Schlagwort-Archive: Consequence

The kernel of the brute – the ideal metaphor for the real meaning

The world is a closed system, an organism called Gaia. The original trigger and only possible inflow of new energy comes from outer space. Otherwise, only a shift of resources takes place – wooden nickels from left to the right pocket. As long as Gaia uses the energy exchange to maintain its viability and to develop new diversity, nothing unnatural happens. The interaction of all elements maintains our lebensraum. A profit-making industry that exploits the common goods to create their value pollutes the system. The added value in favor of a few people is always at the expense of others. Think about the fact that the groundwater that is getting scarcer, because it is contaminated by fracking or is making money in bottled water. It disappears or becomes inedible. And suddenly we recognize the kernel of the brute of the economization of the commons.

In Goethe’s Faust, Faust takes a poodle to his home that eventually turns into Mephistopheles, the devil. Faust realizes – “So that was the kernel of the brute “. This hidden in the obvious is the actual meaning. Which aspects do appear?

  • The actual doing
    Providing people with clean water is an honorable task, until you realize how the water gets into the bottles. Groundwater level plays a major role in this. Due to the high-performance industrial pumping, the groundwater level drops. On the one hand, the existing wells no longer reach the groundwater level, forcing citizens to buy the much more expensive bottled water. On the other hand, the greens can no longer supply themselves with the vital water, which leads to waldsterben, drought, and bad harvests and as a result to famines.
    The kernel of the brute is the destruction of natural resources through exaggerated exploitation of the sources.
  • The actual result
    Over 40 billion gallons of bottled water are consumed every year. This is often the only available clean water. Thus, the producers contribute significantly to improving the health of many. At first glance, it is understandable that the clean water costs much more than the local, dirty water. However, when you realize that some companies are paying $ 4 for 260 thousand gallons of water but turn this water into $ 2 million in sales, it’s easy to see that $ 1,999,996 will cover more than the total cost of providing the water.
    The kernel of the brute is the immeasurable profit that is making a few at the expense of all those who loose their natural resource.
  • The actual consequences
    Gaia has resources that have been built over millions of years. These include our oil reserves, the air and the water. If industrial water pumping continues to lower the groundwater level, fewer and fewer trees and plants are available to convert CO2 into important oxygen through photosynthesis. This not only endangers our health, but also leads to continuous global warming with the known consequences of climate change. The countermeasures of Gaia will regulate the root cause of this evolution, humans, so that the earth returns to a healthy state of equilibrium – without the harmful impact of mankind.
    The kernel of the brute is the long-term damage to our livelihoods by business concepts of reckless profiteers.

Bottom line: We live in a media age, where all protagonists have put themselves in a good position. Appropriate press departments take care of the desired external image. The poodle looks good and provides with good descriptions of what is done skillfully, what great results are produced and what shiny consequences arise from it. But that does not give the public much of the truth. The kernel of the brute cannot be seen. The damage caused by this doing, the unwanted side effects and the terrible consequences are concealed. This real meaning is well described by the metaphor of the kernel of the brute.

Differently decisive

Decisions are not only made by managers in corporations. Also not only by politicians, who were elected for decision making. We all decide. It does not matter where we are or when a decision is needed. The necessity to make a selection exists, without being aware of it. And sometimes it becomes visible by being torn one way or the other that puts you into a state of shock. Some people may sit out decisions and let themselves be driven with the hope to escape the obligation to decide. We always run into danger to leave the decision to other people, although it would be better being differently decisive in order top determine your future.

Entschiedenanders

It is like being on a moving walkway that follows a defined course continuously through times. If you sit out decisions and leave yourself to this way, you are advancing constantly, sometimes the direction is even changing, but you do not exploit your possibilities. There are always at least three options to change the walkway. Many succumb to the illusion that they do not make a decision, if they simply do not move. However, they forget thereby that this is also a decision. – the decision to leave yourself to your fate. How do you leave this way and take over control?

  • Decision-making pressure
    When you do not like something or new possibilities emerge, which seem to be better than the current, the need for a decision arises. These signals are an important condition for conscious decision making. They are often private or business problems. Additionally, there are again and again opportunities that provide new development potentials.
  • Make options clear
    You should be clear about the options after you recognize them. It is not only about the alternatives that you have, but also about being able to find further alternatives. Besides new tasks that open up, there are always further approaches that you were not aware yet.
  • Think about consequences
    The consequences that result from the different opportunities, should be reflected. You should become aware of the advantages of each alternative. Additionally, you should not forget the disadvantages that result. Additionally, you should make yourself clear about the things that you give up, if you leave the current way. Perhaps the loss maybe higher. In this case you know what you have to do.
  • Decide
    As soon as it is clear, what you want, it is important to make your choice. And not only making the decision but also to act immediately. With the preparation it is clear, what you should do and what areas need special care.
  • Staying attentive
    Since you are moving on new ground, it is an advantage to make each step attentively. Surprises are waiting on the new way that you do not expect. With the momentum of active decision, you should be prepared for additional efforts. It is important to find new options and to decide, if you get to the point that you set on the wrong horse and the decision pressure already becomes noticeable.

Bottom line: We make decisions without interruptions and not only, when we are consciously in a decision making case. Even if we think that we are able to avoid the resolution by simply doing nothing, we make a decision, i.e. the decision for whatever the result will be without our control. You should use your chances, by actively deciding and not leaving your own fate to somebody else. Additionally being decisive differently is mostly better. No matter how you are on the way, the moving walkways end one day. And then there is actually nothing more to decide.