matrixmann: (Black suits comin')
Danke, liebe Kleingangster und Assis in den Großstädten, dass jetzt wieder ein genrerelles Feuerwerksverbot auf den Tisch kommt, nur weil ihr zu dumm und zu dreist seid, verantwortungsvoll und wie Erwachsene damit umzugehen!!
Am Ende wird es nämlich wieder so kommen wie immer - der gemeine Bürger gibt eine weitere Freiheit ab, im Glauben, das Versprechen von Sicherheit möge davon Realität werden, schließlich wird es aber doch nicht kommen, weil es solche Leute gibt wie euch, die wissen, wo sie sich ihr Spielzeug auch weiterhin besorgt kriegen, und die Politik ist wieder mal zu dumm, das in ihren Schädel hineinzukriegen - wenn nicht sogar, dass man es ihnen unterstellen möge, dass sie das auch gar nicht beabsichten, sondern dass es nur darum geht, der Bürger, der sich korrekt verhält und und an die Gesetze, darf mal wieder ein Stück weniger.
Weil Politik inzwischen damit ein Problem hat, dass der Bürger überhaupt noch was anderes darf, außer Beifall zu klatschen, der vorgeschriebenen Einheitsmeinung zu folgen und jeden Tag fleißig Geld anschaffen zu gehen wie die Nutten auf dem Strich.
(Anbei, wer sich hat von der Medienhysterie um die "Kugelbomben" vereinnahmen lassen: Das Zeug ist keine illegale Hexenmagie, sondern Profifeuerwerk, was sonst üblicherweise in die Höhe geschossen wird. In mehreren hundert Metern Luft und von nichts weiter umgeben als solcher richten sie keinen Schaden an - wer schon mal bei Feuerwerk bei Veranstaltungen laute Kanonenschläge gehört hat, recht wahrscheinlich wird das genau so eine gewesen sein, weil das eine typische Geräuschkulise von ihnen ist. - Solches Profifeurwerk gehört natürlich nicht in die Fußgängerzone oder in die Hände von irgendwelchen Vagabunden und Kleingangstern, die es "lustig" finden, ihr Viertel damit zu terrorisieren und in ein Schlachtfeld zu verwandeln, dass dem Einschlag von Kriegsmunition danach in nichts nachsteht. - Wenn solche Feuerwerkskörper es in die Hände von Amateuren und Kriminellen schaffen, sollte man weniger die Frage nach einem Verbot von allem privaten Feuerwerk stellen, sondern wo bekommen diese Figuren diese her - und ist man mittlerweile schon längst nicht mehr Herr seiner Unterwelt in den größeren Städten. Können die, die sich daneben benehmen und an keine Regeln außer ihren eigenen halten wollen, mittlerweile dort machen, was sie wollen, es interessiert keinen und es hält sie auch keiner auf? Oder beim Aufhalten - stehen diejenigen, die das auch von Gesetzes wegen machen wollten, ziemlich allein und schutzlos dabei da, sodass sie es aus eigener Bedrohungslage nicht machen?)
matrixmann: (Dark (1))
The world drowns in a scattered fire of conflict and war.
Those areas which aren’t hit by this yet are met with an increasing backlash into old-fashioned conservatism and, in parts, from religiosity to religious fanatism - still rather social, but a moderate threat exists that it will also become politically and cast in law.
“Values” and defending those they call that, completely forgetting that all “values” are just a human invention and a human imagination. - In nature, these “values” don’t exist and the only rule is: “Eat or be eaten.”
Meanwhile, forgetting on the other hand, that those “value defenders” of today have made their very contribution over long extents of time that those “values” have been lost and dismantled. By indescribable amounts of neglect, carelessness about them (so much for their supposed “importance”!), corruption, personal gain and greed for lucre.
matrixmann: Determined (Yuber Suikoden I)
Warum lässt sich in der Presse und in den sozialen Medien mittels Memes und Hastags über Männer hetzen, wie man es umgekehrt gegen Frauen, Ausländer oder Menschen anderer Hautfarbe als weiß auf keinen Fall öffentlich dürfte, ohne sich dafür eine Anzeige einzuhandeln?
Weil es nichts kostet. Der Preis, den diese Agitation kosten könnte, ist äußerst gering. Man bekommt keine Strafanzeige, es steht morgen kein Mob vor der Tür, der einen lynchen will, man wird auch nicht aus seiner Arbeitsstelle verdrängt oder gar gleich direkt gefeuert wegen untragbarem Verhalten (und Äußerungen, mit denen kein Unternehmen öffentlich in Verbindung gebracht werden will).
Schlichtweg: Es hat keine spürbaren Folgen. Keiner beschwert sich, keiner schlägt einen dafür, es nimmt einem auch keiner die finanzielle Grundlage des eigenen Lebens weg.
Es wird stillschweigend gebilligt.
Stillschweigend gebilligte ideologisch radikale Misanthropie gegen die eine Hälfte der Menschheit.
Dazu wird sie auch noch schöngeredet, indem, dass man den rhetorischen Trick anführt, diese Hälfte der Menschheit werde pausenlos von der anderen unterdrückt, ihrer Rechte beraubt, dürfte überhaupt gar nichts, und erfahre ausschließlich und als Alleinstellungsmerkmal pausenlos Gewalt verschiedenster Art, in allen Teilen der Erde, im reichen und wohlhabenden Westen gleichermaßen wie wo gesellschaftlich bitterste Armut herrscht; genauso gleichermaßen in Gegenden, wo man sich seine religiösen und andere Überzeugungen frei aussuchen darf ohne dass es Konsequenzen seitens des Staates oder seiner Organe gibt, wie in den Erdteilen, wo es eine verordnete Staatsreligion gibt und einer anderen zu folgen oder gar ungläubig (atheistisch) zu sein eine Straftat darstellt und gesellschaftliche Ausgrenzung herrscht, eventuell sogar begleitet mit Gewalt und Straffreiheit für diese für die Ausübenden.
- Ein “rhetorischer Trick” deshalb, weil es verkennt, welche Kämpfe die Vorfahrinnen in den wohlhabenden Erdteilen bereits geleistet haben, damit die Frauen der Gegenwart überhaupt das tun dürfen, was sie tun und wollen - darunter auch so menschenverachtend hetzen gegen die eine Hälfte der Menschheit.

Nazisprech mit der Vehemenz würde man nirgendwo so ungestraft stehen lassen, aber offenkundige Misandrie? Scheinbar eine Trivialität. “Habt euch doch nicht so!”, wie man da so sagen würde.
- Und da finde noch einer Gegenargumente zu der Behauptung “Männer werden in der Gesellschaft als Wegwerfware angesehen”... Was ist diese Hassrede sonst, die keinen #Aufschrei erzeugt? Die scheinbar niemanden vom Mainstream bewegt, etwas dagegen zu sagen?

Männer und die Dienste, die sie körperlich wegen ihres höheren Testosteronspiegels leisten können, werden ganz offensichtlich wie selbstverständlich erachtet, es wird als selbstverständlich erachtet, dass sie da sind, und diese Tätigkeiten ausführen - ähnlich wie die Selbstverständlichkeit aus vergangenen Zeiten (in den wohlhabenden Ländern; in denen es die (radikal-)feministische misandrische Propaganda auch gibt), dass zuhause eine Ehefrau da ist, die sich um Heim und Herd kümmert, ungeachtet dessen, ob sie das überhaupt will oder Talent dafür hat, und wenn nicht, dann darf man mit ihr sonstwie umgehen um sie “zu disziplinieren”, bis sie endlich “ihren Pflichten” gegenüber ihrem Ehemann nachkommt.

Kaum anders ist diese misandrische Hetze strukturiert - und, ähnlich wie in vergangenen Zeiten, findet kaum jemand offenkundig etwas falsches daran, respektive, dass äußerst viele im öffentlichen Leben das Maul dem gegenüber halten, aus Angst, selbst der Frauenfeindlichkeit beschuldigt zu werden, weil sie diese Ansammlung an geschlechtsbezogenem Hass nicht in Ordnung finden (von dem sonst behauptet wird, dass er vermeintlich “nicht geduldet” wird), oder - wenn dies von anderen Frauen kommen sollte - irgendwelchen anderen Unsinns wie “Stockholm-Syndrom” und “verinnerlichtem Hass gegen sich selbst und ihr Geschlecht” bezichtigt zu werden.

Anders ausgedrückt: Jeder Zeit sein Gift und Galle, und seine kritiklosen Mitläufer, die Angst vor dem Aufbegehren haben. Ebenso seine Egalität gegenüber dem propagierten haltlosen Hass.

(Offensichtlich ändern sich einige Dinge nie. - Insbesondere die, die von der menschlichen Psyche abhängig sind.)
matrixmann: Determined (Yuber Suikoden I)
Wenn man sich die Bemerkung mal erlauben darf: Mittlerweile braucht niemand mehr Angst haben vor einer rechten Durchseuchung der Gesellschaft - seit den Baseballschlägerjahren in den 90ern ist die Jugend inzwischen wieder merklich nach rechts gerückt, diesmal aber zusammen mit den Erwachsenen und nicht als alleinige Gesellschaftsschicht.
Und es wird bestimmt nicht nur an TikTok liegen und dass die populäre rechte Partei dieses Zeitgeistes dort als allererstes und am effektivsten mit der Werbung für ihre Ansichten und ihr Verständnis von der Welt begonnnen hat.

Was gibt man der Gesellschaft schließlich, insbesondere denen, die in die Unterschicht und die unteren Einkommensschichten geboren werden? Bildung? Möglichkeiten zur Entfaltung? Mittel um den erblich bedingten Mangel an Geld wieder auszugleichen? Eine Hierarchie, wo sozial adäquates Verhalten belohnt und grob regelwidriges Verhalten nachhaltig sanktioniert wird? Aufmerksamkeit - außerhalb von "guckt mal da, die Assis! die füttern wir noch unnötigerweise mit durch! kommt, lasst uns auf die einschlagen, wenn wir mal wieder über unsere eigenen Fehler reden müssten, aber keine dazu Lust haben! und nehmen wir ihnen auch noch das wenige Geld weg, was wir ihnen zukommen lassen! - Sollen gefälligst arbeiten gehen, das faule Pack!"?

An all dem genannten wird seit einer Ewigkeit kontinuierlich immer weiter gespart - und da soll etwas gutes herauskommen, wenn man alles sich selbst überlässt?
Wenn man Teile der Gesellschaft zielgerichtet vernachlässigt - wie ein Kind, das man verhungern lässt?
Und außer der eigenen, inzwischen hohl gewordenen Propaganda nichts weiteres anbietet?

...Die Logik ist in etwa so als wenn man beten sollte, um das Hungergefühl verschwinden zu lassen.
Esoterik und Quacksalberei statt etwas, was wirklich helfen würde.
Nicht verwunderlich also, dass sich die Zustände ebenso kontinuierlich immer nur verschlimmern und nichts verschwindet!
Und letztlich irgendwann die Parteimitglieder und die kleinen Mithelfer nur noch verspottet werden oder gar Gewalt gegen sie angewendet wird.
Was hat die Allgemeinheit schlicht sonst von ihnen? Hilfe? Linderung der Not?
Nein, nur einen Haufen selbsternannter "Heiler", die vermeintlich mit "Hand auflegen" Probleme lösen wollen.
Am besten dafür noch Geld verlangen wollen - oder Lohn verlangen in Form von "Treue", "Wählerstimmen" und tausend (leeren) Bekenntnissen zur (leer gewordenen) Demokratie.
matrixmann: (Dark (1))
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"...
matrixmann: (Standing one's ground)
Da es aktuell mal wieder aufkommt, weil es einige medienwirksame Fälle gibt...
Offen und ehrlich: Spart euch die Tränen, euer öffentliches Herumgeheule und das betonte Entsetzen!
Eigentlich müsste man euch den Vorwurf des Laientheaters machen.
Warum?
Diese Art von Gewalt, dass Pubertierende gegen Gleichaltrige gewalttätig werden und es fröhlich filmen um sich später daran zu ergötzen und es über das Internet oder den Schulhof zu teilen, die gab es schon vor 10 Jahren und noch länger her. Die technischen Möglichkeiten, mit dem Handy zu filmen und zu fotografieren, gibt es nämlich schon so lang - sogar noch bevor Smartphones auf den Markt kamen. Seit ca. 15+ Jahren.
Und letztlich - davor wurden die Taten einfach nur nicht mit Bild und Ton dokumentiert. Geschehen sind sie aber trotzdem.
Was denkt ihr, warum Schüler einst an ihrer Schule Amok liefen? Jugendliche anderen Jugendlichen nach dem Leben getrachtet haben?
Etwa, weil "alles in Ordnung" war?

Jetzt darüber herumzuheulen, was Kinder mit anderen Kindern anstellen, dass sie sich sogar gegenseitig töten oder zu Tode kriegen aus nichtigen Gründen, und entsetzt zu tun, von wem sie das haben, so zu tun als ob es neu wäre - es verrät recht viel über das kollektive Gedächtnis und zeugt von einer allgemeinen Vergesslichkeit über die Vergangenheit.
Von der Planlosigkeit bei der Problemlösung will man gar nicht erst sprechen. (Wäre dies nämlich effektiv geschehen, gäbe es die heutigen Fälle nicht.)
Denn genau die gleiche Ratlosigkeit, die gleiche Hilflosigkeit und ewig die gleichen Lösungsvorschläge von höheren Strafen und Herabsetzung des Alters der Strafmündigkeit, die kennt man schon zur Genüge aus der Vergangenheit.

Wie wäre es denn mal damit, wenn man auch wirklich mal etwas tut, anstatt in irgendwelchen theoretischen Konzepten herumzuschweben, oder sich vor lauter Emotionen und geheuchelter Betroffenheit nur um sich selbst dreht?

Diese Kinder gibt es nur, weil sich niemand für sie zuständig fühlt. Weil ihnen niemand etwas von Substanz beigebracht hat, und sie ständig vor Medien geparkt wurden. Davor wurden sie von Betreuungseinrichtung und -person zu Betreuungseinrichtung und -person hin und her gereicht, wie Wertsachen, in deren Gegenwart ein Wachhund platziert wird, damit sie nicht abhanden kommen.
Kinder sind aber keine toten Gegenstände - ihnen muss man beibringen wie man ein verantwortungsvoller Mensch wird! Und wie man seine Emotionen reguliert! Wie man Konflikte löst, wie man mit Frustration umgeht, oder mit einem schlichten "Nein" des Gegenübers umgeht!
Das geschieht nicht, indem, dass man sie ständig überall nur herumreicht bis sie erwachsen sind, und immer steht nur im Fokus steht, dass sie möglichst die Eltern nicht nerven und einen guten Schulabschluss erreichen, um mal einen gutbezahlten Job ergreifen zu können.
Innere Ausgeglichenheit, Empathie und eine eigene Version von Moral - die entwickeln sie nur, indem, dass sie es sich von anderen Menschen abschauen!

Sonst bleiben sie eben nur ein paar verzogene Gören, in deren Gedankenwelt sich alles nur um sie selbst dreht, und denen jedes Mittel recht ist, um ihre Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen. - Auch Gewalt und der Tod.
matrixmann: (Thinking)
2022: Russia starts an endeavor that Western sources prophesied about for months and which some sympathizers of it say it was inevitable for 8 years already - the Russian Federation invades the former Eastern territories of Ukraine (since 2014: the self-proclaimed independent peoples’ republics of Donezk and Luhansk), officially calling it a “special military operation” in order to stop the ongoing bloodshed against ethnic Russians that takes place on these territories since shortly after a coup d'état in Kiev known as “Euromaidan”.


The situation is still ongoing with no end of the hostilities in sight - and due to the entanglement of several European countries and the United States of America in this issue (making it a matter of larger extent than just a regional conflict between neighboring countries), on both sides, everyone has to watch their mouth what to say and write and how about the conflict in public.
matrixmann: (Standing one's ground)
In the light of today as the topic of “negotiations” is continuously being wiped off the table with arguments like “Putin started this war” and “Why should Ukraine aspire surrender while they’ve been attacked?” - let’s recall why negotiations are held at all in war scenarios.

When do officials and representatives hold them with representatives of the opponent?
Huh?
First and foremost, it’s not a question of giving up immaterial “values” and virtues” that one side thinks to have on its side - it’s not a question of ideology and idealism.
Plainly, it’s a matter of pragmatism.

Negotiations over truces and “peace” are being held if one side recognizes that it’s about to lose and being crushed, so the smarter people among the state officials figure they’ll be better off stopping to try to win the war by force and rather try to save the slice of the cake that they still have under their control instead of eventually maybe ending up with none of it.

The essence of sitting down to hold negotiations is not surrendering and handing everything over to the enemy that it wants, but more than that securing some little bits of what one still has instead of losing everything and then depending on the arbitrariness or mercy of the winning opponent what few bread crumbs will be granted to oneself.

You practically do that by trying to find things to offer to the enemy fraction for which it shows itself willing to give up the demands for another item. And you do that up until the enemy fraction becomes content and leaves again.

It’s no different than negotiating a price in a handshake deal.
A buyer has interest in obtaining a particular item, the seller tells you the price, but the buyer doesn’t have enough money or doesn’t want to pay that much, so it needs to approach the seller and see if they are hardened in their stance or if there’s some room that can be debated over.

In that case, it’s “only” that the item that you want to buy is “peace” - or at least a truce so that the fighting and the destruction stops.

Negotiating is a tactic that is known in wars and armed conflicts for centuries. As old as such scenarios.

So this isn’t like an “absolutely crazy idea” in this conflict.
Rather it should be asked: What speaks objectively so much against it?

(Unless the explanation is that there are very stubborn humans involved in this specific case that are occupied by ideology and emotional biases who have a very distorted understanding about war at all - that all that there is to obtain is winning, like in a manic fanatic attitude heading for a crusade, heading towards total war, not just mere self-defense.)
matrixmann: Determined (Yuber Suikoden I)
...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.
matrixmann: Determined (Yuber Suikoden I)
Nun wurde auch die Krim-Brücke durch einen gezielten Anschlag stark beschädigt...
Sowohl die Fahrbahn für Kraftfahrzeuge als auch die Eisenbahnlinie.
matrixmann: Determined (Yuber Suikoden I)
Mit den vorsätzlichen Beschädigungen an Nord Stream 1 und 2 hat der Krieg nun entgültig seine Begrenzung auf das Territorium der Ukraine verlassen.
matrixmann: (Black suits comin')
Just a critical question: US gun control activists - where are you if it's about the countless US foreign military aid and the guns it sells to the rest of the world? On top, to partly dubious and shady places, organizations and groups?
You also just stand ready for action if it's about your precious kids who could get shot at school or at their college by some weirdo or a kid from their own ranks that was bullied for all its life! If this shit can affect yourself, you feel the urgent need to do something against it - for example, to call for laws that are unrealistic that don't solve any problem.
But if the dying happens thousands of kilometers away from you, if it's not your kids who die, not your spouses, friends and relatives, you're nowhere to be seen, like you don't give a damn.
You know what? In your case, it stinks of typical narrow-mindedness, the usual US-centrism and it reeks of paid activism.
You just only care about something if it happens next door or the people who could be affected by it could be someone you personally know. If it could be somebody you hold dear.
You don't care a single bit about the general concept and anything else outside of your narrow ken that you have picked for yourself to act outraged!

Fuck you, people, FUCK YOU!
And fuck your stupid claims to care about people who die through firearms!
You're just a bunch of clowns in town!
matrixmann: (Standing one's ground)
Regarding the recently soaring consumer prices for foods that rise nearly every two weeks (like if they'd be measured by the price of oil, humorously spoken), it reminds you of openly raising the question why is it always called "threatened by poverty"?
Is "poverty" the shady scary guy with the club that stands on the sidewalk beside the house entrance? No! People aren't "threatened by poverty", they don't fear for his hit, they are already poor! This is the reality!
"Threatened by poverty" is nothing but another one of those public relations phrases that shall cover up the fact that there are people in the so-called "wealthier countries" of the earth who aren't as rich as their self-produced propaganda machinery wants to make believe. And, regarding the numbers that are repeatedly cited in this context, there even is no talking about "individual cases" and "personal failure". It's a mass phenomenon, always affecting a quota of between 15 and 20 percent of the population. No matter which of the "wealthier countries" you take to take a look at.

And, important to note, it's not even dependent on an individual's employment status. People work and have a job, but they're paid too few, compared to the costs of living in their countries, or they get job offers with too few working hours per month (half-time employment and so-called "mini-jobs").
Creating the group of "the working poor" - beside those people who cannot work anymore from old age or health reasons who are being kept on a short leash financially anyway, like undesired eaters sitting at the table that are perceived as "an unnecessary burden".
matrixmann: (Default)
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.
matrixmann: (Black suits comin')
Madeleine Albright

(insert "Straight to hell"-jingle of your own choice here)
matrixmann: Determined (Yuber Suikoden I)
After a failed attempt to pull Russia into a war with Ukraine again for the millionth time (the so-called "invasion plans" from December) since the coup d'etat in 2014 and a failed attempt to overthrow the government in Belarus in 2020, the full-grown violence in Kazakhstan now is supposed to be an act of "accident" or honestly result from domestic issues?
This big picture that you get see rather looks like the so-called "orange peel strategy" ("Orangenschalen-Strategie") that already the German Kaiser William II tried to use in order to weaken the Russian Empire, win on the Eastern front in WWI and gain control over Russian territories. - Breaking border territories away from the core empire, like peeling an orange, in order to receive the rich essence lying in the main land.

All three countries used to be and/or are important partners to Russia, in two of them have violent riots taken place over the years with verifiable moral, media, material and financial support of West European countries and the United States.

"Evil to him who evil thinks" if you scratch your head and wonder why, of all places on the earth who are plagued with inner conflicts (which is practically every country by now due to the enemyship against the Covid measures by a growingly radical and violent minority of the population; or take the 1-year-anniversary of the storming of United States Capitol in mind), such coordinated violent actions happen in Kazakhstan - and not in, like, some Western country?
matrixmann: (Dark (1))
The path of the warrior can be quite dreadful.
You see a lot of ugly things, experience a lot of betrayal, witness many changes and storms, and you get to feel humans from their various sides. Positive and negative.
Also... you lose a lot of comrades along the way.
People who fight with you for a similar objective or believe in the word you spread, whether they do that for virtuous reasons or for the same shady ones that originally brought you to the battlefield.
They die in battle, they change sides, they split off from your horde because you don’t fight for the right subjects anymore, or they leave because they themselves have abandoned the path of honesty, or they get so severely wounded during the war, so that they can’t go on with the road they have chosen. Also, they might meet a guy/girl in between and settle down because that fulfills them with something that feels larger than continuing a fight whose end cannot be foreseen.

Continuously, along the way, depending on how well it goes, how bad the losses are and who leaves you while carrying on, you keep asking yourself the question whether the path is worth it.
Whether the target of the path is truly worth all you sacrifice for it.
Whether the efforts all pay off, judged by the results you get.
And if it’s practically and morally justified what you do.

Weren’t there other means to achieve the same goal - or something comparable?
Was it necessary to agree to such an ascetic lifestyle?
Could the same ideals be won with fewer losses?
Was everything that had to be done, from your point of view, necessary?
And, at all... do you still continue with the path because of the origins you started it with or did your motives change in between - change into something that more has to do with habit and playing a role voluntarily? Because, meanwhile, you know nothing else what to do with your life?

All that for justifying a continuation before yourself and in front of other people who pose that question to you... For telling you, you’re on a path that feels right to you.

Looking down on the graves of those that have been lost during the war - comrades, civilians, enemy soldiers, innocent victims of the violence, children, even villains -, through the many numbers of them, points the fork whether it’s been enough dead people already or whether their deaths shall not have been in vain...

The path of the warrior itself can be the warning memorial to this mass of devastation - to these existences ended, to the lives spun and twisted along it, to human madness and all the worst abilities and character features mankind can display, to the austerity you have to endure and force upon yourself for it, and to the lasting loss of trust other than in yourself.
matrixmann: (Standing one's ground)
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.
matrixmann: Perceiving a grain of sand in the desert (I see with the eyes of a hunter)
In connection with 9/11 - did someone actually ever come up, throughout all the time since the assault had happened, with the question after asbestos relating to why so many of the helpers and aids of the first hour on the street became sick or died of cancer in the years after the incident?
matrixmann: (Default icon)
As much as the Afghanistan war remained an apple of discord throughout the whole time of the 20 years the occupation of the Western troops lasted because of the shady reasons it was started with, it also simultaneously and silently became a train you couldn’t just jump off anymore and quit tomorrow.

Now with their departure, the tactical and political changes of the coming weeks and months will be a proof of that - and, at the same time, it will lay down the sad record of that the two biggest and strongest armies in modern history - the US army + its NATO associates and the Soviet Army - couldn’t rip out the root of exaggerated Islamic religion in this region and create a united country called “Afghanistan” that can claim its rank in the modern world order.
Be that that the religious extremism was just started and about to be strengthened (the Afghanistan war of the Soviet Union) or that it is a result of past foreign engagements gone wrong (the support of the US for the mujaheddin fighters in the 80s to make the Soviet Union fall; the support of the Syrian rebels, which were mostly if not entirely Islamic extremists as well, and by that helping creating the Islamic State, strengthening Islamic religious motivated terrorism and systematic violence on the whole and in the whole Middle East area) and that it outgrows one’s own powers and finances that one was originally willing to sacrifice for this endeavor (the Afghanistan war of the US and the NATO troops that were still deployed there).

It’s hard to guess how much the decay inside these big players make out a share in their respective defeat...
As a question to those two wars you can leave behind if how war itself is being led in these modern times hasn’t changed too much from the scheme of firm organized and equipped armies fighting each other on the battlefield, as it still was the case in WWII and its later offshoots around the world.

For this specific case, you can put on the record - as bitter, brutal and cynical it may sound: As long as the residents of this country who aren’t involved in religious extremism aren’t willing themselves to take a different path, to organize and do something to drive this out of their country, to rip this root of war and violence out in their society once and for all and harshly sanction it, as long as they rather flee abroad or to Europe, giving in to the order that a guerrilla army imposes on them - as long as that remains the case, this country won’t ever be peaceful and “free” again (whatever anyone wants to imagine under the term “free”).

That Afghanistan which even received a seat in the Intercosmos program and could see one of their citizens fly into space to the Mir station will be missing for a very, very long time now...

Profile

matrixmann: (Default)matrixmann

Tags

April 2025

M T W T F S S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930    

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Statistics


Free counters!

Free counters!
Page generated 23 April 2025 05:15 pm