Monday, December 13, 2010

Lipstick For Blonde Blue

- New Release 2011

early 2011 will show my collection of poetry "A Taste of Honey" - bitter serious, humorous, thoughtful poems. In my blog you already have the opportunity in the book to get a first taste !

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Sunday, December 12, 2010

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An invisible Committee. The next uprising

I accept the text I was electrified. In particular, the first seventy pages are brilliantly written, the analysis sharp and sometimes very convincing, the rhetorical flames hot, confident tone and content. The text is called a manifesto, the authors come from France, however, remain anonymous. A rebellion is not proclaimed, but simply announced. "We are already in motion the downfall of a civilization. That is the point where you have to take sides, "wrote the committee that, for strategic reasons" will remain invisible ...

The problems are familiar: unemployment, financial crises, environmental disasters, migration, the disintegration of Europe ... The invisible Committee believes, however, that the real crisis is different. "The preservation of the self in a state of permanent semi-decay, chronic failure in a half is the best-kept Mystery of the current order of things, "it writes.

And: "The weak, depressed, self-critical, virtual self is essentially the infinitely adaptable subject that requires a production that is based on innovation, accelerated deterioration of the technologies, stable transformation of social norms, generalized flexibility." This is not so looked at the "recognized" problems, but on the place of the individual human in a society that does not expect the individual man.

The man, says the committee is detached from any affiliation, from his family, his friends, his neighborhood, his history, his work and his calling, he heard nothing more. By the constraints of the economy is "expropriated" from his self: he should not work to live his life but to give up his life to work. What makes his life, inwardly and outwardly, is no longer even relevant. Man is himself estranged, and his hatred of the stranger merges with the hatred of themselves as strangers ".

They are strong sentences that include a lot of truth. Very much are the following: "There is no environmental catastrophe. There is this disaster that is the environment. The environment is that what the human remains when he has lost everything, "and". What solidifies as environment, this is a relationship to the world that builds on the administration, that is, of alienation ". Rudolf Steiner would say at this point that the disaster not a disaster but an opportunity for the young soul is consciousness. The disaster would be from his point of view rather from the fact that it is not perceived as an opportunity.

The last strong sentence. "Every life is a dose of truth that does not know the Western concept of" less strong, however, seem to me the revolutionary proposals to be made on the last thirty pages of the manifesto be. The first recommendation is still strong: begin with your truths. "A truth is not something that one has, but something with a". The second recommendation is true: take your friendships seriously. "Every encounter encounter in a joint affirmation is". That sounds like a culture of the heart.

with some aspects but I have problems. The first is that in the text again and again the "partisan" is romanticized. The fighter is described as a resistance soldier who must do what he wants, as long as it serves the cause and will not be caught as well. Pain, he may just the stupid or smart "others" obviously cause that one is used in revolutionary movements. Who is meant by the stupid others is clear in the text: that is adaptive citizens (! Not WE who are reading the manifesto)

Anonymous is the cunning other, the enemy, in the text again and again "one" is called, passes through the conspiratorial with his success seems unworthy goals. He seems to be invisible to the boardrooms of large companies reside. I believe that as a "man" does not exist. If there is an enemy, I mean, he would have to be sought in ourselves. Revolutions, found in their output that the others have debt, we no longer need ...

"Once we are entered in the visibility, our hours are numbered," wrote the committee. This attitude is understandable, however, mean a step back. What good are more likely, radiant "egos" that arise in the light of the sovereign public. A committee makes himself invisible to the ulcer, not the alleged complicity of the great things to dissimilar. "Man" sets out on this way to an enemy that does not exist.

The committee, according to communities (in the German text is misleading talk about "communities": romantic revolutionary rhetoric) Incurred "not to do by an inside and outside a defined as collectives, in general, but by the density of connections within her." That is very true, very important. This inside out to protect anonymity, however, necessarily lead to a separation between inside and outside. And it created "man" just what will "they" fight: the strangeness.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

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practices of a culture of the heart. On the financing of new talent profiles

when speaking in today's society of "work" is to always "paid" a work meant. Work today means primarily not to do something meaningful, or even at all do what you want to achieve on its own really, but to generate an income. In this sense, work in our society is a sacred duty: every responsible citizen in this respect has a quasi-sovereign responsibility for its own existence.

If someone, for whatever reason, is unable to fulfill this responsibility successfully, then he will get money from the state. In this context, we then speak of something like "solidarity", which means something like: In our enlightened society we do not let the unfortunate and clumsy and "work disabled" in the lurch. Basically, this solidarity is based, however, to an anxiety: too many people with serious unrest existence needs to bring in the company, which could ultimately threaten the enlightened order of things.

from the idea that doing "free" the people would have what they own initiative - on the basis of "free" decisions - want to do, we are in any far away. To achieve this freedom, there is in today's society really only one way, namely to define himself as a freelance contractor. With all other forms of paid work is an integration along in non-free connections: you work for McDonalds, for the Ministry for a Waldorf school or for Greenpeace. That the concrete or abstract goals of one organization may be "good" and that of others may be "less good" changes nothing. A free to

entrepreneur means, but not that one necessarily to do that then you need to do. I need at this point not to describe all the factors that prevent an entrepreneur working to make his "work" for free - they are known. Add to that the fundamental question of whether the underlying decision was truly free, and the pulse is a "free" to become entrepreneurs, sometimes based on lack of freedom unnoticed.

My concern in this text will of the public company not understood and accepted - as an activity subject - especially the fact that there are a lot of people want something, something really WANT that as a working subject said better. To modify an educational concept of the special teachers in a social Henning Köhler: there are "new talent profiles" which are not perceived as such. In other words, people can do something that is not generally recognized as a meaningful activity.

An example is a good friend of mine. It is not easy to describe what he does exactly. He is constantly on the go, working on so-called "ecological" and "social" projects, connects people to each other, can "read" what people want, open doors, reach-set unattainable goals, inspired by his positive attitude to life. To be more precise: his talent profile is the fact that he can actually feel (which does not mean that he can always put into words), hidden potentials which lie between the parties. One could not say again that he is a "networker" because his inspiring activities go far beyond. I regard him as a "fate-yourself".

On the financial level, he gets his life but not organized. It is in this respect front of an abyss, the way he accepted with a certain lightness. Nevertheless, this abyss, which is an abyss: an abyss. To have by feeding as "unemployed" by the state, he does not want, did not get because he will be too little money - he comes out with very little - but because connected with the money of the obligation to apply for jobs that he not want to do. He thus faces a question that is not a question, go with what he really wants to do to stop or so and report to the employment office.

text in a blog can be such a biographical situations are failing because always a hundred things also play a role for the hundreds of pages are needed. I feel however, that in this respect there is an urgent issue that is crucial for the development of a culture of the heart. Just wait for it until the unconditional income is introduced is not, even more so, to get this far, are today just the suggested new talent profiles used. What does that mean?

That is my opinion that the concrete must Schicksalsflechtwerke around the participants to take an initiative. Ultimately, and it can and may yet be the "free" citizens, "friends" so that freedom from (one might also say, ask on the basis of understanding) to a commitment? In practical terms, twenty times fifty euros a month would bring thousands of euros. And it could be a fate experienced worker who is used to make do with little money to live well for a while, say once: for a year?

to participate in the biography of "friend" is an important aspect of a culture of the heart. Without this practical involvement, there is no culture of the heart. To the development of such a culture is precisely that of relevant experience and advances are made. With the introduction of such participation, the social sites of the future based on mutual, free recognition based created. With an old solidarity and support that has nothing to do. I