Some thoughts on 7/22/2020

After reading a post on a German forum, which was probably written by some far-right troll, I decided not to reply. To summarize the post. It was an expression of not understanding the "anarchist", "antifa", "leftwing" mob. The writer was convinced that Trump should have crushed all those protests and riots earlier.

Not only that I completely agree with people being fed up with the lies, the physical and psychological violence, the cheating, the injustice and inequality of those people and the system which should be there to govern them, to lead them. They put the trust in people, in a constitution, in laws. Being f*cked over for generations and being witness of all the mess those in power create, is eventually leading to situations like these.

So I asked myself what kind of political systems and forms of government did we have so far. We can look back onto a proud future of exploitation and violence.

The popular ones:

• Democracy
• Socialism
• Communism
• Autocracy
• Dictatorship
• Republic
• Monarchy
• Aristocracy

In some systems we could choose our leaders, in some not and were just ruled by power and violence. So there were revolutions promising change and that those injustices of the last one would be abolished and it became another sh*show, you just have to wait for it. System flaws were either not be thought of or build in from the beginning. The continuing element of all those attempts are clear and well known. They did not abolish class, power structures and with them we will always lead sooner or later at the point in time, when people may rise up and demand changes. Changes that could have been implemented, but sharing power and wealth were never really an option - were they?

Ok, I lived long enough to know that people are individuals when you zoom in and try to understand each one of them. Experiences and so on make us somehow, at least in certain perspective, unique. Not only since I understood OOP (object-oriented programming) I realized that you can categorize and group people into classes and objects with attributes.

Asking myself if this is something natural? Hierarchies and class structures? Also in Biology you can find those designs implemented.

Breaking things down. The deeper you go in nature, the more those constructs lose their structure. What does this tell me?

Growing up I learned a couple of things. I always wanted to get to the bottom of things, even though I may be average intelligent. Self-reflection and self-analysis were, since my youth, tools that always have been part of how I approach experiences and me. The deeper I went, the more I could see my ego dissolve. This development also led to dissolving my view on the world and other people, my identity that was for example given to me by upbringing, my environment and the educational and social influences.

Dissolving my identity and ego led to a couple of things. I can see myself in a lot of peoples actions, experiences and desires. This leads to understand and acknowledgment of my environment to a certain degree.

Coming back to the mob statement. Those people, if not on the top of the pyramid are just tools and the chain of power. Not realizing that they are part of the same group and class is something that must be actively told. Connecting parts by breaking down the understanding that if we go deeper, all those negatives that are coming with our superficial human nature can be overcome and there can be another form of life - if we want to.

The form of government can never be one of those above. History told us already and just making marginal changes will not lead us to a point, where the fundamental problems of hierarchical power distribution will end, and we can enter a time of real equality.