When I was leaving the school and I was applying for my first job the world looked fine. Economy was prospering and there was a lot of stuff to do. But this dream of a new just world was a short one and like always everything came different. Nowadays it looks like that we are in some sort of crises. For me a point is now reached to think about my relationship to all this. Like a lot of Germans I was very critical about the development in the US and I very often I opposed the war in Iraq. I'm still disappointed about the new role of the money in our society today. But why I'm fighting a system which gives me at least the chance to oppose it? That gives me the possibility to try something else. If I don't want I don't have to do it. If I don't like the oil companies than I don't have to use their stuff. Means I don't have to pay money for their products. If I don't like Microsoft when I don't need to use their products. In the other case I have to agree with their terms.
It is all to easy to adapt the new lifestyle which is very comfortable. But if I do it, I should not complain about it. I must be careful. To be conservative is the easiest way to oppose and I think I was conservative. But it is useless to do so. Means I have to learn again to swim. To swim in the world of the real new economy. This is the only way to change something in the system.
Today I reat again some lines of the new Banks Book Dead Air and I realized that we have something we should be happy about: Freedom. It makes no sense to attack this freedom because we don't like some noses. We have to fight for it and make sure that the freedom will spread to all parts of the world.
Freedom is something which has several lines of confrontation. We must aware of this. I must be aware of this.