People,
Twenty years ago I watched a talk show and one of the guests, one Dr.
Khnlechner from Munich, said that he loves and supports our democracy.
Asked how he shows his love and support he answered: " For example I like to
pay my taxes. " Everybody had a good laugh, but he just sat there, said
nothing and smiled a little. I never forgot that.
I love music, all kinds of music. Visiting concerts is one of the few things
which make me wander all over the place.
One day I attended a live concert on the streets. Right beside the stage
there was a pub. They hissed flags which resembled the ww 1 flag of the
Deutsches Reich. Also the folks going in and out were of a certain kind. I
was distracted from the music by one young man who stood outside the pub. I
recognized him as one of my customers. This young man behaved in a very
disgusting way and showed his superior physical power by wrestling and
strangling other, smaller and younger girls and boys hanging out with him.
One might say that he acted in a playfull mood, but I thught: ' What an
idiot.' The whole scene touched me in a way that made me afraid. (Also
because my bicycle stood right beside them.)
Yesterday the same young man came into my shop and was the " kind of
customer one does not have an eye on". Easygoing, friendly, talking to me
and not even turned off by me being sparse. He bought a shirt and pants to
present himself in an interview for a job. When he left he wished me a good
holiday (which is today, we celebrate the reunification of east and west
germany)
Helmut Kohl was the most influential statesman of the last twenty years.
Lately he has been dishonoured, even by his own party, the CDU. There is a
strong evidence that he evased taxes and has been bribed by exporters of
military equipment. When his case was beginning to evolve I saw him on TV.
He was interviewed by one of germany's top notch journalists. When asked to
comment the starting accusations Herr Kohl lost his cool and told the
journalist in a loud and decisive manner that the whole issue is out of this
world and asked the journalist how he could be so impertinent to ask a
question like this. It was as if an aristocrat adressed an servant who had
made a mistake which could not really be excused. Thanks to the opposing
forces of his political contrarians the story was dealt with in a deeper
sense. Suddenly key archives, which would have brought light into this dark
cave of Mr. Kohl, could not be found any more. Some of the chief executives
of Herr Kohl went to jail and also the complete leader group of the CDU has
been taken out of any position of high functional value. This was last year.
Now it is forgotten. The CDU is gaining ground again, which has been heavily
catalysed by the raise of the petrol prise, due to tax increase by the
actual government. If the next election would be now the CDU might win and
regain government.
In retrospective, rare voices saying that the aera Kohl lead to a dumbing
and numbing of the public were prophetic. Leo Kirch, a close friend of Kohl,
and the middle european equivalent to Rupert Murdoch, was a pioneer in
introducing privately owned TV and enforced the desensibilisation of the
eyes and ears of the german public. The program slip is: " Make them sleep -
make them look away - make them forget " - which is a twentieth century
variation of ' divide and reign '.
Seen in this light the MOQ is THE antidote and dangerous to the profiteurs
from public sleep. Mr. Pirsig says: ' Wake up - make up Your own mind -
trust Your own senses ' and he reintroduces values, declared irrelevant or
hollowed out to puppets without any content. An underlying message of both
Zen and Lila is the presentation of value experience by reducing,
simplifying and clearing.
Mr. Pirsigs program is: ' Be here now - start with opening up to the sensual
experience of values embedded in the moral hierarchy of the universe'.
This is basic and tight - well I do not find the real words but You know
what I mean.
Greetings from Germany,
Andreas
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