As soon as you demand applied ethics, it becomes a dirty word for most people. This has given rise to a reactionary do-gooder counter-trend, and it allows the individualized excuse-banana republics of their own bad conscience to dance the tango with the innate mass sociopathy.
welcome to
GoldenState
the only state I strive to possess. The complexity is constantly increasing, I have reached the 120 hour week and find it astonishing how people fight for the 40 hour week and even consider that to be too much. But don't forget: Just 4 hours of them are for work
The past vibrates as a stretch after a deep sleep, a kind of mindfulness exercise for the fragments of what we label as life. Ethical is an arbitrary heading, I need headlines, I remain strangely profoundly spontaneous, but of course it concerns me much more.
The Sherwood Forest Guidelines or Robin Hood as a Hero were nice gimmicks, but it would be best if some of the basics of shared awareness did not have to be and are not a luxury item for the intellectual and emotional grassroots elite.
I am trying to find out in practice how far we should develop into minimalism, but I think the answers could lie not only in logical renunciation but also in better organized sharing and communal use of goods, something that has long been planned and planned, but which so often fails due to the ego trip of ownership.
Of course, it seems difficult to steer the masses, who have been trained to be consumer idiots, back in the other direction. But at the end of the day, sheep are ready to waddle in any direction. A little barking here, a little growling there. And cheap food. Cuddles.
Walking Dead
We have the parable of the herd or horde, whether Kirkland was simply following the behavior of Apple disciples is unfortunately not known and before we break a South Park stick of truth about them, it should be said that any unconscious consumption approach in today's Alt Right corporate market power can be viewed as similarly stupid.
Bubbles of wisdom, ethical discourse and all the glimmers of hope for a long-term positive reflection do not change anything at present. Defining an acceptable lifestyle for everyone is difficult, breaking down living standards down to the smallest African village. The more you think about it, always blaming the really big redistribution on the favorite excuse of the state and economic growth seems inappropriate.
Reducing your belongings may seem sensible in the short term, but I think we need to follow up these first archaic ideas with better, more open ones. Create a kind of open source consumer society that unravels the disadvantages of the profit-oriented market and entrepreneurship. Instead of Milei's anarcho-capitalism, a kind of sociology of meaning and eternal vacation. The end of work and a world of things shared. Produce and share as needed.
The one linked on the Hutmacherei and many other of my web projects Slaveryfoodprint is an excellent mirror into which we should look every morning, not to feel bad or unworthy, but to measure how much there is still to do to create a future worth living for all, beyond the mechanisms that prevail today.
Ethically mindful
could represent a good basis and first and foremost there should always be an awareness of the connections, which is also and by no means least based on our fellow creatures and the biosphere itself.
Beyond the vegan idea, sustainability is still separated from the exploitation of other living beings based on suffering by a completely absurd pleasure mentality barrier.
The methane problem, the most astonishing example in the discussion about climate change, remains a blind spot. Even now, 4 years after this article was first written. The tundra will be our downfall. Russia and Canada are farting in competition.
But we have switched back to the tribal culture of back-slapping, give us daily "We're pretty good" dopamine and not everyone can be a doctor without borders. Giving up schnitzel has to be enough.
In relation to Austria: Hay milk organic pioneer Lampert and other greenwashing companies tell nice stories, the raped cows and abducted calves are not mentioned in them, and those who are aware of it and are able to deal with it have my suspect badge.
The Suspect Badges are going to me today. Explain it to me, I'll ask naively. But most of the time, I'm deep in an idea about Fast Vegan, most of the time I try to make room for the many positive approaches that really dare to make a change instead of just repainting the old situation.
To be honest, this is not the time to fall in love with detail and radicalism; a little pragmatism will probably be hard to suppress. But we have an era of hope in this gloom. Technology, science, they are allied with the hearts of fools.
Ethical Basics only at first glance supplements this rather practical approach with a somewhat detached discussion of principles that we should have been having long ago, embodied in Germany for a while by the now detached failed angel of PR philosophy called Precht, but in keeping with the honor of the topic, a more meaningful circle of global better rather than lateral thinkers is now forming.
Rethinkers, forward thinkers, new thinkers. But unfortunately I don't see a common line to oppose the establishment.
And I see even less practical and useful help for those ethical basics that our big thought bubbles try to implement in everyday life and in local grassroots work. Human rights are already failing in the refugee debate. The dilemma of right and left zeal and the overwhelmed middle can probably only be solved by a real change of perspective. The bird's eye view.
There is no real push for support in consensus for either animal protection or dumpsters, share and care culture, and an association against animal factories with its stand still seems like a moody foreign body in the cityscape, while those who have come to terms with things like Greenpeace or WWF seem to have gotten their share of the cake and, in some cases, entered into alliances that are worth questioning.
It would be unfair to attack the rainbow slime-mongers, but I think a critical look reveals many of the aid organizations, which for the time being, however,
Lesser Evils Notebook
stored aside sleeping.
In this context, being almost vegan means not having any illusions about the real feasibility of visions and working honestly with yourself without neglecting global thinking.
I read about the crab plague in Berlin's Tiergarten and wonder how vegans intend to solve such problems in the future, what alternative insects would be on the menu if we began to deal with their intelligence and emotional worlds. And when we slowly discover scientifically that trees and plants feel fear and emotions, then the only options left are advanced Jainism and technological nutrition for each to their own.
When the questions behind the questions are asked, everything becomes more complex and simpler at the same time, and this requires a new Ethical Basic, a basic structure that goes far beyond the 10 Commandments for how we all survive and shape our coexistence.
But on the one hand, this can happen in private, but on the other hand, we need to move away from the piecemeal approach, as too many resources for good are still lost through blind spots, conformation bias and many others, even in the positive movement between human and animal rights and the many associated values and projects.
But stepping out of the filter again, in our search for new ethical basics that please everyone, we need different alliances than ever before imagined.
It will be the technocrats and nerds who will make meat production from the laboratory or the 3D printer cheaper and probably healthier too, not our windmill fight to convince people of an ethical standard that is actually perceived as self-evident, of not causing unnecessary suffering to others.
It is not surprising that peasant uprisings against lab-grown meat, the first truly ethical solution to a global problem, are already threatening.
What a spoilsport I am in the group.
They call me Mr. Ungut
But to really make progress, the education system would have to be cleared out and more energy would have to be spent on building characters rather than zombies. But definitely not with the authoritarian god-complex esoteric freaks from the Waldorf world.
To do this, it is necessary to form alliances with the entrepreneurs who supposedly seem to be to blame for the state of the world.
But maybe they are just serving what our immature cuckoo-egg mouths want to devour. How many Fairphones are sold in Veggieland?
The sad truth of all this in brief:
Nobody is to blame, we are all to blame and not to different degrees, it is like after a big party:
All the dirt, all the chaos just has to be cleaned up, some sneak away, some are too drunk to help, some have already suspected what is coming and have bought cleaning products and garbage bags, some are already planning the next party at the expense of others, others need a line to help, the police have already been there but left because there is no room in the prison, the toilet is blocked, well, you can imagine the picture.
I don't think we're at the end of the party yet, word has got around that there is one and lots of people want to party and come from all over, it's difficult to explain to them, yes, but you also have to clean up our mess, the most likely result is: at some point one/all of us will simply run out of energy and just want to go home.
In this metaphor, home is probably also a future worth living and ethically intelligently designed as a conscious part of the whole.
So let's just quantum leap together and think outside the box and include everything and everyone and see what we can achieve today with more imagination.
To put it less positively: Let's just cuddle ourselves to ruin 🙂 That will almost be enough to spoil the fun for our children. Immortality in the artificial palm tree bubble.