Samstag, 6. Juli 2024

06.07.2024 - Power relationship / Today's people / Modern technology / Seifert's philosophy / W. Golding etc.

dali48 and teaching and writing diary & books and cycling & photographing in Erkrath till 5/2010

Friday, March 7, 2008
06.07.2000

Interpretation by dali48
The promise of the modern macho is closeness, his tactic is openness, but the result is flight! ... In the patriarchy, lust and love are replaced by power. Words are meant to bridge feelings, but not express them. Any declaration of inability by a man appeals to the solidarity and willingness to help of the woman! ... On the one hand, the woman must help the man to secure his power, but at the same time she is the first to suffer from this power relationship! ... (S. Steinbrecher)

Friday, March 7, 2008
11.07.2000

Interpretation by dali48
Today's people are in danger of turning the earth into a desert, the person into an automaton, brotherly love into systematic collectivization (see abuse of "love" etc. - d.48 ), and in many cases of bringing death where "God" (see nature, cosmos etc. - d.48) wants life! ... (John Paul 1, Lumen Gentium)
Almost all modern technology is in the service of the Faustian delusion (see Sorcerer's Apprentice etc. - d.48) of having to correct creation, and thus be able to increase people's happiness. At most it can reduce misfortune, but not increase "happiness"! ... The question was annoying, immorality or Pharisaism, has occupied Christianity for almost 2000 years! ... (V.J. Willi)

Friday, March 7, 2008
06.03.2008

Interpretation by dali48
He came into contact with contemporary European modernism at an early age, especially with French surrealism and dadaism... (J. Seifert, Lecture Sp. 1984)

In short, all those who, whether happy or unhappy, lead a life that is an adventure and an experience, but not a life of oppression according to a party program. People are the ones who create society! The state is there for people and not the other way around. Seifert's philosophy of life contains an element of anarchy, a protest against everything that limits the possibilities of life and turns people into cogs in a machine! ... But in the 1930s and 1940s the horizon darkened. The economic and political reality proved incapable of living up to the rosy dreams! ... He signed Charter 77 ... (J. Seifert) 

His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in miracles outside the hole. In fact, both now believe in miracles, "credimus quia absurdum est" (we believe what is absurd etc. – d.48) … (W. Golding, Nobel L. 1983)

But perhaps at midnight, when the clock strikes and another year has passed, he may muse occasionally on the disadvantages of old age rather than the advantages! ...  King David and King Solomon/led merry, merry lives/with many, many girlfriends/and many, many wives/but when old age came upon them/with many, many misgivings/King Solomon wrote the Proverbs/And King David wrote the Psalms ... Indeed, and indeed, small can be beautiful! ... (W. Golding)

06.07.2024 - Aristides, Socrates etc. / Mutual loyalty / Artificial means / W. Golding 1983 etc.

dali48 and teaching and writing diary & books and cycling & photographing in Erkrath etc.

Monday, March 10, 2008
24.06.2000

Interpretation by dali48
Aristides, always a model of justice and incorruptibility, died in poverty (d.f. for me: wealth is "unjust and corrupt" - d.48)! ... Socrates is one of the great teachers of humanity, but like Zarathustra and Buddha, he too did not leave a single written word behind! ... Mutual loyalty and the fear of being coward before the master or the lover (the beloved) gave such armies tremendous fighting power. Many of the famous heroic deeds of Spartan troops can be explained by this! ... 
But if ecstasy is to return often, artificial means are required: 
1. Asceticism and fasting, 2. alcohol and tobacco, 3. dance and music etc. (1. + 3. = positive, 2. = negative etc – d.48) ... 
You don't belong to your party for ideological reasons, but because the clan with which you have always been enemies has joined the other party ... (H. & G. Schreiber)

Monday, March 10, 2008
07.03.2008

Interpretation by dali48
And what about the dignity of old age? - There is, they say, no greater fool than an old fool ... Under critical questioning, I described myself as a universal pessimist (realist), but as a cosmic optimist ... You will believe less and be less afraid. But just as bad money drives out good, inferior culture drives out superior ... Frankly speaking, we are faced with two problems: either we blow ourselves off the face of the earth or we destroy the fertility of the earth bit by bit until we have ruined it ... (W. Golding, Nobel Prize 1983)

06.07.2024 - Existentially frustrated / Neurotics / Self-image / Buddha / Mental disorders etc.

dali48 and teaching and writing diary & books and cycling & photographing in Erkrath etc.

Monday, March 10, 2008
03.06.2000

Interpretation by dali48
Because today's mass neurosis is characterized by a feeling of meaninglessness that is spreading worldwide! - Today, people are no longer as sexually frustrated as they were in Sigmund Freud's time, but rather existentially frustrated! ... (V.E. Frankl)

Neurotics want to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral! ... If we separate sexuality from ourselves, then we use intercourse to avoid intimacy. If we are a unit, a whole, we can have close human relationships with others and with our environment all day long! ... Either we have to fight like mad to live a new life, or we die inside, - then we can no longer hurt anything! ... (Lair / Lechler)

Monday, March 10, 2008
04.06.2000

Interpretation by dali48
The desire for sexual experience or, in a more subtle form, for confirmation of one's own self-image by the other, turns each person into an object of satisfaction and robs them of their magic, their inner values. When we observe anger, we recognize the desire to offend or humiliate its object in some way. We cannot be angry at anything or anyone without wishing them harm. Even before the other has suffered harm, we have hurt ourselves! ... A less radical remedy is to train ourselves to be moderate in eating and sleeping. Such a mindful approach to sensual satisfaction can often be a good antidote to lustful longings! ... (S. Levine)

You follow your own path, and no one goes ahead of you to show you the way. In this way, everyone creates a piece of reality and must take responsibility for it! ... (Buddha)

Monday, March 10, 2008
08.06.2000

Interpretation by dali48
Mental disorders are just as much a part of life as physical illnesses! ... Mental illnesses still carry a stigma for us. The fact that mental disorders are an absolute part of everyday life has not yet become unpleasantly noticeable! ... Fear is what makes us socially acceptable. If you are not afraid, you are not going to get along well with them and you are not very interested in the feelings of your fellow human beings. Too much fear makes you sick! 9% suffer from fear, phobias and panic. But excessive fear or stress are also dangerous! ... Perfectionism makes you susceptible to the fear of making mistakes and showing yourself off. This puts you at risk of developing social phobia. The most important factor for chronic fear is avoidance behavior. Symptoms of depression: no interest in playing etc., failing at school etc., self-isolation, complaining about headaches. 
Prozac (USA) = Fluctin (D) = Stimulation enhancer against depression! ... Under light therapy, the body rhythms are regulated again. The patients feel better afterwards! ... 
Schizophrenia: Withdrawal, loneliness, inflexibility, loner, lack of motivation, thinking disorders, hallucinations, delusions, feeling persecuted, controlled, dominated by foreign powers, losing contact with reality without noticing it, personality changes etc! ... (R. Oehler)