Mark Pol

Speechless

I am speechless and I can’t breathe. My eyes are wide open when I remember all my murdered family during WW II. I am speechless when I look at the world today. This world, were on the most successful species” the Human” lives and how he is behaving.

 Speechless; I can’t find words anymore. As an artist I can’t express it in images nor in drawing nor in painting.

My eyes are staring at my drawing paper and at my canvas. My arms won’t move and my hands are frozen. My breathing stops while I am trying to break the spell.

So I am sitting now before my laptop and try to translate my thoughts into words. The concepts are blocked and my words are disappearing into a misty world of sounds.

What kind of wind is blowing through our society? What is going through our brains? Maybe we are losing our future, maybe the time has come that we must protect our Foundation (Isaac Asimov: The Foundation trilogy)? Has the Mule arrived and are we forced into decades of extremism, fascism and suppressing of all Human values? Is it possible to change these strange winds?

While I am forcing to bent my speechlessness into uttering words: is it possible to wander another road? Know where to go if the road is split up? We have no map and no compass, what do we do then?

So while I am staring through my window to the outside world. See how people are passing by my window how they look and walk. The sun is shining and birds are flying past. What a wonderful world; sung and played by Louis Armstrong, still gives me goose buttons. It is a wonderful world! What has happened to our fellow humans?

The answer is blowing in the wind. If that wind won’t change we will be lost forever.

I am staying speechless behind and my staring eyes will see a lost world.

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Tipping point

Tipping point has been reached when there is no way back to a stabilized moment. It is a point of no return. Now we have reached the end of an era, we cannot go back to the old way of living.

Most of us think we have built a civilization which is disappearing at this moment, but we never had a civilization of Man. We have just built a technological civilization with all the technical landscape which surrounds us in today’s society.

 We have reached a tipping point were now all the ice sheets on the poles are disappearing in a dangerous pace. Even the permafrost thaws. Our political systems are collapsing into dangerous fascistic movements while the people in those countries won’t see it happen; maybe they turn a blind eye.

The earth is warming. Massive amount of people are migrating because there is not enough water to grow crops. And because there is no food enough they cannot make a living out of it.

Tipping point is a moment when in a very short time there are big changes taking place. Societies are being shaken up and confused. When we have reached that tipping point, will we be able to transform our economy? In a way that everybody in that society can make a living? Give people a universal basic income, so that if they have no income they still can pay the rent, buy food and pay for the education of their children.

We have to create a society wherein the social and ecology compassion will be central. Do we think that every one of us has a choice? No, sometimes you will be forced to do things which you do not like, because the circumstances dictate it. Now that time has come! We are forced to make choices for the near future to survive as societies and still have a future for our children.

The tipping point or transition is near. Which way the ball is rolling, we just do not know, but we have to know it. And create a vision and policies for the short and long period of time, to control these transitions. The Mules (“Foundation Trilogy” by Isaac Asimov) must be stopped. They will destroy our planet, our economy, our societies and our dreams of the future. And can we also learn from the book “The Human Condition” by Hannah Arendt?

There is still hope in my heart. Hope that we are intelligent animals. The Homo Sapiens created all this technology, but forgot to create a Human. A Human who will be able to revive our lost Paradise. We do live in a Paradise, but somewhere we have lost sight of the beauty of our own planet. Lost sight how we can live as a Human.

Do not let us reach that tipping point ever!

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Hope

“There is no hope that we’ll ever live in a rational, sensible, well-organized, kind, intelligent society” (John Cleese, The Telegraph)

That is indeed a depressing statement, but I will short follow this statement: yes seeing the situation in the world today and you read his statement, then yes the state of this world is indeed becoming a little bit dangerous.

I said a little bit. I mean from the almost eight billion people who are now living on our beautiful planet, there must be people with some rationale way of thinking. Who will have a kind of vision to see through the manipulations of their demagogues? Who are rising in their strange and dangerous way of creating the politics in their countries?

I will cling to hope. We as human beings have survived bad and said situations and lived through it. Sadly to say that fascism is rising very fast in a growing number of countries. Which are going back to the tribe and nationalism also? I hope, still, that there are people who are willing to keep this beautiful planet livable, sensible, well-organized, kind and intelligent. We are, or should be, the only intelligent species on this Earth.

We have to give our children a chance to live in a world in which they are the heirs of our society. We must give our children hope and keep the future bright for them. We can’t let it go. We are all responsible for this, on this moment the only livable, planet. We are responsible not letting this planet change into an unlivable trash belt, mentally and physically...

We can’t let it go. I do not want to tell my children: look, see around you, we as adults let it go to change in such an unlivable dystopian society. I do not want to explain to my children why we lost our intelligence and just changed into a bunch of animals running into a future abyss.

There will always be Hope, hope that we will use our intelligence and our ratio to overcome these terrible times, but we should start right now. Right on this moment we have to make the choice which will lead us into a better future of a:

Sensible,

Well-organized,

Kind and

Intelligent society.

We will have no CHOICE. There is no parallel Planet like Earth is where we can go to if you do not like this Planet!!!

Have a nice day everybody.

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Wind of Change

As the wind of change is raging over our planet, we try to survive in our classical way of living.

Like an empty can who is pushed forwards by that wind and we will never know when it will be stopped and where.

Are we empty cans who are hoping that time is changing? We are no empty cans. We are intelligent animals and we must stop to behave like the empty can!

We must scan our horizons of possibilities to survive these difficult times. Luke Rendell a biological scientist spoke about our cosmic loneliness on this planet.

Humans are a resulting force in the ecological and evolutional context. We can’t behave differently in the shifting climate of this time and also, we have shown are own limitations in the still raging pandemic.

We are not conscious of that cosmic loneliness. If that should be the case maybe we will behave differently in these apocalyptic times. Then we have to stop moving into a dystopian society. That wind of change should change our thoughts and move us into another direction.

Paradise Lost (John Milton) contains classic Christian themes. There were Adam and Eve and the snake. That was a simple way of telling us that we must not listen to bad advice.

How should we in these times bring our self the realization that our cosmic loneliness brings us the power to free our self from these dystopian developments? Do we have the power to develop a vision wherein we will reorder our future? We must reorder our future in such a way that we can reshape those developments?

That there will be emerging a new hope for the poor and the under privileged and injustice will become justice. Every man from every race gets the same chances. Politics will be reformed into a real social-democracy.

Some where there must be people who are thinking in the same way too. We must not lose our paradise which has been given to us during our evolutionary developments.

Then suddenly somewhere there is an alarm ringing. I becoming awake and hear outside my room a strong wind blowing. Sadly, I become aware of my dream.

I sigh. A new day starts with new hope and maybe new dreams. I walk to the bathroom.

Have a nice day everybody.

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Changing our way of thinking

Somewhere, deep in our brains there is something old, very old. The structure of our brains: our “old” brain part and the “new” part of it. Can we overcome that strange separation by changing our way of thinking in the “new” part? Can we train our so called ratio so that we can accept every human being on this planet?

We must try to think without our fear, our xenophobia for the stranger who enters our world. Without our fear of the color of our fellow human being!

Can we reform our society so that we can give every human being the same chances and possibilities?

We must regain our flexibility and learn about what anthropologies have found that we are all descendants from Africa a very long time ago. (https://phys.org/news/2007-05-theory-modern-humans-descended-small.html)

 Education is the basic of our “civilization”. (https://www.tni.org/en/article/knowledge-and-civilization)  We will have to educate our children and their children to rethink our society so they can expand their horizons. There is an essential linkage between knowledge and the growth of civilizations. Our approach to our fellow man: in our neighbors, in our schools and universities, in our work surroundings. In short: everywhere!

We have to walk a very long path to overcome structural (systemic) racism. If you want to change the deep rooted culture of racism in our society, I mean which is rooted in all the countries all over the world, we must educate, educate …. for at least two or three generations. Starting NOW!

It’s about time that our curricula began to empower learners of all ages everywhere to take education into their own hands and refocus humanity’s hopes, dreams, and ambitions.

 ( From  Raya Bidshahri )

Otherwise we will lose momentum of the situation as is today.

We must push the changes and thinking what is now going on into a vision