We live in turbulent times
For most of us, especially in the western, "civilized, first world", the world has always been more or less "okay". You live your life the way you do because that's the way you've come to know it and you don't know any other way. So why should we have questioned that?
Throw a frog into a pot ...
… of cold water and raise the water temperature just slowly enough and the frog will let itself be boiled alive.
Throw the same frog straight into hot water and it will leave the pot in a flash!
Is it just a story about a frog? Hmm, ...?!
Hmm, ...
- if you just keep raising prices in barely noticeable steps ...,
- if you have to work longer and longer to earn a living ...,
- if you suddenly have to pay extra for more and more things that are actually free of charge ...,
- if in the long run incomes rise a tiny bit slower than the general costs, ... ...
- when the costs in individual areas virtually explode for some flimsy reason ...,
- when ever higher taxes are levied on income and hard-earned assets ...,
"Well, it will work out somehow. It's always worked out somehow so far."
Hmmm, I wonder how long that will last? Just ask the frog ;-)
At some point, it just won't be "business as usual", then it's "end of story".
However, unlike the frog, we would have the huge advantage that we could have seen the development coming if we had wanted to and we would have had the chance to work on solutions in good time instead of always accepting everything as "God-given" and cultivating our own comfort zone ...
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... and then there are the other frogs.
The ones who say NO! …
No, to an authoritarian society in which everything is only aimed at carrying out orders that come across as "necessary laws" in order to keep social problems at bay that we would not have without this system.
No, to a "fully comprehensive society" in which nobody takes responsibility for their actions anymore and everyone only cries out for "saviours" when they are "hit" by illness, violence or other "strokes of fate" - because, after all, you are constantly paying for insurance, fees, taxes, ... and in return you want the security of knowing that you will be offered a solution, sh... regardless of whether I have become ill because I am feeding my body like a mobile rubbish tip or because I have delegated to my own politicians and corporations the power that I do not and cannot have myself to exploit other countries and, if necessary, to use force to ensure peace there, even if I secretly know that everything only serves the economic and power-political interests of a few.
No to a society in which everyone "looks the other way", ...
(this list could be continued endlessly).
Instead:
Yes, to a loving world!
Yes, to a world in which everything is available in the best quality and in abundance, because all the values that nature provides and all the values that man has created through his creativity and creative power are available to everyone.
Yes, to a world in which everyone follows the law of cause and effect and behaves towards others as they would like to be treated themselves.
Yes, to a world in which people live with love for their neighbour, mindfulness, care and a sense of responsibility for their environment and their fellow human beings, so that we can practically live what we really are: One big human family in which everyone is there for everyone else.
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