He said that a while ago, in the middle of the US and UK bombing campaign on Irak. It is one of these moments that you wonder whether politics is important, or indeed it is nothing more than a theater play. I am sure that he was only partly informed and now that we know that we have on a daily basis hundreds of innocent citizens killed in Bagdad, he would certainly not say that anymore. Madeleine Albright invented an interesting term for innocent citizens killed in war: collaterale damage.
In France, a few days ago someone committed suicide, an engeneer of the technical development center of Renault in Guyancourt. One of the trade unions declared that it had to do with the fact that Renault does not evalute the work of people, but rather the person himself. It did not have to do with work pressure only, but rather with mental pressure. It was not the first suicide in that particular factory.
In France, more than 50% of the people do not like their job. In Norway, 15% of the workforce is absent due to "illness".
A week ago, the stepfather of little 3 year old Julien committed suicide after been questioned during more than 12 hours, suspected from the disappearance of Julien. Ever since nothing has been heard from Julien, and official sources fear for his life. The same sources now declare that the stepfather has most probably nothing to do with the disappearance. I hope he killed himself in the knowledge that at least his new wife trusted him.
In line, I commemorate the soccer referee that got killed in riots with so called soccer fans in Italy in the night of the 2nd of February. Our economic system at least doesn't make victimes, or does it?
And then I stand in front of a class of young promising future managers, bright and creative kids, that have the possibility to go different about the future of our economic system. Most of them, however, are so much part of the economy we have created, that they can only try to zap from one station to another, also in class. They zap between courses, they zap during the course between the teacher, their friends, messages on their computer or mobile phone, etc. The world seems boxed in a TV screen; the world passes by as in a movie. I am glad to see that an growing minority (or did it become in the mean time a majority) is increasingly aware of the environment (and I do not mean only nature) that we are alltogether co-creating.
Pirsig (Zen and the art of motor cycle maintenance) wrote that while being seated in a car, the world passes by as if you are watching a TV. On a motorcycle, the rider is part of the environment. You smell it, you feel it, you are making it while driving through.
When can we finally understand that the world is just complex, and instead of understanding that, we only do everything to make it complicated. We look for causalities that do not exist and in order to prove our right, we create those causalities eventually ourselves. It is good to see that our politicians are confident at least.
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