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Monthly Archive for March, 2008
Today you can read a long article about Dalai Lama by Louis Bayard in the Frankfurter Rundschau: “With all due respect … this is shit” I read about the philosophical views of the Dalai Lama. This expression comes back to the article and to Rundschau too. Rundschau published several articles to “initiate a lively debate”. For example “I do not believe of the climate catastrophe” or “similarity between 1968 student activism and growth of Nazi 1930″
For a non-violent resistance exists in history very few examples (Gandhi, Monday demonstrations in Leipzig and fall of the Berlin Wall, resistance by Berlin administration during Kapp Putsch 1920). During the invasion of the Soviet troops to the Czech Republic 1968 the possibilities of non-violent resistance were discussed passionatly. But it seems at that time unimaginable in face of pressing tanks. Today east-european countries are part of EU, without any war.
In the FR-article such thoughts are not even touched. It says: “The future of Tibet and its people are perhaps no longer in the hands of the Dalai Lama and this could be a happier turn of evens than many Tibet-lovers is aware.” Such an implied call to violence by an American writer is frightening.
At the sight of a beautiful sunset, the sun disappears behind the curved horizon, I thought about whether I should write an article: The Earth is a convex lens, I do not believe in the spherical shape. Frankfurter Rundschau may publish it as a start of a lively debate.
During a walk across Palace Garden in Bad Homburg, today on Holy Thursday , further early spring images were added.
A special situation in Berlin: no buses on the roads. A public transport strike, for the subways too. But the S-Bahn was running and transported many bicycles. We travelled by car and visited the lakes Müggelsee and Tegeler See. We went to see Helmuts aunt, Käte Walter, formerly a professor at the Berlin Academy of Music, now 91 years old. Almost blind, she talks very lively and spiritedly as a young woman on many issues, as on the current Wagner research, the Web 2.0, and the strike in Berlin.
