Wartime

You know when is the point in time that you are mentally turning into a grandfather/grandmother? If you more and more often babble contextual nonsense if someone wants to discuss a topic with you and you don't want to hear the hint about your behavior, and you expose your lack of knowledge about a subject over and over again like a record on replay, without ever learning anything, expanding your knowledge from what the other person tells you.

2007: A student of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (short: Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, commits a mass shooting, killing 32 people and wounding 17. After that, he takes his own life.
As a legacy, leaving behind a personal case history of mental dysfunctionality and a society, school and legal system who were both neither able to properly recognize his psychical shortcomings, nor to handle these accordingly and help them as needed.

Until the shooting of a self-sworn Jihadist in an Orlando gay nightclub in 2016 and the Las Vegas shooting of a sniper from a hotel room on visitors of a nearby music festival in 2017, this particular mass shooting remained the deadliest one committed by a single perpetrator in US history.

Some observation that I have made regarding this current zeitgeist and the mindset of the new young generation (time-wise to be sorted as “Generation Z”):

Previous generations were oriented towards “making it themselves”, achieving something through their own powers and skills, having internalized the rule “there is no gain without effort before”.
They show the tendency, if wanting a particular item or non-material good, to first start to rack their brains how they can get to their goal themselves and do rather ask for help in order to add strength to their own efforts or because someone else might have the direct competence over what they wish.
Problems are regarded as their, and only their, issue and they try to solve it themselves, even if having to dare trying a few times.

While the new young generation (aka “Generation Z”) has a somewhat strange and totally different attitude to take life on.
The most their mindset reminds oneself to a child which constantly heads over to Mom to appeal to her whenever they’re confronted with anything they don’t know or harbor the feeling about that they can’t overcome it through their own abilities.
They quickly reach out for help - but not in order to strengthen their weak powers; they directly want someone else to do the job for them at best. Without having to do or invest anything of their own energy in it.
Also, they quickly give up if something doesn’t work as they have imagined it to. It’s like no-one ever taught them that trying eventually leads to success - by making mistakes, by correcting them the next time, until their dexterity and skill level is high enough so that they can overcome the obstacle or master the task given.
And their imaginations about how something works are also very naive, incomplete, overly idealistic, utopian. Lacking firm knowledge in practical things, as well as what particular entities in this world do and how they are interconnected with each other.

The question of social justice is also very differently understood in their grasp of the human world.
While the previous generation believed in own action and had trust in what their own hands can shape, the new young generation bets on inability to cause influence on their fate through their own powers and believes in systematic predetermination based on one’s flesh. On one’s overall bodily features, one’s inborn desires, one’s national and/or cultural heritage - like talent is everything that makes the shooting star and not honing the raw diamond into a jewel.

Again, features of a situation like a child steadily heading over to Mom and appealing to her to do something for oneself come to show.
Everything is and/or has to be perfect from the start, there is no trying or that trying creates the masterpiece. You are what you are born as and can’t get any step further than that. So the world, instead, has to have regard for you all the time and take into account your inborn features.
It has to deliver you what you need to live and what you desire, like owning something to you for never lending a dime, and if the world doesn’t comply with the claim, it’s evil, oppressive - people who get it even though are “privileged” and not maybe have done something to receive anything back, didn’t deserve it by the efforts of their hands and mind.

In other words, you can also compare it to a dogmatic faith to a deity. The deity gives, the deity takes, but humans themselves are powerless and need to rely on the mercy of the God they worship.
But without the duty to bring up material sacrifices and do everything it takes to have the attention and satisfaction of the deity, so that it will continue to drop gifts to them which they live of.
A total “the sky drops what I need, and if doesn’t drop anything, I’ll wait forever until it does”-mindset. Dependence and unspoken claims that are being mistaken as self-evident in life.

Like a kid which never was allowed to live on its own - also, like a kid which understood that you best make it to your goal if you let other people do the job for you.
And the kids were seemingly born into surroundings and a larger social culture which uncritically complied with that strategy. Which didn’t ever really raise a finger and said “Hey, kid, nothing is for free and you’re already big enough to do something on your own, you’re not in my womb anymore and need extra-protection!”.
Which easily danced according to their pipe, if they learned how to twist people around their little finger safely.

Even their kinds to act out violence seem influenced by this “other people do what I want them to”-circumstance.
While in the previous generation, direct violence and direct duels to settle something were still common, including the unwritten rule of “mercy for the one who lost”, the folks from Generation Z have internalized all imaginable types of passive-aggressive violence: Bullying, deceiving, lying, provoking, offending, frazzling out, hunting one down with online-harassment and photographs etc..
Types of violence that always make them look like they haven’t done anything wrong and the victim is the evildoer if it reacts to their acting or loses it.
And if they practice direct violence, you’ll experience it rather as an unstopped orgy to spill blood - because something like the unwritten rule “mercy for the one who lost” doesn’t exist for them. Empathy for one’s victim doesn’t exist, complete and total destruction is what they seek - and they also greatly underestimate their own physical powers. How quickly their beating and kicking can kill someone or at least harm the person irreversibly for life.

Again, like a mommy’s darling. A spoiled brat which barely ever heard the world say “no” to its wishes, who never learned how to deal with this denial emotionally - with this realization “the world isn’t entirely about me” -, and which, on the other hand, wasn’t taught much of anything how this world actually works. How very, very not bad it is if they have to find something out on their own and that it takes time to become.
Also, which forgets that even mommy is a human being, that she isn’t an unquestionable God, so that she automatically distributes resources and gifts completely fairly.
Meaning, that if claiming social justice on a larger level of society, it’s also going to be carried out by humans and they can all be biased towards or against somebody or a whole group. The firm “universal social justice” that lasts for all days they seek is actually a myth, a dream.
Much rather it’s like a constant fight, a constant struggle for realignment that happens every now and then.

Such is life which requires permanent effort to harvest fruits of success, and not one big new re-arrangement how resources will be distributed and everything will be fine from then.

According to how this young generation is minded and what it demands from the world (socially as well as politically), you can always puzzle together an image of how they must have been raised to become like this...
And - this cannot have been a good base.

If people get so confused about their identity, if they’re male or female, if they have no proper differentiated understanding that they can have psychical shares of both sexes and need a new word for it (like it’s an unknown species that no-one has previously discovered or dared to give a name to), if they are clueless about a personality generally being fluid to a certain extent (that’s what you call “moods”)... Then they cannot have been properly welcomed and introduced to the world.
More than that, they must have been given nothing to orientate by.
Not properly developed, they wander through an endless fog of uncertainty...
Parents who weren’t good at nurturing - society which wasn’t good at delivering clear rules and structures.

Imagine living in a spooky amusement park, and you don’t know what’s right and what’s wrong to take of its rides.
Or what of them may behead you.
That’s what they originally tumbled around in life, and while growing up they have adapted to these surroundings. Adopting the habit to not do anything themselves, or doing it just for the positive reaction they get, and rather try to get other people to do something particular for them who they witness at being more skilled, for example.
Performing the behavior of a little child rather than that of an adult.
Learning how to do all those techniques to pretend, deceive and manipulate which their parents already used to hide and mask the lack in character and cognitive skills they already had.


...If you ask me, if nobody seriously tries to make up for all the stuff this generation missed with them together, you don’t want to see the day when the members of it become parents.
‘Cause they’re going to suck big style and leave behind an even more cognitively and mentally neglected generation than the ones before as a Generation Z.
And, actually, if you’re fair and took it on from the root, you’d also have to sit down with the parents from Generation Y and X over their own personal deficits - because it’s them who bred the generation debated about.
Something must have happened or changed drastically in the surroundings these lived in as adults, from when they were children and teens themselves, so that they raised such kids.

The only thing one should be ashamed of is if you committed big or stupid shit, not for who you are, what you’re made of, what your body is like or what your stances are on various issues if you can reason them in a sophisticated manner.

Actually, the charge of the Capitol is just the tip of the ice berg of a development that's been going on for longer in the United States.
It's an event displaying the deep split within the US society and its political system, as well it's an expression of two very sharply opposing forces which both firmly believe to have found the Holy Grail and be on a mission from the Lord itself, while they're just both streams trying to force their understanding of how the world works upon the rest of the society governed by them.

In other words, to the people lesser educated about the US: Intersectionality is just radical racism and sexism through the backdoor, it doesn't change anything, and violent anti-racist protests and arbitrary juristic accusations against whoever is in the wrong place at the wrong time aren't going to fix your country (neither they bake you a loaf of bread) - just like a drifting back to nostalgia, glorifying golden economic ages which are no more, displaying one's guns in public all the time, disregarding the rules what one's country is made of and governed by, believing in bullshit theories about getting younger and 150 years old through the blood of children, stepping on the lesser financially fortunate and steadily disputing over if the poor deserve to get any handouts like social benefits and a general health insurance (because they're supposedly "of no use to anyone") isn't going to make anything turn to the better.

Each side needs to take a step back from their replacement religion and recognize it for what it is: Something that only takes places in their heads. Imagination.
And then take a precise pragmatic look at what the problems are - facts, not faith.

(It isn't called "theory" for nothing... "Theory" means "explanation pattern lacking scientific proof for it".)

In the case of US society drifting apart and being shortly before fighting each other physically, all supporters of both fractions can take a good look at themselves, if they search someone to blame.
It's your fault altogether!

Just so you heard it for once...

Sie ist bequem und wer benutzt sie nicht hin und wieder mal.
Aber für einige scheint sie mittlerweile eine Lebenseinstellung zu werden.
Immer sind die anderen schuld, immer ist es eine große böse Welt, die sich gegen einen verschwört, einen behindert und in seiner Entfaltung einschränkt, die einem irgendetwas wegnimmt oder vorenthält, die einen ständig ‘reinlegt und verbessert werden muss (im eigenen Sinne) - und darin: Jede Menge Menschen, die bekehrt werden müssen, die aufgeklärt werden müssen, weil sie so unwissend sind (oder gar dumm), die von einer Gruppe von anderen Menschen, die auf dem rechten Pfad sind, unterrichtet werden müssen über ihr sündiges oder einfältiges Tun, die schlichtweg durch ihr Vorhandensein und ihr Sein an sich, so wie sie sind, jemand anderem die Tour vermasseln.
Leicht gegenständlich zu machen ist die Versinnbildlichung dieser Einstellung in der kurzen Phrase „Wenn nur...!!“.
„Wenn nur...“ - Ja, wenn nur WAS?!
Oftmals geht es dabei um Gespenster im Kopf, Introjekte, die von Menschen zurückgeblieben sind, die einem im Leben mal entweder etwas angetan haben oder einen zumindest ziemlich gering geschätzt haben. Die Tür steht offen, man ist frei hindurchzugehen.
Warum aber geht man nicht durch? Wegen dem unsichtbaren Ritter, der daneben steht, um die Tür zu bewachen und jeden, der dort hindurch schreiten will, abzuschlachten?

Es ist schwer, Verantwortung für die eigenen Taten zu übernehmen - sogar die eigene Untätigkeit.
Es ist leichter, die Schuld auf andere abzuschieben, sich selbst einzureden, dass man ja doch keine Macht hatte, zu keiner Zeit, und dass sich die Welt erst ändern müsse, bevor man fähig wäre zu handeln.
Nicht nur, dass das ein bekannter Mechanismus des menschlichen Hirns ist, um Ohnmacht zu kanalisieren und zu verarbeiten, sondern auch: Es ist schön bequem und man kann bewusst faul sein.
Allen voran: Man hat immer einen Grund, auf anderen herumzuhacken, wenn sie nicht dem eigenen Willen oder den eigenen Wünschen entsprechen.
Man kann so richtig die Sau ‘raus lassen, nach Strich und Faden lästern und muss überhaupt nichts besser machen, geschweige denn überhaupt etwas tun.
Man kann der glorreiche Held sein, wenn auch nur in seinem eigenen Kopf und für die eigenen Fans, der fast einen Drachen getötet hätte. Wenn nur... ja, wenn man ihn nur gelassen hätte...

Opfer sein hat aber auch eine andere Seite der Medaille: Man erniedrigt sich stetig selbst. Schätzt sich selbst gering. Haut sich selbst in die Pfanne. Selbst wenn man es nicht einmal nötig hätte.
Das Opfer steigt auf in eine Art „Liga der narzisstischen Großartigkeit“ und ebenso in die narzisstische Unangreifbarkeit - weil, auf ein Opfer noch weiter einzutreten, das ist ja... unfair. Arschmadig. Auf Leute, die schon am Boden liegen, tritt man nicht mehr ein...
Das Opfer sitzt quasi auf einer Art unantastbarem und unangreifbarem Thron und kann sich somit jeder Kritik entziehen. Jedes Argument kann totgeschlagen werden mit „Aber ich habe Recht und ich werde verfolgt!“ („Und jetzt auch von dir!“), oder wahlweise mit einer Heulorgie, die Mitleid erzeugen soll, damit man von der Person ablässt.
Letztlich zielt dies aber auf eines hinab: Das Opfer in seiner Position zu halten, nur hier überwindet es das sonstige persönlich wahrgenommene Gefühl von Ohnmacht. Indem es sich selbst auf andere Art Macht verschafft - nicht direkt, sondern vielmehr passiv-aggressiv.
Dass dabei die eigene Würde auf der Strecke bleibt, das braucht nicht zu erwähnt werden...
Aber manchen Leuten, die diese Strategie dauerhaft benutzen, ist es auch egal. Sie empfinden keinen Schmerz dabei, wenn sie sich selbst die Würde nehmen.
Oder sie wissen ganz genau, was sie tun.

Es ist menschlich, von Zeit zu Zeit in diese Rolle zu schlüpfen, weil ein Mensch schlichtweg auch dadurch überfordert werden kann, ständig alles selbst und bewusst entscheiden zu müssen.
Und manchmal stimmt die Opferrolle ja sogar tatsächlich.
Aber, wer sie dauerhaft für sich pachtet...
Dem gesunden Menschen sollte hier die Warnung ins Gesicht springen: „Vorsicht! Energievampir!“
Etwas anderes bewirkt dieses Spiel nämlich nicht: Anderen die Zeit und die Energie zu rauben - Aufmerksamkeit, die sie, sachlich, wesentlich wichtigeren Themen widmen könnten.
Eine andere Art oder ein anderes Talent, um Aufmerksamkeit zu erlangen, außer ihrer Umgebung oder Leuten, die versuchen zunächst Empathie mit dem Schicksal des Opfers zu zeigen, die Energie zu rauben, haben diese Menschen nämlich nicht - dafür müsste man schließlich etwas tun, aktiv werden. Nicht darauf warten, dass ein undefiniertes Wunder vom Himmel fällt, welches sie dann von ihrer Agonie erlöst.

Down at the altar of life, you raise your head to the sky and wonder: What is all this worth? What is all this fighting for worth? Why do you resist? Why don’t you give up your special interests and just lock your head and be total average? Why don’t you become afraid of the same things like everybody else? Why don’t you listen to the same mainstream sources and let them tell you what is right and what is wrong? What makes it so hard for you to just marry, reproduce, hold down a job and simply consume?
What is the thrill that you get from rejecting all this?

Quietly, powerless, submissive, tired and exhausted, the answer sounds: "Because the life that the nymph promised always was the more auspicious and more intensive one."

What can deeply disturb you about the "newly" created consciousness about "depression" is: The acting around it is like it's destiny to be depressed. Like it's something which drops from the sky and hits you or it doesn't hit you. And it's a constant thing which you're either born with as a temper or you're not.
This is completely wrong in most cases. The depression is there for a reason. Its origin lies in the outside world, in some circumstances which the brain simply reacts to. The human brain reacts with depression to something.
If you erase these outside circumstances which help generate the depression in the first place, the depression itself disappears again.

Strange thing to see through the times: While once it was enough to hear songs lasting not longer than 3 or 4 minutes, now these days it can gladly take a standard time span of 6 to 7 minutes - songs even longer than that, if they're good and well-structured, are also very much appreciated.

Is "celebrating your sexuality" something that Western mainstream culture meanwhile attributes positively only to women?
'Cause, if a man does that the same way how a woman does that, either they call him "Chauvinist!" or they decline with a thanks, rolling their eyes over the guy "oh man, he's so gay...", which then doesn't count as "an average man celebrating his urges and desires".
So, is it that this celebration of oneself is a female trait in the first place - or is it that a manly style meanwhile has become regarded so much against the public morals, so that only gay men with an instinctive style more similar to women are allowed to celebrate themselves in this point of their personalities (but those don't count as "manly pride" because of their basic sexual orientation and their rather effeminate kind to take this aspect on)?