The ultimate goal could not possibly be something else than our own happiness, because it is through our sensory systems, our nervous systems, our backbones, and our brains that we experience it. If we are denying this and proclaim out loud how we could, oh, live off the mere view of a smiling child at his mother's breast,- then we are parasites on their happiness, distorting reality to suit our ideologist needs.
"Great power comes with great responsibility". There you have a quote from Spiderman. Spiderman! And what about money! Great wealth is nothing but great power. Money buys everything from almond chocolate to Siamese whores, the Opel imperium and goose liver. Nobody is saying that wealth comes with responsibility for the world. And the wealthy don't seem to feel responsible for anything but their own capital. Such a virtuosos they are how they manage to depict this alleged "responsibility" as a real burden! How they must suffer if the bathroom marble of their second villa turns out to be not tax-deductible. And how responsible they are to buy life insurance so that their financial independence of the rest of the world takes on messianic proportions. We can only look up baffled to those great minds, as their divine responsibility rains down on the land like spring drizzle.
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September 28. Preparation underway.
It seems the final weeks of preparation have commenced. Charity Travel will begin mid October, I'll most likely fly into Georgia and start talking to people there about the conflicts they live through. Perhaps I'll find an orphanage or another genuine good work to support. But might keep my wallet closed until Africa. I am looking forward to meeting the people of Georgia, perhaps Armenia, the Kurds of eastern Turkey, the Syrians, the Lebanese - I heard only good stories about them.
Writing in a café now, the waiter told me the project is interesting, but just like everybody else he of course does not have any real interest. I haven't yet proven anything. And even then. O I know, I will come back after a year, full af fantastic stories about children full of hope, about saved habitats, about women with a small piece of fertile land and a perspective, about small-scale irrigation systems, about a school in rural Africa, and about Pyramids, temples, jungle, boatrides, coral reefs, beautiful landscapes, delphins, diving, and people will listen to those stories and sigh and say "yes, that would be cool" but will they also say "wait a minute! I can do that too. And I have the responsibility to spread the wealth around. To be good, whatever that be." It will be tough and hurdles will be put up where I set foot, because I am calling to lower consumption. To lower consumption! Isn't it a miracle that I am tolerated by blogspot, CIA, FBI, MI6, Interpol and the Worldbank?
Writing in a café now, the waiter told me the project is interesting, but just like everybody else he of course does not have any real interest. I haven't yet proven anything. And even then. O I know, I will come back after a year, full af fantastic stories about children full of hope, about saved habitats, about women with a small piece of fertile land and a perspective, about small-scale irrigation systems, about a school in rural Africa, and about Pyramids, temples, jungle, boatrides, coral reefs, beautiful landscapes, delphins, diving, and people will listen to those stories and sigh and say "yes, that would be cool" but will they also say "wait a minute! I can do that too. And I have the responsibility to spread the wealth around. To be good, whatever that be." It will be tough and hurdles will be put up where I set foot, because I am calling to lower consumption. To lower consumption! Isn't it a miracle that I am tolerated by blogspot, CIA, FBI, MI6, Interpol and the Worldbank?
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