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The few are becoming more and more powerful, the many gouge each other's eyes out
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Everyone fights for himself alone.
In a time of total upheaval, in which China is cementing its power, rebuilding Hong Kong, threatening Taiwan, experiencing immense economic growth and soon becoming a world power.
While Duterte calls for the killing of communists in the Philippines and the policy advised by the industry decides to abolish gasoline cars in a hundred years.
While the immense power and wealth of a few grows to absurd virtual size, we petty bourgeoisie (the top term for all of us, I read from Dietmar Dath) meanwhile, or as always, fight against each other.
It's about equality, about recognition, about the greatest disadvantage.
Which minority is worse off among all the wretched?
Which word triggers what, which term has turned out to be unspeakable overnight, which female professors, which scientific opinions are intolerable and because of what exactly?
The consequences of the struggle for identity
On social media (rule 1: never share serious discussions or thoughts. Rule 2: skip while you still can) people only yell.
Shitstorms, hatred that becomes a real threat.
The end of careers that are passed on from there to the print media.
The consequences of the current struggle for identity are: self-control, censorship, premature smeariness of well-meaning people, feelings of moral superiority from people who have nothing else, and more separation than creating common ground.
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Sibylle Berg is a writer and playwright.
In 2019 her bestselling novel »GRM.
Brainfuck ", 2020 the discussion volume" Nerds save the world ".
Berg has received numerous awards for her literary work, most recently the "Bertolt Brecht Prize" and the "Swiss Grand Prix for Literature".
Together with Matze Hielscher she can be heard every 14 days in the podcast »Wesensfremd«.
An example.
When I was on tour with three black musicians from England two years ago, a well-meaning young man asked me if I had now appropriated the culture of black musicians.
Immediately, I, a less disadvantaged minority - white women of unclear affiliation with all sorts of other marginalized groups - had a bad feeling.
One of the black musicians then asked the young well-meaning person what kind of racist shitty question he had asked that they, as black musicians, refused to volunteer with me.
The anger is understandable
In short - the situation is tense.
Many fly out of the curve and only interact with people who are very similar to them.
Like all social changes, the current struggle for justice for everyone needs an aggressiveness, because many are tired of having the same arguments over and over again.
The anger and the volume are understandable because it is always a struggle to make it clear to others that when we share, they lose nothing but habits.
And all the same: the dependence on employers and the absolute powerlessness.
And if we petty bourgeoisie gouge our eyes out, it will of course not be possible to have a common sense of what the power of the masses actually would be.
What you can do now as a member of the so-called privileged class - i.e. not physically or mentally impaired and know - is to find out more.
About the current state of knowledge about people who are even worse off in the normal oppression of our class because we have been animated to hate each other (thank you, right-wing parties) so that we don't come up with stupid ideas.
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GRM: Brainfuck.
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Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Number of pages: 640
Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Number of pages: 640
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JJ Bola tells of the nightmare of masculinity in "Don't Be a Man".
And if you don't like reading, there are millions of good videos on YouTube that help understand that there are more than two genders and a thousand types of sexuality.
Bernd Stegemann wrote about anger culture from the point of view of a white man and delivers many good positions.
The most important thing is that behind all the demands that are apparently being made too loud at the moment, there is only one thing: everyone should have the same rights.
In terms of reputation and rating, the same chances of being exploited and oppressed.
The next thing you can do is stop hating each other and start reading Marx and studying Lenin together.
Oh, and as a reminder of me (and you): Get out of social media, don't waste your life with rushing and yelling, with discussions that end in nowhere.
Social media is only good for one thing: pulling our data off and keeping the masses busy with nonsense.
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