beauty is in the eyes of the beholder

Hello Kassy,
why are you writing so sadly things ? i hope in your future you can thinking positive.

Your greatest fan from germany Reinald

I guess I'm right here. But I wouldn't recommend positive thinking.

Once I met a young white philosophical crank who, seeing me talking on some daily life problems of lower classes in third world countries gave the advise: ›Think you are happy than you are happy.‹

He just had supper. Outside the restaurant played some neglected children, always hungry, sometimes begging.

I stood up, took the plate of the wise, went outside and gave it to the children.

All people present watched close what would happen.

Back in the room I sat down opposite the wise white and replied his former advise: Think you have enough and you are filled.

And so on. A wise white won't be angry.


I hope I've got you reference. If not please let me apologize.

This of course is most important. Because that pain to agony is actual. However, that all belongs to symptoms.

My question is: What happens at a larger scale?

To speak clearly: I do not see a contradiction or concurrence between the general and the detail (single). I only suppose without grasping the general the misery in detail will never end.

What I get to read and to see about Africa or the Africans is even polished by our (Richland) media (we do not call it censorship) and reduced to the intellect of a schoolboy, e. g.

on the pirates or other starvelings or
the contracts of the EU with local authorities on fish as a preparation of creating starvelings
similar to the problem of exporting frozen butcher's waste or
tinned tomatoes and so on,

this will not make me believe the problem will be solved by local charity measures only.

I believe, local charity is necessary, see above, but not enough.

› … a journey of many miles begins with one step …‹

True. To some amount, steps are enough by itself. When the way to go becomes longer and longer - and ›it's a rough, rough way to go‹ - you need some additional measures to get through. In general you have to organize.

Particularly, as a lawyer you know in crime organization is worst. However that close with the matter (occupation) you may miss that in political questions this is much more, let me say: ›in use‹ [decissive].

And: law is what fits the general contemporary circumstances (which differs much in history).

The large scale problem and its large scale solution most probably will start here. E.g. any kind of (local to nationwide) organized resistance against ›unequal› contracts as for instance like those with the EU (see above) or fixed earlier in history as the property and rights of foreign companies (these are real people in that disguise) will call for tough action of local authorities following this right, a right which obviously does not really pursue happiness of local people in general - a few odd-jobbers may profit .

And if this won't work the masters themselves will ›calm‹ situation by some other adequate means (see Horn of Africa at the moment). [Lit. Introducing, Rosa Luxemburg, Die Akkumulation des Kapitals (The Accumulation of Capital), chapter 27-32].

Because me and my friends are not very close to the moment there or at your place, we would offer to public a rubric 'Letters from Zambia' - if you like and would be interested. There you and other people could report on daily life events from the place and around.

See our site: http://zeitdisein.com/Briefe_2009.htm [.com for communis, not commercial). We are a non profit organization, an association of a few politically interested people who beside other actions are running this site.

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To begin with. There is no English version. [Most of the/our readers are capable of English and some other languages]. My idea at this point is to involve ›our‹ German readers into the case of the African people not by our officially washed information but unfiltered as ›you‹ see the matter in question. Possibly debates will turn multilingual but I suppose them mainly in English. Details can be arranged as suitable, for instance summaries of German comments in English and v. v. To keep in mind ›we‹ want to inform as wide a public as possible and as easy as it fit to them. We want to do this not filtered by ›our‹ German/European etc. prejudices.

To show from the point of view of the people startled a case like the African to European or US citizen is always a kind of an indirect approach. On the other hand the expression and personation given from your side, your friends, the locally acting groups is most immediate and direct.

› … my opinion is that, there must be a direct link between the people that are being helped and the helper. And if it has to be sustained, the people themselves should be given the opportunity to choose the kind of help they need rather than choosing for them. I think that way, it gives them more dignity and responsibility.‹ This is absolutely undisputed and congruent to my own view.

Summed up, at the first step we offer some first hand information to the German public (a smaller part of, certainly) and invite them to take part in talks and debates on matters mainly given by the Africans. Perhaps, if available, there could be some more material contributed e. g. maps, statistical figures from other sides etc.

Such an exchange of informations, opinions and analysis’ could be something as a basic course for all involved. I would not distinguish for so far we all are beginners.

All could happen at a monthly rate or if there were something special diverging. Step by step. We could try keeping the site/the plots technically simple [for data exchange] and later hire some web space [hosting free of cost], so that you/your friends could plot the material easily. Of course, hosting websites free of cost is somehow limited in comfort. At the moment max. size of a file is restricted to 1.5 MB and so on, but it’s a way and we use it ourselves to some extent. See the url on my Opera > Photos > Morgenland I. > http:// … where watching the pictures you will cross two hosts. Have a look on the address field of your browser.

To simply change files you/we could open an account at www.mydrive.ch (2 GB per email address free of cost).

Of course, you don’t need to do anything at the moment. I just wanted to show you some of our technical possibilities for support of the human/political.

Prima. (I did not sleep till now, working on an English edition.pdf of Introduction - Einführung, on our site, from my point of view a basic of dialectics and so on). But now I have to sleep for some hours. Please would you excuse me?

By the way, I read sub alias Le Monde diplomatique, this could be a common source because available in many languages. Another is The New York Times (Engl. of course) which can be easily accessed online.

It is good to know, we are not fully separated in this strange world. (And strange to say your friend never gave any notice).

Very interesting. But what I feel is that there's been a lot of misrepresentation about Africa by both the local and foreign media. Whatever bad things local media carries is stereotyped as the norm. We are much better than we are perceived to be.

For my side, I do not moralize. I do not think in terms of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. But objectively. Have you seen e. g. the graphic showing world trade (http://www.zeitdisein.com/Briefe_2009.htm#260309). Compare numbers of population or other important figures, and even at total it shows some significant disadvantages on African side not to speak on personae dramatis in the back, those behind the company labels who are (in money) not an African majority.

Thereby I don't talk on consumption proper (moralize) but on determination of all circumstances (at a whole, in detail), what 'money' numbered stands for.

At the same time this is a main source of racism. Instinctively the 'poor' in the northern hemisphere got the difference and applaud in majority to any military/police action protecting influence as given and needed (for whom they don't see that clear).

Of course, the population here is not a homogeneous block, but like the molecules in a river circulating freely around at least ending in the sea whatever direction they preferred and took before these people always follow there alleged closer interest if nothing will be done.

This must be understood: the situation for the rich poor is rather difficult and they have to maintain their life under very uncomfortable conditions of concurrence, mistrust, disloyalty even they do not starve nor feel cold. They are widely disorganized (trimmers) and indoctrinated by ideas preferring the international rich (rich stands for determination not for consumption proper, the so called pea nuts), who control most of the means propaganda is made with.

To the procedure/method an extract/quote (for explaining I reedit this text, see above). If it were of minor interest or none at all, please put it aside.

›It seems to be correct to begin with the real and the concrete, with the real precondition, thus to begin, in economics, with e. g. the population, which is the foundation and the subject of the entire social act of production. However, on closer examination this proves false. The population is an abstraction if I leave out, for example, the classes of which it is composed. These classes in turn are an empty phrase if I am not familiar with the elements on which they rest. E. g. wage labour, capital, etc. These latter in turn presuppose exchange, division of labour, prices, etc. For example, capital is nothing without wage labour, without value, money, price etc. Thus, if I were to begin with the population, this would be a chaotic conception [Vorstellung/{Idee}] of the whole, and I would then, by means of further determination, move analytically towards ever more simple concepts [Begriff], from the imagined concrete towards ever thinner abstractions until I had arrived at the simplest determinations. From there the journey would have to be retraced until I had finally arrived at the population again, but this time not as the chaotic conception of a whole, but as a rich totality of many determinations and relations.‹

Enjoy your meal. Patientia virtus.

Yes and no. The result is as you lay out, but the circumstances? Let me have dinner and after it we could look at some details, if you agree.

We should consider what we aim for, more theoretical, more practical, more for experts or more for the common man everywhere.

Have you had a look on this recommended graphic? Even in German it is easily to see what's about.

Coming soon: me after dinner.

Back home again (fig.)

First: unfair trade, this is trade. To investigate: conditions of trade, which are 'fair', which are not. Examples.
Second: What is 'price' and how prices will be this much or that? Examples.
Third: If there is trade, there must be something to trade, commodities. To look at the conditions of production of commodities. As I heard in Italy they now work with most modern machines of which one replaces more than 140 workers (harvesting tomatoes) so that a man earning more than 50 c [Euro] is out of business.

Tomatoes could be a good example, because peasants in Africa are ruined as well as chicken farmers. Such examples could help to develop some economical question/facts.

As I mentioned earlier, I'm too far away from the local details.

Proposal: we do our economical investigations with one case/branch, it may be another as those given by me.

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This was a movie on the tomato-case. German TV. Canceled. Pity.

Here it is or could be:

http://www.zoozle.net/download.php?suche=bittere+ernte&s=torrent

English downloads:
http://www.zoozle.org/search/bittere+ernte_torrent.html

The movie also includes European activities in Africa related to the much higher productivity of labour (here Italy) and the consequences for African farmers/food industries. It may be of special interest, because the African tomatoes were never meant for export (world market).

Another big tomato player in Africa are the Chinese.

Thesis: The difference in the productivity of labour is enough to ruin the Africans. Dirty tricks in trade are widely common but not necessary for that. As soon as the international companies have ruined the African peasantry they will take over the farmland etc. for a thanks God and with a combination of cheap black labourforce and highly developed technology will produce there, pressing on other markets, as long as profit can be maintained above average.

They will not take much care for soil and people. This would lower profit. An interest example is Thailand, where food (chicken, shrimps) were so heavily contaminated that it was banned from European market. Also the people living close by such farms have been seriously injured through such methods.

You are cordially invited to get our latest edition (English)

http://www.babbelclub.org/Bilder/MarxIntroduction.pdf

Free download for everybody interested.

Fine or not so fine. What's going on in the mining industry, perhaps the most important branch in Zambia?

I/we will link from Zeit.diSein (www.zeitdisein.com) to this blog.
Please give your accept.

Now when people visiting www.zeitdisein.com or http://www.zeitdisein.com/Briefe_2009.htm they will find:

Letters from Africa > see comments
(Zambia/Sambia)/Vorbereitung/under construction [English]

or

Letters from Africa [first stage debate > see comments].

Clicking on that they will be directed to:

http://my.opera.com/mynonde/blog/show.dml/4434031


Try out. You then could start spreading www.zeitdisein.com if you think we should have a (1) center of bi-/multilateral information.

I would suggest an invitation to kokila, a Thai, active there, and her friends if they will improve their reporting. It seems a problem of tongue, but I am not sure on situation, circumstances and background. Despite my doubt the region Burma/Laos/Cambodia/Vietnam/Thailand will come under increasing (economical/political) pressure I suppose, of course the other states around too. k. visited this spot once, see above.

Now we should start with the structure of content. Perhaps it would be good to have rel. short and precise articles - the letters - close to a theme (circle of related questions/relations/events) which to publish as letter, then to have decided blogs/spots for everybody taking part in debates.

Twaddlers and fun spammers we could keep under control easily that way.

I guess we should have one (1) ID for every theme to keep things easy to survey, 1 ID, 1 blog, 1 spot. And we should have 'good' names for the IDs and the blogs.

[I recommend myself as experienced working in an agency for advertisement and public relations. Not so important, no priviledge, only to know]

A name for a series of blogs could be: Man in Africa.
One hurdle is English tongue does not distinct 'man' (male/female human being) and man (male).

This is not a real problem if one's English is on a certain level.
Perhaps we could create something artificial like 'Manna' and then name our IDs Manna I, Manna II … or the like.

It would be helpful the name had something unique belonging (sound/look) anyhow to our case and were easy to remember even for a child of ten.

I wish you a good morning. This too is meant for all our friends.

CET is GMT/UTC +1 (sommer +2) [Bangui, Douala, Kinshasa, Lagos, Luanda]

Yes, of course. Please remember your site is available via zeitdisein.com

no wish to offend, and i applaud y'alls efforts,
but it seems to me that y'all have slipped into the detail,and missed the bigger picture,which i gather is the more desired goal.
and the desired goal is contrary to individual free thinking
one persons nirvana will always be another persons oppression
but thats just me, a transgendered paint contractor who is also homeless
who dispises social services,i firmly believe that the less fortunate need to make more efforts on their part if they don't like the situation they are in.

… ›that the less fortunate need to make more efforts on their part … ‹, I agree; and they need to be organized, to organize themselves, as a social body to do so. To act dispersed: only you are really you or any other vanity of the like will lead to nowhere, from one defeat to the next. See the decay of the lower classes in the northern hemisphere by overstressed individualism.

For the relation individual/genus (whole/totality etc.) more general see Intoduction, page 16, paragraph 2; you will find it for free download: http://www.babbelclub.org/Bilder/MarxIntroduction.pdf

At this moment there is nothing you didn't express already. Let's finish assemblage of the concrete. Then start with more theoretical analysis.

I tend to agree with the first comment dont agree there is something like wasted years then what makes one experience growing up makes me understand why God regretted creating man we are ungrateful lets learn to appreciate what we are count your blessings

I do not argue on God or conceptions like this. The practical question is in the center of interest, what man can do to improve his life or perhaps somehow a bit closer to your terms, to become a better man.

Or is there no injustice in life? Did not the same God let the black people be slaves of their white masters? Is this God not an invention of the masters themselves? Or did slavery work without crude violence, violence by men of the same God?

Like believers throughout history had many Gods and have and nothing so far has changed with. We are obviously not talking about the same.

Injustice there is but God did not allow any black to be slave to white study the history of slavery well we were long trading in slaves before the whites came you see its because of greed that we were exchanged for mirror and its kind we are not talking same count your blessings

The difference between ancient and modern slavery is well known. But to this belongs also the difference in the believe.

Remember, Aristotle accordingly said: Man is not essentially white (colour of skin) and so the slaves were.