>From drews2000@online.de  Mon Mar 29 19:25:35 1999
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 22:25:14 -0500
From: george drews
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To: Franz Lee
Subject: I need a sign "don't panic"

My dearest philosopher franz,

I'm always eager to get e-mails from you, cause they bring a smile on my face, they carry me into the land of thought, which is always a pleasure to experience, especially if franz is having a seat beside me in the plane to philosophia.

Take a seat and fasten your seatbelts ...
 

...thank god, jesus and Bill Clinton that Goethe was just a human being (or not?), who was capable of making mistakes, otherwise my view of the world would get a fabulous crack.
Let me say it loud and clearly : are you crazy to apply "Was fruchtbar ist, allein is wahr" (only what is fertile, is true) to women ? If this is true then "the truth" is true,  cows can fly,  Clinton loves Kenneth Star, I am stupid and men are intelligent.
I should answer with Hegel's "Das Wahre ist das Ganze" (the true one is the whole one).
There are of course "true" women, but SHURELY not all of them are like that.
And there's something you got wrong: it's not "Wein, Weib und Gesang" but "Wein, Weib und Ärger,..." (those things between two commas have a very high affinity to each other).

So ... what do I do if I realise the truth, I want to change it, but I can't ? I take a beer, switch on the tv-show "oprah" and think "mein Verstand steht still" (my mind stands still). And after a while my brain says "meine Stunde ist noch nicht gekommen" (my time hasen't yet come) and "meine Ruh ist hin, mein Herz ist schwer" (my calmness is gone, my heart is aching).
 

And now I  need to come back to my last mail. I asked "is it the paper or this capital-system that is evil ?". I didn't mean it the way you understood it, because I wrote it down the way I would have spoken it. But the stressing of course get's lost on the paper. I meant it like "Is it really the paper that is evel ? Is it really the capital-system that is evil ?".

No ! Not even the capital-system is evil. Because what is the capital-system ? It's nothing else but a mixture of an amount of behaviouring-rules plus a value-system, or more precise it's actually just a bunch of values. By value-system I don't mean money but what those things that society believes to be important, worthy to achieve, or valuable.
And who created those rules and the underlying values ? Its the human being itself ! (Hey, didn't you say I'm not a human being?  That would mean  I'm not guilty of taking part in this ! Which means I'm innocent ! q.e.d.)

Shurely the misery on our planet would be much less if material-wealth wouldn't be considerd to be that important. But it is ! And the origin of this is greed. And maybe our ancesters at the stone-age were already greedy.

And the age of stone is not very long ago. You can see this e.g., if you take a closer look at those crazy governers in the USA. Between those trashy MC-Donalds-phrases about morality and humanitarian behaviour you sometimes hear some stuttering of "in god we trust". And because of this trust they believe "to be a superior power" . No joke, I just heard it on tv during an interview about the jugoslawia-war. Those things make me feel desperate. I get a feeling of wanting to vomit.
Can I sue god for this ?
Franz tell me, did they test a stupidity-bomb on themselfs ?

What can I do to reduce the greed in this world ? Talking to those people I know ? Is this all ? Poohhh ...
As Nietzsche said "Der Mensch is etwas, das ueberwunden werden soll" ....
 

But know, at the end of my letter,  two questions of  nice simplicity :
1. Are you married ?
2. Do you have children ?
 

Hoping, that you are well I send you warm greetings from germany

George

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