Activism -> politics
As I said, this blog will follow the slow, hard road to the top of local/state politics, for someone who stems from activism. The idea is to join politics as a neutral person opposed to what much of political science reduces it: the arena of hateful remarks, which claims that there was no other way.
You want to encourage opening up for a little alternative approach (conscience and rules like in spiritual fraternities), in order to better protect those who contribute to society of their own free will, and often complete selflessness. -
Modern society has this pollution that many suggest the citizen to need pressure/us all to be unwilling lazy scumbags. Over time you realized that quite some officials encourage+(exc)use bad behavior e.g. of Hiphoppers and leftists in order to justify neglecting even the most basic due diligence a civil servant normally has to fulfill. It then creates a convenient dynamic hard to stop, where the borders of cause and effect blur, even the fact that the guys were not state-employees at heart.
That seems a key to the understanding of human rights activism: To shield honesty from the verbal+hidden violence of these who just claim to be cultivated. The nice ones will always loose till there's awareness about this imbalance of power, when one side can be violent/obstructive because bureaucracy tolerates it, and others who have to fight peacefully with words will be blamed.
Of course, there are outside pressures which make it this way, mostly from the bottom of society, so that a clerk e.g. finds her/himself disillusioned, or coerced because she/he can't stand the riff-raff's verbal violence anymore, and may not be aware to then subtly redirect anger onto others, or even if, unable to change the situation in case of bullying among colleagues who take shortcuts. So one has to be careful blaming the state, instead should always start a fresh analysis of the situation. On the other hand, the public school system makes people stupid and insecure, so never blame the simple man before you know if she/he really had a chance how to express oneself.
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You stay a human rights person who wants power in order to prevent successes be reversed, and encourages others to found their groups as alternatives to leftist whistleblowing/Occupy/careerist structures (and the local equivalences of this confrontation, e.g. rightwing "pro-city" parties successful because they accentuate local-patriotism against imaginary threats from intellectuals). All methods will be shown/discussed in this blog; difficulties, failures, campaigning etc., so that others can plug in.
I hope my English develops over time; but there's no sense in blogging just in German, and this really needs comments, which you hardly get enough of.
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What regards the moment, I worked through another weekend, adjusting blog and different social networking profiles a bit more (rejoined Twitter), so that I can easier introduce myself e.g. to business people.
The rules are strict: If I do that, then because many businesses suffer under the rough climate, and local politicians' ignorancy towards problems. If you should make it into politics, this will be to gain trust by people who currently refrain from participation, so that slowly some structures can be rebuilt and a region's climate on mid-term hopefully relaxes a bit in some parts, because it's the fears and radicalizing desperation which create stress, controlling behavior & anxiety, which in the end hit consumption. Of course you're not the only one with good intentions, maybe more like a result of the support people put into you, and only time can tell if you were able make any difference at all, esp. considered bad starting conditions. I'll talk about these in one of the next entries.
You want to encourage opening up for a little alternative approach (conscience and rules like in spiritual fraternities), in order to better protect those who contribute to society of their own free will, and often complete selflessness. -
Modern society has this pollution that many suggest the citizen to need pressure/us all to be unwilling lazy scumbags. Over time you realized that quite some officials encourage+(exc)use bad behavior e.g. of Hiphoppers and leftists in order to justify neglecting even the most basic due diligence a civil servant normally has to fulfill. It then creates a convenient dynamic hard to stop, where the borders of cause and effect blur, even the fact that the guys were not state-employees at heart.
That seems a key to the understanding of human rights activism: To shield honesty from the verbal+hidden violence of these who just claim to be cultivated. The nice ones will always loose till there's awareness about this imbalance of power, when one side can be violent/obstructive because bureaucracy tolerates it, and others who have to fight peacefully with words will be blamed.
Of course, there are outside pressures which make it this way, mostly from the bottom of society, so that a clerk e.g. finds her/himself disillusioned, or coerced because she/he can't stand the riff-raff's verbal violence anymore, and may not be aware to then subtly redirect anger onto others, or even if, unable to change the situation in case of bullying among colleagues who take shortcuts. So one has to be careful blaming the state, instead should always start a fresh analysis of the situation. On the other hand, the public school system makes people stupid and insecure, so never blame the simple man before you know if she/he really had a chance how to express oneself.
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You stay a human rights person who wants power in order to prevent successes be reversed, and encourages others to found their groups as alternatives to leftist whistleblowing/Occupy/careerist structures (and the local equivalences of this confrontation, e.g. rightwing "pro-city" parties successful because they accentuate local-patriotism against imaginary threats from intellectuals). All methods will be shown/discussed in this blog; difficulties, failures, campaigning etc., so that others can plug in.
I hope my English develops over time; but there's no sense in blogging just in German, and this really needs comments, which you hardly get enough of.
*
What regards the moment, I worked through another weekend, adjusting blog and different social networking profiles a bit more (rejoined Twitter), so that I can easier introduce myself e.g. to business people.
The rules are strict: If I do that, then because many businesses suffer under the rough climate, and local politicians' ignorancy towards problems. If you should make it into politics, this will be to gain trust by people who currently refrain from participation, so that slowly some structures can be rebuilt and a region's climate on mid-term hopefully relaxes a bit in some parts, because it's the fears and radicalizing desperation which create stress, controlling behavior & anxiety, which in the end hit consumption. Of course you're not the only one with good intentions, maybe more like a result of the support people put into you, and only time can tell if you were able make any difference at all, esp. considered bad starting conditions. I'll talk about these in one of the next entries.