„Do we even need these demotivated, disillusioned secondary school dropouts for growth? No! Every DAX corporation proves in its quarterly report that the fewer of such poorly qualified people they have, the greater the growth. No, we only need them as consumers. And if we only need them as consumers, then a fair amount of stupidity can only be helpful. Maybe we are breeding them!
Just think about it for a moment, then all the contradictions dissolve; although the anger grows even greater, the intellectual confusion subsides!
[…] And what does that mean in a country where poverty is currently exploding? That they are breeding a solid class of idiots.
[…] Also, the consumer centers, maybe even in your federal state, are having their funds cut. Not a wrong decision either. Why? Well, the rabble shouldn't think, hesitate, or compare. They should buy the first piece of rubbish offered during the commercial break.
[…] We need idiots; otherwise no one would eat spoiled meat.“
Georg SchrammGeorg Schramm analyzes the societal consequences of stupidity, consumption, and qualification related to economy and poverty.
Georg Schramm is a German cabaret artist and political satirist, known for his sharp critique of social and political developments.
Georg Schramm criticizes social issues and the handling of less qualified people.
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Georg Schramm, born in 1949, is a renowned German cabaret artist known for his critical and often satirical view on politics and society on German cabaret stages. He sharply addresses power structures and political theater using pointed language that provokes reflection.
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork"Well now, I believe we are much less stupid than it seems. We are trained not to think. Formulas are drilled into us, which we parrot.
But I believe that if the desire for true happiness, for true knowledge were to fully awaken among people in society – what the Enlightenment called with Kant's words: Sapere aude! Dare to know! – and not to consume canned wisdom that someone else has cooked and served, and then even experienced oneself as if I had thought such a thing...
I believe that tremendous change could be achieved.
People are not that stupid at all. But it is dangerous not to be stupid. Because if you are not stupid, you contradict, criticize, express unpopular opinions. And for safety reasons, it is better to appear stupid."
Erich Fromm
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork"“To suppress a rebellion, it is not necessary to act violently. Methods like Hitler's are outdated. It suffices to create such a strong collective conditioning that the very thought of rebellion no longer arises in people's minds.
The ideal would be to shape people from birth and restrict their innate biological abilities. Afterwards, one would continue with conditioning and strictly reduce education to the acquisition of professional skills. An uneducated person has a limited horizon, and the more their thinking is confined to mediocre aspirations, the less capable they are of rebelling.
We must ensure that access to science becomes increasingly difficult and elitist, that a divide forms between people and science, and that information for the general public contains no subversive content. Above all, no philosophy. Here too, we must use the power of persuasion, not open violence.
On television, large-scale entertainment programs are broadcast that appeal exclusively to feelings or instincts. The mind will be occupied with the useless and playful. They can distract their minds from thinking through constant chatter and music.
We will place sexuality at the very top of a person's interest list. There is no better social tranquilizer.
In general, we will do this so that the serious part of existence is eliminated, everything valuable is ridiculed, and frivolity is constantly supported, so that public euphoria becomes the measure of human happiness and a model of freedom.
In this way, conditioning leads to such integration that our only fear is being excluded from the system and thus losing access to the conditions necessary for happiness.
The mass person thus formed must be treated as what he is: like a cow, and one must care for him like a herd. Everything that leads to the apathy of his clear mind is a public good, and everything that could awaken this good must be mocked, suppressed, and fought.
Any doctrine questioning the system must be branded as subversive and terrorist. And those who support it will then be treated as terrorists.”"
Günther Anders
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork""I'm fed up, or to put it even more clearly: I'm fed up with the permanent and increasingly religious climate gibberish, with energy turnaround fantasies, with electric car worship, with scary stories about doomsday scenarios from Corona to conflagrations to weather catastrophes. I can no longer stand the people who shout this into microphones and cameras every day or print it in newspapers. I suffer from having to witness how natural science is turned into a whore of politics.
I am tired of being told what to be ashamed of by abused, pubescent children. I am tired of being told by some deranged people that I am to blame for everything and everyone - but especially as a German for the past, present and future misery of the whole world.
I am tired of religious and sexual minorities, who shamelessly exploit their well-defined minority rights with non-stop media support, trying to tell me what I can and cannot do and say.
I am fed up with people who are completely out of their minds, who ruin my German mother tongue and who think they have to teach me how to write and speak in a way that is appropriate for the mainstream.
I'm tired of seeing how completely uneducated people, who have done nothing in their lives but carry a foreign briefcase, believe they can rule Germany.
I can't stand it any more when, under the pretext of a "colorful society", justice and security disappear and when, in the evening, coming out of the central station, one has to step over dirt, filth, homeless people, drug addicts and procuring criminals, past scribbled walls.
I would like my country to value and support the people, regardless of gender, skin color and origin, whose hard-working, productive and value-creating work produces the wealth of the entire society every day: the employees in companies, the craftsmen, the freelancers, the many committed and socially active entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized businesses.
I want the teachers of our children, the doctors and nurses of our sick and needy to receive the recognition, appreciation and support they deserve every day. I want the young and the impetuous to let off steam within the well-established boundaries of our legal space, but also to bow down to their parents and grandparents, to the old and the experienced, because they are the creators of their prosperity and freedom.""
Prof. Dr. Knut Löschke
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork"The conception of democracy is the one that I mentioned. The bewildered herd is a problem. We've got to prevent their roar and trampling. We've got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like "Support our troops." You've got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they're properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they're not competent to think. Therefore it's important to distract them and marginalize them."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork"Give the people a toy to keep them busy long enough, give them 'political parties'! Then they will waste all their energy and wit on meaningless occupation with individuals and other trivialities. So they won't bother us anymore, and we can run our business at will. But to keep the toy from getting boring eventually and the population's discontent from boiling over, a ritual game with a cathartic function as a pressure valve must be inserted at regular intervals. We call it "parliamentary elections," which sounds important. Then there is peace for the next four years, especially since everyone believes they decided something themselves. The media? They play our game all by themselves—without realizing it. Occasionally we give them a morsel when we want to functionally neutralize a somewhat more alert, and thus unwelcome, person or group. Then they are satisfied, and so is the population; after all, they have something to gossip about. By splitting the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energy fighting for battles over issues of no importance."
Montagu Norman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork"But what could make democracy attractive to the powerful, whose very power it limits and threatens? The answer is quite simple: Nothing! For democracy means precisely to restrict the power needs of the powerful and the rich, in which they naturally have no interest. This now results in a tension between the needs of the rulers to stabilize their status and our need to feel socially autonomous and self-determined with regard to our social situation. In history, this fundamental tension has often been discharged in the form of revolutions. From the point of view of the rulers, how can this tension be defused if we want to avoid bloody revolutions? The solution lies in 'satisfying' the citizens' need for freedom with a surrogate, with a substitute drug, namely the illusion of democracy. To create such an illusion of democracy, one needs above all - and this is where the herd metaphor comes into play again - an ideology of justification that justifies why the people are immature and in need of leadership. Furthermore, the idea of democracy, which is so attractive to the people, must be emptied of its meaning so that it is limited only to an electoral act. And finally, continuous democracy management is needed to ensure that the people want what they are supposed to want in the act of voting."
Prof. Rainer Mausfeld
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