The No-Fault State

Why do we always, and merely, focus on the things that concern ourselves? How many of you care about the people that die in Iraque, people from there? How many know the numbers?

Fact is, the media has a hand for disaster. And even more so, for that type of disaster noone's gulity for. Haiti! HELP, HELP, HELP! Don't bother that billions of people die of famine, wars caused in part by ourselves, heavy national conflicts, child labour in the 3rd world. Don't bother that some of the issues are very WELL traceable to the WESTERN imperium! Didn't we exploit the 3rd world for years? Colonisation? Didn't we actively hinder some countries to develop the way we did? Didn't we use the riches of their world to build our own strong army-led empires? And ... against all those telling us that we do not profit from colonisation anymore (duh, it's ages ago!), it definitely helped US becoming what WE are and leaving them outside of everything. Because, hey, come on (!), aren't we the BIG BOSSES on this planet? Go, go West! And take everything right down with you as you fall. We are ONLY HAPPY about Haiti! LOOK, disaster happened, NATURAL kind! We didn't do anything. Let's help! Let's put our cool actors and singers on the tv screen, showing how much they CARE about Haiti. Let them collect for us, with their pretty plastic surgery induced faces and bodies. And no, this doesn't in any way prompt their own celebrity, art thou kidding? This is purely SELFLESS! Of course it is, how could it be anything else? Sure, there are some exceptions. ... Wait! Wasn't this the other way 'round? Damn it, I must loose track of things. Yes, I guess they're right! Haiti, that wasn't our fault, that's where we can help (and pretend that we didn't cause tremendous amounts of suffering elsewhere and WITHIN our own pretty West itself), that's where we can shine as the beautiful white heroes! Ha ... guess, after all, it's a no-fault scenery ... eh state?

Random Distraction

We live in a world, where most things do not really matter. Everything is fragmented, everything becomes relative. In the Western world, capitalism slowly invades every human interaction, every human soul. Living alone, walking alone, dying alone. And taking as many with you, as you possibly can. Why do we have to accept, that banks can cause a crisis all on their own, spreading their disgusting worldviews throughout the minds of our world? Why do we have to accept, that people are so lost in their greed and individual well-being, that they can't see nothing but themselves? Constant unhappyness, constant comparing. She's taller, she's prettier, he's sweeter, he's richer? Constant distraction. We put on the tv, and what we see is all the bad and all the good, and we're unable to differentiate. Soaked up in stupid daily soap operas, wrongfully put scientific evidence, influencing as much as they can. Rushing images, interesting sound. It doesn't even matter what we look at, most of us don't even process it anymore. Staring, consuming, excess. Everyday reality becomes a taken-for-granted reality. We're entitled to money, a good job, our family, our rights. But we won't fight for any of it, unless we loose it. We stop to appreciate what most generations before us never had. What they died for, what they lived for. We consume reality, tear it apart, want more and more and more ... When does more becomes less? When does everything become nothing? What is apparent, and what is real? Can we still believe in anything, when we size it down to physical laws and money? If we can manipulate every number with the right model, manipulate every emission with the right pictures, manipulate every vote with void promises, then what do we stand for? It isn't wrong to think that religion is narrow-minded in saying that you either go to heaven or hell. I agree. But if there is a battle between the two, and if we write history as we make it, then do we really think we'd go to heaven? Is this the world we want to show ourselves? A world in which your neighbour becomes irrelevant, the newest tv becomes a must. In which beauty means famine, and famine is normal? Question yourself, question your world. Because the future is a few seconds ago. We have a choice. We can change history. We can become better, fair. I don't believe that everyone is equal, but I believe in equal division, equal law, equal freedom to be who you want to be. And I don't want to be measured by the tv I have, or the amount of lies I've told for my own benefit, or how much I own. I'd prefer to be measured by how much I can care for those whom I love, how much I can give, how much I am willing to do for the person next to me regardless of what they'd do for me, how much I can thank life for having great people and memories in it. Yes, one person cannot change the world. But that doesn't mean, that one person has to agree with it ...

Running Out of Wonder? Welcome!

There's millions ...

of unsaid words, non-committed deeds, and avoided looks

In fact,

there's more of those than any other kind.

There's only very few ...

that speak up anyway, are not afraid to act, or look up from their books

To look.

Even at the most ugly things.

To understand.

Even those very scary moments.

To enter.

One room. Filled with their fears, their hopes, desires and pain.

Filled with all the images they cannot shake.

To feel, live, breathe, and experience that very reality.

That makes them someone. Filled with nothing but confrontation.

Cause there's only few ... that dare to.

Which of them you really want to be?