Posted by Sven Gothel on Jan 18, 2023; 5:55pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Elephant-in-the-room-are-talking-tp4042077.html

Well, as a few might have known, I like to vent from time to time on things that really matter - at least for myself and my family.

So here we are in this cute sub-forum, why not?

Perhaps it helps to stay human in this, for me,
perceived degrading and dehumanizing world.
In reality, this path forward was surely always there,
but for some reason - I feel they notched up the pace extremely in the last 10 years.

Whatever opinion you have, share or not share,
we should not apply a so called Cancel Culture here - or anywhere else IMHO.
At least for me, in regards to the software development project(s),
I will stay professional and change hats - only assessing related artifacts.

Spilling the beans?
Tossing in some of the heavy weighted and unable to un-see things?

I remember when we chatted in our IRC that 'this is the year where all conspiracy theories were proven right',
it was the year 2013 and the case was Edward Snowden.
Yes Julien Assange is still being tortured by the 'law' etc.
And a year later in 2014, all preparations for hell today started to unleash with the Maidan Coup in Ukraine.
In between, well, we were pleased with COVID19 .. by now, I hope, you know about those dealings.

Around 2005 when I entered Canada, I remember they started talking about
making 'Hate Speech' illegal - we were all LMAO.
Roughly 10+ years later, it was implemented as law in the EU and used to monitor
all internet convos, besides our 'dear' anti-terror laws.
Now supposedly threatening a Biologist stating that there is only Man and Woman (Norway).

And today, my old fellows with whom I demonstrated for peace against the Cold War,
back then when I was a young boy (11),
when they stationed Pershing 2 in Germany
- well some of these old fellows are now in the German government
and promote a Hot War against Russia by prolonging the war,
causing more people to die and suffer (Yes, Ukrainian deaths and Russian death).
I don't discriminate about the nationality, I don't care - all humans - all a big tragedy.
You will see my reasoning and some of the background pointers in blog posts linked above.

Yes, my fellow former pacifist friends become war monger and bringing weapons
back on the table, enabling the death of people forced to the front lines etc.
This is today :-(

I truly hope we all can keep our sanity and survive this absolute crazy drive.
When in doubt, I spend more time with family - pulling the plug and stop thinking
about these trampling elephants which I at least surely cannot stop.

Jesus mountain speech is also very helpful in these day, I have to confess.

Guess I kicked off this sub-forum pretty well with all of the above right?

No, this is not to incite hate or bad feelings - on the contrary.
By simply spelling out these things, we reclaim our humanity, 'freedom' and peace.
At least this is how I grew up with freedom of speech and open minded.
Hopefully not something of the past.

Yes, it probably also lead or leads to being cancelled by certain parties,
but that was/is the price to pay.

Cheers, Love & Peace,

~Sven