Category Archives: Mind Wash

Toleranz, Akzeptanz und Respekt

Jazzadeiros “Plädoyer gegen die Toleranz” spielt Respekt und Toleranz gegeneinander aus und kommt zu einer negativen Grundeinstellung gegen die Toleranz. Das liegt aber meiner Meinung nach an der wertfreien Anwendung des Begriffes. Continue reading

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Intellectual Fighting

The Wikipedia is known for its Edit Wars, users fighting over content and changing pages quickly back and forth. To honor the most crazy ones, Wikipedia has a web page for it: Lamest Edit Wars Some of the best: Europe … Continue reading

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Times

The Fox is back!!! 😉

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New York Post-Expectation Pre-Reality Review

New York is tough. Seriously. And different. Trashy, sometimes backwards, sometimes just plain annoying and sometimes it just hates you. It throws you around, tries to drive you nuts with noise, heat, cornering you with people, crazy people. And gives … Continue reading

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Blast from the Past

It is sometimes strange to meet people from the past again. Somebody you have hung out a lot at some place and some time, but you kind of slighted into different lives after that. It’s nice to hang out with … Continue reading

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Megatrends

Und nun zu den Megatrends: a) Die Entschlüsselung des Genoms menschlichen Lebens wird weiter voraneilen und damit tiefgreifende Eingriffe in die Würde und Einmaligkeit menschlichen Lebens verursachen. Klingt wie Fatalismus für mich, vielleicht ein Formulierungsproblem? Nicht-fatalistische Gegenthese: Die Gentechnik ist … Continue reading

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Peter Kafka

Nachdem Fogel die “Die Beschleunigungskrise” von Peter Kafka entdeckt hat (irgendwann musste das ja passieren 😉 ), will ich natürlich auch meinen Senf dazugeben: “Wohin rennen wir eigentlich?“: Eine schöne Auflistung der guten alten kommunistischen Kapitalismuskritik in Gewand der Systemtheorie. … Continue reading

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India Final

Ok, some final, end-of-story, out-of-there kind of thing about India. Nature Beautiful, diverse, a lot to see … basically like other tourist places on earth, too. Face it, people don’t spend most of the money they make in a year … Continue reading

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Proven-subjective statistics

Most probable lies 3. I have a girlfriend in Norway/Schweden/Finland/Germany/Italy/etc. 2. I’ve been to your country 3 times. Berlin, beautiful city … 1. My taxi meter is broken. Highest amount of drug dealers per square meter 3. Delhi (in front … Continue reading

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Sorry for being gone

Haven’t used my blog in a while. After a while of not writing you loose the habit. I have been so busy lately with the prep for India, job handover and other stuff – there was just no time. But … Continue reading

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