The Introduction (Manifesto)

The Decision

We live in a world of decisions. Whether in the family, when asking which rolls each person wants or what someone needs from the shopping, everything is decided, daily and permanently. We want to decide, co-decide, and then have the feeling of a positive bond to the decided thing, to have brought in something of ourselves, to be part of a process, we feel belonging, not alone, but strengthened in a community, a team, a group, and help more easily – because in harmony with the goal – gladly with.

Even processes in unpleasant events or situations we can accept and even force ourselves to participate if we have a choice for our own decision. We feel control over our own fate. As a human species we are not yet far enough to think and understand as one humanity – as a connected being –, we fall back every time into an individual, a being conditioned by the form of society.

If this possibility of free decision is denied or manipulated, our trust disappointed, we turn away, withdraw our participation and find ourselves in a survival mode that results in autonomous self-supplying action. In this state, non-own ideas are evaluated as manipulative attacks and fundamentally rejected, as well as immediately fought. Even interesting and beneficial ideas are discarded or dismantled directly without arguments and sustainably destroyed. We become permanently skeptical and aggressive toward every barrier that stands in the way of our short-term survival goal.

If trust is destroyed multiple times, we retreat deeper into survival mode and select a minimal circle of people as our own belonging community which we protect in the self-determined survival mode. If the permanently felt attack of the imaginary opponent becomes life-threatening or the psychological pressure exceeds a tolerability limit, we switch from a defensive to an offensive posture and start situation-conditioned offensives ourselves, where escalation already exists. Everything based on the suppression of a free decision.

The Politics

The decision surrounds us everywhere. Also in political participation. And as in every area of our life, in politics too free decision is a cornerstone for any development and cooperation.

Unfortunately, the political landscape has changed significantly in recent decades. Participation in a political organization or co-determination through electing a party and the hope for implementation of election promises until the next election opportunity is the only direct influence in the political process. A direct influence of an unknown individual is feared and rejected with all kinds of dangers justified. The principle of co-determination does not fit into the concept of a pyramid structure of the local parties.

Even new organizations – like once the Pirate Party – succumb after a certain time, at the moment of their relevance, to the formation of the established parties. Initially with their special internal party practice of realized base democracy and the still most influential system today, a digital application, Liquid Feedback, the still too inexperienced members could not withstand the shine and glamour of federal politics and finally lost themselves in the mediocrity of the others, and disappeared like a shooting star in the firmament.

But an idea sprouted, a small plant remained, inconspicuously grew in the shadow of the political forest. An idea had managed, its time had not yet come, its special meaning could not yet be recognized. The possibility of permanent decision-making through the vote of all participants on only one level.

All parties that were to come after used a variety of sounding and inviting designations: Words like co-determination, base democracy, participation, or every form of Anglicisms, as slogan of a movement. A permanently copied innovation. But they were only words whose meaning had long been washed out, leaving only an empty shell of words. Even presented in neon tubes could no longer unfold any effect.

The storm of media exploitation has passed. The growing plant has survived unnoticed in the shadow.

The System

Man has already completely decoupled from the established political systems. The system itself has initiated the weaning and successfully completed it. The systems are only explained in school and tested in formal education on those who in social position must accept and participate in these systems to receive career-conform recognition. In the conditioning of man it is only one aspect of the social rule – an already crumbling must. Any interest in a form of participation has already dried up. The irrelevant and above all rejecting commentary on current politics is a pure reflex, a vent for emotional discontent. The still reacting man has long seen through the construct “politics”, his attitude toward this closed system is already defined. Man does not participate in political camps, he unconsciously fights the system “politics” as a whole.

It is a self-controlled foreign body that fights against its rejection in the process of life.

If you ask people about this construct and ask for an explanation, the answers are given in maximum simplification. They describe a system that they themselves can no longer logically comprehend. The school definition of the political system no longer matches the actual state. Moreover, the comparison object seems non-existent. The question is: whether it ever existed.

This system empowered by the word “established” has already been recognized by man as a control system. No matter in which form of society it is used, it unfolds in a perfect self-dynamics an adaptation to the needs of its own survival.

Whether in a western democracy or an African dictatorship, whether in the Weimar Republic or in fascist Germany of the 30s, whether in the capitalism of the old federal states or in the socialist GDR until 1990, whether in the communist Soviet Union or the United States of America.

It is the same system.

Please observe your own emotional reactions to what you have just read. Feel the inner rejection, the compulsion to decide, the search for good and evil, the shaky logic inherent in the matter, the question of possible danger in the read words.

You are right in the middle of the system's influence. You are connected and your conditioning shapes your automatic feedback to the system. In the constant fire of your thoughts you react according to black or white, until logic suggests confirmation to you that you have done everything right. You have worked on the system, you have invested your energy, had a feeling of influence, objectively decided you have nothing.

The Drawer

Man is born into this world. From this moment he receives any kind of influence. The upbringing of parents, relatives and acquaintances, school education, experiences with friends, experiences in love, pain and loss, disappointment, violence. The behavior in the group, belonging, position, leading and being led. Everything shapes him permanently and constantly. Thinking is conveyed to him from childhood as a panacea as the only tool of decision, logic the holy grail.

Every experience, every learned thing, every insight, every prejudice, every event forms a memory: a drawer. These drawers serve man as recognition, as orientation and as decision aid. The drawers are constantly formed through every form of perception. The story of a friend, a convincing documentary, a moving feature film based on true events, the speech of a politician in parliament, the prophecies of an Indian guru, the autobiography of a centenarian, the words of the great role model, the personal greetings of a star. All form new drawers. One for each event. The older and more educated man becomes, the more drawers are available to him.

When man begins his life no drawer is available in advance for a decision. He decides freely, without right or wrong. From the moment you explain a bird to a child, it can never see a bird again. In other words: From the moment of your first drawer, you only see your drawers anymore.

Test it yourself! Go out into the park and describe what you see. You don't just see trees, you see oaks, beeches, maples, poplars. You see freshly mown sports and leisure lawn, a freshly painted park bench made of hardwood with TÜV seal 2024 in standard size. You see human groups, families, singles, business people, nouveau riche, homeless. You see the past and future of every single person in the park. You have a suitable drawer for every moment. You feel good, you feel safe, everything is clear because you “know”. Every person should experience that, you can be asked, you help gladly.

The drawers we have created are pure storage of memories from our and others' past. They symbolize the principle of thinking. Each drawer contains no value, no reality, no division into right or wrong. Only a subjective memory of what happened or was reported. Our thinking needs this drawer to exist. We perceive, recognize a similar drawer and assign it to what happened. This moment is now assigned by thinking to drawer number 175,729,508, whose similarity in our opinion is the highest. We now know what we have to “consider” in this case. All drawers connected to drawer number 175,729,508 have already been activated by thinking, from second to second we are flooded by drawer recognition. Our opinion of the image from our perception becomes clearer and clearer. Thinking has processed the situation for us. We have been told that it is a bird.

When was the last time you discovered something new?

When was the last time you changed your opinion on something?

When was the last time you looked at a tree?

When was the last time you saw a bird?

The Fixing

None of these drawers has a value. No good or evil, no right or wrong is connected with the content of the drawer. Only a snapshot of a situation from the past, a photo that will fade with time, that will color according to the colors of further drawers.

Thinking needs these drawers as material for animating emotions, for forming opinions, for discord within ourselves.

Thinking overtakes us permanently, we are caught in the whirlpool of the thinking process, one could say: we are obsessed by thinking. When thinking activates, it tears open a drawer and suggests a danger connected with it without underlying reason. In our addiction to security we fight the danger suggested by thinking with the same tool: thinking. The chemical cocktail produced thereby works and a self-operated loop begins to rotate. Ending from logic is not possible, because the alleged danger lies in the future and in the now is not finally definable and avertable.

The speed of the carousel increases and the objectivity in the own reaction decreases. Now we are capable of everything the survival mode needs. Anger, hate, grief, attack, defense – we are led by ourselves, with the legitimation of every acceptable reason. The interface to every kind of propaganda is ready for connection.

Our incoming energy animates the propaganda construct. The received feedback serves our reward principle and strengthens our self-esteem: we suddenly need no logical justification anymore for the apparently averted, suggested danger: the thinking process runs out of energy: it comes to a standstill, the drawer is closed from our consciousness. The danger lying in the future no longer exists.

The phenomenon: we are neither aware of the past danger nor its exact averting. We are however sure: only thinking has solved the problem and the drawer was the problem.

Thinking

The thinking process creates nothing new. No idea has ever arisen from thinking. At most a change to what already exists is possible through thinking, a New German “mashup” would arise. Problems are only kept running with it, not solved. All this reflects our social actual state.

What sounds so irrelevant hinders us with dramatic effects from the further development of our own species. We keep ourselves trapped in a permanent progress trap.

Read the last section again if you like. It contains a fundamental break in the conditioning of your previous life.

This inner insight is so brutal that even Jiddu Krishnamurti needed many decades to make people understand this, or to promote the attempt to do so.

A real decision can only be made without thinking. It is no process, it happens directly.

Thinking is like an independent organism. It develops within the framework of our conditioning and fights daily for its own existence. This independent life Eckhart Tolle describes particularly well in his treatise on the “Now”. I therefore refrain from repeating it here.

You can feel this struggle for survival yourself, right now. Since the last read sentences the active desire to think about it overtakes you. In your head emotionally charged opinions form. Your thinking has already started the carousel and supplies you with drawers full of arguments. As soon as you feel the feeling of danger and seek security in thinking, thinking has secured its own existence: you will now – completely independently – consider what you have read for so long until you have found a drawer whose content fits your current opinion and you receive from logic a checked stamp with the statement that nothing needs to be changed: you are safe, everything else is nonsense.

You would now like an explanation how this phenomenon exactly works: ideas without thinking. Unfortunately I cannot fulfill your wish. Science cannot either. The Indian gurus cannot. Nor the philosophers of this world. Now it gets hard: you have to accept it.

Do you know this moment of insight in which you immediately have a kind of feeling that everything is right? Everything is clear, everything is outside any thinking. And then comes the need to explain it to yourself. You search for words, an image, a suitable drawer that can explain this moment. And you are highly intelligent, you can search in 1,000 drawers at the same time. You are driven and do not understand the reason yourself. You justify it with “simply wanting to know”. And with every further second in this strenuous act you see more drawer contents and less and less the insight. You feel entertained and very close to the goal. You have found your drawer, but the insight is gone, it never participated in the thinking process. What remains to you are your old drawers, and a new one: the insight was not so important, thinking has said.

Compare yourself the effort of the moment of insight, and the effort your thinking has fabricated and with what result?

We live in a world that we have never understood, because we don't need to, and that's the wonderful thing about it, because everything is possible.

The Conclusion

On the basis of a permanent direct decision with the perfection inherent in us – in symbiosis with life itself – embedded in our world, we would merge into a common human: a world-spanning higher intelligence, a further development of this world. We are thus part of every form of life and the entire energy of this planet.

If man is of the opinion to be ready for it, there would be a possibility to bring about this change.

This possibility shall now be described here.

Introduction, end.

Here continues to the Idea (Manifesto)