Becoming
Humane - Being Humane Evolution of the
Humane - Globalisation of Peace - World in
Balance Aristotle
already made a difference between "economics" and
"chrematistics". The latter transforms an organic social
housekeeping which exclusively serves livelihood into a
machinery to gain profit at the expense of common good.
Boundless because heartless greed of this machinery already
today feeds on the chances of tomorrow. It will destroy our
future if we simple people give free rein to a globalising
system which falsely is being presented by economics and
politics to be without alternative. DECLARATION
OF A FRIENDLY WORLD
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) 'Privatisation'
as a remedy of Neoliberalism - alleged universal and without
alternative - is more than an intentional deception of the
public. 'Privatised' public goods under no circumstances get
into private hands. They enrich global corporations, which
do write their own 'law'. They leave behind democratically
controlled areas of law and lose their orientation at the
common good. Global Players use their monopolistic position
for plundering the planet which even is protected legally.
Neoliberalism is nothing but a global raid of the powerful
with the undeniable goal of trying to expropriate life
itself. Neoliberalism in its thinking and acting reveals the
apocalyptic character of a violently suppressing world
order, in which profit, hypocrisy and cynicism drive their
blooms: alternative solutions are simply denied or made
ridiculous and finally criminalized, if the desired effect
is missing. Without alternative and for us all inevitable
are the results of neoliberal, more truthful: neofeudal
policy: Environmental degradation, terror, war and welfare
cuts within global dimension. by Wolfgang
Fischer Life appears as an
echo (resonance) on an oscillation out of the
universe. Under meditative or other conditions which focus
inwards this oscillation can be experienced by each of us as
light, harmonic in itself, as energy. We can imagine it to
be an organizing force, which 'rains' on earth since ages.
This oscillation is formed (modulated) by the
Platonic year, by the planets and the moon cycle among
others. Some time or other matter (mater i.e.) starts
to answer lively and approvingly to the oscillation. Related
to the cosmic life stimulating oscillation of
living information a coherent "order" develops
on earth, which regulates everything from day and night
rhythm over tides of the seas up to wind and weather:
the
interconnectedness of all being. Life develops. First
in simplest structures, but then developing itself to
highly-complex connections, which are characterised by the
fact that they all are interconnected by mutual relations
and affect themselves by feeding back to the smallest member
and to the origin of all life. They are not subject to any
spatial or temporal restrictions. The effect is direct and
simultaneous. The basic substance of life contains in its
regularity all information from beginning to today and by an
inherent obligation to harmony it also specifies value and
quality of future life. Coincidence and genetic accident as
exclusive engines of evolution are not sufficient. The
oscillation model of life with its striving for agreement
and harmony draws evolution as an organizing development
with a tendency towards multiplication of differences as a
goal of a revealing (manifestation) of life, which
gets ever more complex and diverse. At the beginning are
"atoms" (or more exact according to Milo
Wolff:
Basic Spherical Standing Wave Structures of
Matter (WSM) in Space
A,
B
), which gather themselves to molecules following cosmic
organizational laws, then by many steps the basic genetic
substance develops, today known as RNA or DNA of the
chromosomes. We also know about the further development of
single-celled organisms, plants and animals up to the
humans. In the line of development we can understand the
emerging of completely different kinds of species as
resonance phenomena to the original oscillation of life
energy in accordance with life energy oscillations of all
organisms. As a goal we can constitute an increase of
independence, possibilities and abilities, whereby these
subordinate themselves again to the whole in such way that
lets emerge a further increase of quality of
life. While looking at
plants it is obvious that they do not possess free
intention, whereas when animals are concerned we cannot
claim the same. They do have increasingly free intentions,
however these are in such way merged into their instinct
that for example an intrinsic inhibition avoids killing of
the own species comrade. Animals and plants complement each
other in the interconnectedness of nature towards a global
partnership. Evolutionary development, which disturbs the
total structure, undermine their own basis of existence and
disappear from the play of the life. Also cosmic effects
such as meteor impacts, relocation of continents or
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have modelling influence
on how species live together. Everything is dependent
on each other and affects interaction by feeding back. The
principle of eating and being eaten also belongs to a
service of the overall function. Apart from food function we
see also a hygienic function, the selection of sick and weak
in favour of stabilization of the species altogether and
thus their genetic potentials. The development beyond
fighting among the strongest towards a comprehensive
co-operation, which we can observe in the realm of plants as
well as in the animal realm, serves the same
goal. The drive of life
within plants expresses itself directly as plant drive.
Within animals the drive of life develops its full
creativity only in association with instinct. The drive of
life appears innate. Instinct however is dependent on social
imprinting and is practically passed on by experience. A
calf e.g., which is brought up separately from the mother,
later on does not know, how to deal with its own new born.
"Secure" instinct represents animal's culture which only
seems to be unconscious to the animal world. This culture is
resonant to the basic genetic substance, i.e. it guarantees
a life-supporting sphere. Being measured in relation to a
smooth interaction of the whole this culture is purely
creative and it is far beyond the global (war -)
culture of humans. Contrary to non-human
nature humans to a large extent are free and often still
instinct-less creatures, which have to learn at consequences
of their doing. Advance in development of the brain,
particularly of the large brain hemispheres, makes possible
a hollow-mirror-like up-taking of life's reality within the
total of existence. From here originates a special
responsibility of mankind. The atrocities of history and
present are consequences of its offending against
fundamental life principles, on the one hand still
unconscious or on the other hand also completely
deliberately. But humans are capable of conscious religion
(relating backwards), i.e. of conscious realising of
their origin and thus of the origin of life. Their
consciousness does not know temporal borders, we are able
look back as well as into the future. Consciousness is like
a traveller by time and possibilities, which was always
known by mysticism. Consciousness is able to see light and
spirit of the beginning and is capable to transfer those, as
soon as they are being recognized, into the future, i.e. we
are able to arrange the future according to the original
creative force. The more accurately
laws of life are being noticed in the course of history, the
greater will be the chance to select from an infinite number
of possible alternatives exactly those which benefit life.
The perspective of subsistence and gift-economy in
matriarchal culture (0)
enables us to separate the useful and favourable from the
actually possible and to implement them. Religion in this
world view is nothing but the ability of humans to
acknowledge life as being interconnected and to offer them
the perspective to realize an advantage in restriction on
the service dedicated to life. Faith is nothing but actual
noticing information which our internal voice, our notion is
trying to give us any time, against the doubts of intellect,
be it in dreams at night or at other ritual trances and
contemplative moments. Being removed from every-day reality
to transcending states of illumination however is not of
self purpose. With feelings of happiness such transcending
conditions help finding an order and orientation within our
existence. Searching intellect can be tamed and pacified by
internal perception. We focus on supporting life, as soon as
we can be advised by feelings. Simple as these
relations finally are so difficult it seems to become aware
of them. In order to be able to recognize interrelation of
life, humans must not be "blinded" - like children they
should be clear of prejudices, their conceptions and
emotions must be embodied and remaining in the "reality of
the truth", they should not allow the many possible
realities to lead them astray. The evolutionary new
development within humans firsthand is still an "empty"
structure. The hereditary substance, which since beginning
of life has been compatible with all forms of life
and which the German biologist August Weismann (1834 - 1914)
already described as being of eternal life, this basic
genetic substance has created itself a new instrument: the
human great brain. It searches for meaningful filling. It
learns. And it is determined to reflect and put into
practice the creativity of life energy. From the very
beginning humans learn by joy and sorrow, by pain and
feelings of happiness. While at the beginning the horizon of
understanding is limited by family and clan community, later
it may be restricted by region and nation, today we are
recognizing to an increasing extent that we are one human
family on earth and merged in one nature and its laws. In
the course of history this deep understanding is always
present within individuals and many indigenous peoples -
alone, recognition of our human self in its global
dimension is still missing today. And we lack
application of specifically human abilities in favour of the
well-being of public good. So far immature
conceptions and patterns of behaviour being a natural
inheritance of our animal ancestors still govern. Those to
develop and overcome is one of the tasks which we have to
solve if we want to become truthful humans within the
evolutionary process. If being carried out without
consideration eating and being eaten are behavioural
patterns, which threaten global survival. The right of the
stronger is a false conception for humans, as in connection
with a still missing inhibition to kill the own fellow
species we endanger life since ages. Forcing upon violently
and oppressing running free fantasies of "domination"
(1)
have misused natural development and its progress to
degenerate creating towards destruction. Glorifying of even
death in religion such as politics was accomplished by
killing or falsifying the innate sympathy which in the
interest of domination is culturally at least being
tolerated. Thus erroneous social trends were favoured, in
whose historical process a small minority of people - first
in plain public, today also by subliminal violent action
(2)
- enriches itself at the expense of the global good and thus
destroying the foundations of life. Today the monstrous
consequences of this development obviously culminate in a
"war against terror" (3),
which is financed by further welfare cuts and which at the
same time is being misused by restriction of civil rights to
break life-saving resistance, which globally on all social
levels is emerging. This resistance is directed radically
against consequences and goals of a stubborn adolescent
stupidity (ignorance) of an immature overestimating
of rights of the individual in relation to those of the
super-ordinate community and against a simple thinking in
terms of black-and-white. Subordinated to domination by
profit this ignorant immaturity - which does not want to
learn and even keeps others from doing so - directly
leads into a final mutilation of life. If we want to learn
about sense and purpose of destruction and wars, of social
and ecological misery and an ever growing danger of global
holocaust arising from our present way of life, then the
only enlightening and plausible answer to it appears in a
learning process intended by nature to mature mankind for
becoming a guardian of life and earth. The fact that
evolution thereby risks its own emergence emphasizes on a
boundless confidence, which it sets into its work. She seems
to know that we - as global humanity - finally survive, not
merely out of plain insight, but unfortunately more because
of learning processes led by misery (addressing here
particularly the three monotheistic religious groups, the
Jews, Christians and Islam). Only seconds before "high
noon"- we will say good bye to our destructive possibilities
in favour of a creational power of divine extent. Thus the way is
given: natural polyarchy - self organization for the benefit
of the common good We make a truthful
humane culture come true, which is being developed by
considering all proven to be beneficial elements of
preceding cultures and which in connection with plant drive,
with the safe instinct of animals and with life-energy in
all humans reflects the creativity of eternally living
genetic substance, thus finally implementing a human
social drive. A notion, perspective and perception
(mentality) which has recovered and qualified for
humane maturity will develop a healthy and rich reality, the
full life. The destructive part of humans no longer gets
considerable energies. Sources of destructive energies will
dry out from that moment on, when all happening can be
considered mentally as well as emotionally and nothing has
to be displaced into hidden spaces any longer. The liberated
open flow of information clarifies consciousness up
to a spirituality, which puts understanding of
interrelatedness of all being into everyday life practice.
The process of development of individuality as well as the
process of subordination of the individual into the
super-ordinate society outlaws damaging of community (the
anti social) and promotes strengthening of community
(the global social entity). Politics as well as
religion have lost their actual tasks. Their liturgies,
"service to the people" and "service to God"
do increasingly not satisfy neither social-ecological nor
spiritual needs, they became of bare self purpose. Thus we
can waive separation between their two realms and merge
politics and religion into a truthful humane culture.
The
responsible world-conception
of such a culture becomes basis and condition of the
mental state [Václav
Havel].
With its borders accepted as being of natural and vital
necessity and benefit this mental state represents
a
social defence system
against all threats which originate from mankind. Within
natural limits peacefully cooperating responsible citizens
accomplish globality. Within all their difference and
variety world-citizens experience planet earth as their
uniting native country - a paradise, which they certainly
will maintain. Specifically and
politically this requires to subordinate all products of
humans, like technology, industry and economics, as well as
money and public governance all together and radically to
the service of the whole and common good. World-wide we risk
everything to stop the tendency - which has grown
historically - to sacrifice life to self made obligations.
We replace policy (of dying capitalist patriarchy) -
which in its last convulsions only spreads fear and violence
world-wide - by self organizing in solidarity under
grassroots democratic control. By rolling-back all neofeudal
and other one sided orders (also the religious orders), laws
and value systems (ideologies) of world-powers we terminate
their politics, which only justified exploitation,
environmental degradation and death despite of differently
reading promises. In addition a process of reclaiming,
of social appropriation [Zeller]
is necessary, which on the one hand rolls back the
development of alienation, expropriation, deregulation and
pseudo-liberalisation and on the other hand - by broad
acquiring of specialized knowledge like social as well as
life authority - creates the conditions for self
authorization of world citizens. The emancipatory
movement strives for release from suppression and for
overcoming false conceptions. Taking into consideration
their own variability and width in terms of contents the
movement is aware about the complex interlacing of this
topic. Groups involved leave their ideological
short-sightedness behind and deal with the respective
analyses of others, in order to be able to develop ideas
which lead beyond the present. Released from elitist
behaviour a constant mutually supporting struggle for
cultural-mental clarity creates the moral condition to
overcome overdue society systems, which cause social
deterioration. Truthful ethics frees itself from all
subjecting (totalitarian) clutches of power planners
and places itself clearly on the side of life. We all, to
whom life is dear and valuable, support and promote this
development towards emancipation by bringing our opinions
into public, wherever and whenever we feel concerned. Our
life determines sense and purpose of life. No longer we
leave questioning about sense of life to scientific
specialists of universities, churches and other mainstream
controlling manipulators - who so far have been
shaping culture only inadequately, - we simple people prove
to be the actual promoters of an ethics
and conduction
of life, which are neither corruptible nor subjected to any
spirit of the times! Quality of social life
is determined by actions of individual members and their
effects on the habitat earth. By following this
understanding the cause pays principle is to be
implemented, in order to ensure a comprehensive
responsibility. By necessary and wisely balanced sensitive
feedback processes responsibility and human maturity for the
well-being of the biosphere will adjust those human made
effects which disturb eco-social equilibrium
(4). The illusion of
controlling the world by force is being replaced by the
understanding of the necessity of cooperation and
solidarity. Voluntarily changing of traditional behaviour
patterns presupposes understanding of causing guilt and
disadvantages. From this understanding of guilt will arise
shame and the wish for compensation apart from just
regretting. An actual compensation evolves the desire to
reconcile and forgive on the side of the victims and
disadvantaged and overcomes the revenge of the desperate by
the fact that confidence is being developed and hope is
spread. Consciousness approaches predestined human
responsibility and from now on takes advantage of its
abilities and possibilities affectionately and caringly in
favour of the global common good. New social forces and
chances for liberation of the world are being set free by
the fact that liberty of capital is definitely being
subordinated to the service of life. The complete failure of
policy is revealed by the fact that neoliberalism granted a
further dimension of liberty to capital at the expense of
humans and nature. While freedom of travelling for humans
was limited by immigration regulations and the right of
asylum quasi being abolished, capital in the context of
globalisation at the same time was entitled to write its
ever dominating and destructive laws and move around ever
free wherever. As soon as the process
of reclaiming and re-appropriation shows results the needs
of people and nature represent the defaults for global
economy and no longer reverse (5).
Profit does not determine the goal of life, but pure joy of
life does. A general well-being is not dependend on the
well-being of corporations but on satisfaction of eco-social
needs. Matured to the humane and prepared with sympathy we
all contribute to offer a blooming time to the community of
life with fruits for all involved which will be deeply
satisfying and enduringly pacifying. The specifically human
liberties, intention and sexuality, find fulfilment
in respect for life as defined by pure creativity, already
shown to us by many indigenous peoples since
ages. Light and spirit of
origin genuinely can shine through the newest creature, the
humans, and terminate the power of lie, falsehood and
cynicism in favour of an order of love. This order
enables a safe orientation for a further evolution into an
open future for all of us. Footnotes
0. Know more about Capitalist Patriarchy, listen to
an interview (#26-04) with Claudia von Werlhof at
Women's
Int'l News Gathering
Service,
read: CAPITALIST
PATRIARCHY AND THE STRUGGLE FOR A 'DEEP'
ALTERNATIVE,
by Claudia von Werlhof, see
also International
Conference on the Gift
Economy
and The
Gift Economy
Website of Genevieve Vaughan, for more literature
[Mies,
von Werlhof, Bennholdt Thomsen et
al.] 1.
‚Full
Spectrum Dominance' is the key term in Joint Vision
2020,
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=45289
the blueprint the United States Department of Defence will
follow in the future, from which these extracts are taken: -
'The ultimate goal of our military force is to accomplish
the objectives directed by the National Command Authorities.
For the joint force of the future, this goal will be
achieved through full spectrum dominance - the ability of US
forces, operating unilaterally or in combination with
multinational and interagency partners, to defeat any
adversary and control any situation across the full range of
military operations.
http://emanzipationhumanum.de/english/human/credo.html
Implementing a draft
of society,
that is obligated to the common good,
is our chance for the future.
The full range of operations includes maintaining a posture
of strategic deterrence. It includes theatre engagement and
presence activities. It includes conflict involving
employment of strategic forces and weapons of mass
destruction, major theatre wars, regional conflicts and
smaller-scale contingencies. It also includes those
ambiguous situations residing between peace and war, such as
peace-keeping and peace enforcement operations, as well as
non-combat humanitarian relief operations and support to
domestic authorities. -
The label full spectrum dominance implies that US forces are
able to conduct prompt, sustained, and synchronised
operations with combinations of forces tailored to specific
situations, and with access to and freedom to operate in all
domains - space, sea, land, air and information.
Additionally, given the global nature of our interests and
obligations, the United States must maintain its overseas
presence forces and the ability to rapidly project power
worldwide in order to achieve full spectrum dominance.'
2.
structural domination: the coming Constitution of
European Union does not deserve this name nor does it meet
the prerequisites of the goal to peace. With its obligation
for increasing military armament year by year it lacks even
parliamentary authorization.
3.
If we recognize in that facette of terror, which is
motivated by violated feelings and vital fear, the child -
striving for self determination, who opposes against its
domination-addicted and violent parents and who strikes back
- then we open a solution out of the spiral of terror and
violence. Nothing but open dialogue in connection with
readiness to take responsibility for historically committed
injustice will overcome the scourge of terror.
4. see also: Nature
and Civilisation,
A Life-Threatening Conflict and the Way of Survival, -
Alienation of Humanity and Possibilities for Healing -, by
Wolfgang Fischer (German)
(Spanish)
(pdf.file),
5.
Local
instead of Global, A Different Goal of
Economics
(German),
Maria Mies in the attac circular Sand in the Transmission
31 (pdf
version German)
Taking the Property Questions Seriously! The Topicality of
Expropriation and Appropriation in Global Economics
(pdf
document, German),
Christian Zeller in the attac circular Sand in the
Transmission 31
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Emanzipation
Humanum,
version May 2004, translation from german to english by the
author. Criticism, suggestions as to form and content,
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