Hmmm, what is that? The "gaining"? Does it lead us to any sanity at all? One should think about that, its methods, and also its implications.
BTW, Sarkozy already talked about "his fears for infecting Europe with what is happening in Greece now". He said, he is anxious about a "hellenization" of Europe in the sense that many other people, especially the youth, would do the same as the Greeks do now.
Well, as you can see Harry, we still defend the values but not the powers that pretend to defend the values. They only pretend and at the same time they bring us into misery. And if you stand up your are public enemy number one overnight. Or else there would not have been an extra meeting of the European council yesterday afternoon on the subject of the "danger of hellenization" of Europe.
So don't worry guys, Europe *is* already "hellenized" and it will be countless times again by the timeless and steady example of those who still don't sell themselves for living conform and comfortable with inhuman systems that throw us some pieces sh*t and tell us we should be greatful and eat them. We don't eat that!
We don't like the idea that any guy anywhere anywhen, including Harry in Netherlands, would have to eat that in future for the laziness and fear of today to stand up and protest against inhumanity, no matter if our faces would be cut off. The average Greek says: My face is nothing. It is the human principle that counts, not my face. This is why our names will be remembered though our faces are not even known.
Once people lived in hardship and invented money to make trading easier and survive. Only in good times money was used not as a means for trade but as a means to gain more money. Same for democracy, it was a good invention in the old times but is has gone the same way as the money. Duth people are afraid to raise their face because they will be cut off. Be a sheel, thats safe. So we are waiting for the greek for a new invention.
There has been no real analysis in any radio or TV broadcast in the whole continent, Harry. Unfortunately we listen to the same old "diplomatical correctness" that is only protectionism for the established political powers. Do you feel you live in a democracy? I don't! It is the same all over Europy. This is not democracy but rather the induced d-i-c-t-a-t-o-r-s-h-i-p by lobboes and banks and so on. What does democracy have to do with obliging you to pay for their arrogance and insatibility? What does it have to do by presenting you a pre-constructed world that you then *must* find good and live in it? What does it have to do with the typical analphabets and ignorants that smile to you on TV when they are elected as ministers and prime ministers? And, as Mikis Theodorakis said: The only thing they tell you, when for example they speak to you about free education and you then have to pay a fortune for that, is: "You are stupid!". This is all what they say to us. That we are stupid.
And what is then the necessary thing to do for getting rid of all that? Right! You have a vision, you do resistance! This is what is happaneing in Greece now, and not the shameless characterisations of all the people on the barricades as "rioters". They are not rioters. They are revolting against the powers that be which have stilen their lives.
It is not GR where the democracy has been demolated. It is the whole continent. In Greece you have people that don't only sit in their living rooms, that's all.
I was just listening to the radio, an analysis. The death of the boy Alexis 15 years and riots following is a sign of 25% unemployment amongst youth, a government party that is not able to control the government. The greedy haves dont care a s.h.i.t. about the have nots. No democracy in greece, wasnt democracy a greek word and invented by greeks ? Cheers
And this is why people stampede the place down to the ground in Greece, Harry. Right so! We are not sheep! We are not going to take it anymore. Hopefully some more countries will awake from the d-i-c-t-a-t-o-r-s-h-i-p of insatiable multinational "kings" of banks and companies. We didn't get rid of real d-i-c-t-a-t-o-r-s-h-i-p-s in order to spend our lives under other ones that pretend to be democracies.
"Just as fast as they injected the billions into banks for "saving the system". For decades and decades we are asking for support for schools, health, education, for the homeless, for the kids, for anything, and they always said that the money was too little, and now.. Where the heck did they find all that money so suddenly? I thought it was "too little"??? So, perhaps the sheep should stampede at last, ey?"
Economy has a higher priority tha, the well being of individuals. Tenths of companies get support, financial or atherwise, same time healthcare is eroded and as patient you have to pay more and get less. The industry is dictating the healthcare system what to do. Sheep are so brave, so many dogs keep them in a flock. It needs a wolf to break up the flock ! Are you ........ ? Harry
Long time since you wrote that, Harry, but still it holds perfectly. It's exactly that!
In blindly following the mass there is also some kind of exactly that feel of "safety", or "protection" as you say, for most human beings, and this is in itself also understandable. Each individual one seems to feel somehow "protected" inside the stream of many many others that do the same. And each individual one considers the own self standing in an isolated way in front of the slaughter.
It is the typical behavior of the sheep, isn't it? When they face the knife of the slaughter each of them individually and instinctively thinks of the own neck, and not of the fact that they could easily overrun the slaughtering man with their... mass!
Sigh, sometimes I would really wish to be able to take each one of the sheep and ask them why the heck are they so afraid, when they are thousands, millions, billions. Why they still follow the slavery of the man with the knife (or of Pamela ;-)) for the fear of the own life.
But Theodorakis brought that aleady to the point: "You have to have a vision. Then you have to do.. resistance! Even if they have you thrown in jail as an individual sheep, you will be happy for that. If you blindy follow you will suffer unimaginably with your own self turned to some mindless marionette under their fingers. So, when they tell you for example about 'free education' and you still have to pay a fortune for that, you just come out, you say you have a vision, you won't pay a nickel for education, you do... resistance!"
And as it goes, if you have another million of resisting sheep on your side, I guess that the powers that be would turn education really free free free for everybody right on the very next day. ;-) Just as fast as they injected the billions into banks for "saving the system". For decades and decades we are asking for support for schools, health, education, for the homeless, for the kids, for anything, and they always said that the money was too little, and now.. Where the heck did they find all that money so suddenly? I thought it was "too little"???
So, perhaps the sheep should stampede at last, ey?
It is the same old game, but we play it willingly again and again by allowing ourselves to be reduced to a stupidified mass that doesn't have anything better to do than to run behind each and every hollywoodian made out of chease and chalk. (Or also silicon ;-))
Certainly not since they are already two different meanings/concepts. We can't equate them. One of them, freedom, is quite abstract and almost impossible to define sharply. The other one, democracy, is a well defined political system.
As a political system democracy is one of the warrants of freedom in a society of individuals. It has to define the part of freedom that doesn't result into suppressing one individual's freedom through the freedom of another. But this of course can only happen when it is real democracy and not some leadership of unequally considered "classes" diguised as democracy. Take an easy example: In s bank where I was working I was put under pressure for the typical "casing", the dress-code. This is not only a hint toward the narrowmindness of the typical bank, but already a striking annihilation, a complete cancelation of the democratic constitution itself! We cannot speak of democracy and much less we can speak about freedom in countries where this happens. And again, it is not only those who dictate such things but also those who accept them. Actually one should go right away to the constitutional court with that! (And this is what I did after telling them about that and seeing that they wouldn't come down from their thrones. You should have seen their eyes when the nice warning letter from the constitutional court came. >:-D )
Another example of such a misimplementation of democracy is the very fact that even politics have been made dependable on money and thus on the lobbies that can boost it or destroy it at free will. How can one be considered a democratic politician when it is the dictated interests of some groups that decide about the political steps that will be taken, even if those steps cancel the freedoms that democracy should secure? As you can see it is not democracy that rejects freedom, it is those that turn it into personal business and misuse it for achieving some personal advantage, not caring at all for kicking freedom down.
But when we see such things and still remain comfortably at home caring more about the D-cup of some girl ( ;-)) instead of entering some parlamentary building and taking some politicians out of it, we can't sit and complain about our lost freedom, ey? You know, it wasn't the comfortably whining people that removed the junta from Greece. It was exactly those guys that the news call nowadays anarchists, bad guys, murderers, rioters, and the like, when they go to the barricades.
The "training" you talked about surely supports all that, Harry. One of the main doctrins of this kind of business is: *Create* demand (!). Which by itself already reveals the manipulative character of what they call "free" market. Free? Thid kind of demand is generated - it wouldn't exist by itself. So, how can something be free when my mind has been manipulated to run behind things that they want me to run behind? Furthermore, how can something be free when I am put into some system without even being asked if I want to live that way. At the same time another doctrin of this system tells me about my human right to evolve to whatever I wish. Excuse me guys, this is the freedom of the prisoner who is of course free to walk wherever he wishes inside the walls of prison. I sh*t onto this kind of "freedom".
But still this is not at all some kind of absolution for the mass since they were given something that they still refuse to use: mind! It is always two who belong to any case of betrayal. The betrayer, and the stupid that allows the betrayer to betray him. Stupidity is not to be excused. In a game of poker, if the guy pokers too high and I believe him, it is not only his impertinence but also my stupidity! The right thing to do is to bet and see!
And exactly because that mass *allowed* the own dignity to be kicked down by the feet of the betrayers it is also worthy going down the damns. Which gives another possibility to paraphrase Mephisto:
... denn alles, was durch Dummheit entsteht, ist wert, dass es zugrunde geht; ....
The mass have been trained to live the "ego style" so we consume. The world is to noisy abd bright to listen to the ibber voice in your heart. For most.
And the sad thing is that the so called "common people" *did* support those balloons through their "ways of living" and other nonsense, though very proofs that those ballons had to blow up were available since centuries. The same common people that argumented vie the usual bubbles about western economy and free market are now "irritated" and "angry", etc, etc.
So, as long as they could gain from that they didn't bother to go read something instead of listening to talk-shows and believing that this was information. Now they come and cry so loud for the mistakes of the economists, but it was not only the economists. Exactly as it was not only the nazi-leadership in the darkest times of European history. It takes also a whole naive, stupid and read-lazy population for such things to happen, not only "top economists". For decades and decades the mathematical theorems about the impossibility of the myth of steady economical grow were available, but they didn't even bother to read them. They had to somehow finance their new bogger car. So, you wanted completely free economy and steady economical grow? You get it now!
Had that mass ever cared to also consider mental instead of only material wealth and profot, they wouldn't be the crying people of today. We have said that enough times, but we are only mathematicians. ;-)
You absolutely describe it, Harry! And I was not aware even of a single thing about all that when I took the image! ;-)
Perhaps the best way to predict something is to not even now what one predicts! ;-)
But seriously now, it was not only predictable to happen this way. It was inevitable. Here you can see another time the results of doing things purely out of "feeling" and without knowledge and ratio. This is exactly what those idiots were doing. They had some idea in mind about how things had to evolve and of course the world had the obligation to go that way because they were having nice ties and expensive suits on. They didn't undestand that you don't bend observations in order to make them fit some theory. It is the other way around but this demands knowledge and sharp rational thinking.
So, welcome to reality then, and let me see now what the "feelings-league" will say when the result of their own way of acting is their own misery. I guess that their songs and hymnes to "feelings" will be very different when they get unemployed! Hahahaaaaaa! I like it, I like it!!!
Prophetic ? Yes. It started wit an overvalued balloon exploding and hitting a few banks. As a domino game one bank pulled the other one down. Next is no loans or morgages given , housemarket collapses, withdrawal of mony, less consumism ( not bad ), factories will shrink, loss of jobs, nationalisation of banks, car sales collapses, recession.
Can you also do more predictions please, this one was spot on.
Yes, the black thick lines and spots are the shadows of the trees. I think that I wouldn't have shot it without them. They seemed to introduce something additional to the mere plane of leaves.
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