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Kurt Lupin

Wir machen Lärm! Gegen Amazon und die Gentrifizierung unseres Kiezes!

Die #Gentrifizierung #Friedrichshain‎s schreitet voran - nicht nur, aber besonders im #Südkiez nördlich der Warschauer Brücke. Die Preise steigen, die #Mieten auch, der #Supermarkt wird gegen Bürobauten ausgetauscht, #Clubs sollen #Hochhäusern weichen - und in all dem steht dieser Turm, in den ein gewisser monopolistischer #Großkonzern einziehen will. Wir machen Lärm und sagen: Nein danke!

Der bevorstehende Einzug #Amazon​s in den #Edge-Tower wird die Probleme im #Kiez nicht lösen, sondern verschärfen und verdrängen. Die sogenannte "Aufwertung" der Gegend geht mit der Zerstörung von Kiez- und #Nachbarschaft​sstrukturen einher. #Geringverdienende finden keinen Platz mehr im Kiez. #Häuser & Boden werden als #Spekulation​sobjekte noch interessanter. Und der #Tower beschleunigt all diese Prozesse noch weiter.
Um uns gegen all dies in Bewegung zu setzen und unserem #Unmut freien Lauf zu lassen, machen wir Lärm! Mit unseren Stimmen, unseren Instrumenten, mit Töpfen, Pfannen und Haushaltsgegenständen. Denn wir haben es satt, dass die Entwicklung unserer Stadt wortwörtlich von oben herab passiert!

Deswegen seid mit uns laut - am 6.4. um 15 Uhr, Revaler Str. Ecke Simon-Dach-Str. (vor dem RAW-Gelände)!
Wir werden zügig loslaufen, also bitte seid pünktlich - und bringt eure Stimmen, Töpfe, Pfannen, Instrumente sowie eure Familien, Freund*innen und Verbündeten!

#Berlin #Demo

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Quote JASPER, Ala. (WBRC/Gray News) - A 200-foot AM #radio #tower in #Alabama is gone, #stolen without a trace.

WJLX’s AM station signal has been greatly impacted by the theft in Walker County.

Station general manager Brett Elmore said he remains hopeful that somebody will share information to help law enforcement find those responsible for the theft. Still, he said he is blown away by what happened.

“I have tried all weekend to figure it out, and I just can’t. I have been in the radio business, around it all my life and then in it professionally for 26 years, and I can say I have never heard of anything like this. I can say I’ve seen it all now,” Elmore said.
02/06/24 (2:01)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=baE29Qy25Gw

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Gaza street flooded after Israel destroys water tower | AJ #shorts

This street in northern Gaza was flooded after Israel hit a water tower, one of the few remaining sources of water for residents of the besieged enclave. Su...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Gaza #Water #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #clean #flooded #freshwater #latestnews #newsheadlines #northern #residents #source #street #supply #tower
Gaza street flooded after Israel destroys water tower | AJ #shorts

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Jung’s Tower: simplicity and the inner life

Recent news of technological incursions into consciousness itself (virtual reality and altered memories); almost daily revelations about NSA spying; suggestions that social media “isolates people from reality;” it’s enough to make you want to unplug all the gadgets – at least for a while!

Renowned psychologist, Carl Jung (1875-1961) did just that, for months at a time, in a tower-house complex he started building in 1923 and continued to work on for the rest of his life. He often spent months each year living as simply as possible, without electricity or running water. It’s easy to think he lived in a simpler time and couldn’t have imagined modern complexity, but consider these words he wrote in his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, published in 1961, the year he died:

“We rush impetuously into novelty, driven by a mounting sense of insufficiency, dissatisfaction, and restlessness. We no longer live on what we have, but on promises, no longer in the light of the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which, we expect, will at last bring the proper sunrise. We refuse to recognize that everything better is purchased at the price of something worse; that, for example, the hope of greater freedom is canceled out by increased enslavement to the state, not to speak of the terrible perils to which the most brilliant discoveries of science expose us.
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…new methods or gadgets, are of course impressive at first, but in the long run they are dubious and in any case dearly paid for. They by no means increase the contentment or happiness of people on the whole. Mostly they are deceptive sweetenings of existence, like speedier communications which unpleasantly accelerate the tempo of life and leave us with less time than ever before.”

Ten years before starting the tower, Jung had a painful break with Freud that precipitated a period of disorientation and a huge uprush of the kind of unconscious contents he had witnessed in schizophrenic patients. Feeling that his experience was purposeful, he chose to submit to the unconscious with writing, art, and the effort to understand. Out of this phase of turmoil and uncertainty, his unique psychological insights were born. Paper and ink, he said, did not seem “real” enough to represent his discoveries, so in 1922 he purchased land on Lake Zurich for a “representation in stone” of his “innermost thoughts.”
Jung wrote at length of the parallel developments of his inner life and the tower, over more than three decades, saying things like:

“At Bollingen I am in the midst of my true life, I am most deeply myself”

“At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.”

“I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!”

In a seminar in 1939, Jung said:

“We have no symbolic life, and we are all badly in need of the symbolic life. Only the symbolic life can express the need of the soul – the daily need of the soul, mind you! And because people have no such thing, they can never step out of this mill – this awful, banal, grinding life in which they are “nothing but.”

The Bollingen Tower became a vital way for Jung to live the symbolic life, but he would have been the first to insist that we don’t need to carve stone or build houses to find it for ourselves. All we need is the hunger. And the will to begin.

#CGJung #Bollingen #Tower #simplicity #inner-life #life #home

Jung’s Tower: simplicity and the inner life

Recent news of technological incursions into consciousness itself (virtual reality and altered memories); almost daily revelations about NSA spying; suggestions that social media “isolates pe…

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"Q: I only keep my #phone for emergencies when I travel. That has minimal impact, right?

A: The other thing that happens when you make a call is you are demanding service. When you turn on your phone in a remote location where cell phone service is poor or non-existent, your provider registers that as a request for service. If it gets enough requests for service in that location, it will build a #cell #tower there. Even in a city, when more people make calls at the same time than there is capacity for in the nearest tower, or when everyone starts using more bandwidth or gets more apps than the tower can handle, calls start to be dropped, each dropped call is registered as a request for service, and soon your city has applications for even more cell towers to handle the increased traffic.

Q: I got sick from a #smart phone. My flip phone is much safer, right?

A: Smart phones didn’t come among us until 2004. But the first wave of digital, voice-only cell towers in the United States in 1996 #killed at least ten thousand #people in a matter of months,[22] and millions more from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer in the succeeding years.[23]

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