in my teenage years, the late years of flower power, people were freeing themselves from the yoke of Christian social mores and petty-bourgeois morality
I have grasped the freedom-happiness-morality of the hippy movement with both arms
in my experience, the people who give shape and content to the public authorities have moved from independent case handlers to interpreters of their personal views
i see a similar development in the media: independent news gathering regularly receives the opinion of the journalists who produce it
and I see that as a general development, for example on social media: the doggedness and brutal hardness with which people have to express their position
and I recognize that in our world leaders, who unabashedly send us ‘the people’ into the battlefields
who do I actually see when I stand in front of the mirror?
after my retirement next year, two new career goals:
an exhibition of my photo work at the annual ‘Recontres d’Arles’, even if it is just a corner in one of the exhibition spaces
the further rollout and development of the personal development programs ‘the Competent Man’ and ‘the Community Man’ together with experts to empower my fellow people
to settle, is to be satisfied with what you got, because in 1947 the world tried to alleviate the suffering and prevent a recurrence, and today it turns out…
you give an inch, they take a yard
how much oppression can people withstand without losing their dignity
it is up to the world to put a stop to this self-declared chosen people
Thinking about the question, I have to conclude that I often try to find the answer myself through public sources of information, I am not quick to ask someone else for advice, coincidentally two weeks ago I tried ChatGPT…
I found the response very useful for simple questions, for more substantive questions, involving human involvement, I became more reserved, more critical, so to speak,
asking people for advice, looking it up myself, using AI, ….the question from now on becomes: