Published in GrailWorld 22/2001) SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: Now we have to become acquainted with the fact that fundamentalist Muslims of many nations not only expect an ideal, just state from Islam, but also face the West and its civilization with abysmal hatred; because from the Muslim point of view * the Western, the [...]
BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS Farewell to Stone Age morality When the sun went outApocalypse no!Do we need a second planet?The adventurous life of Adam DreylingThe strange survival of neoliberalismThe end of normalityThe global disasterThe Moses riddleThe riddle of the Danube civilizationThe SK principleThe hatred of the WestThe oldest city in AmericaThe snake in the firmamentThe TemplarsThe world maps of the ancient marinersSaving a misunderstood king's lifeAn inconvenient truthA [...]
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The real Robinson
At the time I went to school, almost every child knew the "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe (approx. 1660-1731). The book was available in several editions, including simplified versions for children, and "Robinson" became a synonym for a hermit on a lonely island. The bestseller found imitators, and the "Robinsonads" - adventure stories about sailing ships, castaways [...]
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The great Xhosa cattle slaughter
Crises and mass hysteria, as examples of the dangers of uncontrolled "lateral thinking"? In “In short, in a nutshell, curious” on page 262 “The legendary cargo cult” and on page 323 “A renaissance prophet in the fickle of the masses” we dealt with mass situations in which people can lose their ability to criticize. In the past centuries, easily excitable crowds of people that could no longer be reached through arguments have in diverse [...]
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What apocalypse is coming?
(Published in 2020 with additions until 2024) The world-famous icon of the green movement, Greta Khunberg, gave a highly emotional speech to the UN in September 2019, in which she called for an immediate rethink and swift action to avert the catastrophes threatened by our reckless use of natural resources. The focus was on the controversial [...]
Why are the left on the rise again? It is a strange contradiction: Bolshevik and communist terror was responsible for around 100 million deaths in the 20th century due to its fanatical ideology. Wherever communist or left-wing socialist ideas prevailed, and where they - mostly by force - were able to seize government power, those concerned broke up [...]
(Published July 2020) "Politicians are trying to save yesterday's world with artificially created central bank money - and are thus missing the future." Gabor Steingart (4) In the wake of the corona crisis, all economic rules are being thrown overboard in Brussels, chaired by the German Chancellor, and all experience from [...]
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Religion and power
How long have religions existed? (Published 2019) No one can say how long religions have existed on earth. Some, like biologist Alister Hardy (1896-1985), see humans as "praying animals"[i] and assume that religions, or at least religiosity, existed as early as the Paleolithic. Burial rites of the Neanderthals 30,000 years ago can be interpreted religiously. [...]
The good old days When you get older and think back, you mainly remember good feelings and wonderful experiences. You were young, healthy and strong. The world was open to you and you felt up to any challenge. There was more humanity, e.g. camaraderie in the sports club instead of narcissism in the fitness center. Almost all athletes were [...]
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How much we overload our earth
Published in Grail World 64/2011 In Grail World, we have already reported on various approaches to calculating the Earth's carrying capacity: "How much humanity can the Earth take?"; "Why we are stumbling into the population trap"; "A devastating footprint" (all under "Ecology"). Regardless of which of the not uncontroversial calculation methods is used as a basis, the results invariably tend to be [...]