A sea squirt is an ocean dweller which, as soon as it has found a suitable location for ageing, will no longer move for its entire life. And since brains are only in your way if you stay in one place, it simply eats its brains.
Is the IS fighter a sea squirt?
Can any brains be more superfluous than those that have not changed in 1,400 years?
Is Putin a sea squirt?
Well, perhaps not. To be sure, he firmly believes in one people, one nation and power, but at the same time, he moves rather successfully in our brains and manipulates our moral lines.
Are we in the west sea squirts?
Unfortunately, yes. We cemented our universal values into human rights and now we are surprised that we remain sitting on them all by ourselves because they are not in demand.
The others do not even consider thinking in the same way we do. And we, too, have not always thought in this way. For instance during the thirty years war or under the Nazis who, less than 70 years ago, did exactly what the IS is doing now – including the rituals and power play.
Universal thinking might well be provincial – if those who practice it think they are unique. We should immediately stop lamenting about the brutality of the others not at all being in accordance with our own values. Instead, we should deal with the values of the others.
And how we could break them.
Without constantly citing our bible, the human rights bill. We have to confront the fact that some use words as a basis for arguments while others use rifles.
In short:
We have to learn how to deal with the fact that we do not have a value monopole. If you want to study strategic morals, you have to enter the brains of the others. Yet you should not make the mistake of confusing the empathy of like-minded persons with the dispute among those who think differently.
So here is what you should do tonight: leave your own brains for ten minutes and enter the brains of a strange, inimical person.
Otherwise, you will get a smack on the brains from me.
SIX
(Translated by EG)
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