contains, what a diary should contain…
Oh dude… no vision, no mission…(at least nothing you would tell us…) but something like legitimacy achieved through a tiny majority in a vote against SHAFIK… are you serious?
Dr. El Baradei… it is kind of known that communication is an important tool to solve problems.
Man!
The social environment defines strongly how people act and interact. Also individuals which were known as someone change their behavior according to the social context. Everyone wants to be respected and to be liked and it needs a defined behavior within a defined social context to achieve this.
The death of a system is the organization of power in a pyramidal structure and the error-intolerance. The top of the pyramid does not make mistakes by any chance. Making mistakes is reserved for the people below the top. These people below the top are eager to contribute the errors which happen automatically once people act downwards the pyramid. The alternative is to stop acting.
The top of the pyramid defines a certain climate of possible success. The unwritten rules describe what people have to do to be successful within the system. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy – people invent behavior according to these unwritten rules and try to move forward according to these rules.
There is no such thing called personality. Everything happens within a social context. The difference between men and monster is a broad but invisible border.
Design is a creative business. And as a creative business it demands open thinking in different directions. This is already quite difficult for people without any obvious inner regualtion and rule catalogue. But it becomes even more complicated, if people stick to a certain way of thinking with embedded do’s and do not’s.
As for the fact that his way of thinking was taught to children since the very beginning, it is not possible for the upgrown child, to think outside of these borders. The regulations fulfill themselves only by preventing the thinker to think about them. They are just given and used intuitvely.
An open mind needs the possibility to move everythere and and to connect to everything. This is the idea of creativity and this process normally generates the best outcome. If the thinker has some forbidden areas in the mind, the process turns out to become less intuiutive and more complicated.
Humans are not free. The only thing that gives them a certain freedom is the content of the brain and the ways, how this content is used. The mind content does not grow in the brain but the mind has the ability to connect content.The Freedom human can achieve needs content. This Freedom needs knowledge.
On the other hand each thought is already defined by language and brain structure. Humans can never think out of this structure. This is one of the necessary restrictions of thinking. Without any restrictions it is random thought which will lead to nothing but confusion. Lucky are the ones who are able to change the starting ramp of their thoughts and to adjust the perspective.
These days I often think about the reasons, why sometimes ideas seem to be a reason for violence, no matter which idea it is.
Thoughts that come to my mind elaborating this question are often related to compensation of a lack of something. The history is full of examples of people who were aware that they lack something and tried to compensate this with the exaggeration of the state they would be in, if they would not lack something.
Now mankind lives in a time which provides a lot of knowledge from a scientific point of view. This knowledge might collide with some ideas certain beliefs provide. Even people who are not able to read and who have no direct access to this knowledge, might feel that there is a nameless threat to their perceived reality. As people are normally afraid of changes in their environment they try to protect it.
So it comes, that the subconscious or even conscious experience that things are changing and that some aspects of the scientific reality as well as the lived reality are about to invade a long fostered image of a particular belief.
At all times it was a normal human reaction to defend oneself with violence. And as the defended thing it now the possible core of a reality of a particular person or groups of persons, the defense is fierce and emotional. This defense is necessary, to show to oneself and to the others, that the own reality is still valid and exists, against all threats. The stronger the sign, the stronger is the support for this particular reality. So one can see burning objects and can see burning persons. An idea is protected with the destruction of important real things because it is this destruction, which transfers the idealistic weight of the destroyed objects to the idea.
A law of nature is that no transformation can be done without a loss of substance. To deny an already perceived new reality is always weaker than the positive support of a new idea. Nevertheless the fight of the desperate ones is the fiercest and most determined possible.
Egypt is waiting for the verdict against its former president, most probable announced tomorrow. The media speak from rising tension and feared confrontations. The army prepared for the worst, tanks and soldiers are employed.
But is this the reality of the real people? Walking through the streets and even on Midan Tharir I only see people who have enough to do to struggle with their daily life and to come along. For them the most imporant thing is stability and the possibility to survive.
I do not expect anything serious tomorrow. And I do not expect anything at all, that would improve the situation of the majority here in Egypt.
A wise man once said, that you never come home as the one you were, once you left. And now I am in a state that enables me to confirm this.
The county is changing and one can feel the change. It is visible in dogs, weapons, heavy cars, trouble with fuel and gas, troule with the economy, unsatisfied people of all classes. It is on the news and it is in the streets.
We had a revolution here in Egypt. This could be described as somehow an important event for each individual in this country, especially for the foreigners. And this might lead to the fact, that the people, once again especially the foreigners, look slightly different onto the things now. And they might also perceive in a different way.
Once I was a relaxed guy whom’s mantra was it, that the world won’t stop turning and that all the people have their sorrows, fears and problems, which leads them to act in a certain way. Well, I still believe this, but it does not help me any more.
Maybe it is the age, maybe it was the last year, maybe it is the current time. Whatever it is, it fucking drove me much more serious. And I am not sure, if I will get used to it. But at least the wonderful singing bird is back! Some things did not change!
well… nothing political this time. It is more about my home and the electric appliances in it. On Saturay we had a blackout for a minute or two. As the power came back, it obviously came back with all force… so the fuseswitch which connects the water boiler with the circuit was inflamed and stopped working. The result was, that we had no hot water. So I decided not to wait for the electriacian because the possibility that he can do it better than anyone else goes against zero. I bought a new fuseswitch and started to intall it. Of coure I removed all fuses which were in charge for the bathroom. I thought. I did not have in mind, that some of the sockets in the bathroom are connected with another room. Good for me that I never trust electric stuff and used a tong with plastic handle. The tong with the plastic handle shortly after had a free flight through the bathroom and I felt the shock right up to my shoulder. But there it stopped. Thanks to the plastic handle and the fuse of the guest room, which was rejected as a result.
But obviously this was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Combined with the never ending noise, the fuckin’ barking dog of our neighbors and the general struggle in this country with all its problems and the detoriating perceived security, I have the strong feeling that I need a vacation. Urgently. Or I need Master Yoda to teach me the higher skills of contemplation and relaxation….