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EU survey

I found a link to this very lengthy EU survey, to investigate the need for counter measures to the dumping tactics of the Chinese economy, shows how far from reality the EU really is. And just how little politicians care about people and society, by which they are elected. Their focus is purely on the market and the stock exchange, which dictate their every move. A problem that extends way beyond EU politics, of course. You a*holes should have done this survey internally and over 30 years ago when you all started to feel comfortable with buying grossly under-priced sweatshop goods from Asian countries. But I guess it was ok back then for all of our production to get outsourced and for you to play the benevolent and enlightened master over these new colonies? Making shitloads of money on the backs of the local population. You are the ones that have allowed our economy to get dismantled and crippled to this extent. You have made us all dependent on the wh

Someone took all the magic

It is a combination of things. The darkness of these winter months. The tedious rhythms of everyday life. The weight of the changes imposed on most of us. The unfair distribution of means. The pointless nature of our undertakings.   I’m staring blankly ahead and feel overwhelmed and somewhat lost. I’m tired of composing myself. Of keeping up the appearance of joyful prospects. There will be great moments but there will not be any purpose if I stay on this road. I need a more drastic shift in my life. Something that scares me and steers away from the relentless and debilitating securities  I am building around myself. I have allowed myself to become afraid of losing things ignoring the fact that  loss is a natural thing. Things have to wane and rot in order to truly exist. Magic is in the extremities of life. Not in the grey murky middle that we call reassurance. Let’s do a sound minimum to ensure a decent future.