End of War

Raymond Walden, Avignon - France, 2019

The eighth of May 1945:

War was over, so we are told,

but was it?

It was the year I did arrive,

soon I'll be 75

and, of course, I've considered it

all my life growing old.

Did you ever hear of a peace treaty, about its signing?

Can you mark one year after without war?

Proxy wars are stirred up by former victors till now, very undermining

and tormenting the world at many places as ever before.

Though I was born into this ruined Germany,

had to flee later from East to West,

where I experienced freedom and Human Rights' philosophy,

I've lived, for sure, in a democracy – one of its best!

So I feel grateful to all people in the world, where so ever,

who struggle for liberty, honesty and emancipation.

I would support no discrimination and warmongering, never!

I stand up for true humanity, solidarity and education.

But I recognize democracy worldwide is dying,

money, nationalism, weapons and violence are ruling instead,

preachers and ideologists are denying

what is going on in a real peace-loving head.

I feel free to honor all heroes of consequent liberty

and dedicate to them all – famous and unknown ones – 
my document of peace and dignity

by this Blog of Cosmonomic Philosophy.

May enlightenment improve

and prevent war by wisdom and empathy.

Where, otherwise, would we move

in this present pandemic agony?

Consciousness is Thinking and Feeling …

… pursuant to the awareness which is subject to inner deceptions as well as to external manipulations.

Being aware of this, you may aim for objectivity and may certainly reach a remarkable approach to reality. In doing so, time is generating a valuable resource of experience which is offering the necessary distance for keeping track. Sovereign distance is the result of specialist and common knowledge and of rested composure, enabling to a directed and unexcited engagement.

A prerequisite for this is honesty and truthfulness towards oneself and towards the fellow men.

Consciousness without such a moral reduces itself to a stressful vegetating and, not seldom, also to a hollow sense of self-esteem, even to rigorous obsession with power.

When we look closely at the behaviors of certain politicians, regardless of their doubtful contents of speech, their tortured mental states virtually become clear, ever hunted by an evil opposition, even within their own ranks.

What kind of consciousness is grafted onto entire nations by dictatorial systems under such circumstances?

Which consciousness enables political judges to pass their arbitrary judgments? Which consciousness is driving army drill instructors, which the torturers, and which the executioners?

Do the soldiers' cheerful songs, when sent into World War I, have anything to do with consciousness or do they just prove the significant fact of epidemic errors?

Aren't nationalism and racism ineradicable plagues of a brain deformation, far away from consciousness?

Normally the healthy human is in awareness, of course, but in the case of indoctrination and ignorance, it is just reduced to the “being alive”: No backgrounds, no dissenting individuality, no development nor perspectives. The human consciousness does not represent a basic value, not even a typical unique human characteristic, rather a parameter of different intelligence and education, of cultural maturity and humanity. The life, being in accord with the actual reality, using the natural options for a cultivated optimization of life, is forming the basis of a dignified consciousness contradicting all the practiced orders of faith and forces of opinion.

Consciousness requires vital care, permanent comparison, updates under full reserve to historical reference.

The so-called liberal democratic society, in particular, is to be valued by this, and above all, it has to recognize its own deficits, which is evident for a humane consciousness and an adequate planning and acting possibly worldwide.

In other words: Cosmonomic life understanding.

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