Got ensnared by modern fascism

I just read an insightful comment on weissgarnix.de:

Traditional fascism demands order and submission; modern fascism flatters the individuals, furthers the illusion of freedom and self-determination and controls the people mostly nonviolently by conditioning them. (Tina, comment #111 on “Geht’s noch tiefer” on weissgarnix.de; translation by me)

Why do I post this? I think I [...]

How to install a 32bit development environment for Eclipse RCP applications on a Linux 64bit system?

These instructions are mainly inspired by the how-to “Ubuntu 9.10 64bit and custom 32bit JDK and Eclipse 3.5 pwned” on http://blog.javaee.cz/2009/11/ubuntu-910-64bit-and-custom-32bit-jdk.html.

These instructions were developed originally for Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Karmic Koala.Download the latest JDK 6 (currently JDK 6 update 18) for Linux 32bit platform from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/widget/jdk6.jsp. You need to pick the file without the [...]

Want and abundance based societies

There are two types of society: those whose working principle is want (necessity, absence) and those whose working principle is abundance. In practice, there are all sorts of societies in between these extremes. Strictly speaking, the abundance based society is paradise.

It is important to note that “lack” and “abundance” here do not refer to [...]

Democracy and Pseudodemocracy

Most states in Africa call themselves “democracies” and are formally “democracies”, but the real ways of influence and might are that different that they are not to be regarded as democracies.

Even Iran seems to call itself a democracy, but is dictatorship. It is very clever to keep other countries and the own people as [...]

So what is money?

Many people quarreled about that. Here is my contribution: money is a right, or better, a system of rights. As with all rights, tolerated abuse of rights endangers the system: money for example stops to work where a state prints money in large amounts to pay for state expenses. The special thing about “money right” [...]

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