14 Coming to the end
dilute a clear line for being accepted in the ranks or parliaments of the other side or to bow to personal pressure . The real heroes of our time are men like Edward Snowdon and Julian Assange , also the Chinese pioneers for democracy and open speech , all the courageous journalists who are often brutally persecuted and even in danger to be shot openly in the street as happened in Russia and nevertheless carry on for the sake of their people . We have not to look far , just to chauvinistic Turkey of autocratic Erdogan . And remember , “ Nous sommes Charlie !”, aren ’ t we ?
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14.2 What you are urgently needed for , Yanis
With initial enthusiasm for pan-Europeanism and your upright standing against the odds we all , me too , got activated for DIEM . Now , after having thoroughly reflected on what we are doing , campaigning and heading for my enthusiasm has turned into deep concern .
Yanis , honestly . What are the big problems of our time ? Transparency by published meeting minutes in Brussels and organising EIB / EIFinvestments , or to stop finance capitalism which drives the world into the abyss ? I can only ask all DIEMers and the whole left camp to answer this question thoroughly . And yes , I am also afraid of what is ahead of the world . I wish all of us the civil courage we will need to turn the tide .
Peoples resemble gifted , strong , and proud lions . Evolution has destined them for the kings and guardians of Nature . But they aren ’ t . They were tamed for millennia by ever changing , small but clever upper classes that made use of the lions ’ strength and made a good living from their tamed performance in the arena of history . But the lions stayed dangerous , sometime unpredictable , and capable of turning on their tamers . Occasionally they had run their tamers down who had to take cover just to send new taming agents to resume lion taming by optimized methods , better food and a new cage .
The people-lions are the human element of Nature . You , me and the comrades and colleagues of DIEM25 should be part of the global lion prides and help them to free themselves from the cages and to accept their true destiny as leaders and custodians of this Planet Earth . Please Yanis , leave that ilk of academic career advisors of capitalism . It is true , peoples and liberation movements need men of impressing performance and personality . They need economists who won ’ t advise capitalism to survive a bit longer , but who explain to revolting