Riding the Storm

The Comfort Zone
Breathing Freedom

(introduction 3)

They say, your comfort zone will kill you

A comfort zone is said to be a psychological state where things feel familiar to a person, it is a state where the person feels comfortable and it is a state where the person feels everything is under control.

The very willingness to leave one's comfort zone is an act of resistance.

This means that in a comfort zone, one is only a low level of anxiety and stress.

However, the buzzword "comfort zone" also describes an individual area of private or social life that is characterised by comfort and freedom from risk.
The word is often used pejoratively in everyday language - the expression "leaving the comfort zone", on the other hand, has a positive connotation

This popular slogan probably originated in the early 1970s in the anti-nuclear movement against the planned nuclear power plant in Wyhl in Germany.
The phrase is universally valid.

Fight back / defend yourself - resistance, they say, is a refusal to obey.

Paul Willis, English sociologist and representative of cultural theory, describes resistance as discontent against everyday and prevailing conditions.

Michel Foucault defined resistance as an attack on relations of power and domination. He concludes that resistance and power are mutually dependent. Resistance is the antipole of power. But power relations can only exist through a multiplicity of points of resistance.

According to Michel de Certeau, everyday life differs significantly from other areas of life because it is almost entirely unconscious and completely repetitive. And it is precisely in everyday life that the manifold comforts and dependencies take place. This is where desires and needs arise that want to be satisfied. This is where one allows oneself to be seduced, where to be entangled in the web of obedience.

Michel de Certeau's theory of everyday life and the associated concepts of appropriation also expose the problem of resistance.

Resistance as a form of social and political conflict has been anchored in European political culture since ancient times. In almost all forms of society, there was or is a consensus that resistance can be necessary and legitimate in certain cases.

Resistance is the attack on relations of power and domination, so it is primarily directed against the state, against governments, against any form of authority. This definition includes any form of anti-action against the state and its authority.

The disinhibition of this society is as visible as it is dangerously advenced

take a brake:

Guy Debord was a radical critic of capitalism and the capitalist ideology of consumerism, which he denounces as the enactment of "false needs". And in this spectacle, everyone, boss or worker, man or woman, careerist or rebel, plays only their assigned role. Debord describes that reality becomes invisible behind an illusory world of advertising, clichés, propaganda, but these in turn have very real effects on people's lives.

Of course, one wonders what role oneself plays in this great game.

About philanthrocapitalism:

Saving the world through philanthrocapitalism is a problem, but a profitable business.

An example:
In Africa, they eat manioc, not maize, nor wheat. But that doesn't matter, because manioc is a good example of how the big chemical companies are grabbing the last bits of earth under their nails.

How the Rich Can Save The World

wikipedia says: Philanthrocapitalism or philanthropic capitalism is a way of doing philanthropy, which mirrors the way that business is done in the for-profit world. It may involve venture philanthropy that actively invests in social programs to pursue specific philanthropic goals that would yield return on investment over the long term, or in a more passive form whereby "social investors" benefit from investing in socially-responsible programs.

There are many criticisms of philanthrocapitalism beginning with the limited transparency and accountability involved. There are also concerns that private philanthropy erodes support for governmental spending on public services. The main worry with this practice is that collectively, it can lead to tax revenue problems for the government.

Resistance is a global challenge.

Philanthrocapitalism is particularly associated with industry philanthropists, such as
       - Bill Gates (Microsoft)
       - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
       - Warren Buffet (Berkshire Hathaway)
       - Pierre Omidyar (eBay)
       - Gordon Moore (Intel)
       - Larry Ellison (Oracle)

And every single consumer, user supports these philanthropic activities - you too! This is where the resistance begins - get out, don't take part any more...

Aren't we all already trapped in our own comfort zone, at least the generations that have been shaped by the "Western ideas of the world"? Who wants to imagine a world without the internet and smartphones? Too many already "play" with Alexa and pay without cash because it's so cool and convenient. Too many no longer dare to walk around a new city without google maps. All thinking is being outsourced. Too much trust in technology and progress - too little reflection on what technology and progress have really caused.

Where right becomes wrong, resistance becomes a duty

Revolt against the "green revolution (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa)"
10. July 2020, 18:22h, SZ, Sueddeutsche Zeitung:

"Farmers forced to abandon their mixed crops, nutrient-rich crops crowded out, smallholders ending up in debt: An investigation published on Friday delivers a damning verdict on the Bill and Melinda Gates-funded developmental agricultural alliance in Africa. The study concludes that the alliance has failed to achieve its own goals and that its corporate-driven approach is ineffective in ending hunger....Among the biggest donors are the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. The development organisation promised great things: by 2020, the private-public initiative, with which German development aid also cooperates, should halve food insecurity in 20 African countries and double the income and productivity of 30 million small farmers. This was to be achieved through a "green revolution": with licensed seeds, synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, and integration into global supply chains."
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/agraralliannz-afrika-gates-stiftung-1.4963169

From (wheat)starch to wheat to war: Civilisation

Historically, civilisation was usually understood as a larger and more "advanced" culture. It was important to understand that the term civilisation had to be seen as the opposite of the term "barbarism". For only in this way could non-European societies be characterised as uncivilised.

It is said that cultures are what has grown historically. This is where their strength, their distinctiveness, and also their injustice comes from. When cultures become reflexive, civilisation emerges.

Civilisation - that is pacification and taming of cultures.

The task of "civilising" the subjugated peoples played a central role in the legitimising discourse on the colonialism of the great European powers.
This strategy of their own territorial expansion continues to be carried through.

Sovereignity and territorial integrity ...

But it ended up that we are all the storm, we cause it - with all our little daily desires.
With our desperate attempts to get out of our personal unhappiness. Still we want more, we always want something else. Even today, we can be made to feel that we need this or that. Advertising, manipulation is everywhere and the greed for everything is unbroken...br>
We have to free ourselves from this. Basically, we have to resist ourselves. That is the challenge. Being happy and satisfied is not something you achieve through hyperconsumption.
As the Invisible Committee wrote at the end of 2017:
"The destructive force of the revolutionary process can do nothing without that charge of quiet positivity inherent in any happy existence."
So the individual is addressed - it's about the question of happiness and new ways of living that enable the individual to escape the system. Refusal and silence instead of noisy proclamations. There will be no overthrow of the existing order without a commitment to a desirable life.

We have known this for almost two generations now. And it was seen coming, but successfully suppressed again and again.
And now it's here: the super disaster. The shelves are empty, the supply has come to a standstill, even though there is still a bit of production left. But resources are running out, the soil is drying out, the insects and bees are gone.

Nevertheless, you get even more happily shopping and consuming people on board.

But hyperconsumption is collapsing because it is eating itself up.
And now they are desperately looking for someone to blame. Time to think of fetish....

There are more pages:

The Storm (introduction 1)

The World (introduction 2)