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Think Different! Be Different!

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Published on: August 30, 2008

In case you did not notice, I started blogging a little bit more about political and social subjects recently. There is a reason for it. I spent more time thinking about the things that happened in this world. I did’t say that I wasn’t thinking about those things in the past, I just say that I did spend more time than usual. See for example my longer posts about the Crazy Horse Memorial, the Berlin Wall or Nationalism and Blind Obedience to your Government. This also lead me to create a category at my blog titled “Politics” where I attached all those (more or less) politics related blog posts of mine (including past blog posts from last year or the year before that). Well that’s enough for an intro :). I stumbled recently across a cool Apple Computers commercial that I don’t remeber seen on TV, but that has nothing to say, since I did not watch TV really during the past 1-2 years or so.. thanks to the Internet hehe. This is IMHO the best Apple Computers commercial of all times and one of the best commercial of all time in general too. Well, and if there is one thing that you can say about the Apple CEO Steve Jobs, then it would be “Yeah, He thinks different!“. The message of the video is clear: Follow your instinct and ignore what other people might say. The people who thought different and were called all kinds of words by the[…]

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Mount Rushmore Square

Categories: history, Personal, Politics
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Published on: August 17, 2008

I created a short 12+ minutes long video about the little known Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills Mountains of South Dakota. I edited together the 3 minutes intro part of it, which is then followed by an about 10 minutes long mini documentary about the project. Backup URL to Video on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T9zWoNBnWE). Backup URL to Video on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nCDrKZ4ASw). You can download the video in .AVI format and 640×480 pixels resolution (259 MB) free from my Mediafire.com account. Backup link to video at Google Video The yet unfinished Crazy Horse Memorial mountain carving is located less than 30 minutes from the famous Mount Rushmore Presidential Memorial where the heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were carved into the mountain rock for the eternity. The Crazy Horse mountain carving dwarfs the impressive Mt.Rushmore one in size and scale. Also the time to create it is an eternity compared to the Mt.Rushmore project. The sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski started working on it on June 3, 1948 and it is still far from being finished today. In contradiction to the the better known and federal funded Mt.Rushmore project is the Crazy Horse project entirely funded by the people who donate time, resources and money and by the admission to the visitor center and North American Indian Museum, which is located at the mountain base. The Admission is either $10 per person (children under 6 free) or $27 per car load, whichever is better for you, for[…]

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Democracy Still Works… Sometimes

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Published on: August 12, 2008

An unusual short blog post, but there is not much more to say and no need to comment. If you have not been living on the moon during the past years, then you should have enough facts and information to know what you have to do.The democratic system of this country might be flawed, but it is not entirely misfunctioning yet. Some parts still work. Make them count! … and forget political colors this time, because it will not change the facts, regardless if the words come out of a “blue” or a “red mouth”. See the Petition (PDF) See the Articles (PDF) Sign the Petition (Web Form) Signing off…Carsten aka Roy/SAC

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The Berlin Wall and the Walls between Us

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Published on: August 7, 2008

I created an extended version of my video about the Berlin Wall. I was born and grew up in Berlin and was 15 years old when the Wall finally fell on November 9th, 1989. It’s a personal subject, as for all Germans, especially Berliners who were affected by it the most. It will be soon 20 years, in one year and a few months, since this historic event occurred. It seems to me a long time ago, although I have many vivid memories of events from back then that seem to have happened only recently. Maybe the global events of the past few years that are IMO disturbing and the parallel development of a global sense and community because of the Internet, which attempt to counter those negative events, brought some of my old memories back into my mind. I never felt compelled before to talk or write about the historic events that happened in my hometown and which I was able (in part) to witness myself. I never owned or wanted to own a piece of the Wall, which is not unusual for a child of that city. I would say that you probably will have a hard time to find a Berliner who has a piece of the Wall, if you would start looking for one. I am pretty sure about that. Something changed my attitude towards the subject and I am not 100% sure what and why. I got the feeling that telling the story and facts[…]

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Nationalism does not Imply Blind Obedience to your Government

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Published on: March 31, 2008

I blogged about one week ago about a poll and discussion that was going on at deviantART.com about trust in governments, which then spun off into a discussion about the current US administration, 9/11, the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act and also some positive developments that are actually getting people from around the world and from different cultures together, things that help to strengthen peace efforts and support global understanding and tolerance. The discussion continued after I made the arguments that you can read in my previous post. First was there a misunderstanding that needed remedy. The fellow deviant thought that there is a misunderstanding about our positions and the actual meaning of “Anti War” or “not Anti War” etc. He stated??? P: “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean anti-war to come off that I was Pro-war. I was merely talking about the people who believe that we should never go to war no matter the cause. I see that by the posting above that you are not anti-war as I originally thought. I am not Pro-war, but I believe there are times when war is necessary.” That required of course a response on my part. Me: No need to be sorry, communication worked, misunderstandings clarified, everything peachy hehe. p.s. I am Pro-Peace, not Anti-War. That’s a big difference.” “Anti ??? Anything” is bad in any case, because it implies opposition, resistance, blocking, refusing, denying, hating, violence, destruction and other negative things that are usually unwanted side effects that come[…]

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