Last week was the first time I heard the word derealization. There was a program on Bayern 2 in the series “Radiowissen” (radio knowledge) about dying and farewells. The program was about death and mourning getting more and more “derealized” in our modern middle-European society. It was definitely something to get thoughtful about.
However, derealization is not restricted to how we deal with dying. It has become a major part of our life. We are all quite proficient when it comes to “derealizing”.
What is prevalent both in enterprises and universities are formal and processoral standards. They synthetically create substitute problems and reduce your freedom and ability to act. The most important goals disappear behind systematic rules. And all people sit in front of the same kinds of personal computers and participate in a virtual economy and worklife.
In politics, the real world no longer plays a role. Instead of working against real dangers, we come up with virtual risks as the situation demands and create artificial danger scenarios.
Financially, business and politics operate with numbers that simply cannot be true. We install complex fonds and create bad banks. The only thing that does not change is the cause. In our private lives, we eat “convenient food”. Soup is pulverized in plastic cups. Fresh milk has a use-by date that is incredibly far away and meat no longer seems to have grown on animals.
Trash has escaped from the Disneyland reservations and is now trying to win the hearts of people. Oh, how sweet. Cheating has found its way into parliaments all around the place and also into the management levels of enterprises and institutions.
Beauty is defined by silicon and paint. Perspiration is out of fashion and physical labor vulgar. Nature is considered dirty. Self-responsibility is on the way so become a taboo-word. Emotions are portioned in tin containers by the media and served for dinner.
A new insincerity blows through the republic.
Hopeless? No!
I all sounds bad. But it isn’t! The correct strategy is quite simple:
Think and question things!
Oppose
Rubbish and stupidity.
Refuse to accept
simple explanations and stand up against public stupefaction! And remain true to yourself!
Support
enlightenment, education and moral courage
and
maintain your self-discipline in the real world and never lose your contact with the earth!
🙂 You see?
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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