Consciousness in the Age of the technical Reprovozierbarkeit
December 2010. The world is changing.
But maybe not faster, than all the years before. For that would mean that people develop themselves in such a metamorphosis more elusive - the direction could be done in that was once an open question - that one here could ever speak of progress in the human sense. That they develop a consciousness that is fundamentally different from past generations.
But is this the case? If it is not only the means and technologies for interpersonal relationship management, communication, warfare, exploitation of raw materials of all kinds or preservatives us have valuable items that appear that changes, yes, even revolution? Those technologies before where many people have, of course, more older people, designed a great fear that they "no longer understand the world" in the truest sense of the word. I do not think that my grandmother, born in 1900, their time was fundamentally different, as it uses the first phone to navigate the first motorway, part of the atomic bomb, saw the first television and heard the first rock music. Certainly there is cause for legitimate doubters now argued that the effect of technological change has never been so fast in our lives as such a presence as in the past 30 years by the computerization of all areas of our lives. But I may be those of the revolution the working and living environment reminiscent of the steam engine?
Good, Walter Benjamin had in fact no idea how fast and how far to develop the mechanical possibilities would he of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction wrote. Confirmed he would look nevertheless still in its basic assumptions, which we currently can seem a little naive, but this is only our historical knowledge lead due. Ask someone 2110 times after the Web 2.0, combustion engines or the U.S. superpower.
seem important to me in connection but the human aspects of change and behavior, which - in different ways of thinking but not one bit of a vortechnisierten society - apart from the inevitable Versozialmedialisierung using facebook and others. have the values built up over thousands of years, as right or wrong, helpful or harmful to take out to, depending on the currently prevailing political views flow from or modify, in its very core, however, almost never. Educated young people are turning in 2010 and again in even more radical strands of faith in all its facets, value-conservative currents of supply, most recently in the late 50s of last century. The Pope is now in the Internet but otherwise not one bit of modern, radical left-and right-operate in their demagoguery and Rattenfängerei just now and the blogs and forums in the world, have their content blunt fact, however, add in anything of intellect won. As well! So what?
So what is reality in our lives today, in 2010, really changed, so scary, so new?
journey back to 2004.
a while before Stuttgart 21 and a less-present civil dispute and protest culture. Hartz IV was still new. Schroeder is speaker of the Federal himself red-green coalition imagining.
Open letter to the political class in Germany.
In Germany we have with our society reaches a point where it would be almost negligent not to have your say. It may be that I some - hopefully many - of you do wrong, if I do not differentiate further, and perhaps too lightly and the same flock of sheep over a much shear to coarse comb. Perhaps it is also an encouragement to all those Law and motivated, who understand the responsibility they have been well aware and have opted for the love of democracy and the belief in the social-colored state for a career as a politician. They see themselves prepared, from the seemingly overwhelming mass fraction equal to soldiers and the party switched from bare-calculus to the next election result polemical lobby speakers to come out louder than before.
Every people gets the government it deserves obviously, it is not just beautiful but also lies in the nature of things. And that's why It is also to every citizen to raise his voice and his anger to vent.
Dear representatives of the people - so it in the literal sense because there still - for me, as your employer, it's time to ask you some questions. Are you overloaded? Can it be that you no longer feel your tasks really grown? Take all your work nearly as serious as it dictates the matter? One can talk about everything. Only someone who really likes his job, he can exercise good. And please believe me, I would rather see nothing than you love your job!
Not until the last time the allegedly responsible citizens look at ever shorter intervals and with increasing volume with the - for the otherwise very ambitious about everything and everyone the caring law hand-holding state apparatus quite unusual and now slightly panicky-sounding - claim faced by individual responsibility and initiative. Amazingly, this call seems to increase in inverse proportion to how the economy such as stealing from their own responsibility,.
Sure, it will be understood that it takes time, from to be supported and highly decorated hochdottierten tanks in the ideas therein, imagine how it holds up the training of young people increasingly defiant industry is fraught with arms raised but konsequenzlos remaining index finger. And the only thing that shows the generosity of these, at least pay some more taxes in the country whose passport they carry, not without its own advantage in an Armani bag and the consumers they owe their prosperity to large parts.
But you really think that it is a solution after all the citizens to quickly enact their own self-responsibility and all those who volunteer or employed, in clubs, youth centers or other educational institutions without the sovereign call of their non-profit policy tasks in terms of education, training and education has already engaged to pull the ground under their feet? The lively shortening the money to the detriment of the young, but is supposed to be our greatest asset, seems a panacea for all the financial constraints are good, which of course always have the responsibility to each other politically minded people.
It would be desirable if you love, time elected, have the guts Your all too often hingestrauchelt represent decisions to be recognized with backbone, rather than the voters themselves and constantly lie to the litany in the bag, if it were really about people a future perspective. The only perspective you bring is really good over the horizon little embarrassed the next election at which the sun of their own re-election but please let again shine brightly. Politics is a tough and sometimes unpopular business, no question. But if you already deleted resources together to enable young people to jump to a regular working life are often the first place, then you are but please be honest and do not talk like this, that you would do anything for these very young. Calculation based on new types and thus easily adjusted statistics speak for you, in fact. But please keep in mind one. The people are sometimes, unfortunately, and quite scandalously ignorant. But not stupid!
you know what? It is us who still cares about a healthy, on the principle of solidarity, the foot company which, in something of care who are responsible to the owners of any party in the near or distant past, what has blocked or pushed. It drives one's Zornestränen in the eyes when you see how you do in mixed haribunt same old TV rounds against one another to accuse kindergarten level to slide off each other to steal the Konsensschüppchen and spit in the soup to have consensus. Unfortunately, with far too much empathy, I am ashamed of himself for each of you if you are open, visible to the inclined television nation, prove to be not able to talk together about a real concept, interact and do exactly what Politics has once identified by definition. To discuss and argue. Certainly with a passion and commitment, but also with the spirit and mind. And directed primarily to a the people, the people serving goal.
their military culture has degenerated into a mere exchange of platitudes. Listening - an immensely important and valuable property and the basis of any discussion, almost a virtue - seems to be no longer possible and the highest priority, is never one, maybe as good conceived approach to take up the political opponent, unless one succeeds him presented as his own. Where even party leaders are given the nakedness, the lemming-like in a few minutes in the whirlpool of meaningless non-objective, only to the exposure of the tug to have counterparts designed into conversation is very little room for citizens their responsibility to make it intelligible. But every day they get the pure, outward display of irresponsibility optional via TV and Internet or delivered by UPS.
Give people finally offer some substance. Do not be surprised about declining voter turnout, think of your responsibility and understand that it is in your power to citizens to make democracy again tasty. Present the alternatives beyond the choice between orange and orange. Show that you have more on the box, as the undignified mud-wrestling. The want to see any more. Be more Arte than RTL. And Mrs Christiansen would finally escape the stifling aura now all transmission formats of the boulevard, where you could fall again politicians instead of dumb robots into the Word campaign. Listen to to get riled about the growing electoral success of extremist parties and understand that this development will proceed forward as long as you are not able to demonstrate that people show a clear constitutional alternatives.
you are only in the second professional actor, do not belong exclusively to the jet set and the water industry should carry only so far as to how to prevent floods in the population cause of the country that has given you the confidence. I do not envy you at your job and it is beyond doubt that there are easier, not last more careful and controlled with a celebration evening is blessed professions as yours. But as responsible citizens in the framework of its social determination has a completely free choice, so even once you have freely decided for this way of life. So I urge you strongly to do to give this decision the necessary stress where you go again seriously to work to face the problems of society and the country with all his strength and prove to people that they still exist, the responsible leaders and thinkers. Those who do not willing to change sides and should rather perceive only as little cross-giving voters their own personal responsibility. Let those with the heart and soul for the cases where the obligation for which they are elected to office.
Otherwise, we do not have the slightest chance, and none of this is to say, he knew nothing about it.
time travel back to 2010.
a time with Stuttgart 21 and a resurgent military and protest culture. Hartz IV is still there. She is the spokeswoman for the federal According himself still hoping, Christian Democrat and liberal coalition.
Today we are a little bit smarter, no doubt, in the sense of an experience than it was six years in terms of the ambivalent policy of the modern company and its protagonists. There used to be superficial but still bearing-use classifications in the right or left, which at least served the regular clientele and for a clear front line provided, especially the Greens claim the conservative values, well educated and quite well-off election for the audience, while the CDU is trying to raise its profile diluted with occasional hard-liners and light shapes that are lost, but just in mediocrity, as the increasingly important looser SPD.
But what is beginning to get, my friends from the political side, is definitely what you have already enforced in 2004. Namely, the perception of personal responsibility of every citizen. Without a doubt, this is not least through the Web 2.0 favored behavior not really what you have once been called placebo immediately, because they now are your choices and privileges challenged, questioned and sometimes even completely thrown overboard. Suddenly, the mechanisms of which you have used an entire political life, not avoid more fair and democratic. There's even been decided something parliament and the ungrateful people here and there will still aufmucken it. Yeah well. That is probably the same as the paradoxical phase out the Atomaustieg decide, who is also sometimes been somehow passed by Parliament and ratified. You could say almost, folks, we're even, but that would be for both sides but too simple. It has just now begun to reflect on democracy are their principal properties and a - To keep life of its own - and not secret but totally public. Is not that wonderful? An action causes a sudden, as evidenced by the physics wanted, again a reaction. When would the spirit freed from the simple theorem and plunged into real life.
What is new about our reality of life in the year 2010 but in fact the consciousness. And here - I can now accept yourself or not - well, the new media - technologies - their digital hands on it. Have always been fascinated by those reporters in denial of their own lives in crisis areas have been to us subjectively informed of atrocities, political and social upheavals and the great events of our time. Today we are almost in real time, anywhere. And we have no longer a subjective opinion. We have thousands. And although I Peter Scholl-Latour, and Klaus-Peter Siegloch always taken away her independence, her journalistic skills admired for decades have long hung on their lips, they were nevertheless always visitors in a foreign country. Twitter makes it possible today to hear the opinions of those concerned, mutiplizieren them and promoting them before any government censorship of the press or the world hearing that they deserve.
I understand, it can at least imagine very well that it is hard to accept for a politician of the old school, suddenly neither the first to be informed, the comment to have held monopoly. But, ladies and gentlemen, this is our reality. The wheel can not turn back. And I am firmly in the bottom of my heart democratic convinced that we overcome in this way the swarm-like knowledge, a couple of unspeakable things, such as singular beneficial agreements can to come to the vision of a free and open world closer. And I say this world, no society, for the world to your place and we seem to have wanted - as demonstrated by our daily consumption better than anything else - is what it is an irreversible global world. And every day I understand a little more, you have also your understand that globalization is not only means the taking advantage of the economy, not only the influence of the rich and already thoughts Fine, not merely making money on erdumspannender level, but the convergence of the total world population. In terms of opinion, will, and freedom. No nation in the world wants to live in freedom. But that's another story.
And now here legally exciting fall but two significant developments together.
Technological progress in the form of the world - luckily not yet regulated nationally ambitious motives - networking allows people around the world - yes, quite a very long time at different speeds and impact - with other socially, culturally, ethnically or otherwise different kind of human contact to understand their realities and to understand their position. And while the politically rather harmless, even more questionable social platforms like Facebook in their still pursue larger scale taking place conquered the world, is a global, entirely freed from constraints of national extra-parliamentary opposition on this, it combines with the powerful and incredibly creative out there to take. Those who think that the meaning of the word would have believed in themselves, so need not be afraid, all other is said, which word is the most powerful instrument, the people in general could find.
The other development is that which occurs less globally rather than locally. Brave, honest yet sometimes people raise exactly the same as the world's bloggers and Twitterer: her voice. From their very own selfish needs and quite out they begin to suddenly realize that on the large policy designed to favor the corporations pays no attention more on the individual. Unless, of course, it comes to be profitable clustered and banded Nielsen-areas of consumption. Well, what's to do? If they want to know of one, they should also ask for an opinion.
And now meets local resentment to global freedom of expression and gives the individual, although he was the world being so small and unimportant, feels the courage it takes to get his important to be aware of. Bring it now - at least in the Western world largely securitized - personality rights, together with the knowledge that, quickly, regardless of individual from the political leadership of countries that can powerfully large number of humanity, to live in freedom and peace with others is very a picture of what the true, albeit silent, revolution represents, we are experiencing at present.
December 2010. The world is changing.
But maybe not faster, than all the years before. Because that would mean that people develop themselves in such a metamorphosis more elusive - the direction could be done in that was once an open question - that one here could ever speak of progress in the human sense. That they develop a consciousness that is fundamentally different from past generations.
But is this the case? If it is not only the means and technologies for interpersonal relationship management, communication, warfare, exploitation of raw materials of all kinds or preservatives are valuable assets that appear that changes, yes have even revolutionized?
The answer is obvious! And we are well aware of this.