This is a small model of the former house of those activists, as it looked before it was ripped down. I think that I should omit the yellow stripe along the top, shouldn't I? I'd be glad for any ideas about composition here.
I am always laughing with the cynical humor of the slogans. You can read on the bottom left: "Keine Macht für niemand", which means "No power for nobody", which of couse is denial of power for any human to reign over others. But the double negation fires back in the sense of "All power for everybody" which shows that those people also tell you to not take them so absolutely as some kind of missionaries that know what's good for you.
On the bottom right you read "Alle Macht den Amöben" which means "All power to the amoebae". Sounds so funny, especially as a complement to the other slogan, but then perhaps the amoebae are meant as a metaphore for the citizens placed under disability by the powers that be? Cynical isn't it? In this sense you have to eat, work, and be happy, absolutely happy, to be free to do whatever they want! ;-)
And you, over there, you, eternally ungrateful reactionary! Yes, I mean you! Why do you look so angry? Why shout and argue? At what other time was there so much freedom on this world? Huh?? Did any politican said, you are *not* free to fulfill his/her plans?? Huh?? Did any president said, you are not free to go fight while he/she sits for breakfast at some $50000 mahagony table? Or perhaps that you are not free to make him/her even richer? Huh? Huh??? What an ungrateful person you are!!! ;-)
And hey, don't be so ungrateful! They give us a new fridge and a new TV! What? You don't need a TV? How dare you? We must be "nice guys" and say "Thaaaaaank you Linda mommyyyyyyyy!" ;-)
Sometimes I wonder if I am in a permament satirical theater.
Yes, you noticed that too, ey? They just come, and f**k us all in all possible creative positions of the Kamasutra in zero time! (Autch!) And then.... off they go, and that was it! (A wild quickie so to speak!!! ;-))
Now, how can so few people, in such a short time, generate such a catastrophe? Well, the answer would be simpler if we consider the number of passive helpers - and that's we! All those "afraid", "small", "Menschlein" that sit comfortably in their living rooms instead of opening their mouths. (And I don't mean for the next b***job from some glorious politician. ;-)) When things happening and we look away, we are worth being treated like a herd.
Fidel is really stable! He must have Varta! A real homo... *erectus*!!! ;-) I tell you brother, that I name stability!!! ;-) Heavens above, he survived everything! Another candidate for some Endemol show - perhaps the big brother? ;-)
Oh, Papadopoulos and the guys tried that in their Greece Tour 67-74. But... with no real results. Well, some people say that they exagerated a little bit! ;-)
Yes, about 4000 leaders for just one citizen! Much like in Greece where you can find 20 millions od political parties while there is a population of about 10 millions people. ;-)
We have that kind of populism everywhere, Wolf! It is Rita Verdonk, it is Haider, it is Blocher, it is so many more.
They know how to let public have the illusion that they "stand and care for people" by using some certain widespread (but completely irrational) fear, or dissatisfaction, or similar. Sometimes they rich a certain majority with this method. And then, after that majority has been persuaded that it found its "Messiah", it will be ready to believe anything else too that "the Messiah" says. So, at this point they are able to *create* new fears and boost them to political argumentation. One this has happened, they are able to stay for a sufficiently long time in active politics, and so they have the time to produce catastrophes.
Take for example our sweet mediocre Blocher! His whole political program consists of stigmatizing everybody that didn't had the grace to be born as a neat godblessed swiss shepherd. His sycophantic campaigns in the past included posters which made even Den Haag protest against his tactics. (But of course switzerland is sooooo neutral and independend that it can do whatever it wants! ;-)) So, what happened here? He just adopted the idiotic and discriminating arrogance of many too many swiss shepherds, that never cared to go to some library and read something substantial, instead of loving their grass and their trees. And he promoted the repetition of their discriminating beliefs to "political program". Now, if that "politician" referred to another, new "guilty", what would happen? They would believe him and support him. And for the possible loss of voters that belong themselves to some hypothetically new stigmatized group, he would win another new fraction of the population, in such away that his influence remains more or less constant.
It can be only named a graceful incidense, that the "Bundesrat" kicked him out. But he candidates again and so perhaps he gets a chance to continue with his very well calculated populistic career, which he apparently puts on top of everything, no matter what consequences that will have for the land and the society itself.
And this is the reason why we should out naive fears aside, and get aware, interested, responsible. The libraries of the world are not just for being there but being visited for real research from each and everybody who wants to live under democracy!
At present populist politicians rise and decline very fast recently in holland. You may have heard of Pim Fortuyn who spoke on behalf of the people and said politicians were liars. Pim was murdered not long after and life went on. Now we have Geert Wilders with his movie Fatma scaring the hell to muslims and lately another populist Rita Verdonk, all saying what average people want. But establish politics will kill this shortly. And do we all want what the average populist wants ?
Anarchism is way not the lack of all power, Gustavo. Anarchism is the idea that power does not need to be codified into the rules of mediocracy iff the mental power of the individual human is enough to analytically produce the right rules according to responsibility and logic, in such a way that the "power" that *enforces* the law is no more necessary. In other words, if we don't kill, we don't do that because of the law, but rather because we ourselves are able to see that it shouldn't be done. There is power but it is the power of mental maturity of human beings.
We are lightyears behind such an achievement and time flows. This wall might be thought as a projection of "what should have been, but still isn't".
As about being sympathetic, I don't know. I don't know if that is the main ingredient here.
Bingo! Dress each and every castle lord in the cloths of democracy and the content of the cloths is automatically also democracy. ;-) It's just a set of many different castle lors from which you can choose one - or even many! But perhaps also the right choise is not to choose at all, but rather to throw away the set! ;-)
Indeed the breeding instincts went beyond any predictable limit, which supports that "quick and easy" method of installing rules by choosing the king of the day, and thus also the rules he mades, instead of choosing the rules of reason and thinking. This breeding mania is a supporting phenomenon but not necessarily alone responsible for the formation of "societies" that resemble herds of sheep. There are additional needs to maintain that situation, like for example rather "comfortable" individuals, and also much stupidity, fear, consequent denial to think, etc, etc. Which only raises our own fault to even more unimaginable degrees.
And the lord castle may have his celebration dinner, for which he butchers the sheep at free will. (If they don't bite back, why shouldn't he slaughter yet another one? ;-))
Sin dudas son consignas anarquista, pero yo creo que el anarquismo que por definición es las la absoluta falta de organización es funcional a los sistemas cualesquiera fueran, ya que el poder siempre se construye sobre una organización, el poder lo logran aquellos que saben organizarse...y sin organización tampoco no se puede luchar contra el poder...
En relación a las demás esta es una imagen más simpática, más naif, pero también más carente de la fuerza de las anteriores...
En cuanto a los detalles técnicos, vale, la foto está bien, pero no es lo importante.
Exactly Wolf! And I am glad that you say that! Only the castle lord benefits, whatever side he pretends to be on. Because he is on his own side. Exclusively.
But there is also a difference between our days and the medieval times. Nowadays the castle lord doesn't say that he is the godgiven castle lord and thus has each and every right to treat us as he wishes. No, the castle lord, after the many revolutions and the wish for emancipation, noticed that he couldn't proceed the same way. Nobody would follow him this way. And he assumed another tactic, clever guy as he is. Now he appears as the defender of our freedoms and our rights, our liberator, the guy that cares for us, and not a some godgiven king. A good reason for us to continue the same "perform, perform, fight, be better, be a winner", isn't it? Being convinced that this is good for us is an even better way to be underdogs under his boots.
Sometimes I wonder who's to blaim more. Is that the king in disguise, or the followers who pay more attention to disguise than to content? Perhaps we are worthy to be still in medieval times.
I like the house. The present world is not much else than in medieval time. The castle lord is now the company, the government and religion. All setting us up to perform, perform, fight, be better, be a winner. Who benefits ? The castle lord only.