Archive for the 'General' Category
February 22, 2012
Art and science, research and teaching are free. It says so in Article 5, paragraph 3, of our Constitution. It can not hurt now and then to remember, especially against the backdrop of increasing attacks on our fundamental rights. But also, if you look at the apparatus that today "the science" represents.
Science is no more activity, but an institution. Power structures have been established that are not really conducive to science. To what extent, and what we can do about it, you learn in this post .
The actual free research is relegated to the background, officials organize the operation. Sure, organized science is not punishable. Not yet. Read this story »
May 19, 2011
At the beginning of the year I was from Andreas Bleeck (on behalf of the party of the Violet, which I incidentally not a member'm - I'm in at all any party and will never enter into a what me alone demanded the journalistic principle of neutrality) interviewed where there is a concern to portray the publisher of the so-called cultural-creative media landscape and their motives. The interview was now on the website of the "Violet" published - likewise as audio recording as well as a transcript.
When asked I was to my journalistic concerns the origins and of course the current contents of the zeitgeist magazine (which has incidentally nothing with which to do "Zeitgeist Movie" or initiated by the movie "Zeitgeist Movement". this entry »
January 21, 2011
Where do I meet like-minded people, with whom I can exchange ideas about zeitgeist issues and deepen my knowledge? These and similar questions go to our editorial team and more often. Writing a comment via the Internet seems to many too impersonal.
Some also feel the desire to implement the knowledge gained by reading the zeitgeist-print / online edition in the act to get together with others, "networking" to how it likes to call today. As we have seen, there is a lack of really sophisticated meeting facilities beyond the usual "round tables".
Now We want to change. After a period of preparation, we have now created the conditions that interested zeitgeist-readers and readers can come together. this entry »
October 10, 2010
Freedom. Is it in danger of extinction? You, probably the greatest of all virtues? You that makes life worth living at all? You, whose value we realize only when it is has been lost to us? I mean, yes.
The me otherwise esteemed comedian Hagen Rether is convinced that we need less freedom. We would not know how to handle it, acted irresponsibly. Is he right?
Dealing with freedom to be learned , in fact. However, that requires an incentive - perhaps even a crisis. In any case, a liberal democratic framework. Although we have on paper, but how does the lived reality of? Read this story »
January 25, 2009
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I would be delighted to welcome you here regularly. Also look forward comments and suggestions.
Welcome,
Your Thomas Röttcher
(Editor Zeitgeist Print & Online)
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