… about the state the world is in. 

Politicians try to buy and sell parts of the world (they usually do not even own).

Entrepreneurs try to make more and more money and see earning opportunities in everything, be it pandemics, be it wars, be it destruction or prescribed well-being. 

People try to follow fashions of beliefs and convictions hoping they will make them happier, better people, more successful, more likeable or at least desired.

Normal feelings and experiences of living in a world and in nature and with people become pathologised and treated as illnesses. 

There seems to be a pandemic of mental  non-wellbeing, and if you are not at least on some spectrum or other your chances in life are getting smaller and smaller. 

Our social belongings become more important than what is inside us, the me, the individual and his or her rights and responsibilities.

The selection of what is newsworthy has nothing to do with an educational role of the news, of getting informed, of learning to understand how the world is going and how to make it a better place. News become arbitrary. News becomes entertainment, not the quality of the content counts but whether it captures the attention of the audience.

A viral spiral of escalation.

With this in mind I will continue writing, I will always keep an educators perspective, however what I write here  will go beyond pure educational concerns. It is time to raise our voice, we, who are just trying to be decent, rational beings and trying to make the world a better place for all. 

We have been silent long enough or saying “oh well, it is not important enough”, “oh it is just a few”, “why are you so worried about it. It is just a detail, not important”, “well the majority of people will not swallow these lies and misrepresentations and will stop them”…

Unfortunately this hasn’t happened. On the contrary we

• have more and more wars, and governments and media speak a belligerent language 
• care about climate but don’t see that the war we support destroys every gain we could make
• say we care about life and still send people to death, … for what?
• do not look beyond the bubble we find ourselves in
• believe pseudo scientific narratives f.ex. that the human species is NOT binary
• do not understand that past injustices cannot be remedied by present injustices;  this just feeds a circle of escalation of injustice
• accept the news as news while knowing too well that a lot of it is fake and manipulated
• do not educate seriously for critical thinking and we avoid critical thinking and discussion arguments
• do not understand that the only identity that matters for us ALL is that we are all are human beings

I will stop for now. I am sure you get the gist.

Stay tuned, read, comment, agree or disagree, argue with me,  … Let’s communicate in order to understand oneself, the other, and the world better. That is what communication is about.