Self-realization is not a luxury. And not a distant goal for vacation or retired life. Do not underestimate the danger of self-betrayal, like most people do. Every little hiding of your self, every pretense, every visit to a dead church, every admiration of a work…

Finally I found the original text of Paul Goodman, which I knew so far only in German translation. ("Prüfstein für das anarchistische Programm"). It comes not! from the May pamphlet published in 1946. But from "Why", June 1946. And was reprinted in "Drawing the line…

Who has more obedience than I masters me [Emerson] Exercising power is violence against the weaker? That's what most people think. But also Devotion, also obedience is an expression of power. Only those who can joyfully surrender to the power of another can also uninhibitedly…

Paul Goodman challenges us beeing a dissident. He died on August 2, exactly 50 years ago. Who thinks of him? I do. But that is not what matters. Self-realization is the only virtue of cynics. But being a dissident, the revaluation of all values, necessarily…

Anarchy often stands for anti-authoritarian ideas and rejection of hierarchy. But consider for yourself: the rejection of authority and hierarchy is Christian slave morality, is the rejection of power. The empowerment of cynical anarchism stands for the opposite. Cynicism is not anti-authoritarian, cynicism is authoritarian…

Ancient cynism is the mother of anarchy. It initially had a strong influence in Europe for almost 1000 years. Then it was pushed back by Pauline Christianity and with it the increasing belief in the state. With Erasmus of Rotterdam as Luther's opponent, then with…

The term biopolitics was coined by the french philosopher Michel Foucault and further developed by the italien philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Both describe the almost hopeless situation in which the individual today is at the mercy of the state's advanced techniques of rule. Both are important…

The modern Concept of freedom leads to nothing, in the literal sense. In the absolutely realized independence I would even be independent of my self, it dissolves into nothing. Originally, freedom meant belonging to the loved ones, not independence. Freya is a goddess associated with…

From the very beginning, Pythagoras saw in everyone who eats meat a potential murderer. And not a few vegans today see in a carnivore hardly any difference to a cannibal. There are currently more and more vegans who do not eat meat for ethical reasons,…

For Anna Kalis In the beginning there was sex. Then came madness. The madness spoke: Let there be light. And behold, it was his boy. And he had become a stranger to him. Animismus and Monotheismus Cynics are dialecticians. The world is, thank God, in…