Being
asked by my Romanian friend, Daniel Drogomirescu, editor of the
international magazine “Contemporary Literary Horizon”, for an
article about my sincere opinion about the present crisis of the
world, reduced only to the reasons of the CONVID 19 health problems,
I hesitated at first because I am not a “wise” man who knows
answers to the many of questions.
But
– on the other hand – I know plenty of questions that are not
asked and, subsequently, are not answered – because of various
reasons. So I am going to put some of these questions on the tablet
hoping that one or another can be answered by itself, just by clearly
speaking it out.
I
suggest three categories of questions concerning 1) economy, 2)
ideology, 3) democracy
which
may stand for the foundations of society as well as for the state
organization.
Economy:
Which
of the economically important states does not follow the irrelevant
doctrine of permanent and infinite economic growth on our limited
planet?
Does
any of these states really care about the poor districts, slums and
ghettos where millions of humans are suffering?
How
many of these states deal with weapons instead of helping the poor
countries with civil goods?
Is
there a difference between capitalist or communist exploitation?
Does
any of the preachers of economic growth calculate the amount of
rubbish and its necessary clearing?
Do
the industrialized populations take notice of low wages or even
slavery in the poor countries where international companies let
produce the wares that are sold at cheapest prices in the capitalist
home countries?
Ideology:
Is
there any state without ideology or religion, without indoctrination
but with enlightenment instead?
Is
there a difference between ideology and nationalism, even racism and
the faith of being chosen by any “God”?
Which
ideology can be confirmed by objective science?
Does
ideology serve or hurt human rights?
Isn't
ideology nothing else but an instrument of ruling and patronizing
the citizens?
Isn't
ideology the precondition for all the wars ever?
Democracy:
Democracy
is depending on humans' education and self-consciousness. Where on
this planet is this condition a really fulfilled fact?
Isn't
democracy just a great pretending as the actual governors are
finance bosses or clergymen or other ideologists, often acting from
behind?
Is
there any country on the globe where the leading media don't serve
the state reason that is always updated by the present rulers –
however they have come into power?
What
about violence? Don't the “democratic societies” tolerate and
support violence by delivering weapons, by turning over foreign
governments, by doing contracts with terrorists, by trading with
inhumane regimes?
Are
the common people prepared for democracy which also means
responsibility, fair competition and humanity as well as the shelter
of flora and fauna?
Aren't
democracy and freedom deformed into global greed of “free trade”
with even undemocratic own justice, at first following the intention
of “devil may care” or “let us hope for a better life in the
hereafter”?
So
– in general – it is possible that a pandemic like COVID 19 is
shocking mankind all over the globe, independently from any political
systems which all in the same way feel in substantial danger. Though
the systems are even bloody competitors they are working all in the
same manner: exploiting people and nature for the benefit of the
ruling classes. These classes are identically narrow-minded and
unprepared for any unexpected challenge like a new virus and their
first thoughts are how to assure their position keeping in wealth and
power.
Best
way is to calm people down by creating activism up to hysteria making
them anxious so that they accept quarantine, total control of their
private lives, causing financial chaos and at last forcing the
individual into dictatorship because of the urgent recovery of the
state which has been ruined by massive incompetent decisions before,
just to cope with the disease.
There
are hardly any international scientific collaborations but national
egoistic restrictions,
distrusting
the neighbors – even within political coalitions like the European
Union or within federal structures like the USA or Germany where
low-minded dissents become obvious.
The
current ideologies of the globe are all aware of their lying,
betraying, their cheating and criminal as well military actions. They
know about their failures and they know as well that the technical
progress is more and more debunking their egoistic rapes of mankind
and their omissions of scientific preventive measures and
sustainability.
COVID
19 blames them all who failed and who are now struggling for keeping
up their “careless” system.
The
people, as it has been always, will have to pay the price for all the
politically incompetent campaigns which, above all, will weaken
democracy, human liberty and which are destroying humane social
structures, welfare and the economical basis of the state turning
back gradually to totalitarian habits.
More
people will suffer much more from the inefficient actions of lacking
causality and from the not coordinated decisions all over the world
than from the actual disease.
Do
the numerous so-called experts, contradicting themselves and each
other, really know in whose interest they are proclaiming and
interpreting arbitrary statistics giving advice to ignorant
politicians?
Maybe
the whole situation is a hint for consideration: Democracy and
freedom, in their vulnerable status of just beginning rarely, and
civilized culture could find their end by caused hysteria, panic and
disorientation in global error and not only by the usual nationalism
and war even.
More
than ever before there is an urgent need for new social behaviors,
the old values of double standards can't be defended any more as the
world population is increasing and with it the demand for
emancipation.
