Some thoughts #1
Friday, August 08, 2004
- Love is the
greatest world in the English language...
- There's a fine
line between bravery and stupidity...
- Home
are people who love us and whom we love.
- When someone
feels lost, depressed and unappreciated that means that
he or she is lost, depressed and unappreciated...
- Dictators
usually promise prosperity at the cost of freedom...
- The journey is
more important then the destiny...
- In 1969 Neil
Armstrong was the first man to put his foot on the Moon.
He also left the first peace of litter there. Today we
have not only filled our planet with waste but also the
surrounding space.
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Access
the plastic fantastic world
Thursday, August 21, 2003
& re-edited on Wednesday, January 21, 2004
My Sony TV broke down for good
on 9.11.2001 at about 23:00 Central European Time (I did
not note the exact time, though.). It was just after a
friend and I saw the World Trade Buildings collapse live
on CNN. We even thought that we were victims of some
malicious attack through the electric cables. It was the
most unbelievable and probably the most shocking
experience of my time next to the assassination of
President Kennedy. Because of my ongoing fiscal crisis I've
been without a TV set since then. Once in a while though,
I managed to catch some at my friends' homes. The
developing world events are very bleak and depressing (click here for my views on Bush Jr. and
the War).
Not until July 4, 2003 (another coincidence) was I able
to got some bread together and get a good deal on a 14-inch
set at Carrefour, a French supermarket. Now, my brain is
plugged-in again to the plastic, fantastic universe
through my new small screen entertainment center.
Some people say
that newspapers, radio or the Internet are better sources
of information then TV. Well man, I've got news for them...
I found, through personal experience that TV is the best
source of information. When I was without a TV for a year
and a half I did not know what was going on in the world.
On the other hand, perhaps that was good because there
was nothing interesting going on, if you know what I mean.
I've even built a global and alternative news page on my
Web site but did not find time or patience to go through
all of the news and info everyday. I was also unable to
find time or patience to read newspapers because reading
a paper every day is like reading a book a day. It's
expensive and one still gets only one point of view.
Radio is a great source of audio entertainment but does
not provide the wide scope of audio-visual experience one
gets from TV. Of course, there will always be those who
would rather burry their heads in the send. However,
hippies do not burry their heads in the sand. Well, at
least they don't most of the time.
Being an American hippie means, "being a reformist".
That translates into "knowing what's going on".
Even though I am an old hippy, I do admit that I have
grown a bit tired by now of trying to repair the world.
After all, fixing the world, being controversial,
misunderstood, an alienated artist and having a ball some
of the time or at least pretending to have one (I am not
talking about baseballs or golf balls) are hard work,
which requires good, reliable and cheap sources of
information. Television has proven to be such a cheep and
more or less reliable source of information and
entertainment. Let's not forget that the PR done for
hippies and the Peace Movement by the mass media in the
1960s attracted many young people, members of the silent
majority and even war veterans to it, and helped to turn
it into an easily recognizable global happening for
almost all young people on our planet.
I consider
myself a liberal democrat or something or other like that
and I'm all for freedom. However, an overdose of TV as
well as anything else could probably do more harm then
good. Therefore one should try to take a proper balance
of information from different sources before processing
the downloaded date in the mind and making theories and
arriving at conclusions. It is also important to remember
that there is no one higher truth, but that there are
many different kinds of truths, which may be equally
valid to different people in different places and at
different times.
The Universe is a complex living organism and any
operation on it will generate complex and unforeseeable
reactions. Most of us are just passive observers of the
play of the complexities of the world. On some occasions
we get involved when they touch us. Whatever the case may
be, lets remember that no one is perfect. Lets stop
expecting from others anything more then normal human,
imperfect behavior and stop prying in people's private
lives. Freedom generates freedom (freedom is also freedom
to choose to give up some freedom). It is time to grow up
and stop believing in childish truths, fairy tales,
ancient myths, mythology, mythological figures and a
heaven somewhere out there. And didn't someone once say:
"Religion is opium for the masses"? It is time
to come down to earth. The Earth is where we come from,
what supports us and where we are headed. So, lets stop
the nonsense and save our Planet. The world is built on
dreams, and what we dream we can realize i.e. materialize.
We are Magicians, and creation is a transfer of ideas to
matter. So, lets get real, lets cherish freedom, stop the
hatred, revenge and destruction and lets start dreaming
of more constructive things. The mind (the brain is the
hardware of the mind) is still the most powerful
mechanism we know. Everything begins, exists and gets
transformed (into other forms of existence) in the mind.
So if we could change our minds i.e. the way humankind
thinks we could make this a better and a happier world
for all.
It is known how
much is spent on defense, forceful methods of resolving
social and international problems and prevention. But how
much (if anything at all in some countries) is spent on
integration, understanding and Peace? How much on
teaching Logical Thinking? How much on Peace Movements,
pacifism, humanism and activism, and on those who work
toward the integration of diversified global societies?
Certainly, a lot is spent on monitoring those who work
towards those goals. But how much is actually spent on
the promotion of these individuals, institutions or
technologies instead? Probably, hardly anyone really
cares to know or even thought to ask.
We believe that we live in a free and peace loving
society. But do we really? Statistics prove the contrary.
And isn't our society beginning to resample a bit some
former communist block state where there were informers,
a constant state of alert, strengthened border controls,
invigilation of society and especially of foreigners by a
Secret Police and Secret Services (SS), paranoia,
corruption, insensitivity, intolerance, totalitarian
leadership, rigged elections, mind games, lying, bulling
around, law of the fittest (the strongest), oppression,
leaders blinded by outdated fundamentalist ideology from
old literary works, little concern for the poor and the
working class, a society paralyzed by many social schisms,
a place where a man cannot even brush against a woman, a
child or a cop, whose arts and cinema generate more
violence in the world etc. Wait a minute! Was I writing
about the Land of the Free? Of course not!
United we
also stand in our opposition to Bush and the War
which have done more harm to America then any enemy has.
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