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Heaven in Brandenburg: The anger will come back at some point
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It has always been the case that people don't necessarily like each other.
How else could they have cheered and applauded the torture and executions of others.
How could they have been induced to fight, kill, quarter, rape, burn, spit on.
How else could they torture children and let refugees drown in the sea?
People don't like each other, no matter what class, religion or gender they belong to.
I don't know why, some built-in obsolescence.
You could of course pacify people a little, teach them from an early age not to fight each other and to leave themselves alone.
You could teach kids that people come in different forms and that they are all a little stupid.
But.
Then the best of all systems would no longer work.
And all the nice jobs in the arms industry.
And the security forces.
People could be pacified with media that don't play them off against each other.
They could be reassured by politicians who express themselves intelligently and prudently.
But then you would not have right-wing parties following their agenda all over the world, spreading dullness.
One could not fuel the impotence of the people by calling parts of society as idiots and the other part receiving diligence points for proper behavior.
Or create peace through less stress, struggle for existence, competition against each other.
But what good is that?
There is no pacification in sight. It will probably be even more exhausting when the water runs out. Or people in their apartments are freezing or sweating because an AI-driven, smart thermostat regulates their apartments, but - maybe there will soon be no more apartments, but only investment properties for hedge funds. No matter, until the time comes, I always take a short break from daily hatred. Every now and then I give up and think: OK, you won. The world will be exactly as I described it in »GRM
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, and just look - there it goes on.
Just go ahead, let me hang over the fence here.
Whether I hate myself, am upset or angry, it won't change anything, because I have neither inherited nor in any other way came to a fortune that would enable me to have laws written, to want to colonize space or in any way to go megalomaniac.
I'm completely unimportant except to a few people who might happen to be related to me, and my life is coming to an end.
How our time goes by very quickly.
And every day in a bad mood is a day that you don't get credited at the end.
Old wisdom, I only sometimes forget it in the wake of the general overconfidence that I share with billions.
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GRM: Brainfuck.
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On hate-free days I sit around a bit in nature, looking at people who are all as unimportant as I am.
Nobody is really ingenious.
And everyone is afraid.
To disappear and not have enjoyed life when you could.
Because you were not sorted out, useless for employers, with money that is barely enough to survive as a living warning to the rest: keep going, fight each other and so on.
The anger comes back at some point, maybe it's good for something, leads to the silly attempt to save the world, which again leads to complete overconfidence and so on. But today is a break. It smells nice outside in the morning before the sun comes up in summer. Did you notice it? You can also go swimming or look at ducks, or small dogs, children. Or drones. Or be nice to someone. Then they smile, the others. Have a nice day everyone.
