The Actual Story The Actual Story is the story that is initiated by our storytelling. The Actual Story is like a bedtime story about bedtime stories. In other words, a bedtime story of the second order. It is like lived system thinking. We can think of The Actual Story like a fractal symphony, as a concrete expression of formlessness. When the formless is considered, spoken, or perceived, it cannot but bring a form into being. Therefore, it is the form that makes all the difference, which brings some things into existence and makes others disappear. When I was very young, my father reminded me about this before bedtime. When it was storytime, he used to say, "I'll just say it: 'That which cannot be said cannot be put into words.' That which can be expressed will be expressed.' Always remember that anything goes as long as you remember that a camel doesn't go through the eye of a needle.'' For a long time, I often thought about my father's words until one day, my answer burst out of me. "But Pops, if the essence of a story is dealing with contradictions, that is, the change that happens as a result of dealing with contradictions then doesn't that mean that storytelling goes on endlessly! After all, new contradictions will always appear. That's how new stories are always created! Then stories are like life itself. But then how do we know what storytelling is actually about? What is the actual story, the story that makes a story a story? Can you even capture the essence of a story?" - He looked at me and I looked at him. It took me a while to grasp the significance of our silence. The actual story is the story of the immediacy of life. The actual story is the story of change in our lives that happens through history. The actual story of storytelling is the conservation of change, and the preservation from change. For better or for worse, we understand ourselves as part of the organization of the living. We control the future of life on this planet and explore its history, by creating the actual story. Through this constant bringing forth of new forms, the formless comes to expression, the process of life organizing itself. In this way, everything which has form can and will eventually be transformed. By reflecting on this essence, out of silence, because thoughts come and go, the slightest push, sometimes even a single sentence in our thoughts, can give rise to an entirely new reality. This is the story of our humanity. At the end of every story is the beginning of a dialogue. The story begins when the narrator stops speaking and starts listening. The silence of the narrator connects. It is the end and the beginning of the story. That the words of a story end allow a new story to begin. This is how this story begins.

Space Apes - Survival Ethics Confucius says the wisest man follows the path of Lao Tzu. He makes his way to his goal. What is always essential is a dynamic balance. I have long imagined that I have discovered something important about the meaning of life: the unity of God and the biosphere. As a human being, philosopher and scientist, I am working to put into words what this means for my life and what it can mean for the lives of others. We are God's image. Microcosm and macrocosm at the same time, we are one and yet many. Because we have temporarily won the game of evolution, the question of our self-realization becomes crucial for all higher living beings in the biosphere. "Know thyself!" is our mandate for becoming human, as handed down to us by the Oracle of Delphi. The fate of the world lies in our realization of ourselves. Can we stop destroying our planet and fighting each other? Only by solving this question can we become human. Until then, we remain apes in outer space, a danger to their Spaceship Earth. Space Ape Survival Ethics. We are living in this science fiction novel.

Unbelievable! The curtain opens. A lady floats in the air, an elephant disappears. The usual argument goes something like this: "Aha - these magicians are trying to distract my attention, trying to confuse my thinking, trying to do this and that so I don't observe what's really happening." The opposite is true! In fact, all magic is about inviting you to create a world for yourself, a new world where ladies float and elephants disappear [...] Magic is not about distracting you. It's about making you aware of the universe we create through our communication. Our reality is determined by the stories we tell ourselves. Through our stories, we shape our lives. Through the way we communicate, we change ourselves and our world. This magic is the essence of human communication.

Let’s keep singing about potatoes! Non-judgmental listening on the tip of the iceberg of ignorance furthers In the beginning, Heinz was always quiet. Heinz was an autistic youngster. It was assumed that he could not communicate with others at all. This changed when his teacher Renate brought a piano. She had noticed the way his eyes lit up when he listened to classical music, and through his eyes, she perceived his underlying intelligence. And rightly so! As it turned out, Heinz had savant syndrome and could play anything on the piano that he had heard just once. From that day on, Heinz had found a way to communicate with others through playing the piano. Renate was overwhelmed with joy. She was the teacher of a group of children with special needs and one of my heroes in our provocative pedagogy course - "Learning Learning by Teaching Teaching" - Because the children in the class agreed, after some time, Renate was even able to convince the school administration to let Heinz participate in regular classes. From then on, Heinz played Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach every day as a soundtrack to Renate's lessons. It was at the end of our seminar when Renate enthusiastically wanted to tell me about Heinz and his development. The others had already left, but Renate was literally dancing up and down in front of me with joy! "Do you remember the research experiment of non-judgmental listening, where we first explored the sound of a dying neon tube to learn how we create our universe by listening and sounding?" - "The Nada Brahma, the world as a sound experiment?" I inquired. "Yes, exactly, where we explored space and communicated with each other through tones and hums! What did you call that again?" Renate wanted to know. "Our 'sound meditation on the tip of the iceberg of ignorance,' you mean?" I asked back, barely hiding my curiosity. "Yes, exactly, where we listen and make sounds without judgment! I tried it, and it worked! When I returned to work, everyone thought I had gone insane because suddenly I was singing and humming all the time. But I noticed a change in Heinz's piano playing when he heard me humming and singing. Normally, I would have stopped immediately. I was ashamed of my low singing voice, but I gathered all my courage and remembered: 'We do not know what the other perceives. We can only invite them to listen to us.' So, like a Valkyrie, I sang the song of the dog and the egg. Heinz immediately stopped playing the piano. He put his finger to his lips, and then he opened and closed his mouth and pointed to his ear. He listened! I continued to sing enthusiastically even though people were already gathering outside the open classroom. Some laughed, some shook their heads, another said: 'Now she has finally gone insane!' The next day, however, his mother called me full of amazement and enthusiasm. Heinz had spoken! In the morning, he had excitedly told her about a dog and asked her for a breakfast egg. She kept asking me: 'What have you done? How did you transform Heinz?' I learned it from a science experiment at university from my professor! It's a dance - it's too complicated to explain over the phone!' I replied, smirking. It started with listening to a dying neon tube. But I didn't give this away!" - "Yes, congratulations on your courage and ingenuity! It's amazing! I can't wait to see what happens next!" I said. "Sachunterricht!" replied Renate promptly then continued in a chant. "I'll keep singing about potatoes, about Romans in Vienna, about fruit fly experiments I will sing!" Renate sang- "Keep singing, dear Renate, dear Renate! Let’s keep singing about potatoes, that's good!" I sang back to her in response. Long and loud, we laughed. Renate's voice was really bombastic. A crazy professor and his crazy student were singing about potatoes on the tip of the iceberg of ignorance! I think back fondly on these little miracles of provocative pedagogy. Speaking and making music instead of lifelong silence. We are the tip of the iceberg of ignorance. Our consciousness controls incomprehensible complexities. Explanations we come up with after the fact act like pacifiers we can suck on to distract us from the fact that what sustains our lives is unanalyzable to our consciousness. Renate was able to direct her attention from the pacifier to the world through our dance, which made her encounter with Heinz possible. This is the real miracle. Through this miracle of encounter, we transform, realize, and recognize ourselves through the other.

Goodbye Cliché - Talk Tacheles How do you understand a genius? We all have many preconceived notions, phrases and ideas. Like an old printing press, we carry clichés in our heads. Our letters, words, and phrases are already set to express the judgment, fact, or opinion that we have programmed ourselves to believe. So many tell the same story over and over again. While they stay trapped in the merry-go-round of the same old story deluding themselves that they told something new, the only variance was how they mixed up the order of old clichés. Thus all their stories tell the same old story. Narratives as templates of delusions. The most boring stories are the ones we haven't experienced. But if we really want to say something new, if we want to think of something unique, we must first destroy our old clichés. Just like an old printing press- if we want to print something new, we have to take apart old notions and clichés to express new notions, phrases, words and ideas. However, to understand a genius, you need even more than the ability to pick apart old clichés. You need the ability to recognize the disassembled parts in an entirely new context. For this, you must give yourself the space in which something new, perhaps unique, can happen. If you want to understand a genius or think something brilliant yourself, you have to become aware of your own form of questioning and thinking. This happens as you begin to shape the patterns of your thinking yourself. To do so, you have to begin by stopping to repeat over and over again what others have already said before you. Goodbye cliché! Say what only you can say! Goodbye cliché! Tell what only you can tell! Your freedom comes from expressing these thoughts which are specifically your own. This freedom of speech will be sacred to you, especially when you speak to yourself. Free speech heals because it helps you to shape your life. Speak up! If you make the effort to speak your mind, you will eventually know when to speak and when to remain silent. Goodbye cliché!

Hack or Die? Civilization hosted by A.I. Summary: The new reality through the Covid-19 crisis is surveillance capitalism in a permanent hybrid war to get system-relevant data to control the population while intervening with the competing powers utilizing permanent nudging. Every nuclear power, and subsequently every state, must extract a maximum of system-relevant data in a minimum of time. The autonomy of its own AI and the autonomy of the digital-technocratic organization is preserved. Those who do not play this hybrid war game must assume that a competing power will remotely control them. The actual strength of the competition, who dominates, can only be determined by permanent attempts to manipulate the other. The old social reality is replaced in the post-real world by propaganda-driven hacking wars in which our new reality is a state of “Wariety,” a constant state of everchanging war-like conflict situations. The end of humanity, and the end of the world as we know it, was a myth or could only become a reality through natural disasters. But ever since the cold war nuclear arms race created the delicate balance of nuclear terror, we've barely escaped nuclear self-extinction so many times that it's already a miracle our humanity still exists. Digitalization is a timebomb that ticks. We are now in the earliest stage of handing over the maintenance and the monitoring of the nuclear balance of terror together with almost all decisive decision-making powers to artificial intelligence. Wherever there is too much to consider when ever there are too many details to decide, human thinking will be replaced by machine computation. For perfect population defense and control via A.I., all of the system- respectively war-relevant data has to be acquired. The more valuable data, the more the AI can do with it. The better hardware is available to develop an AI, the better the power and network resources are, the better A.I. can predict and manipulate humans and their behavior. In the competition for control over the world in all dimensions, from the micro-dimension of quantum and nano-particles to the meso-dimension of the human body, mind, and behavior, to the macro-dimension of conquering space, A.I., our computer development and data collection are the new primary directives for the geopolitical elite. This dynamic is transforming the world we have known, its civil society, and what we think of as our reality and turning it into an online reality show. In this experimental field, the rules of self and external surveillance are being created and tried out to create a new global totalitarian surveillance capitalism. For a better stabilization of the balance of terror, worldwide information control is the goal, and population control is the way to achieve it. In this war for the control of information, artificial intelligence already influences and permeates almost all actual communication between humans. Its possible warfare applications range from causing major power blackouts to enabling election fraud, faking whenever nuclear attacks occur, or developing a deadly virus for which only a select group has a vaccine. The potentially hostile applications for the use of AI are forcing geopolitical competitors to favor hybrid warfare and hacking solutions. The constant threat of nuclear obliteration due to the delicate balance of nuclear terror doesn’t escalate in hybrid warfare and hacking attacks, which allow the attacker to remain hidden. The attack might even indicate that someone else carried out the attack, or even rewrite history, by making the others believe in a clichè such as “The United States of America only fights for freedom and democracy.“ In the new global reality created through the Covid-19 Pandemic, civil societies are turned into an online Medical Science fiction reality show to generate preemptive obedience. To initiate the purge of non-compliers, the population is flooded with old religious inquisitorial cliches. The atheist becomes Covid-denier, the anti-christ becomes anti-vaxxer. As in many reality shows, most of the contestants leave the show financially ruined and mentally broken. What is sold is "The Great Reset'', but you get"The Great Rosette.” The world is indeed on the brink of destruction, which is used to allow panic procedures to suspend the state laws and create a media theatre to drown the population in propaganda that sells the most insidious forms of self-deception and self-enslavement as the only solution for a great new beginning. The Great Rosette unites the worst to spread their mental diarrhea into the hearts and minds of the population using digitally enhanced traditional torture strategies as found in the Biderman report of coercive methods for enforcing compliance in communist regimes 1956. Periodic Lockdowns function as Biderman-boot camps where societies are reshaped as the population is flooded with propaganda and new tasks. Just as the tasks of a "Big Brother Container Show," these tasks are sometimes meaningful but often pointless, consistently inconsistent, and contradictory, enabling politicians to act out as narcissistic judges blaming their incompetence on the population. The fact that the rules are constantly being changed is a confusion technique used for hypnosis before giving socially degrading tasks. It is also used in narcissistic abuse, where the unpredictability created by the contradictions is called "crazymaking" because it makes you doubt your state of mind and believe the projected omnipotence of the narcissist. Politicians who hold real state power and can buy official and social media cooperation can turn the former civil society into dystopian game shows. They are the all-powerful hosts where they act as totalitarian managers who decide over the whole population and who can play and how. These same psychological methods as documented in the Biderman-chart of coercion are continually remixed, constant contradiction is supplemented with threats, punishments, and quarantine is used as if the entire population was put in a softcore version of Chinese reeducation camp. In this new form of surveillance capitalism, the oligarchs of the West and the East can merge into one system. Civil societies and their wealth became the food in the shark tank so that the geopolitical opponents did not tear each other apart. Thus, the most significant genetic and socio-behavioral experiment in human history and the biggest change in human society can happen simultaneously, relatively unnoticed, sold as a public health effort for vaccination. As the citizens constantly fear being called out and punished, even being cast out by the community, only a few dare to investigate the situation. As everything keeps changing, the population can’t understand what is happening and longs for any power to promise stability. This way, the majority falls into a state of uncertainty about what is allowed and what is forbidden and therefore becomes grateful and obedient to be allowed to perform tasks at all. This process repeats itself again and again until the essence of new reality becomes second nature: It is a privilege to perform tasks to be punished less and to be allowed to play another round. Regardless of whether we comply with or fight this new social order, we depend on electronic devices to organize ourselves to feed our behavioral intelligence and biometric data streams so that we can benefit from digitization and not become collateral damage to one of its disruptions. When we as citizens gain too much sovereignty, as in the Occupy Wall Street movement or the Robinhood/Reddit/Gamestop affair, the algorithms are altered so that similar unwanted disruptions to the system are no longer possible. Lockdowns are the conceptual prototypes of new digital colonialism that, in various narratives of alternativelessness, transforms human citizens into resources. Through these media reeducation camps, the majority of the prisoner population actively supports the self-imprisonment, trying first to convince and then peer pressure the rest of the population by acting like guards. Because the existence of others puts their hard-earned reality into question, they will try to bring all deviants in line. Whoever can’t defend themselves is immediately taken hostage and then discarded in the cruelest way like children, which gives a double advantage for the enforcement of government rules. First, the adults' consent can be blackmailed because they have to explain what is happening to the children. Simultaneously, the testing rituals and genetic vaccination experiments on children perfectly train them for their future life as Orwellian citizens in a totalitarian dystopia. All hacks to escape the digital prison are used to perfect the digital prison of the future. The long-term goal is total control via A.I. of those who survive and thrive as implanted chips, smartphones, smart cars, smart houses, and smart cities will ultimately be owned by a conspiracy of governments and private corporations. To protect you against terrorist A.I.s. is only possible if you are well monitored. The AI can only protect you if everything systemically relevant is connected to and regulated by the A.I. For the A.I., a human is merely a system with two feedback loops to regulate: the desire to play games and the desire to win them. To finally be freed from the burden of organizing the maintenance of their power by having an AI play "farming humans" is, of course, also an irresistible notion for control-obsessed leaders. Having time to enjoy their acquired power has scarcity value if you want to stay among the most powerful. Who is in control of their own decisions and who is a puppet with better toys is a question of perspective. When our world leaders speak about no alternative to the measures they enforce, they are talking about the dynamics of power, which mercilessly forces them into their role if they want to survive playing this game. Our leaders are in a double prisoner dilemma in which they have to prepare and attack others to prevent attacks from others. In doing so, everyone is bound to enact the same role, presenting themselves as virtuous victims of the vicious attacks of others. As this continues, global civil society becomes transformed to endure in a state of vicious virtuous “wariety,” varieties of hybrid war-like stalemate situations edging a global escalation. Therefore it comes to an ever-greater approximation of peace and war, within which what is virtuous and what is vicious merge. To excel alternately in both the ever-increasing pressure, in time, it is no longer possible to distinguish what is virtuous and what is vicious. Only the synthesis of both leads to success in the outside world in which the leaders understand themselves and the combined results of what they are doing and their opponents. Only those most vicious virtuous players win in this game. Only the most virtuously vicious criminals succeed in the nightmare of a gangsta’s paradise in which only the most ruthlessly functional deceivers can win. Our new reality is a global prisoner's dilemma; whoever wants to remain geopolitically relevant needs to maximize their gains by exploiting others through and for the use of the latest technology. They need to do this repeatedly, as fast and as much as possible until they get the strategic technological advantage that ensures the final victory over the others playing the same cyber-colonialism game. Like cybernetics in the Cold War era, the digitalization through AI promises total control over complex, non-linear processes - from biological to social systems - as well as the serious potential for a neo-religious age, the digital dark age. In their transhuman view, the population is just a stepping stone for the evolutionary process of the development of bio-robots. Additionally, we have a clear pattern of nuclear accidents, wars, genocides, enslavements that accompany the industrialization of humanity. We should be aware of how quickly humanity could become the collateral damage of technological warfare aimed at world domination. It does not matter whether we will become extinct through radioactivity, viruses, bacteria, biological warfare, or the destruction of our living conditions in the biosphere. We are experiencing an evolutionary moment in the history of the human species. The danger of extinction forces us to analyze the actual threats to the best of our ability and the best of our imagination. Suppose the purpose of a system is what it does. In that case, the current system keeps us in a state of hybrid war-like conflict situations. The solution is always the creation of another “wariety”, another war-like state of conflicts in which winners can be momentarily satisfied by their win. Every time we have to hope that no World War ignites. Thus, the leaders’ rule becomes more all-encompassing because they can only master the ever-greater unmanageability of the situation by maximizing the exploitation of the population and the maximum personal savoring of the attainable privileges. If we don't want to go extinct from this pattern, we must change this pattern of pathological problem-solving and human self-destruction before it wipes us out. Right now, digitalization is a time bomb trapping us in a state of ever-changing “Warieties” edging nearer to our mutual annihilation. A peaceful solution has one priority: Can we hack this pattern of will or die?

Forget Adults! It is easy for adults to say that the future will be fine! They won't have to live in it. We children are angry. We are afraid because we see how the earth is being destroyed. We see society falling apart, and we escape from everyday life into our smartphones. The adults pretend that everything is fine, but we know that we have to hack this system if we want to have a future. We are trapped in the digital stone age, surrounded by smartphone zombies and analog dinosaurs. We'll be lucky if the adults don't start a nuclear war and there's still something left of the Earth when we have grown up ourselves. Everything is poisoned! We can’t count on adults! If we want to have a future, we must hack it ourselves!

Lockdown Effect Dying increases when steps decrease. This is how lockdowns affect people's health. Physical inactivity was already the fourth leading cause of death among adults. More than 80% of adolescents were endangered from becoming such an adult. Lockdowns greatly increase the risk of death in the elderly and can cause lifelong consequences in children and adolescents. Lockdowns escalate the vicious cycle of physical inactivity, social isolation, and obesity. Diabetes, heart attacks, chronic fatigue, depression, obsessive and addictive behaviors with and without substances, escalations of violence, and post-traumatic stress disorder - all are possible outcomes of living in lockdown mode. A high level of meaningful and healthy movement, preferably combined with deep relaxation, is the best practical intervention against the physical and psychological effects of the covid crisis. We need a new approach to movement because movement is necessary for our survival. We need a well-designed and consistently executed movement practice that makes mind and body powerful partners. The recurring lockdowns are a heavy burden, yet it is precisely because of the economic consequences of the lockdowns that things can get much worse. So much at this time is beyond our control. How and whether we become physically active is something only we influence. Let's take advantage of this opportunity!

Brain-dead through our lack of movement If you sit for too long, you have to supply energy constantly. Otherwise, you become a sea cucumber. The sea cucumber digests its brain. Even as a human being, it is difficult not to become fat and immobile in the long term. Shaking your head is not enough. Washing hands is also good, but not enough. Even before the Covid crisis, one in four adults died as a result of too little movement. Four out of five children were already at risk of becoming this adult. The fewer steps we take, the more people die. This increase in death and disease is a lockdown effect. Nothing moves if we don't move. Only getting sick and dying works out better when we move less. The risk of death for the elderly increases significantly due to the double burden: little contact and little movement. This double burden can also cause permanent damage in children. Humans have been designed for a high level of movement since we began walking on two legs. Enjoying movement, movement which strengthens our hearts and grows our brains; being active in the world is still the best remedy. Because where lack of movement begins, brain death begins. Hardly surprising - because what is death, if not a lack of movement.

Way out of Ecocide and Climate Collapse Hardly anyone knows what is at stake: no fungi - no future. Most of the CO2 in our biosphere is not stored by plants, but by fungi mycelium in the soil. The fungi mycelium creates fertile soil and recycles plants, animals, and humans. Fungi are the biochemists of our evolution. Deforestation and the monocultures of global agriculture are leading to an extreme loss of fertile soil. This then lowers the nutrient content and increases the environmental toxins in our food, a systemic effect of the way we live, poisoning and destroying our ecosystems, the conditions for our own survival. Because the fungi genome, as the oldest kingdom of life, has allowed us to evolve on land, we depend on the same antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal effects of fungi for our survival as our ecosystems. This is why all substances found in plants, insects, and animals are also in higher fungi. Together with their mycelium, higher fungi, the architects of our ecosystems, are also the perfect starting point for expanding fungi-mycelium-based environmental technologies for energy production, as substitutes for many depleted or eco-unfriendly resources, such as building materials or plastics, and other biotechnological innovations. This way we and the ecological cycles we depend on, can survive. For our life on land, the production of fertile soil and the use of mycopesticides in food production is ecologically most urgent. This is how we can assure a long-term essential food supply and low-cost, effective solution that regenerates our soil and balances our carbon footprint. The primary focus of intervention against ecocide and climate collapse must be the transformation of our lifestyle, culture, and agriculture via investment in fungi-based environmental solutions. We need to think of fungi as food and our food as nature's medicine. Mushrooms are empirically suited for this because they have been the basis of traditional medicine worldwide since the Stone Age. We need to transform agriculture and clean rivers and seas, clean the water of our blue planet. Without water, fertile soil and our forests turn into deserts. To prevent this, we must clean polluted waters and contaminated soil through myco-filtration and myco-restoration. To counteract the increasing devastation of our planet and the associated species extinction, we must make our forests and their key evolutionary species like bees resilient to the ecocide through myco-forestry and myco-medicine! We must make our countries and cities resilient to climate collapse through strategic reforestation, land use, and home farming. As bio-engineers of evolution, the regeneration of the fungi genome enables us to regenerate our currently collapsing living conditions. Only when we live in symbiosis with our environment and all its living kingdoms can we sleep safely again. For our survival, clean waters, healthy forests, and fertile land, fungi and their mycelium must play a critical part in our future. No Fungi - No Future.

In its digital transformation, the basic situation of humanity is a poetic contest, a global theater in which we all participate, a war of narratives of contradictory propaganda, a war for the retelling of our human history. It is a contest for interpretive power over life as it happens, from the nanoscale to the far reaches of space. The outcome of this ultra-marathon contest is uncertain, as it radically changes, with each digital disruption going viral in the global system. Whether as individuals or as a society, we live in a world of our stories that are now already so permeated with propaganda that it is disabling and life-threatening to our existence. Propaganda stories are invented in which we are the pawns of global players to fulfill the functions and roles intended for us. Once you have identified with your role you try to make the best of your choices, never assuming you could be anyone else. The global players are almost as powerless in the maelstrom of this digitalized global theater, and are also merely puppets, which can play more sets using the momentum of power. Their subjects can primarily contribute as data guinea pigs to the course of history. For the global players, eternal life, total domination, or an escape to Mars are their rescue fantasies. The data donors have to fight and beg for every right and freedom. As foot soldiers, the population is misled, nudged by threats and led by the nose through promises of a better future. Everyone lives dangerously. Some live dangerously because they are significant. Others live dangerously because they are insignificant. Everyone is a digital explorer in search of a suitable story, to tell ourselves and to present to others. We are dependent with our lives on the invention of a story. A story, which allows us to survive and be successful within the changing drifts of history. As a general rule, we always know only part of the story, which we believe to know completely. We know the story of Icarus, whose father Daedalus reached deep into his box of tricks. He enabled his son to escape from captivity with the help of synthetic wings. We know that he warned him not to fly too high, lest the sun melts his wings. Hardly anyone, however, knows that Daedalus also warned Icarus not to fly too low because the unpredictable air currents near the sea would mean his inevitable death. These deadly air currents just above the sea’s surface in the Icarus story symbolize a life without reflection and vision in which we are helpless against the storms of fate. The sun represents clarity through reflection, imagination, and planning. We must orient ourselves to the sun of our reason even at the risk of being wrong. Even what is good and right as an idea can be fatal if we do not consider our concrete limitations when we try to realize our ideal. Humanity on its technological high has to learn from the Icarus story. No idea, no matter how clever, can save us from developing the appropriate way of dealing with the immediate feedback in the practical use of our technology. Like Icarus, we must learn to navigate our technologies in a new environment to survive. Otherwise, what begins with minor high flight turbulence, ends with us mutilated like the remains of Icarus. We need to scale technological transformations, again and again, to meet our human needs. But like Icarus, we are trapped. Some live in the palace room, others in the torture room of the labyrinth propaganda. Instead of helping each other out of the labyrinth, we deceive each other by playing that only the winner can reach the exit. What we are presented within these propaganda wars, as the whole truth, is, as in the story of Icarus, truncated and altered so that we can believe in a cliché useful to propaganda, e.g., "The young fail because they don't listen to the old!" Young against old, men against women, left against right, obsessed with propaganda, we live in an Alice-in-Wonderland-like make-believe world where the breathtaking dramaturgy of clichés on our screens turns us into robots and immobilizes our individual decision-making like a palliative patient. Only analysis and research immunize us against the tide of propaganda stories that have gone viral because they enable us to recognize patterns of our own zombie mode early enough and counteract them. Proposed advantages never replace our analysis and research. As the powerful few desperately dare the Icarus flight from the captivity of our conflicted state of humanity to the sun of becoming a transhumanist superbeing, it could well be that the debris of this attempt will rain down on us subordinates. Like lucid dreamers, we, therefore, have to unmask propaganda that can only imitate our true reality in a cartoonish way. Like a dream interpreter, we must examine each story for what desires and fears it appeals to, who benefits from it, and who we become in our own life story when we let that story become a part of our lives. Only those who understand their own stories and ideas can refrain from adopting those of others. We have to learn how to express our stories and ideas in different media, learning to hear how to create awareness of how we tell our own story through the way we tell it. Each medium is its own message, and all are part of our experience of our individual life stories. Continuous work on one's own story and our ability to tell it is necessary to protect ourselves from this propaganda. Analysis and research are the sentinels guarding our life story and human history. Through them, we create our verse to human history in formation flight with the sun of our imagination. As long as we can, we should enjoy this freedom to create our own beats within the beat street of history.

Gandhi's Garden- Health gardens against ecocide Mahatma Gandhi's garden, like Aristotle's, was the basis of his food supply, his medical supply, and his understanding of economics, ethics, and democracy. Aristotle and Gandhi recognized that a garden could be all of these things for us humans. Garden culture is the origin of our development as human beings. Through garden culture, we learn about our humanity. The "health garden" is, therefore, the key to our future. Through sustainable garden culture, we can heal ourselves and our earth. This freedom to create our garden must begin with the autonomy of our food. No seed, no spore, no plant should be illegal or patented. Aristotle and Gandhi recognized that without the autonomy that self-cultivation provides, the freedom of democracy could only be a scam. The birth of our democracy and science began in Aristotle's garden.The greatest democracy in the world began in Mahatma Gandhi's garden. We need to create the largest democratic network of people to establish a new sustainable culture of life through our gardens. This health garden culture must become a fundamental right to nourish and heal ourselves and the world. Health gardens are a contribution to the survival of humanity and the biosphere. Our garden culture will be the guidepost for this. The ecological balance that we need to create globally to survive the current ecocide is something we can start in our own personal gardens. In our gardens, the plants and fungal mycelium will make our soil fertile and remove CO2 from the atmosphere. If we defend our microclimate through garden biodiversity our health gardens will become part of the global medicine to fight Ecocide. This biodiversity of fungi and plants as the basis of nutrition allows our bodies and our biosphere to be healthy and thrive. The garden’s microclimate mitigates the likelihood of getting sick and dying in old age from the effects of climate collapse. The design of a health garden must therefore create medicine and nourishment for us and our environment. Free garden design must become a fundamental right - as self and climate protection! Let us realize Gandhi's and Aristotle's vision of gardens that secures food supply and primary medical care - through our health gardens! Let’s make our health gardens models for the symbiosis of nature and culture! Humans and nature survive only in symbiosis. Let us create a survival culture!

The Magic of Love - Preserving the Love of Life From my perspective, Humberto Maturana's "Neurobiology of Love" is the only perspective from which our human biology makes sense. Our biology of love teaches us how to organize ourselves as individuals and communities, in the evolutionary drift of the here and now, through emotion and reflection. Tenderness and trust heal our relationships as well as our minds and bodies. They reconcile and help us let go. Without this foundation, we cannot develop character as individuals or maintain peace as a community. Without understanding the emotional interplay of love and play as the forgotten foundation of our humanity, we will choke on the bite into the apple of knowledge. If we do not feel tenderness, that sense of well-being through the presence of the other, we will always invent a reason why it is better to exploit or kill the other. We learn and develop through the way we live together, and the consequences of our living together will always depend on how we live together. For humanity itself, its very survival depends on understanding our role as part of the world. Our civilization is built on the complementary interplay of microlevel and macrolevel. One man alone can’t hunt a mammoth. One man alone can’t reinvent science. The friendship between the two scientists Heinz von Foerster and Humberto Maturana was crucial for their research. The synthesis of the biology of love and the one-with-the-world attitude is essential for the survival of humanity. We must learn to form communities through which trust is possible. Where we do not have to question each other's actions. Otherwise, we will soon destroy ourselves and the biosphere as well. I will never forget how Maturana, in his Wittgensteinian clarity, explained love using a spider as an example: "If the existence of the spider is legitimate, I will not think of stepping on it or killing it. I will respect it, and when I observe it, I will develop curiosity." This curiosity of exploring and creating, which comes from living a life of love, is the origin of science and civilization. From this curiosity comes a culture that can abstract and develop technologies based on the observation of nature. That we recognize ourselves as part of this living nature through the magic of love and create a new way of living together could save us from our self-destruction.

The Five Final Laws ( by Bernard Scott) 1. There is always a bigger picture. 2. There is always another perspective. 3. There is always another level of detail. 4. There is always an error.

Alien on Vacation Dear diary, The space apes have gone wild! They are destroying and poisoning the intergalactic fungi farm we created on Earth. It all started when we were picking mushrooms. We kept finding life-threateningly drunk apes lying on the ground. Alien mushroom pickers regularly stumbled upon the alcoholic corpses of apes. They had eaten the wrong fungi in a drunken daze – not a pretty sight. Out of pity, and because we didn't want to jeopardize our fungi farm, we took them to our spaceships and nursed them back to health with organ- and brain-boosting fungi. A self-organizing fungi farm, a symbiosis of plants and animals, distributing fungi and their mycelium all over the planet - vacation paradise Earth - a fungi forest planet with beautiful beaches, these were all excellent ideas. But in retrospect, unfortunately, feeding the apes mushrooms to grow their brains was a grave mistake. They didn’t stop drinking. Perhaps his mix of drugs and dead meat made it impossible for them to cope with their brain growth? When they got smart enough to realize that they were not descended from an almighty God but living alone in an insignificant part of space for only an inconceivably short time, they went completely berserk. In a desperate mania for improvement, the space apes began destroying the biosphere faster and faster. They developed better and better technologies to cut down our forests, poison the seas and rivers, the soil, the air, even their food. Eventually, they also mined the entire planet with nuclear bombs. Now they are even working diligently to develop bacteria and viruses that threaten the ecological balance of our fungi farm. It is as if they have set out to kill themselves and the planet. Apes in space, who would have thought of that? In the beginning, they worshipped us as gods and angels. Now they dissect us when they catch us! That's why we rarely show ourselves without our protective spaceships. Just the recordings of our flight behavior were sufficient for the space apes to develop new, semi-intelligent war machines. Now we run the risk of triggering a fully automated nuclear self-destruction on every vacation trip. Then our damaged mushroom paradise would be lost forever. What alien on vacation wants to take on such great dangers? So many are now breaking off their vacation that even the space apes have become suspicious that they are not alone. When we gave the apes our mushrooms to grow their brains, we hoped that they would become the gardeners of this planet one day. Little did we know that the apes would not only endanger our vacation planet but even litter the surrounding space. The space apes’ trash everywhere they go is almost more dangerous than these space apes. Now we don't know how much longer we can save our planet from its destruction—these apes – worse than pigs. Perhaps we should have fed the pigs with brain-boosting mushrooms? Well, it's too late for that now. I, too, will probably have to leave soon. Too bad about all these fungi!

It’s Alright Bob - That’s How It Ends ( We’re only Dying - If We’re Not Trying) I. Act (Inciting Incident) Verse (Call) 1 A sky lights up in mushrooms doom, A world, blown up by silver spoons, All dreams end with a final boom, Unthought of by our narrow zoom, Excuses end, it’s coming soon, Tell it to god that you were really trying. Verse (Call) 2 A scam is what you’re living for Become a star, leave them in awe, Your music and your rhymes are raw, Then realize you’re still a whore, You sold yourself, now life’s a bore, And you grow old depending on the cheers Of those who made you. Verse (Call) 3 Your friends, they struggle through their lives, You wonder who of them survives, They gave it all, but end deprived, Some work for kids, some for their wives, Yet emptiness shines through their eyes, As they turn into zombies. Chorus (Response) 1 We live our lives full of fear. Life’s a fight, the end is near But, it’s alright Bob, we’re only dying. II. Act (Progressive Complication) Verse (Call) 1 All Eyes on me: the Internet, Where nowadays the garbage’s fed, As porn dictates relationships, Buy plastic breasts use every trick Provide yourself another hit, Won’t change the fact That you are lonely. Verse (Call) 2 Universities are filled with fools, Where bureaucrats make all the rules, You’re educated as a slave, To work your way down to your grave, Die from a heart attack, So you don’t have to see, It wasn’t worth it. Verse (Call) 3 You wanna know how this world ends? We live our lives full of pretense, You don’t grow old; life never ends, And if you ask who still has kids, Religious freaks who lack in wits, Those who don’t know what else to do But hope their kids might pull them through. and you? You’re rather crying. Chorus (Response) 2 This world is a mess. We settle for less, We are confused, full of distress Cause we got nothing, Bob, worth living up to. III. Act (Moment of Crisis, Climax, Resolution) Verse (Call) 1 Money swears, we’re owned by few, convinced there’s nothing we can do, Just struggle on, things won’t be fine, For victims of white-collar crimes, Like sheep, we wait and stand in line, Long gone democracy’s decline, Now, we’re all just something to invest in. Verse (Call) 2 The weather’s changed, some like it hot, The polar caps - a melting pot, And bees and trees they disappear, While we, we drink another beer, Let’s cuddle in a garbage swirl, And say goodbye to our world, Once we did come to love you?! Vers (Call) 3 No more amused, no more confused, We really got this world to lose, Weapons of choice, I’ve chosen blues Allowing me to spray the truth, I’m just a slob; it’s not my job, But I got love and rhymes like Bob, So I cry out loud, “You can’t forswear!” That our world ends if we don’t care. Chorus (Response) 3 Our Ecocide is on its way, In it, we live another day, Hoping our minds lead us astray, That’s how it ends if we’re not trying.

Spaceship Earth Reality bite me I’m a middle-class whitee And though there is no one like me I don’t wanna be quite me Everybody just fights me Even me being me It’s so mean just to be Programmed to hesitate and wait Unable to act as you can not relate The world I dictate, oblivion is my fate The World’s what I drink as the thirst is my state. Consuming middle-class witee Reality bites me I’m a middle-class whitee Though there is no one like me I don’t wanna be quite me See the poor folks are struggling To become just like me Because they’re failing to see It’s so mean just to be Programmed to hesitate and wait Unable to act as you cannot relate So the world’s what we drink and oblivion is our fate But maybe once we’re all the same. And we got no one else to blame. Then the scales fall from our eyes. And we see through all these lies. See, we are one and this is true. The fact is I am just like you The things that we are going through There is no me, there is no you There’s only us and what we do The things that we are going through Our hurt’s the same when we feel blue The same tears are running from our eyes as we suffocate from lies Like nations, races The exact same tears run from our faces coming from a world that we created bled to death and devastated Cos we all hesitated, waited while it was so plain to see It’s up to us, to change this world It’s up to us to face responsibility. Not for being yellow, black, or white but for the fact that we’re alike Remember this for what it’s worth We are the crew of spaceship earth.