Seasons Tune

There is no shortage of food on this earth, despite the manifold people living here, as We Feed The World has shown, what is lacking are means of distribution – If only! What is lacking is the will to distribute. Same with CO², or emission, or pollution of nature, or overconsumption. The means to stop each and everyone of them within the time of a year are there. The will to do so is not. If a single one thinks that by him/her stopping to run a bulb at night, a change is made, it is an illusion an it stays one even if his/her whole neighbourhood takes a liking to the idea. Even if the whole region is engulfed by the idea, it will not change. That factory over there will work at night nonetheless. By doing so, and be it only 5 days a week, it will consume more energy than an entire region of middle-sized housholds. Now, the thing which is treated by politicians all over the earth like it was an endangered spezies has a name: Consum. „We have to raise consum to avoid crisis“ It f...

We went along the rails of traces laid out by those mysterious sages of the past – or were they? Yes, Oh! Holy men (why men?) packed their knowledge, which they saw would otherwise become lost (why are we so accustomed to the idea that „knowledge is lost“, like it is a base condition for knowledge to be lost or secret in the first place?), into mundane means, hence arriving at playing cards. The story was told, believed, debunked, reanimated, sprayed over with the holy water of science, and did not die. Oh, the story has not been told completely – replace men with man, add „Hermes“ (the universal delivery service for about anything, apparently), and stick the origin of the trump suit to the firmament, then the trumps predate the ordinary playing cards because those are like a lesser manifestation of their bigger origin up in the heavens, which needed more time to bring their form to life – or vice versa, the first principle was – of course – the numbers, hence, the first packs were ...