{"id":10027,"date":"2009-09-28T15:50:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T13:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.harald-bluechel.com\/different-literature-by-w-genazino-m-werner\/"},"modified":"2009-09-28T15:50:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T13:50:42","slug":"different-literature-by-w-genazino-m-werner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harald-bluechel.com\/en\/different-literature-by-w-genazino-m-werner\/","title":{"rendered":"different (literature by W.Genazino &amp; M.Werner)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>I<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How about,<\/p>\n<p>when &#8211; from one day to the next<\/p>\n<p>the people<\/p>\n<p>without sunglasses,<\/p>\n<p>without i-pads &amp; pods,<\/p>\n<p>without cell phones,<\/p>\n<p>without handbag,<\/p>\n<p>without wristwatches,<\/p>\n<p>without espresso machines,<\/p>\n<p>without automatic dishwashers,<\/p>\n<p>would have to manage without a television?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>when people are no longer<\/p>\n<p>shopping in an all-terrain vehicle,<\/p>\n<p>shopping weekend in the next town<\/p>\n<p>could easy-jet?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>if there were no more navis and<\/p>\n<p>no credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>what would change?<\/p>\n<p>would people change ?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>would this change have an effect on living together?<\/p>\n<p>on the course of the world?<\/p>\n<p>would that be the end of the west?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How nice it would be,<\/p>\n<p>to see people in public places who<\/p>\n<p>do not use the telephone,<\/p>\n<p>do not eat fries,<\/p>\n<p>do not pour yourself a coffee to go,<\/p>\n<p>Do not hoot and holler,<\/p>\n<p>do not drive behind mirrored windows,<\/p>\n<p>do not hunt for bargains,<\/p>\n<p>do not want to outdo the other,<\/p>\n<p>not constantly wanting to sell something to the other person.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>III<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>people would<\/p>\n<p>become calmer?<\/p>\n<p>slower and more attentive,<\/p>\n<p>less easily influenced?<\/p>\n<p>perhaps they would no longer allow themselves to be harnessed to the cart of the bustling, tongue-in-cheek scam,<\/p>\n<p>but possibly go in search of needs other than those they have been told they have?<\/p>\n<p>you would tell the paid speakers, experts, taste amplifiers, elites, opinion makers, consultants, entertainers, salespeople and paywriters in no uncertain terms:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;STOP &#8211; if you can&#8217;t help it &#8211; do what you want, but no more with me. Not an eye, not an ear, not a thought, not a cent more to you! that&#8217;s enough! you&#8217;ve played your hand&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>no longer even criticize them, but simply overlook them, like a stain on the floor whose existence may be ugly, but is completely insignificant for your own life.<\/p>\n<p>disposal through non-compliance.<\/p>\n<p>fulfillment through entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>stop thinking <em>within<\/em> the given problems, solutions and topics.<\/p>\n<p>simply take off your shoe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>IV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;systemic relevance ?&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;sorry. only relevant for those who believe they can profit from it. what do i have to do with your &#8220;system&#8221;? actually nothing, nada, niente! <\/p>\n<p>on the contrary: it is presumptuous on your part to regard me as part of your system without being asked and as a matter of course, to appropriate me and, as the culmination of all this, to hold me liable.<\/p>\n<p>once and for all: you shall be erased from my consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I How about, when &#8211; from one day to the next the people without sunglasses, without i-pads &amp; pods, without cell phones, without handbag, without wristwatches, without espresso machines, without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[425,422],"class_list":["post-10027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-biography","tag-zeitgeist-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harald-bluechel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harald-bluechel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harald-bluechel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harald-bluechel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harald-bluechel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.harald-bluechel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harald-bluechel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harald-bluechel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harald-bluechel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}