torsdag den 14. august 2014

Weirdo



Weirdo
Everyday work might often lead ones mind to the next obvious task .... but. ...
Mowing the lawn under the impression of a thriller on TV last night I saw the end of the humanist era comming towards us.
I have never been convinced that humanism ruled us - but it's mindset was, on the ideological level, for many of us - even or especially in politics - a mandatory bid or a kind of compulsory confession.
But since September 11, 2001 this gets shaken vigorously by more and more opinion leaders in politics, religion and even science, who almost proudly profess views that directly contradict a basic humanistic ideal  ... but that had actually allready taken its beginning  with fascism / Nazism 

...  what a consolation ...

søndag den 3. august 2014

VELKOMMEN TILBAGE TIL FEUDALISMEN - WELCOME BACK TO FEUDALISM



VELKOMMEN TILBAGE TIL FEUDALISMEN - WELCOME BACK TO FEUDALISM
Der går et par hundrede år uden at man lægger mærke til at også de mest grundlæggende værdier mister deres værdi.
FRIHED – LIGHED - BRODERSKAB
– og så sker det alligevel, at det man stræbte efter er det man løber væk fra, betragtes som uinteressant eller direkte skadelig.
En gang i 1800-talles blev det nationernes hovedmål – ikke mindst under indtryk af socialistiske og socialliberale ideer - at sørge for ”folkets” interesse, hvor alle med den rigtige hudfarve og det rigtige sprog gerne skulle fremmes for at styrke nationen – ofte koblet med nationalistiske, racistiske og mere eller mindre præfascistiske holdninger.
Først da anden verdenskrig havde sat det nationalistisk-racistiske tankesæt alvorligt i skammekrogen og den kapitalistiske del af verden var bange for at den ”socialistiske” Østblok kunne få politisk medvind vest for jerntæppet ved alt for stor ulighed, da social uretfærdighed, nu hvor fascismen tilsyneladende var overvundet, ville bidrage til at styrke folks hang til socialisme eller kommunisme. Altså blev lighedstanken noget som var tilladt og for nogen endda tilstræbt: datidens socialdemokratiske og US-venlige partier og dele af det demokratiske parti i USA som stod fagbevægelsen nær.
At arbejde for mere lighed var ikke systemskadelig men en god måde at styrke stabilitet og fortsat vækst. Det var endda muligt og legitimt at dele af grundforsyningen med energi, visse varer og transportsystemer fortsat blev varetaget af statslige, kommunale eller på anden vis socialiserede virksomheder for at etablere/opretholde forsyningssikkerhed for hele befolkningen.
Meget af dette er ukendt eller ”overvundet” tankegods for dagens politiske eliter og størstedelen af befolkningen. Det handler om at fremme uligheden. Dem som virkelig sidder ved magten fremmer kun ideer om en omfordeling fra fattig til rig: Konkurrencestaten er den ny velfærdsstat (Corydon)
Langsigtet perspektiv? INGEN! Verden kan ikke holde til denne paradigme – lige så lidt som den kunne holde til en idé om lighed for alle på amerikansk niveau – med umådeholdent overforbrug af ressourcer og drømmen om konstant, yderligere vækst som systemets motor.

Ved siden af denne bevidsthedsskred væk fra lighed har der etableret sig en bevidsthed om ressourcernes begrænsning – begreber som ”sustainability – ressourcebesparende – miljørigtig m.m.” er blevet en del af bevidstheden, dog uden at rykke ved det grundlæggende vækstparadigme.
Ganske vist vil Goldman&Sachs være med til at tjene penge på DONGS vindmølleparker – men de vil/”skal” droppe disse installationer i det øjeblik de ikke er gode investeringer mere.

Vi har vi altså nu et økonomisk system som i nogle nicher forholder sig ”ufornuftigt” i forhold til sit eget ideologiske grundlag ved at satse på ressourcebesparelser og vedvarende energi (til trods for at kul og olie stadig ef ”billigst”) samtidigt med at der fortsat satses på væksten af forbrug – også af materielle varer som skal produceres og smides væk – og langt de fleste IKKE ved hjælp af genbrug.
Såvel nationalstaten som supranationale organisationer og magtstrukturer er hjælpeløse i et ægte forsvar for miljøet, når de overordnede målsætninger er styret af erhvervsøkonomiske overvejelser. Når politikken er en forlænget arm af mere eller mindre private kapitalinteresser som for det meste styrer den demokratiske process og ”folkestemningerne” i en retning som gavner dem, kan lighed og nulvækst (på globalt plan) ikke blive målsætninger.

”Jeg vil ikke af med noget, du vil ikke af med noget, ingen vil give afkald...”...

Det ”nye” i vores unge millennium er, at magteliten ikke alene vil have mere og mere – men nu gerne vedkender sig målet at fravriste undersåtterne mere og mere – VELKOMMEN TILBAGE TIL FEUDALISMEN.

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WELCOME BACK TO FEUDALISM
There might pass a couple of hundred years without noticing that even the most basic values lose their value.
LIBERTY - EQUALITY - BROTHERHOOD
- And then it happens anyway, that what one once sought is now to run away from, considered uninteresting or downright harmful.
Once in the 19th century the nation's overall aim - particularly in light of socialist and social-liberal ideas – became to serve the whole nations interest, where anyone with the right color of skin and the right language should be encouraged to strengthen the fatherland - often coupled with nationalist, racist and more or less pre-fascist attitudes.
Finally World War II put the nationalist-racist thinking seriously in the doghouse and the capitalist part of the world was then afraid of, that the "socialist" Eastern bloc could get political tailwind west of the Iron Curtain by excessive inequality. Social injustice might, now that fascism seemed overcome, help to strengthen people's inclination towards socialism or communism. So the promotion of equality became something which was allowed and some places even sought: the contemporary social democrat and US-friendly parties and parts of the Democratic Party in the United States who stood near the trade union or/and the civil rights movement.
Working for more equality was no longer malicious but a good way to strengthen stability and continued growth. It was even possible and legitimate to support that the basic supply of energy, certain goods and transport continuously should be handled by the state, municipal or otherwise socialized enterprises to establish / maintain the security of supply for the entire population.

Much of this is unknown or "overcome" intellectual baggage for today's political elites and the majority of the population. It's about promoting inequality. Those who really are in charge only promote ideas about a redistribution from poor to rich: “The Competitive State is the new welfare state” (Bjarne Corydon, Danish Minister of Finance)
The long-term perspective? ABSENT! The world can not stand this paradigm - as little as it could survive the realisation  of ​ equality for all at an American level - with excessive overuse of resources and the dream of constant further growth as the system's engine.

Beside this shift of consciousness away from equality we have established an awareness of resources limitation. Terms such as "sustainability - resource saving - environmentally friendly, etc." have become part of common consciousness, but without pulling the fundamental growth paradigm.
Certainly, Goldman & Sachs help to monetize DONGS wind farms - but they will / 'must' drop these installations at the moment they are not good investments any longer.

We have today an economic system that in some fields operates "unreasonable" in relation to its own ideological foundations by focusing on resource efficiency and renewable energy (despite the fact that coal and oil are still "cheapest"). Simultaneously that very system continues to focus on the growth of consumption - also of tangible goods to be produced and thrown away - and the vast majority made of NOT recycled materials.
Both the nation-state as supranational organizations and power structures are helpless in a real defense of the environment when the overall objectives are guided by business economic considerations. When policy is an extended arm of more or less private capital interests which mostly control the democratic process and public sentiment in a direction that benefits them, equality and zero growth (globally) will NOT become serious political goals.

"I do not want to lose something, you don't want to lose anything, no one will give up  ..."

The "new" paradigm for our young millennium is that our power elite not only wants more and more - but now with pleasure acknowledges the goal to rob the subjects more and more - welcome back to feudalism.