matrixmann: (Standing one's ground)
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".
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: (Thinking)
The paradox that’s confusing about age and time still continuing to pass later as an adult may probably lie in being physically grown up yourself and therefore the mind subconsciously assumes a general state of preservation and stagnation about the world from then on.
But, when being confronted with children, teens and young adults, for which physical and mental development - and through that: change - noticeably takes place, the brain of an already physically grown-up person is consciously being reminded that things ain’t so. That time still passes, growing older still is in effect and that major, not small, changes still happen.
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: (Standing one's ground)
You know what’s going to be the biggest factor getting in the way of soothing the extent that climate change will have on this blue sphere here?
The international community outside of the Western countries gives a fuck about so-called “green technologies”. They care more about their own development, which had been kept down for centuries by the plundering of the dominant European and North American countries. And that means, cheap energy accessible to the biggest mass of people and local industries carries more importance than making it as exclusive as it can get through applying complex and expensive technologies in the chain, which the bigger parts of the population in the first world countries are able to afford (in whatever way possible to individuals).
The mindset of the Western world and what they think of as “problems” is so far away from those of the rest of the world - literally elevated thousands of kilometers above the ground, figuratively.

So are many other issues such as that of a cultural nature, for example.
The rest of the world literally doesn’t care about the gender-fantasies of twenty-somethings in the US or Europe and their dreams of deconstructing the biological base of the two sexes. Or about rainbow flags, pride months and loudly celebrating LGBT minority rights like they would be a cure against HIV and cancer altogether (rights which quite a chunk of areas in the world don’t have anyway).
There are way more urgent problems to them than such boredom- and living-in-security-driven ergotherapy of emphasizing things that revolve around the aspect of the anthropocentric worldview to overestimate the social ongoings between humans in a society.

To the rest of the world, the classic aspects of the mindset of the anthropocentric worldview are important: Where do humans get a space to live, a roof over their head, food and water for humans, jobs to earn money and chances to procreate - as well as chances to feed that offspring and raise it into an adult.

If you want to get the rest of the world into the same boat as the culturally loony Western part of the planet, then you first rather need to get them to abandon their part of the anthropocentric worldview, in which all natural resources of the planet exist just to serve and be consumed primarily by humans. - Including your own focus where human business and social interaction still also overshadows everything, beside you talking about “wanting to save the world” and “protecting the environment” (inconsequently).
matrixmann: (Standing one's ground)
Thinking deeper about it, there is a little aspect to point out which surely won’t be irrelevant to the protests against the Covid vaccinations and the conspiracy theories surrounding them all around the world - and in which, bizarrely, these have something in common with the “Fridays For Future” movement:

It’s that if a civilization reached such technological, scientific and cultural heights and masses of general means and gadgets that it starts to forget the very base it stands on.
It takes the safe bubble it created to live in as self-evident and as the original state of nature.
While actually it’s the most unnatural state of things. And you have to do something for it in order to exist.

For example: The effect of vaccines first becomes noticeable if they weren’t given anymore.
If masses of people didn’t receive them.
As vaccines against the famous diseases you can vaccinate against didn’t exist, people died way earlier than today, they died of way more trivial causes, a lot died before they got 18 years old (high rate of child mortality), and people who survived infections with either a virus or bacteria way more often carried lasting damages away from this (often: early childhood) encounter into their adult lives.
This is still the case in places on the earth where these vaccines aren’t available or too expensive for an average person to get.
So when they were invented and people realized infants as well as themselves stopped getting sick and die from those diseases after they were vaccinated, people became clear of a reason to do this for. - No more getting sick, suffering and dying from crap that can be avoided.

A huge example that people of all ages have a personal benefit from is the tetanus vaccination.
Before that, just a single scratch could lead to this type of infection, which in the end paralyzes the nerve tissue that controls muscles in the body and leads to death.
And it’s barely avoidable as the bacterium that causes it lives in nearly everything. It’s everywhere around you.

So so-called “skepticism” and active refusal and even claims like “vaccination is murder” are actually a call to fall back to these circumstances among the population.
How can anyone be so stupid to want that?
Well, the best answer to this is: Because people aren’t aware of why they can lead such a cozy life. Lack of basic education and a lot of manipulative info from sources that function no better than hocus pocus magical crap made to make money that was sold to people in the Middle Ages are to blame for this.

In common with “Fridays For Future” this state of the mind has: Also the members and agitprop activists of this movement aren’t aware of what the order they raise their claims on comes together from.
For example, they take for granted that smartphones exist, that the internet and their platforms to communicate on globally exist, that they live a life on earth where they don’t need to mind neither money nor material if they get sick of something and can simply throw it away as they please.
But all that first needed to be invented, then needs to be fabricated constantly and then needs to be maintained constantly.
Electricity isn’t produced by the wall because the wall is kind of bored and doesn’t know what to do with its time. It’s produced in a power plant, that power plant needs any type of “fuel” or gizmo that moves another gizmo, whose movement generates the electric energy in the end that they take from the wall socket at home. And that needs to be done constantly, not just whenever you want. - Or you’ll have to accept that electric energy isn’t constantly ready to use.
Means of saving energy for later aren’t invented yet, and as it it looks it will be like with rechargeable batteries: It ain’t lossless and the energy saved will vanish over time when not using it. - Unless you’d save the energy compressed in something material that you can easily store and backlog (that would be fossil fuels like coal, gas and petrol, for example).
Not to forget: A power plant producing electric energy first needs to be built in order to serve the purpose to supply you with electricity in the wall socket.

The self-evidence of the presence of the internet is another issue of that umbrella.
The internet comes together by thousands of servers (and, in a simple sense, “computers”), interconnected with each other, running 24/7 all around the year. If you think that you can only switch these on when you need them, then most of the time nobody will be able to read your crap.
Because these computers keep masses of data ready to access for whoever wants to read them at any time of the day. - All the viewers that checked your stuff in the meantime you slept, worked or were at school, they could do that because someone else keeps your data ready and accessible all the time.
If your data didn’t lie on someone else’s server, you’d have to keep your own computer plugged to the net all around the clock, even when you’re absent and not at home, or nobody could read the crap that you post and pay attention to you.

Thousands of computers running at the same time, waiting for somebody to seek a connection with them with his personal computer or cell-phone - anyone who isn’t stupid gets an idea what kind of huge effort that is to keep up every day?
The internet isn’t “simply there”, it’s a complex infrastructure, like a net of tarred roads that you can comfortably drive on, and to be “there”, it needs to be made to come into existence.
Another thing that you have to keep ready to use and cannot just switch on and off whenever you want to use it yourself. The effort made in order to keep it up has to be constantly the same at all times or it won’t work as well as you know it.

Not even to get started on the third example: Their own lifestyle and the lifestyle of the family they live in...
Their parents go to work daily, in most cases don’t share a car because they’ve got to go to two completely different places, their parents don’t work near their home but in other towns and commute, they want to make it to buy a nice house, own a big car, save money so each of their kids can have a driver’s license and an own car as soon as the kids are legally permitted to drive, want 1 or 2 family vacations each year at least - and they don’t want their kids to miss any trend in order to not be socially excluded among their peers.
Last but not least, they also try to save up money from anywhere, on top, to send their kids to university (like university wasn’t something which you have to have the brains first and you can’t tell that from the first day of a child’s life).
All that until the kids get “aware” (their “Fridays For Future”-type of getting “aware”).
Anyone of them who pointed it out to themselves how much of an ecological footprint that already is until they reach “awareness”?
And that’s not even counting their own behavior in this calculation...

Reduced and collected in a short summary that is: No, kiddo, you’re not going to save the world now by going vegan, eating meat-replacement made from soybeans, peas and wheat!
Which, by the way, doesn’t reduce your footprint very much if they actually come from Brazil, like the beef steaks you ate before. (Anyone who praises the meat-replacement products asked where the substance they’re made of comes from?)

And, talking about “recycling”, how about that you wear the clothes of your elder siblings that are still alright - like poor people do?
Or that you use a technical gadget for 10 years or more? Repair it? Tinker around with it, so it can still be of service with new technical standards? Use it until it literally falls apart?
“Learn from the poor” is the correct motto in this issue, just as a reminder, not holding big public speeches and claim whatever the heck comes to your mind from adults how they shall behave.

By the way, skipping school to march on a rally - do these kids have any idea what kind of privilege they throw away thoughtlessly for just a little stomp on the ground of their inconsistent minds?
Kids in Africa and India and whatever places on earth not as rich as the first world dream of going to school instead of having to go to work and already earn some, so the family, including them, has something to eat and doesn’t need to freeze.
School is like the key to a better life, to more life quality and to a better job - and these kids take it so much for granted that they think they can spare it!!
Not even to speak of that they seem to think school without paying hundreds of bucks for it is a world standard!
If their rallies had a connection to something that went wrong in school, but no... it’s about “pointing the adults at doing something to stop climate change”.
Like - next time they go on a strike because the pocket money is too low...

This is social relations, making a plea, not doing something for a certain objective.
And then formulating one’s plea on a pretty high niveau of prosperity. Leaving one’s own role aside, acting like one doesn’t exist and does nothing wrong, but only all other people.

...You see how both have a similarity here?
Avoiding to mind one’s own base of a living, sect-like structures that want to make everyone convert, but they have very few to really say if you check them in the details.
If you fact-check them or check for doability, you find them two live in a dreamy world made of soap bubbles. Harboring an image of the world that doesn’t correspond with the reality.

When do you encounter such phenomena?
Mostly when a civilization is almost at its end. When people forget what their life as they know it is based on and take it for granted that they can eat grapes all day long (figuratively). And, on the other hand, can afford to dive deep down into their human interactions all day long. Be busy with the “he says, she says” and what is the correct way to worship and appreciate whatever the heck.
Act like their human quarrels are the most important thing in the world, like someone is watching and only waiting to interfere and deliver them from their anger towards each other.

(Someone discovers similarities in this description too?)
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.

Sly kids

2 April 2021 09:00 pm
matrixmann: (Dark (1))
Children understand if a protection system works to their advantage against adults.
Those who grow up in misery learn to not turn to them or that they won’t be believed anyway.
But those who grow up in ordinary circumstances - they develop understanding as well as will to make that useable for them in their favor. They can downright turn into Eric Cartman from South Park and try to enforce getting his Xbox back when their mother has taken it from them in order for justified scolding, staging it like a critical “violation of human rights”.

Kids like that tend to never grow up and not learn to respect boundaries.
Their whole world keeps spinning around their single ego.
matrixmann: Perceiving a grain of sand in the desert (I see with the eyes of a hunter)
Why do all problems with lack of skilled workers have to be solved by “stimulating immigration”, with “attracting foreigners to come and fill in the gaps”?
Don’t other countries need their skilled workers and their people across-the-board too?

What’s with all the domestic kids who leave school with a half-baked education level that are hardly good for anything more than consumption and playing with their smartphones?
Couldn’t they be the desired “skilled workers” too, if you just invested in them and reestablished a certain quality in your local public education system?
What have they been born for if everything is just about “we need immigration, we need foreigners - ‘cause we got a lack of skilled workers”?
Is that supposed to be the “glorious future” that you promised to their parents?
Are those the arguments you decoyed them with to make these kids because “we need more children that someday finance your pension”?

What was all that for if, in the end, these kids are destined to live in ruins and suffer from their lack of non-education, immaturity and stupidity, altogether with their surroundings?
matrixmann: Irgendwas ist hier gründlich schiefgelaufen... (Something's happened here...)
Um elf auf dem Busbahnhof - einer sitzt, lässt seine Rucksackdisco spielen und es ist an Textzeilen zu verstehen irgendwas mit “Titten springen”, der Reim darauf lautet etwa “alle Kameraden singen”.
Als wenn das noch nicht genug wäre, kommen später zwei weitere recht junge Menschen hinzu (eine männliche Stimme beklagt sich über juckende Eier), gesellen sich zu dem mit der spielenden Musik auf der Bank. Später kann man sich an Hand dessen ausrechen, dass Bier getrunken wurde (ohne es gesehen zu haben), weil das Klirren von Flaschen zu hören ist, die an Stein zerschellen.
matrixmann: (Dark (1))
Little reminder to all adults:

What do you think how kids imagine the world can be changed if they recognize they live in circumstances of systematic disadvantage, if they've been born in times of peace and drastic upheavals, to them, are only a matter they know from history books or tales of their grandparents? What solution you want them to get to if all they know is "obey, make no trouble and you'll be rewarded"?
matrixmann: (Default)
Und wieder läutet der Tag der dummen Fragen. "Ask a Stupid Question Day" auch in Übersee genannt.

Eine dumme Frage: Kennt jemand noch "Emos"? Gibt es die überhaupt noch?
matrixmann: (Thinking)
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.
matrixmann: (Black suits comin')
Darf man sich 'mal über die aktuelle Hässlichkeit deutschsprachiger Musik beschweren?
Wenn es nicht gerade übermäßig kitschiger Schlager ist, der eigentlich nur den kommerziellen Ast von Dance-Music kopiert, dann existiert zur Zeit nur ein großes vor sich hin Gejammer, was als "Gesang" verkauft wird, obendrein geht es dabei um nichts von Bedeutung, nichts von wirklichem Inhalt, und die können nicht einmal einen einzigen vernünftigen Reim von sich geben. Ihre musikalische Begleitung dazu ist mindestens genauso trivial wie uninnovativ und wirkt, als wäre sie blind aus ein paar Sounds zusammengeschustert, manchmal hat sich vielleicht noch einer vom Anfängerkurs für Gitarre und Schlagzeug von der Musikschule dazwischen eingeschlichen.
Wenn bei der Mischung immer noch nichts herausgekommen ist, bei der man vor Hässlichkeit und Geschmacklosigkeit anfängt zuzuhören, weil es als ein störendes Umgebungsgeräusch bemerkt wird, wird dann noch zur Krönung der "Gesang" mit Vocoder ins Metallische verzerrt, damit die Geschmacklosigkeit entgültig perfekt ist.
Und jeder, der einen Hauch von Rhythmusgefühl oder Ästetik hat, denkt sich angesichts dieses Klangbildes: Welche Amateure hat man denn dort mit Instrumenten und Tonstudio-Equipment versorgt, damit sie ihre Talentlosigkeit auf die Menschheit loslassen können?!
Deutsche Sprache klang noch nie so hässlich - ach, eigentlich generell klangen Geräusche, die Menschen aus ihrer Kehle von sich geben, noch sie hässlich inszeniert...

Das Schlimmste daran ist: Irgendein unerfahrenes Publikum, welches noch nichts von der Welt weiß, sich aber für unbeschreiblich cool hält, steht auch noch auf diesen Mist und gibt sogar Geld dafür aus, als sei es hohe Kunst (oder sie holen es sich gratis von YouTube, weils vielleicht eh daher kommt (?), und verbreiten es so). Diejenigen, die immer mit einem aufrissenen USB-Lautsprecher in der Umhängetasche herumrennen.
Man hat sich angesichts des House-Trends schon in den vorherigen Jahren gesagt "ein House-Beat macht einen Song noch lange nicht schöner, nur weil es gerade in ist", weil damit jegliche Form von Musik in absurde Persiflage verwandelt wurde, aber diese Form von Hässlichkeit steht dem in nichts nach. Gar nicht zu schweigen von musikalischer Kompetenzlosigkeit.

In gewisser Weise ähnelt diese geistlose, triviale Herumjammerei alias "Gesang" der Schlagerwelt der ersten Jahrzehnte nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg - um Gottes Willen, lasst uns uns alle mit Kitsch überhäufen, keine schlechten Erinnerungen wecken und bloß nicht zum Nachdenken kommen! Party, Make-up und schöne glitzernde Klamotten so weit das Auge reicht. Die Sonne, sie scheint so hell! - Sie verbrennt uns schon fast...
Good vibrations an allen Orten, bitte sehr!
Ach ja - das "Yeah, yeah, yeah" (und Mr. Sandman) aus Amerika war doch auch nichts anderes, oder?
Die Weltrevolution entsprang einer Boyband und einem Mann mit Hüftschwung, die allesamt auf "Schwiegermuttis Liebling" getrimmt wurden... (Ob mit oder gegen ihren Willen.)
Nette Revolution aus dem Hause "wir wollen, dass sich nichts ändert, und dass aus der Jugend genau solche Spießer werden wie wir".
Zurück aber zum deutschen "Problem": Angesichts dieses harmoniebdürftigen und vergnüngungssüchtigen Zirkus wundert es einen, dass es so lange brauchte, bis es die Grufties gab, die dieser heilen Welt einen kleinen, aber nachhalten, Riss verpassten. Rock und seine Ableger schafften es zwar, dem Tralala auch etwas zuzusetzen, aber bitte, womit taten sie es denn? Ebenfalls Vergnügungssucht und danach mit Frauen und Drogen. Zeitgenössischer Kitsch nur vom Gegenteil aus besungen... Und mit den Jahren, wenn die Gesundheit und die Geldquellen ausgetrocknet wurden, war es für die Musiker mit diesem Leben auf vorbei. Als Vorbild für etwas anderes konnte dies auch nicht dienen.
In der DDR verlief diese Musikszene auch noch etwas anders, weil Realsozialismus nicht gerade Gammler- und verschwenderischen Lebensstil befördert, aber wie weit hat das gereicht? Wen haben die auf größerer Ausdehnung erreicht? Selbst heute noch sind die meisten (noch übrig gebliebenen) Bands nicht im westdeutschen Kultursektor verankert. Nachschub der Sorte kommt auch nicht mehr, weil die Verhältnisse auf der Landkarte sich geändert haben. Darüber hinaus - welche soziale Weltrevolution kam von ihnen?
Die gleiche wie von allen anderen Rockern weltweit, die ihre Musik etwas zu wichtig einschätzen für den Kurs der Welt. Viel gespielt, nichts bleibt - und das Publikum, was sich daran als "Revolution" ergötzt, wird alt und stirbt. Die Fußspuren verblassen schnell.
Es musste erst richtig dunkel und wütend werden, damit dieses scheinheilige Getue ein für alle Mal auf den kurzen und absteigenden Ast geschoben wird, auf den es mit seiner Zeitwiligkeit gehört.

Dass man meint, es jetzt wieder zu brauchen, spricht eigentlich Bände über die Situation, in der sich das Land sozial befindet. Ebenso über sein kulturelles Niveau - sein mentales und sein intellektuelles Niveau.
Ist das das, was Scripted Reality nach etwa 10 Jahren hinterlässt? Oder kommt das von ganz allein?
Oder war es irgendwann unerträglich, als einzige deutschsprachige Musik nur noch Gangster-Rap zu hören? Und war man nicht fähig, etwas besseres als altbackenes Tralala hervorzubringen?
Es gab mal Zeiten, da konnten die Deutschen passablen Techno machen - dafür braucht man nämlich nicht zwingenderweise Gesang... Aber das ist auch schon lang her.

Was deutschsprachige Musik braucht, ist ein dringendes Upgrade in Sachen Niveau als auch Talent! (Die, die jedenfalls von größeren Massen konsumiert wird.)
Ehrlich gesprochen: Wenn das sein "Bestes" sein soll, dann ist es mindestens ein Witz.
Das Land der Dichter und Denker? Goethe und Beethoven würden im Boden versinken...
Melodien, aber keine Dichtkunst - Rhythmus - was ist das?! - Inhalt: Wie, verdammt noch mal, generiert man Inhalt?! - Metrum, ist das eine neue Droge oder war das noch 'mal was aus dem Altenheim? - Reim: Hieß der nicht noch mal Matthias? Ach, den singen wir doch gerne mit!
Warum besingt man eigentlich nicht seine Haare (das gab's auch schon mal, alteingesessene DSDS-Freunde wissen das) - oder wie Taio Cruz vor Jahren seinen Kater ("Hangover")?
Dann ist man wenigstens auf dem Tiefpunkt des altbekannten Ballermann-Schlagers angekommen und es gibt kein Süßholzgeraspel mehr darum, dass man doof ist und es genießt.
Die Welt darf sich dann aber auch bitteschön über die Deutschen totlachen... (Sorry, Falco, Die Ärzte und Rammstein - und sogar Tokio Hotel (wenn es die noch gibt)!)

Comply

19 July 2018 02:23 pm
matrixmann: (Dark (1))
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...



Somewhat related: https://matrixmann.dreamwidth.org/163063.html
matrixmann: (Default)
1917, Tsarist Russia: October Revolution.

2007: In a small community, named Jokela, in the South of Finland, an 18-years-old high school student kills 8 people at his school, injuring 13 additionally, using a pistol he legally purchased. During the course of the deed, he spilled liquid in a part of the building, trying to set it on fire, but failed to do so. With the police approaching and ending his deed, he shot himself in the head in some lavatories, dying later that night in the hospital.
He had been an active YouTuber, member of a couple of discussion circles dealing with previous school shootings, and he left behind himself several pieces of deeply misanthropic documents - a written manifesto and self-made videos.
matrixmann: (Default)
When children are small, but in that age to be sparked to question, to ask for things and to research, nowadays parents are too annoyed and too exhausted to meet the needs of those 'cause they've been totally worn out by work life and all the other duties that pull on them beside this that make out the way adults live like.
As soon as they're teens, suddenly their parents and all other adults start to complain about why they have so much fun being stupid and rejecting everything that has to do with school or learning. Also including disobeying the simplest commands and running away from an obstacle or trouble whenever they can.

If someone is annoyed by this himself, he should better ask himself the question: What did I do to make this kid behave like this to me?
When I'm constantly pushed away, how long do I go on fighting for someone to earn his favor?

Children have an intelligence on their own indeed, but they're no malicious creatures by origin.
When they grow older, eventually when they reach the stage of puberty, they only reflect the behavior they have once been treated with in the first decade of their lives. They only adapted to the desires and characters their primary caregivers have imposed on them.
Having finished that first decade, their adaption reaches the professional level and they'd suit perfectly to the needs that their caregivers once pushed them to suit for.
But now the expectations of the outside change again - and that adaption suddenly doesn't suit anymore, after it's become a master of it.
So, when in confusion about that, they show the rest of behavior patterns that they learned from their caregivers and try to get away with it. Eventually, as they were small, those pattens worked too, didn't they?
And now suddenly, our adults and especially parents create a drama about it, like all of that comes out of the blue. Like so much creativity is given to a child by creation to act like this.

If you're disturbed and annoyed by that behavior, better ask: How did you behave to the child as it was in need of you? Were you there? Did you run away, when everything became too much for you? Not enough the fun?
Did you start to scream, just to have your peace? Did you feed your child with food or expensive stuff, so that it leaves you alone? Did you say to him "here, go play with the smart phone"?
Or were you there at all - busy with work most of the time?

If asking about why kids become this way, one needs to look at what is the frame made of they're kept in. Do they get what they need? Are their caregivers able to give them what they need?
Do the caregivers actually have time for giving that to them??
Or are they too exhausted to suit the proper needs to make their child a future professor?

If only put in the position of a parent who can't fight back much against the circumstances pressuring from the outside: Do you really need all that material needs that you took upon your name, paying credits for it and all that? Did you rather want to work on a dreamy story and ignore what the reality is?
Did you think, acting rich on the outside is all what's going to get your kids a better position in the hierarchy? A better life - full of bliss and happiness?

What matters to you when they're small, that's what's going to matter to them in the future when they're about to step into your position.
If you keep pumping crap and the wrong priorities into them, then they're going to reflect them back to you, once they're able to do so without your consent.
And - pay attention, society! - not only your own. Also those wrong priorities that others taught them what is the "human standard".
matrixmann: (Thinking)
When an icon of one's suicidal youth commits suicide himself, then it's indeed an irony that life offers there.
But, thinking about it, what's it with a hero, where does this status end and where does he start to be only a human being again? With own problems, desires, flaws and personal weaknesses?
It's actually so very simple. So simple that one forgets about it when he looks up to someone.
Every hero that is like an icon to those with demons plaguing them inside, most often he fights some demons inside himself. Even when it's long past having your biggest battle with them, the fight goes on because, once developed, these demons never let you go again. Until the end of your life.
And so... it comes that even a hero might surrender them, although everyone of that kind of human logically knows it is nonsense to do so.
But sometimes you don't know how strong they are, how much a plague they are to the protagonist and how long he already kept fighting them - or how long he already kept running away from them.
It's tough to judge this from the outside - from the outside it's always a pretty easy job to do.
Much tougher it always is when judging it from the inside and taking note of one's abilities and capacities to overcome. How much he/she's caught up in the dependencies of his/her own life. And how much or less there's a way out of it what is plaguing someone.
In that point, even a hero is just a human...
And those things may press him to the wall until he's "about to break".
matrixmann: (Waiting for command)
"You think, when you're out of school you're free, sonny? Oh, hell no! Then work life calls for you - and work life is only a continuation of what's been happening in school, only worse and even more strict. What you already were there, you gonna be also in your job life. If you were a loser, a slacker or a victim of your school mates' coping methods for boredom already there, then you gonna be the same among your colleagues. A really, really small cog in the clockwork...
The only way you'll not be forced to deal with this is when you happened to be born to an incredibly wealthy family or if you managed to become rich on your own before the day you leave school. Which is like zero probability.
So, don't even try to think you're a bigwig that gets his way."

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