitmachen. - Spaß, nichts ernsthaftes.
Sie kriegen nicht einmal mit, was sie dort wörtlich von sich geben (sodass, wenn man schon nicht erkennt, dass sich dabei um einen rechten Inhalt handeln könnte, man aber am Wortlaut erkennt, dass es etwas ist, dass entweder in diese Richtung geht oder sich schlicht sozial einfach verbietet).

So banal es klingt, aber der Vorfall erweckt mehr den Eindruck, dass es etwas über die grundlegende Ungebildetheit und kognitive Dummheit der Teilnehmer und der verschiedenen sozialen Schichten und Gruppen, denen sie angehören (oder wofür sie optisch stehend angesehen werden), aussagt als über etwaige rechte Haltungen oder gar "Rassismus" (wie es wieder pauschal viel in den Mainstreammedien behauptet wird).

...Hämisch könnte man zu diesem Vorfall sagen: Wenigstens ist so was mal in Westdeutschland passiert, und das sogar noch unter Wohlstandsverwöhnten.
Damit man sich von Seiten der Mainstream-Parteien und -medien nicht wieder damit herausreden kann, dass es irgendwo im Osten in der Provinz passiert ist - irgendwo in einem Gebiet, dem man obendrein noch zuschreibt, dass dort besonders viele sozial schwache leben, und man sich daher über solche Vorfälle nicht wirklich wundern muss.
Dass zu erkennen ist, die gleichen beschissenen Haltungen und asozialen Angewohnheiten, respektive die gleiche kognitive Dummheit und Ungebildetheit, sie steckt inzwischen in allen Einkommensschichten drin. Selbst bei denjenigen, die sich Zugang zu guter Bildung leisten können und wo man das Beibringen von allgemeinen Manieren bisher noch nicht als so ein großes Problem gesehen oder angenommen hat. - Wo beides, offensichtlich, nicht viel gebracht hat, weil diejenigen gar nicht zuhören, und/oder wo sie gegen deren primitive Triebgesteuertheit und dem allgemeinen Verfall von sozialen Manieren und Gepflogenheiten nicht viel ausrichten konnte.

...Bemitleiden kann man in diesem Kontext nur den armen Gigi D'Agostino.
Man kann von seiner Musik und Italodance halten was man will; man muss es nicht mögen.
Aber - solchen Scheiß hat auch er nicht verdient. Dass man so was mit seinen Liedern anstellt.
Politisch/gesellschaftlich hat der Mann nie für so etwas gestanden, noch sich jemals derartig geäußert - auch nicht in Bezug auf seine Heimat Italien.
Und gewiss wird er das auch in Zukunft nicht tun.
Er hat mit solchem Dreck persönlich überhaupt nichts zu tun.

Ohnehin ist es "seltsam" bis "schleierhaft" wie es irgendjemandem einfallen kann - und erst recht, dass Leute das als dummen Partyspaß nachahmen -, auf dem Takt eines mittlerweile fast 25 (!) Jahre alten Dance-Klassikers diese noch viel ältere, bekannte (!) rechte Parole zu skandieren.
Mit Verlaub - beides ist kalter Kaffee. Wohlmöglich ist beides sogar des Öfteren älter als die Brote, die auf die Parties gehen und/oder erneut (!) diese rechte Parole grölen (ob mit oder ohne "L'amour toujours" dazu).

Allerdings... wer weiß - vielleicht war das sogar einst die Absicht dahinter.
Eine alte, schon von mehreren Generationen junger Leute wiedergekäute Parole möglichst wirksam und einfach an die nächste gebracht.
Und das in so einem Stil, dass sie es als gar nicht so schlimm empfinden.
Das funktioniert natürlich am besten, wenn man sich dafür etwas so eingängiges sucht, dass es locker mal zwei Generationen schon kennen - dafür taugt nicht gerade ein letztjähriger oder nur bescheidene 5 Jahre alter Partysong.
Besser geht das mit einem Evergreen, der bis heute nicht aus den Playlisten der DJs und sogar von Kapellen (also genrefremder Musik und Art, Musik zu spielen) verschwunden ist.

...Eine altbekannte Strategie von rechts also. Seine Ansichten und Parolen möglichst volkstümlich und insbesondere volksdümmlich unterzujubeln, sodass auch der Dümmste sie noch mitschreien kann.
Je dümmer und ungebildeter das Publikum, auf das es trifft, desto größer das Einsickern und der Wiederholungsfaktor.

...Und eben danach sieht es aus, wenn es um die "Hoffähigkeit" solcher klar erkennbaren Floskeln und Inhalte geht.
Man setzt bewusst auf den Faktor "der Durchschnittsbürger ist inzwischen so dumm und ungebildet, dass er nicht einmal mehr mitkriegt, was er falsch macht, wenn er etwas falsch macht".

Escalation continues.
The downward spiral keeps on heading further down.
Consumer prices explode - and polititians behave like fools in trying to combat them.
While actually not really trying to fight them.

Winning a war, protecting the world climate, preventing an economic recession from happening, and keeping up the growth - all of this, they want to achieve at once.
While ignoring the technical (im-)possibilities to do so and, even the more, how much these targets altogether contradict themselves and cannot be unified.

Some more big names die and leave the world - like rats leaving a sinking ship?
Or just their time having run out - and it just happens at the right moment to still depart in happiness and not see how the world goes down...

Wishful thinking continues to conquer the human brains all over the world,
narrowing the corridor of their sight - fueling aggression and dogmatic thinking.
Valuing some rules or standards higher than the practice that comes attached to them - and which may require an adjustment of the rules because of their unworldly overidealistic absoluteness that no-one can truly live.

It's almost like the human behavior itself wants to say "we're too many here on this planet to be able to live as lavishly as we want to"...

...Is there something meaningful to say during these days where the events of today also progress on their way tomorrow? Unimpressed and not impacted by personal opinions of anyone outside of circles of power and public influence?

There's a lot of words that you could voice and drop about the state the world it is in and what and who is responsible for it - but, will it matter? Will it matter anything? Outside of maybe getting into personal trouble? And having to fight that out alone?

Not only that it's war again in Europe - and one of the most devastating times after WWII; unlike in the war over Yugoslavia where NATO came to drop bombs and anytime they won with their orgy of violence -, meanwhile whole NATO discusses and fantasizes about sending weapons into a combat zone headlessly and without safety guarantees which hands these are gonna end up in, while at the same time every time it denies that WWIII has broken out and that its member countries play a very lively part in that. And that Ukraine, their investment proxy in this endeavor, is winning all the time for 11 months, although if it truly did, the war would already been over for a long time.
What kind of world has this become? - Or was it ever any different? Has it only been smart enough in covering its true nature with enough glitter and gold in order to make most of the population believe in its harmlessness and goodwill, being not worth a critical thought about it?

The Western world which calls itself "democractic" and still keeps on spreading its curses on a former president of the United States Trump, using acting and verbal expressions like #NotMyPresident, just because he didn't function according to the usual wishes of the economic and political establishment, seriously shows up and wants to make believe like its whole population supports these political decisions while the reality actually is that there would already be enough people out there to support a national #NotMyPresident campaign in every damn coutry against these so-called "democratic" current leaders. If it wouldn't entail the possibility of becoming subject to repressions or being publicly thrown into the camp of the political right (or whatever kind of zeitgeisty "public enemy"-image) and maybe losing your job and seeing your private life going down the drain through these unfounded mere accusations.

In which point do these policymakers pose anything different than this clown? Making decisions all the time that at least half of the country opposes over its ridiculousness and the danger they create?

The Western world keps reassuring itself over and over again that they're the good guys, the righteous ones - those with all the virtues and values worth fighting for.
But, seen from the prespective of the rest of the world, and seen from the viewpoint of a sober mind, it much more eventually turns into the Death Star from Star Wars. Destroying everything it disapproves of and enslaving everything it can for the profit of the Empire. While leaving behind the trash, the blood and the scattered body parts in the landscape to those who live in the ruins of its acting.

Long story short: Go the hell and make your war alone! Go and have a seat in your own tanks and go to the frontline!
The earlier the warmongering lobbyists and politicians are gone, including their obedient fanboys and fangirls, the better for everyone else who just want to live in peace and quiet.

Angesichts von um die Ecke stehenden "wilden" Sperrmülls, den dort schon seit mehreren Wochen niemand abgeholt oder beseitig hat, erinnert man sich ironischerweise daran, dass es da doch mal eine Gruppierung gab, die sich um die "Islamisierung des Abendlandes" besonders sorgte - und stellt fest, es sollten sich doch lieber die Leute über die Ghettoisierung (die Vermüllung, die konzentrierte Verlendung, den Verlust von Kinderstube und den Verlust von Allgemeinwissen) ihres Abendlandes Sorgen machen.

Nun wurde auch die Krim-Brücke durch einen gezielten Anschlag stark beschädigt...
Sowohl die Fahrbahn für Kraftfahrzeuge als auch die Eisenbahnlinie.

An alle, die aktuell für eine Revision der jetzigen Energiepolitik sind und für die Wiederaufnahme der Beziehungen mit Russland eintreten bzw. auf der Straße demonstrieren gehen:

Soweit wie die Dinge inzwischen fortgeschritten sind, muss euch leider auch klar sein, dass es inzwischen nicht mehr nur mit einer Bitte um Verzeihung und einen Bußgang nach Canossa getan ist, um die alten Rohstofflieferungen und die dazugehörigen günstigen Konditionen wieder zurückzubekommen.
Mittlerweile muss man Russland schon etwas (an)bieten, damit von Seiten Gazproms überhaupt die Initiative erfolgt, das Angebot für solche Verträge wieder zu unterbreiten.
Solch große Schäden hat das Verhalten der Ampel-Koalition inzwischen verursacht.