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Incredulously Watching the Sink

  My feelings towards the USA are extremely conflicting... Actually they are deep ambivalent because I can't come to terms with the growing visceral sense of disgusted disbelief!  ​I once deeply esteemed the States for their perceived inner freedom. Substantially, this freedom, is not because they are innately better than us in Europe, but because they do not carry the weight of such a long and heavy past. Europe’s history, full of glories and immense brutality, burdens us. This history has made us cautious, clinging firmly to the experienced beneficial path. Consequently, truly radical change—daring to leap into the "completely out of the blue" —is often a rare or impossible choice. ​Not so in the States. This capacity to dare is why they achieve scientific discoveries that might take Europe an eternity to reach. ​And yet, this blessed capacity to dare, however, is two-edged. This very same boundless freedom now exposes the terrible price they are paying. When freedom la...
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A soulless world around me

The image of the world, better said: my world, the world I knew, since many years had begun to fade. A new unfamiliar world is more and more emerged.

Countries that once were "my" countries are now just "countries", I can't use "my" anymore. Somehow they have become alien to me. 

It’s quite bewildering. And puzzling. 

I can't even find pieces of nature that can offer me some relief. Or at least the nature surrounding inhabited places. I find comfort in far away places, forgotten by humans and therfore untouched, unspoiled. Where you can hear the silent wind and see the shadows of the unknown behind the veil.

While the entire world has lost its soul. 

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