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We humans are far too headstrong, far too stubborn, far too arrogant and far too self-centered to ever really work together and move towards each other. We don’t trust each other and we are more than critical of each other. We don’t like each other and we argue with each other, we often get into […]
I have been working in the field of autism for many years. A young man I look after has difficulties with buttons. He doesn’t like buttons. He doesn’t like men with long hair or fat people. He is also afraid of rain pants. You might think he’s intolerant, but it makes sense for me to […]
I definitely understand post-activism as activism post, i.e. after activism. I therefore also understand post-activism as a better, more profound and therefore more useful activism. In my view, post-activism is everything that thinks conceptually deeper and in a generalist, holistic way about the crisis as a driver of deep transformation than was the case in […]
When were the good and the brave ever in the majority? Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown Whether Eyjafjallajökull, Grimsvötn or Hekla – volcanoes are among the most spectacular natural phenomena on our planet. They stand for eruptive change, for death and devil-spewing and all-enveloping embers. But they also stand […]
I have a book on my bedside table with the beautiful title “Dilettantism as a profession”. In earlier times, the dilettante was apparently once a respected fellow citizen; today, the word is associated with a rather negative connotation. Wrongly, in my opinion, because specialization has its pitfalls today as it did then. Why is it […]