From the book “Wohlstand für alle” (wealth for all) of German Chancellor (and former Minister of Economics) Ludwig Erhard, credited for Germany’s postwar economic reform and recovery (“Wirtschaftswunder”):
- competition against egoism
- tax decrease
- basic economic rights
- increase of wages
- politicians are not lobyists
- cartels are enemies
- limits of the welfare state
- long term planning with liberalization everywhere
A day after the verdict in that terrible case of a mother being robbed of her life and two daughters loosing both parents, it is still not possible to escape coverage in Puerto Rican media. Can’t you see how sick and harmful this is, all you in responsible positions in PR media outlets? With the level of education on the island and 50% school dropouts, the media becomes the entity forming how people think and act (or not). With the constant flooding of news about sensational justice cases like this one, you are creating the kind of people demanding this kind of sensational coverage - when, in reality, it is a human tragedy that would deserve some silence and dignity. Also, the curiosity to see if “finally a guy from a well-off family cannot escape his just verdict” is based on a similar weird way of thinking.
Really, do you think that coverage about a criminal or crime or court proceeding that exceeds two words (“guilty/not”) does anything good for society? Think again. It addresses one of our lowest animal instincts, that’s all. And once the masses are addicted to that kind of junk, they want it again and again and more of it, increasing your rating or circulation.
But it is not even visible if justice was achieved. Do you think it’s just that the lady is dead? That a mother griefs her daughter, that two daughters have no parents?
Thank God I can choose to not turn on TV or radio or buy the papers. Unfortunately, I can’t filter or block all tweets on the topic.
"Teach me to see you, and reveal yourself to me as I seek;
for unless you instruct me I cannot seek you, and unless you reveal yourself I cannot find you.
Let me seek you in desiring you; let me desire you in seeking you. Let me find you in loving you; let me love you in finding you.
Little Helen prepared a beautiful box for her father and wrapped it with a lot of wrapping paper. Full of joy and enthusiastically, she ran to him and interrupted him, while he was talking with other adults sitting at their dining table.
"Daddy, look, I have a present for you."
On her third attempt, her father turned to her and took the present, unwrapped and opened it, only to find an empty box.
"Helen, if you are using so much wrapping paper, there should also be something in the box" he said with a schoolmasterly tone.
Helen’s eyes swelled up with tears.
"But Daddy, I put in thousands and thousands of kisses for you."
Government is by definition the system by which the state is governed/organized (“state” being people+territory+government). A politician, then, is a person skilled in the affairs of the state or government. Nowhere does it say that a politician needs to be a career and I think that is where the whole system got corrupted. We need to separate administration from politics and create a new way of governing those affairs. A way that makes use technology. So that the people can easily participate and decide. The figure of the career-politician with all the personal, ego-driven problems that brings, is obsolete.
the worst thing you can do, is hesitate. Hesitation comes from Latin “haesitatio” meaning figuratively “irresolution, uncertainty” - because hesitating keeps you stuck and fixed until an opportunity has left. And nothing’s worse then seeing how an opportunity has passed by you, because you can watch it walk into the distance and live with the regret of not having acted. Choose action, jump, maybe fail, get up again…
In the United States, people work so hard, so much. Just to be able to pay for things they don’t need. To pay for things and services that their fellow-men, the advertisers, tell them, they want.
They also work that much so that they can pay for other kids to take care of their children, play with them during the working days, teach them, comfort them, when they fall… all driven by an ever-present desire to “grow” and be bigger and better and for a better future of those children. What if the best you could do for your children’s future, was to be with them, there for them?
Really, the future is not that interesting, it is just a dream of the NOW (as the past is a memory of the NOW) - that very NOW that people are missing running after that filthy lucre to pay the bills they wouldn’t even have received if they stayed home at the first place.
Slow down, especially if you are in such a hurry to get ahead without even knowing where you are going. Slow down, enjoy the NOW, take a day off, or some hours, play with your children and be like them, go for a walk at the beach or in the forest. For nothing you could earn today, will you be able to take with you once you leave this life behind.
When you are dead, you don’t know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others.
It’s the same when you are stupid.