Long live pessimism!

There is a disease which pentrates the culture, not only in the western world, but in most parts of the planet. A disease which blinds people’s judgements, perceptions of the world and rational thinking. This pest is called optimism. Like a virus it infects the mind of people and becomes a system of belief. It is magic thinking, infantile thinking, for many think life and life success would exist in direct relationship to their tinking. Gurus of „positive thinking“ overwhelm the culture and profit from wish thinking and irrationality of their disciples.

There is no correlation between positive thinking, optimism and success in any area of life, business or anywhere else! Books, DVD, seminars are a waste of time and money. Do not fall into that trap, do not think your imaginations and dreams in love will become true. It is for sure that they will not!

Optimistic people must be mistrusted, as well as you have to mistrust people who „listen to their guts“. Happy people are suspect people, illusionists who do not want to accept reality, which is everything else but beautiful, joyful oder fulfilling, but hard and bitter, a brutal struggle for survival. It is an insult to all the people who struggle every day to have something to eat, who cannot afford medication and support. It is immoral to be happy, a crime against humanity. We all should face the reality as it is and should not project our wishes onto the world, humiliating the people who are not well off, by telling them they should smile and take tings easy. What is behind optimism is normally a deception, people smile at each other not because they like each other, but because they want something from the other or even worse they are afraid and think if you are nice to others, they will be nice to you. That is a stupid advice brainless mothers give to their kids – shame on such mothers!

Beware of people who smile a lot or who laught all the time. Laughing makes you look like a fool, you do not look competent and most important of all: you lose your dignity! It is disgrace not only of your own person, but of all human beings, of mankind as a whole. Dignity should be peoples highest moral value, even higher than life itself. It is better to die than to live without honor. But who can be a person of honor, who smiles into your face lake a salesperson? The answer is obvious.

Happy people should be excluded form leadership in any area, business, politics and private affaires. Whoever takes leadership serious knows that it is a burden, a burden you have to hold selflessly for the people you lead, it is nothing to be happy about, nothing to smile. Look at your life, observe every area and you will find that it is far away from being perfect, there are unlimited errors everywhere. There is no person in the world who authentically could say that there where four perfect weeks in his life, not one!

The dark hours of life are the only precious ones. Your true self you only find, when there is no light any more. That you see, that the world is one big place of sin, of inferiority of all beings, especially of human beings. It ist he moment when you begin to see reality as it is, you notice that human nature is imperfect, sinful and as a result you become humble and stop believing that human life and human beings are good. That ist he moment you become the ultimate realist. Your Judgements improve, your mind gets clearer and cognitive processes improve as well.

Long live pessimism, for everything which can go wrong, will definitely go wrong (thank you Murphy’s law). So you better be prepared on bad things coming on expecting that your actions in live will go wrong. The whole universe is doomed to death, as the second law of thermodynamics shows us very clearly. Destruction, not construction will prevail in the end. You better ally with destruction, if you do not want to be on the loser’s side.

There are even whole countries who make being happy a political issue, who build up a pear pressure to be happy. Whoever is unhappy is an social outsider, is concidered weird and abnormal. The only thinking people, who still can your their reason, are the ones who hold on to pessimism, the only way of perceiving the world, which brings you into contact with reality. 100 percent reality, that ist he world in which we all should live. And a society must be strong enought to hold out the bitter truth, that life is no beautiful, that it is not joy and happyness, which is it’s sense. There is only one sense of life an that is shoulder your burden and fulfill your duty!

The big winner of life is death, not life! No matter how long you might struggle, how much you try to live a long live, you will surrender tot he eternal master, who always gets you in the end. Death is superior to live! The day you realize that this words are true and make them your mental bas of life, ist he day you start living in reality!

John Milton (1608-1674)

„The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.“
-Paradise Lost-

One oft he most famous and extraordinary figures of English literture in general and English poetry in particular, is a man born in 1608 in Cheapside in Londen. His name - John Milton. His father was a scrivener und hat a great love for music, which also hiss on John caught at an early age. Milton was educated at St. Paul’s School and by 1625 he wentto Christ’s Collage in Cambridge. He had a very combative ans rebellious nature, attacked the curriculum and his teachers. So he very soon earned the reputition of being a rebell an critique.

In his early years Milton wrote his first poems in Latin, the language in which he succeeded admirably and could rival the best teachers of his time. But very soon he changed his intentions and declared to write his poetry in English. In this early years brillinat peoms were created, as On the morning of Christ’s Nativity, On Shakespeare or On May Morning.

In 1632 Milton left Cambridge and went home to his father’s estate at Horton in Buckinghamshire and planned to retire and devote his whole life to poetry und studying. In his time of solitude some very fine poems like On time or At a Solemn Music were written. The time alone started to change his look onto the world. His studies of theology made him more and more a religious man. For example Milton was very proud of liveing a chastise lifestyle, a virtue which he held very high. The time of solitude was quiet productive. Nevertheless after six years he had enough of his solitary life, and felt a call to action.

The second half of Miltons life made him an embittered idealist and controversialist. He had travelled to Italy, was well accepted and had many constructive contacts with locals like prelates, although his protestand belief and his catholic opponents. He planned to go to Greece, but political circumstances didn’t let him complete his journey. Back in England he worked as a teacher in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Then he became politically involved an his poetic work came to an end for nearly twenty years. Milton as an idealist thought, that a Golden Age for England would start, if bishops and kings would be removed, that would be true liberty. Milton wrote a bunch of pamphlete in which he attacked the political and religious situation in England very harshly.

In 1642 he married Mary Powell, a young girl of 17, with whome he had four children (and giving up his chastise lifestyle). Mary died in 1652. In 1656 John married again, but his wife died only one year later. During the whole time of the lord-protectorship of Cromwell an later on, he defended the Commonwealth, publishing many curragious outcries agains monarchy. After restoration of monarchy in 1660, he was hiding for a certain time, fearing for his life, but in the end he was pardoned. In that time Milton returned to poetry, working on Paradise Lost, which was published in 1667. This was his masterpiece, the work he had prepared for his whole life. A deeply religious man, paradise, the fall of satan and the fall of Man and banishment from Eden were ideal themes to be worked on. Miltons last two works Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, also treated religious topics. Samson agonistes was written according tot he model oft he old Greek tragedies and may be the most personal of all of John Milton’s poems.

Milton was a hightly moral man, believing in the high value of virtue and the good, the strengh, which comes from belief. But he was also an idealist and he himself stayed far behind his ideal (for example he never reached the calm of mind of which he writes in his poems). There was also a lot of critics on Milton: his humorlessness, his egotism, pride and arrogance. But as a poet Milton stands alone in English literature. No other English poet was more involved in the political affaires of his time, an no other every risked so much. The only English poet which could overshine Milton was William Shakespeare. Milton had a big influence on writers oft he 18th century, especially on Alexander Pope, as well as T. S. Eliot. Great writers do something once and for all, Eliot meant.