For anyone who isn’t all too “fluent” in German, “Kampf” means something like “fight” or “battle”. Adolf Hitler wrote a book titled “Mein Kampf” — referring to “My” (fight or battle). I have chosen the title “Unser Kampf” — referring to “Our” (fight or battle).
Survival is indeed to some degree a matter of fighting or battling. There is a German saying that goes along the lines of “I have to do this (work), because (so far) the chickens (for dinner) simply won’t fly directly into my mouth.” [1]
If you had asked me a few weeks ago, I might have referred to the battle or fight I wish to discuss now as my battle. I might have even said that up until a few days ago, yesterday, or maybe even right up until a couple of minutes (or maybe hours) ago … but I have made a significant discovery — just like John Lennon used to sing: “I’m not the only one”.
What took so long? Well, I usually encounter HUGE amounts of “pushback” whenever I share my ideas (which is also a sort of “link” to last week’s post about another author — see “Why Do You Want to Share Your Ideas?“). Most people consider my ideas about “Rational Media” [ https://phlat.design.blog/2024/01/14/rational-media ] repulsive (or something like that), and therefore refuse to give them what I wish to refer to as “adequate” consideration.
Never mind that I was also quite convinced that my own ideas were quite influential in eBay’s acquisition of shopping.com or the website without a name’s acquisition of twitter.co.uk (and perhaps many similar deals which have happened over the past couple of decades — oh yea: don’t forget CNet’s divestiture of their very misguided approach to the very wacky website that was once help.com 😉 ). Whatever — nevermind.
There have been early inklings that more and more people are becoming more and more aware of bullshit. [2] The whole CoVid-19 hoax was of course a big part of it. Or how about the American media giant CBS fabricating a simulated answer from one of the candidates during the most recent presidential election in the USA? All of that kind of stuff was slowly lining up, but two media sources I rely upon heavily have very recently kind of pushed me across a sort of “Tipping Point”.
One was a recent episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” — which I wrote about in my blog post “Is Our Language a Religious Issue?” [ https://podcasts.video.blog/2024/12/26/is-our-language-a-religious-issue ].
But the real clincher was last Sunday’s episode of the “No Agenda” podcast, which I must admit that John C. Dvorak’s (and Adam Curry’s) analysis of the tragic terrorist attack in Magdeburg (Germany) during a “Weihnachtsmarkt” event was nothing short of mind-boggling. [3] What boggles my mind was how straightforward Mr. Dvorak’s analysis is, how hare-brained the mainstream media account is (as a result), and how shamelessly the propaganda machinery keep chugging along full speed ahead like there is no tomorrow.
All of a sudden, I have come to the realization that this is very much our battle, not merely my (individual) battle. Sort of like John Belushi, I now (finally) see the light! 😀
I now think one of my New Year’s resolutions ought to be: to no longer forgive people if they continue to remain ignorant when the truth is so undeniably obvious. [4]
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