We are currently part of an inhuman experiment, a bet - in the profit interests of the very richest. It deals with bartering, with the equivalent of human and inhuman action. Two questions are answered: How far would a valuable person actually go if he gets money for it or even power, economic independence, freedom from repression, freedom to move freely, to be able to work, to shop, ...? And how much does it cost for a human being - whether as a political decision-maker, editor-in-chief, as a judge, as a police officer or simply as a person in everyday life in seemingly banal decisions about fellow human beings - to be ready to grant part or all of the population freedom and basic rights to do something inhuman, indeed to commit crimes against humanity - be it out of calculated calculation or out of fear.
In our society, indeed worldwide, only a few super-rich have established an exchange rate, a human exchange rate - in principle similar to the exchange rates on the commodity market. But it is - as in the past, here and now, even in every moment - about virtue, the virtue of every single person, which is auctioned - and with it all our doubts about the nature of man. And so, with our daily actions towards our fellow human beings, with our decision about other people in every single situation, our virtue is always and inevitably linked to the sale. And with every word and every deed the price of selling our virtue is revealed.
Today, when I walk through the streets deserted by humanity, I experience it clearly and distinctly: The sell-out of the best side of so many people, in a daily increased willingness to break every sacred oath and every commandment in return for power, for money, for economic ones Independence, for freedom from repression, for freedom to move freely, to work, to shop,…. With every day that the criminal regime shows itself to be more totalitarian and dictatorial all over the world, I hear it louder and louder:
- First of all ...
- Second….
- Sold!
But if you look very closely, you discover them, first apparently by chance, then more and more - people who fight: For freedom, for peace, for an economy for the common good, for the free self-determination of each individual. And to the extent that you gather your courage to trust your own senses and your own mind and are ready to look, you will recognize them:
You recognize - strong and indomitable - only a few here and there, apparently isolated ... then as a community of thousands of people in every city, meeting with the aim of not obeying the fascists within the traditional power structures of our country and also visibly blaming the street do ... and finally you recognize yourself, as one of you, born from the deep knowledge that your virtue is not for sale!
Knowing that one day the power of justice will grab the super-rich and the many devoted to them by their collars to bring them in front of a clear and unclouded mirror in which they can see the truth in their likeness, and that the truth is revealed to the whole world, we look forward to the miracle - in and through ourselves, revealed in the readiness for community!
(via Christian Immig)