The State is us

It is not the state that ranges higher than the human being but the human is the up-most authority in the state which assists the community to cope with everyday life.

No state, considering its own coming and passing, its temporary existence, has the right of demanding or even forcing sacrifices of human lives.

The constitutional law of the state's defense against aggressors is characterizing the armed forces by clear defense mission, excluding definitely any war of aggression.

Nobody can be forced to armed force against one's will.

The defense army consequently consists of volunteers.

But the highest priority of the state is the preservation of peace by perspective politics, including all spheres of life.

This means especially the forbidding of economical overreaching and exploitation, of arms trade and military build-ups in other states and organizations as well as the interference of companies and religious groups with democratic decision-making processes and with the execution of decisions taken by liberal agreement.

To offset militant patriotism and primitive racism high educational standards of the population are necessary, so the state has to guarantee appropriate educational offers.

It is not a matter of creating well functioning one-track specialists and consumers under state control and paternalism but it relates to the (even earlier propagated) empowered citizen with the ability of thinking and deciding accordingly to an enlightened and humane world view that is free from ideology and is objectified, that is responsible, emancipated, provided with empathy and education of the heart, that respects distinguished talents and avoids egalitarianism.

The exaggeration of the national state, often appealing to “God”, is representing a hypocritical outrage against the human, reviles the citizen and the international community and is only aiming at the claim to power and the maintaining power of blended egomaniacs and their followers.

Supplementary reference: The Cosmonomic Manifesto

www.raymond-walden.blogspot.de/2009/11/cosmonomic-manifesto.html

Escalation Of The Error

If the error is “just human“ and nothing special, it must be a careless playing down of just an error, because, in the real sense, the human life is suffering from errors, well, it is dying of them by tremendous excesses.

The everyday error and its often non-discern are giving the error its endless normality that is interrupted only, if tragic or sensation will lead to a particular personal shock.

Error is meaning false expert advice, inaccurate assessment, conclusion far from reality and absurd action. The reference value is determined by the prospering human life, every intent of causing illness, every destruction and extermination against the human individual, in this sense, is meaning error.

A random glance on human history is showing chains of errors during all epochs and in every region. The more people the more inadequacies, incompetencies and illusions. Modern technologies are increasing the emergence and the effects of aberration many times; there is no limitation in sight.

Countless mean egoistic interests, claims to power provide targeted disinformation and dogmas of Faith for the purpose of mass enticement, of mass aberration. Shelter against this can succeed by experience, knowing and education only which are not given to everyone and are very different in the majority of people. Further aspects are the personal age and socio-cultural conditions which carry weight, beside the innate intelligence, in developing the desirable and constructive critical intellectual capacity.

A humane true moral that realizes its necessity and obligation is leading to a standard of living in stabilized superiority over all forms of bogus morality and double standards. It enables to consequent respect of the common human rights and the ideals of freedom and emancipation and it puts the striving for peace universally right on top of the agenda of the social intercourse.

Viewing at the present world, not only disillusion is setting in but severe concern is spreading out because of the manifold squalidness which, in times of global networking and at highest population, pile up a new complexity of most serious conflicts.

The quite openly shown dopiness and primitiveness of mightiest rulers and the also primitive indifference of insatiable consumer societies are creating a most explosive situation of tension as a thread into the smallest private sphere.

Unresolved racism, anachronistic patriotism, nationalism and religious fundamentalism are feeding the old fires of destruction but this time by an unexpected mixture of fuel and from always newly rearmed arsenals.

In view of millions of refugees and hunger related deaths worldwide, in view of the impoverishment of complete continents we have to get to know without euphemisms: The human being, up to now, has been an error of himself. He is killing each other in the name of hieroglyphs, he is interested primarily in his ego which he is naturally caring for at the expense of exploitation of others, of underprivileged individuals and peoples.

Mankind extensively owes this inhumane construct which meanwhile is established worldwide to the Anglo-American principle of capitalism. This principle, in spite of hypocritical assurance of democracy, unifies all rights of the stronger. Imperialism which was believed hastily to be overcome has been polished by rigorous argumentation and bogus morality so that today even former imperialist class enemies are integrated, and slavery of capitalists of every color goes on without hindrance.

It is for this reason that there must occur terrorist uprising and resistance. But this doesn't matter the avaricious broker nor the consumer mob who is captured in thoughts of demand, who lacks education, humanity and empathy in a depressing way.

Consequent turning away from the errors and confusions is meaning peace research and immediate controlled transparent disarmament. As there is no chance of earning money by this in the demanded superficiality all those confused ones trust in military, in producing weapons up to the idiotic “overkill”: “After us, the deluge!” or more unconcerned burgeois:

“It has always fared well.”

But it is not going well. Plenty of TV programs are offering daily idiocy and violence as their principles of entertainment and this makes an impact as brutalization and dullness are widening in all social classes. Free arms trade and weapons ownership, such as in the USA, bring out appropriate uncontrollable fatal effects which cannot be stopped even by the embarrassing chatter of politicians and lobbyists.

Capitalism, behaving more liberal than other tyrannies, is aiming openly to a minority of ever getting richer ones as an exploiting class over the rest of the world. It happens by a raging national dulling which is the result of common level falls in educational requirements, of egalitarianism, of publishing company agglomeration, of enforced press conformity, of intrusive and distorting advertising that is similar to mental pollution, of fueled sensationalism and generation of anxiety, of unsettling distributions of the untruth and definitely wrong doctrines and, at last, of continuous chumminess with religions and esoteric movements.

All these campaigns are boosted by pretended ambitious goals like environment protection, liberty, health and humanity, distinguished and higher honorable targets are deluded, also giving the blessing to the simple silting up of many of the pompous fashions in the absence of relevance.

Enemy images are originated and pushed in order that humans, as enemies, get ready to any sacrifice, to offer their lives for the reprehensible benefits of war profiteers with their ideologies and denominations.

Empowered immaturity and ignorance are decorating the flags of the capitalist error which eats away itself because of cooperation with but every injustice for profit optimization. Thus it fathers and gives birth to the global terrorists which it even feeds fatty for reasons of the lies about “justified” wars.

If it is not possible for human intelligence to develop new and honest social patterns soon, more or less according to the Cosmonomic Manifesto, the human error will rapidly kill itself. The, meanwhile, very reliable technologies will overextend and run over the unreliable behavior, will run over the error.

Actual American mental and moral barbarisation like the European small-minded backward orientation are significant indications of the global emergency for the opening of a new era. Other cultures elsewhere which do directly depend on the so-called West are just tragic playthings for a new orientation of mankind because their attitudes of consciousness are stagnating even much further backwards in traditional unhappiness though they also have developed enormous powers. They are wrong, per se, and strive additionally for the western errors what is not agreeing with them and not with us all.

“Growth” of the rich is the creed of the inhumane capitalism, but it is the error alone that is escalating to this immensity. It is culminating in radical incomprehension and speechlessness, in the believing in blind fights of hereafter fantasies and megalomania.

But believing is not only ignorance, believing is error.

And there we face the roots of human tragic: The believers don't drop their error. They don't dare and they don't want it. Learning disability is leading from one disaster to the next catastrophe.

Real life is demanding reality, is yearning for care, wants to practice dignity and wants to differ from the animal like. It wants to know!

Its values are of understanding character and not of pipe dreams, ideologies and Gods

which allegedly are floating above life.

May liberal enlightenment meet the people, still in time and comprehensively, even if it doesn't seem so, actually.

Don't let us pray but think causally and act responsibly humanely, nonviolently, incorruptibly; dedicated to emancipated life, here and now.

Does the Islam Belong to Germany?

A started question of levity, not even the reason of this question will be evident, if a certain opportune actuality is neglected.

So what is Germany?

An apparently secular state? Far-reachingly involved in church and religion affairs? Although people without religion and church membership are representing the numerically strongest group?

Do liberal democratic principles really describe the German fundamental consciousness or does a more conservative and thoughtless society follow more or less accurately the state authorities into the capitalist growth with all its inhumane causes and effects?

Isn't a further conservative orientation, as the Islamic streams are propagating it, coming to an opportune moment to join the apparent ecumenical unity?

So what is Christianity in view of the countless splittings and different interpretations of the Bible?

And what is the Islam, tearing each other by interpretations of the Coran?

Where to are Islamic social orders leading? One may look at the states which are dominated by them!

After all some approaches of enlightenment were made possible by the softening of Christian stances which originally weren't of less cruelty. Of course, this enlightenment meanwhile is financed away by presentable agreements of the insatiable capitalism.

The question „Does the Islam Belong to Germany?“ seems to be quite ridiculous because the various Islamic manners are there in Germany, recently more often, but what is the meaning of „recently“? Once again, what is Germany at present, what was it earlier, how historically of short breath and changing?

The purpose is to create an enlightened liberal democratic humane European space for living in the future.

In trying this all religions have failed and they are on the point of even more afflicting derailment by the multiple use of new technologies.

Religious liberty is „freedom of option“, who would call it in question as it is existing.

The factual and inevitably amounting confrontations of religions are marking a typical temper of all those who feel chosen and are leading to disturbances of the public peace preventing further and higher humane development of zivilisation.

Being misinterpreted as „humane progress“ freedom of religion is implementing the paradox of religion and democracy into the public which means an absolute impossibility because of the exclusivity against each other. In other words: A wrong track to the future, even codified in constitutions. Simply because of their sometimes venerable ages these liberty manifestations, again and again praised as democratic examples, need a consequently secular revision.

The secular enlightened state doesn't follow any religious instructions like officially, for example, astrology doesn't possess any meaning.

No private religious view has the right for missioniring the public, even more it is the duty to integrate oneself in a secular and liberal-peaceful manner, or the logical consequence is possible, in case of religious stubbornness, to look for an adequate habitat out of enlightenment.

Increasing religious immigration, in Germany as in all other countries, is meaning sociopolitical step back by growing irrational conflicts and thus causing the weakening of secular achievments.

I Do Not Advocate Revolution

John Tischer

“Common sense is painful”

(paraphrase of Buddha’s first truth) 

I do not advocate revolution in the US of A

because it will put my life at risk.

I do not advocate a national demonstration

of protest against a criminal government

because it will put my life at risk.

I do not advocate assassination of any CEO of

banks, oil companies, Monsanto, leaders

of the Republican and Democratic Parties,

DOW Chemical, heads of the CIA, NSA, 

the Fed., or any of the other criminal 

institutions and businesses of the USA,

because it will put my life at risk.

I do not advocate a boycott of all elections

by all Americans because it will put my life at risk.

I do not advocate that all intelligent Americans

that can see what's happening there with their

own eyes leave the country and let the bastards

that are left eat each other alive, because it

would put my life at risk. 

I advocate that individuals use their common sense,

and realize that there is no way those planes could

have brought down the Twin Towers... common sense

and the statements of hundreds of expert engineers.

Common sense is painful.

I advocate that people start using their common sense

about what's happening with fracking, domestic military

use, Wall Street robbery, media brainwashing, loss of

Posse Comitatus, and Habius Corpus, general erosion

of the Bill of Rights and begin to understand what's

happening in America.

I advocate that people start looking for themselves and

not listen to what they are being told....common sense....

which has been and is being as degraded as much as 

the environment we live in.

The Declaration of Independance says people have a

right to overthrow a corrupt government. You didn't 

hear that from me....I don't want to put my life at risk

for a populace that cares only for shopping, sports,

cable T.V. and their I pods.   It's ok with me if you're 

content to stew  in your own cesspool. Just realize

that I won't bathe in it with you.

(Courtesy of the author)

Cultural profile

     John Tischer (born in 1949, in Chicago, as a son of a German father and a Jewish mother) is a contemporary poet from the United States. He graduated the Carleton College in 1971 and was a student of Chogyam Trungpa in 1972. In 2004 he settled in Tepoztlan, Mexico.

     John Tischer writes poetry since the 70's. A few poems from his vaste creation have been published in  “Windhorse”, a Buddhist literary magazine. He was also present with poetry on "Sleepless Nights", an electronica music radio show (KGNU, Boulder, Colorado), a dozen times in the late 1990’s. Some of his readings are available as MP3 on www.buddabomb.com

     Published books: Brownian Life (“Bibliotheca Universalis” Collection,  Ed. PIM, Iaşi,  2015). Books in progress: Café at the End of Time (a novel). Poetry blog (since 2007): Eggtooth Breaks Open, www.johntischer.blogspot.com

     John Tischer is an honorary contributor of “Contemporary Literary Horizon” from 2011.

(Courtesy of Daniel Dragomirescu)

See also: America Is No Longer A Democracy

 

Democracy and Responsibility

    

   Daniel Dragomirescu

The masses of solidary citizens that were participating in a commemorative march for the victims in the Colectiv Club came back last night on the streets of the capital in triple numbers. They marched in front of the most important political institutions, starting with the Parliament and ending with the Victoria Square Palace. They were not silent anymore, they tried to sketch a project for a better country, asking for and obtaining the downfall of some important leaders that were responsible for what does not work in Romania, starting with the Prime Minister, Victor Ponta, who was the hope of the young wing of the former USL.

One question that was asked was: if ‘they’ fall, do we have a better option? The slogan that came back and was shouted by the 30.000 demonstrants in Bucharest – “All parties – the same misery” – says it all: unfortunately, at the moment people have completely lost faith in the existing parties, both those in office and the ones in the opposition, a more or less ornamental one – a fact officially recognized by Ponta himself, who, not long ago, had the bad idea to pride himself on the fact that at present, in Romania, “there is no opposition”. This severe crisis of faith of the Romanians has been obvious for a while, yet no political party made a real attempt to heed the signals and improve its performance on the political scene.

The second question is a logical one, but which, in the tragic context of the events in the Colectiv Club sounds malicious, disrespectful and even provocative. I reproduce it here, quoting the comment of a reader on the site of a national magazine (“Revista 22”): “It’s ok to protest, but it’s better to pay attention to who you vote for! In a democracy you cannot blame anyone but yourself. Who elected Piedone  mayor? Who elected Oprescu? Who elected Ponta and Oprea through the uninominal voting system?” End of quote.

However, things are not as simple as they appear in this subtly partisan way of thinking. Democracy does not mean taking responsibility off parties and politicians and blaming simple citizens for their bad government. Similarly, during the June 1999 Mineriad, the responsibility for the brutalities did not fall on the real miners, but on those who manipulated them. The first to be held responsable in a democracy which is not an oligarchy are the parties, the members of the parliament and the Govern. If you want to rule a country, you have to take responibility for your deeds. You should not make too great demands on the trust and the understanding of the citizens whose legitimate expectations you belie, so that afterwards you can shift the guilt for what you did wrong or just not well enough on them. Only demagogues and their interested or naive allies can say: citizen, you are to blame because you voted for this opportunist or: citizen, you are to blame because you did not care to vote for an opportunist.

It is true that there is no democracy, in the modern sense of the word, without political pluralism. But is also equally true that democracy means the unconditional responsibility of those to whom people delegate power temporarily through their votes.

English Version: CLH Team

Europe's Pretended Democracy

Apart from the geografically determined terminology I call Europe into question.

What is Europe, does it really exist and if, which will the prospects be?

Or is Europe just billowing like an idealistic dream on the one hand and like an unwelcome despotic and exploitative Goddess of the cheating of liberty on the other hand?

European values?

Who bravely dares when and why to define a community of values?

After this European world-history?

The world is hurt by a crushing occidental adventurism that has been performed especially in the name of a religious mission which represents a mentality of conquest and subjection that is encouriging modern but outdated madmen to follow suit.

Culture is put in the shade, if one might speak of culture at all under those disgraceful aspects.

European powers mauled each other, destroyed other peoples and landscapes, made people slaves by an unscrupulousness that is, at present, escalating worldwide as method of ruling and hegemony.

European keys to success are converted naturally into any cultural traditions whereas they address the satisfaction of greed and the stabilisation of violence and  systems of command.

European superiority arose in particular from the so-called age of rationalism which meant remarkable relaxation of religious rigidity, caused by brave intelligences that brought science and technology also in the daily life. But just this material use of the spiritual relaxation enabled the European rulers to more and more destructive military campaigns. They abused systematically the progress which they never could establish by themselves as they were bound to their dogmatic mental limitations.

Being rather upset about the disastrous impacts of the two worldwars several enlightened people developed the idea of a unified and peaceful Europe, but did they have success in really convincing the politicians and the population? Is Europe on a way of growing humanization or do we only watch a new orientation of old power structures, a further deviding between technological progress and traditional spiritual pedantic growth?

First of all there has been an exceptional long and relatively peaceful coexistence of the European states after the last worldwar. Except some compareably local armed engagements there has been silence because of the primary threat by the splitting into East and West with absolute destructive potentials on both sides. After the dissolution of the Eastern block the European Union grew stronger not only by new members but, above all, as the leading economic power on the continent.

The fascinating European idea became impressive reality by the freedom of travelling and movement of persons and goods and by commonplace collaborations that take place meanwhile as routine operations. War between Eu members seems to be absolutely impossible, one might think who isn’t watching so directly.

Europe’s philosophy, however, is marked by an unbearable lethargy of thought which should be named as what it actually is: unprincipled expediency and inability.

Opinion-making in the media and their best networks is accepted as a matter of course, media working frankly against freedom of the press, generating bogeymen, creating desinformation and concealing essential processes and events.

The European Union is neither a confederation nor a state union of equal members but is following the dictatorship of the capital which is concentrated in a few member states. Without a common constitution the EU is implementing rediculous dicisions of the European Commission like the meanwhile revised standard of the curvature of cucumbers or the valid regulation on light bulbs. A giant parliament is serving as a pseudo-democratic administrative bureaucracy designing and approving laws in favour of banks and the lobbies of oil companies and arms producers.

Traditional exploitation of the Third or Second World is part of the secret but intended procedure camouflaged by inandequate development aid or poor commercial privileges. Weapons and war are profitable business and set the course even in company  of undemocratic ruling systems, integration of rotten religious world views and the keeping on “Christian Values” that have approved as murderous state doctrines since 2000 years support with an antiquated raison of the society which lags more and more desperately behind technological progress.

Democracy and transparency are stopped ideologically by a directed religion of climate-fear-production and by a particularly German so-called “Energiewende” an absurd turnaround in energy policy. Both startegies are targeting of fat-cat payouts of every single citizen – a senseless doing of business that doesn’t appreciate and protect nature but burdens it.

Concerning rigour and unscrupulousness in enforcing capitalistic profit and growth the USA is at first position worldwide. Second is the EU which delivers the explanation for her success that is regarded by people especially in poorer countries with fictious glorification.

Of course, life will be quite comfortable in the USA or in the EU, if one has an income to dispose of, and if the person is an opportinistic or naïve fellow traveller and dogooder. If a person isn’t  in harmony with the “standard”, the exclusion will vary according to the divergence of the critical thinking by covered conceiling up to public condemnation and denunciation or even criminal prosecution.

By no means the European Union is indicating an open-minded (cosmopolitan) society but caused the establishing of numerous smaller states just in younger history, she brings nationalistic and separatist small-mindednesses into the arena and creates home-made Europhobia. The reason is in fundamental diversities concerning economic and currency affairs as well as social and foreign policy.

Some member states belong to NATO, others stay officially neutral – a mixture that culminates in Germany – which let us not forget – as there has been no peace treaty since 1945, as there is no constitution approved by the people and as there is still the enemy state clause of the UN Charta.

The unjustified war against Iraque was fought by the USA essentially from military bases in Germany where the occupators also store American nuclear weapons. (Of course, the occupation will not be called that officially towards the USA because of Germany’s vassalage.)

The enevitable question arises as to wether there is a democratic legitimation of the EU: Can the existence of this alliance of states be justified by a dictation of the capital and by the arbitrariness of administration in Brussels?

As a grandiose idea of humanity Europe, at present, is suffering from an enormous treason – and there are nowhere brave opinion leaders and philosophers bringing this to an end.

Secret services, large companies, economic strategists and war ideologists are preventing the boldest approaches on human dignity and freedom.

Some parts of Europe are performing in complacent satisfation, growth oriented and saturated. At the same time it is ignored how Africa, Latin America, large parts of Asia and even own EU members are left behind.

Up to now Europe is not able literally to jump over her antiquated shadows and to take up really humane changes such as, for example, they are drafted up in the Cosmonomic Manifesto.

Instead of this a secret and so-called Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is negotiated with the USA. Undemocratic the methods and undemocratic the substance!

We know similar contemptuous proceedings at the Bilderberg Conferences. 
European parliament elections appear as farces against such backgrounds, as higher national dulling and camouflage of an actual decline in democracy.