A few days ago I went to Berlin. I had the chance to go around the city, and one of Berlin’s attractions is the Sony center. It has restaurants and coffee shops, a cinema museum and a cinema to name but a few things you can do around there. In the middle it has a mini-garden, and around it something like a huge bench where you can sit. Naturally, it was full with people. Tourists taking a break and some photos, but also Berliners meeting with their friends and hanging around there.

That was the first day. Then, the next day and for the three of four following days, things changed. A huge red carpet arrived, they put fence all over it, covering also the big bench, and in the middle of it all they built a stage.

Now there was a big banner outside the cinema, and it advertised the Transformers movie. I thought this might have to do with the stage and carpet, but I was not sure.

As days went by, the fence was becoming annoying, because this is a pretty popular place, lots of people were coming and going, and I thought that whatever this event is about, it was not really worth it.

I left Berlin at the 14th of June, so today, two days later, I thought I might check what this was all about. And I found this video.

Zen and other religions, feminism, Feng-shui, fashion, astrology, and other similar “beliefs” are trendy nowadays. Lately all these seem to strangely fashionable. Perhaps because people don’t like the reality they live in and try to find somewhere to hide or some way of translating what happens to them.

All these trends, give us a specific kind of way of how we should act and what we should think. Feng-shui tells us where we should put our plants, zen what kind of stones we should wear, feminism if we should wear sexy skirts or not, fashion if we should wear black this season, our horoscope if we should ask for a raise today, religion if it is a sin to have sex on Monday, and so on and so forth.

But Zen, for example is a really old religion and has nothing to do with all the hocus-pocus they sell us today. It is a school of Buddhism, that has to do with meditation and a certain way of life, which has nothing to do with our “western” way of upbringing and living, so we can’t really understand it. It’s like trying to learn how to dance traditional Greek music, you may make it, but you will seem rather funny to the people who really know how to do it.

Army is discipline. Army is love for your country. You have to protect it from the enemies. And it takes a real man to do that. A man who is strong, fit, smart, a man with ideals, who can sacrifice himself for his flag and his culture. Army makes you strong and always ready to annihilate your enemies.

Army is also exciting, and pays really good, as the British Army tells us. Their logo is: Army, be the best. And we have to believe them, don’t we?

We would, if we forgot the real war is not played by weapons today. Real war is mass media. It was 9/11 and the American terrorism, it is all the movies about how bad people from Middle East are, it is war over oil and natural gas, it is war of corporations to us, about who will get the most out of our wallets.

And it would sound exciting, if it still did not involve killing people. Serial killers would surely find this exciting. But, I believe the majority of us are not serial killers. Still they have to find people who are stupid enough to finish what they started with “intelligent” war, and go over there to clean up and justify their purposes.

You find your significant other and you decide to get married. Think again, not the significant other part, the wedding part. I mean, seriously, it’s easier said than done.

First of all, you have to know, for most of the parents, it’s not the couple’s day, it’s THEIR day. If you wanted to, you could leave them decide for everything, and they wouldn’t ask you for a single thing. They know better, always, don’t they? They got married before you after all, and they have been to many weddings. They have the know-how, and why, and when, and who.

Above everything in your wedding, is your parent’s debts to other people. I mean, you know, whose wedding they’ve been to, their customers, their friends, their colleagues, their providers, their bosses or employees, well, all those people around them. Then there are the couple’s debts, their colleagues, customers, providers, bosses, employees, bosses, friends, neighbors etc. And all those people HAVE to be there.

Then there are the details. First question is when. Not in the middle of the summer, your parents don’t like it too hot, but not in the winter too, they wouldn’t want the rain or snow to ruin their hair or shoes.

Then the where, according to one custom at the bride’s home city, which could be different than where she lives now, but this doesn’t matter actually, if her parents still do. Or according to other customs, to the groom’s home city, but that’s for the parents to decide, back off pup, this is none of your business.

America used to be the promise land once upon a time. They still think they are, they just forget information is faster than propaganda, and people actually know what there is going on there.

The U.S.A., like other super-power countries, seem like another planet. They only think about their interests, they try to keep people away from information and freedom, and they only want to prove they are super-powers.

I would not really care about their elections, but unfortunately, they affect the rest of the world as well. And no matter the outcome, we are all fucked. I have to say, McCain seems ruthless and totally stupid, but in the end both of them are controlled. Well only time will tell if McCanDoAnything exceeds Shrub in stupidity, if something like that is even possible.

Their war on terrorism is another way to control the masses, and just like religion, to keep everyone feared, so they can achieve their goals. And their goal is to get richer themselves and to keep the corporations richer and happier as well.

Hitler is associated with evil, war, and death. Yet, if you compare what the American presidents and their courtiers did all those years with what he did, he seems harmless. How many innocent people do they still kill today? How many more do they want to kill just to get their hands on precious oil.

It took us approximately 2.0 millions of years, but we made it. Homo Erectus managed to evolve into Homo Imbecillus. And what a species we became.

Idiots are everywhere, you can see them at the super market, at the bank, at every tv show and especially realities, at the government. They can be rich or poor, illiterate or with major universities degrees, young or old, in every country, and they are the majority too. In fact idiots rule this world.

Some people are born stupid, because they inherit it from their parents, because of implications during pregnancy (mothers are not famous for their scientific knowledge), during birth (nor are obstetricians), because of diseased during childhood, or for other reasons. Some become stupid, because they get a certain education, or rather, lack of it, or simply because they grow up amongst idiots and they don’t need to use their brain.

But it is a dangerous disease, it spreads really fast, it can affect everyone and it can’t be cured. If there was a way to discover a medicine for it no minister of health would allow it’s distribution, because it would affect his position (people would understand the voted for an idiot), and no doctor would every research it, they think this is too worthless a task to bother themselves with, as they think they are surely too smart for it. Only some geneticists claim to be able to produce smarter people, but they seem to be even more stupid, until they prove they are smarter. Plus many other professionals are not particularly interested in curing the disease, because they would be out of business. Clerics, popes, tv “stars”, singers, actors and politicians only to name a few. The world economy would collapse.