New Zealand is great. The folk is broad-minded and the nation is not arrogant like a lot of other peoples in the world. They know their roots and they are happy with the stuff they have. But something disturbs me in this country: The military forces. There is a proudness about something this islands are really not need. Noone wants to attack or take over New Zealand. There are no foes at all. Even in the Second World War the Japanese Forces are far away to conquer this sheep breeding nation. There is no strategical use and there is nothing to steal. So why waste money for military?
Maybe New Zealand is showing the world the future army: State owned mercenaries. Cheap because the soldiers want to fight and not to spend money and gainfully for the government which is earning less money because it sold all their silverware and the people are taking more than they give back. Governments all over the world are getting more and more obsolete in the daily life. For the people the economic part of the newspapers are much more important than the politics. Security is done by private companies not by the state owned police. The health insurance and the hospitals are more and more private owned. Someone who wants well educated children is sending them to a private school.
The space for the government is getting smaller and smaller. Its fight for survival has begun and why not use the own army (one of the last state owned "companies") to earn money.
This evulation shows a trend to some kind of anarchy. Not the one propageted by the big A in the circle. Some kind of modern anarchy. For ten fifteen years I was a big fan of the cyperpunk. This science fiction literature style described a very interesting future. Often it was described with pictures out of the famous Bladerunner movie (which is not really fitting because the book on which Bladerunner based - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep from Philip K. Dick - was not Cyberpunk). What we can see today in the cinema when we watch Matrix is a visualized form of famous books like Neuromancer or Snowcrash. The latter one described the future role of governments as very isolated apparatus in which noone was really interested. It looks like that this is not really a unfitting prediction for the more and more ridiculous governments all over the planet.

Der Faschismus kann auf ein Drei-Säulen-Modell reduziert werden: Nationalismus, Militarismus und Chauvinismus. Das zur Zeit dominante System Kapitalismus zeigt zumindest chauvinistischen Charakter: Die Gruppe der Erfolgreichen steht der Gruppe der Verlierer entgegen. Dazu kommt noch der zur Zeit wieder aufflammende Militarismus. Fehlt noch der Nationalismus.
Soll nur ein kurzes Gedankenspiel sein. Vielleicht gibt es dazu später mehr.

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.