Sergej Zimov (Zurück in die Eiszeit - Die #Zimov-hypothese)
"Den Ururenkeln Geld zu hinterlassen ist dumm, denn was macht das aus ihnen? Grund und Boden, Werke oder Fabriken zu hinterlassen ist ebenso dumm. Wie gesagt, ich kann nicht mal
raten in welchem Land meine Ururenkel leben werden. Länder, Grenzen können sich verschieben, Menschen können migrieren. Keine Ahnung welche Staatsangehörigkeit meine
Ururenkel haben werden. Was ich ihnen aber ganz sicher zu ihrem Nutzen hinterlassen kann ist ein Klima wie es sein sollte - und eine lebendige Natur."
"Die Wahrscheinlichkeit dass die Menschheit verschwindet ist sehr gross, weil der Mensch gegen viele Gesetze des Lebens verstossen hat. Aber ich hoffe dass es auf der Welt noch genug Menschen gibt die gegen den Strom rudern können. Ich wende mich an diejenigen, die dazu noch mit voller Kraft in der Lage sind. Manche haben es auch vielleicht nur noch nie versucht. Früher oder später wird der Fluss des Lebens hier aus diesem Strudel heraus in ein unterirdisches Reich mitreissen, oder aber sie fangen an zu rudern."
(Sergej Zimov)
"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."
(J.R.R. Tolkien's epigraph to The Lord of the Rings)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqol-1nTp_U
Transcript 4:16 -7:35
Here's what occured to us back then. We can do better as human beeings, nothing surer. And on our way
we can do worse than foraging in the cinema in art for the breadcrumbs through the forest to understand
exactly how, now, as then, in a present when it has perhaps never been more pressing to consider to weigh
with reverence and maturity what sovereignty means to humans, what history and legacy and an evolved
culture might be worth to our sense of ourselves, and even what being human means and is worth at all.
We can head for the great independed state of cinema and rest there. An unlimited realm, innately
inclusive, immune to efforts of occupation, colonization, takeover, ownership or the development of
Riviera property.
A borderless realm and with no policy of exclusion, persecution or deportation. No known address, no visa
required.
It's so very, very good for us to wonder at the world and to be surprised by admiration for
each other, rather than shocked speechless by our cavalier mean-spriritness and cruelty, to notice our myriad
variations and to unite in celebrating them, rather than resign ourlselves to a submission to entitled
domination and the astonishing savagery of spite.
State perpretrated and internationally enabled mass murder is currently actively terrorizing more than one
part of our world. Currently condemned by the very bodies specifically set up by humans to monitor things
on earth unacceptable to human society.
These are facts, they need to be faced. So for the sake of clarity let's name it: The inhumane is being
perpetrated on our watch. I'm here to name it without hesitation or doubt in my mind and to lend my
unwavering solidarity to all those who recoqnize the unacceptable complacency of our greed addicted
gouvernments who make nice with planet wreckers and war criminals wherever they come from.
(from Tilda Swinton's Speech at Berlinale 2025 yt-link)
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