I am very confused lately, because of the international developments. Of course there are comments of lots of smart people and I can imagine, you are already SICK of people ranting on about politics. Nevertheless I just HAVE to say my opinion, because this whole situation is a big concearn of mine and I simply don´t know what else to do at the moment, rather than writing a journal about it. Also: rather me ranting, than Kyoko ranting, right? She´s too positive for this.

So if you want to know, what´s on my mind, please read on. Otherwise: feel free to ignore.

Do you follow the news? I do. And I do on an international level, not only consulting one source of news, but lots of them. From all the information and miss-information I mix myself a cocktail of my very own truth and I try to develop some sort of guideline for my social behavior.

So right before I let off steam, please note, that I am voting GREEN - pro planet, pro environment.

- In my eyes, men and women have their psychological and physical advantages and disadvantages as genders, but have to be treated equally before the law and in society. If a woman wants to work on a building-site carrying bricks, let her. If a male wants to wipe the arse of Kindergarten kids for a living, let him. Both genders (and all genders in between) must not have disadvantages in society whatsoever.

- I don´t like extremes of politics and I don´t like extremes of religion - ALL religion! I like my independence and in my opinion we wouldn´t need laws, if everyone would live after the simple rule "don´t do anything to others, what you don´t want to be done to yourself". I am an atheist.

- If a person is in need for protection or help, I help. Fullstop.

- There´s only ONE race on this planet - the human race. It comes in a variety of colours and as an illustrator, I like colour.

- It is not of my concearn, if you are gay or lesbian or vegan. That´s your private thing and as long as you don´t force me to deal with it, feel free to act accordingly.

- I strongly believe in education and therefore in intellect. Any form of physical violence must be the VERY LAST option to settle issues. Psychological violence is absolutely unnecessary - this includes military deterrent.

- Become rich and famous. Seriously: if you are working hard, go and reap your reward. You don´t have to share, if you don´t want to. As long as you don´t gain your wealth by screwing others, it´s fine by me. I am totally free of envy.

- Shag my wife (or my daughter). As long as she is willing to do so and she needs it for her personal happiness, it´s okay. I am free of jealousy and also self-confident enough to know, that you will never be able to replace me in our relationship - for I am a GREAT dad and an AMAZING husband - with acceptable sexual skills and functioning genitalia of reasonable size (I drive a fourteen year old Golf Diesel with 55 horse powers and no tuning kit - also I can cook)  

Yes, according to this, I am an educated, intelligent human being; liberal, feminist, pacifist - and Kyoko could be seen as my alter ego. She expresses everything I stand for.

Now I am on DeviantArt for almost seven years. You have been very kind to me and most of you are living in the USA. I used to be full of prejudice about Americans - to the eyes of an educated European, Americans are known to be barbarians. Lots of you have proven that image wrong. Thank you for that.

And now the USA has a new president...

You can imagine, that with my described attitude, that leads to a couple of personal worries.

Are the Americans on DeviantArt representative for the average American in the US? No, they are not. And I hope, you are aware of that. Because I know, that most of you share my attitude that I have described above - at least partially. If you are a Conservative supporter here on DA, you are very likely one of the conservatives, who are not satisfied with the current prez. Or you are a troll
Why? Because art needs freedom. Art must not have boundaries. Art does not need walls of any kind. And I KNOW that you agree, because, like me, you love art! That´s why you are here. Unless you are a troll, of course

227 Million Americans have been allowed to vote.
60,1 million Americans voted for Hillary Clinton. That´s 26,5%
59,8 million Americans voted for the current prez. That´s 26,4%

95,2 million Americans did NOT vote. That´s 42%!

WHY???

- you could be seriously ill. You are excused.
- you could have personal problems, that need to be solved first, before you care for anything else; temporaly living in your personal nutshell. You are excused to a certain extend.
- you cannot read or write. You are also excused to a certain extend.

But that´s it. If you are American and allowed to vote and you don´t have an excuse like mentioned above, then you DO NOT CARE! And that´s bad. Very bad. I tell you, why.

Here´s some wisdom of a 49 year old German male with an A-Level in history. If you ever wondered, how it was possible, that Adolf Hitler rose in Germany, take a look at the USA in 2017. That´s EXACTLY; how it happened. And sadly I have to say, the majority of the Americans - the 26,4% who voted for the current prez and the 42% who didn´t vote, LET IT HAPPEN! 68,4% do NOT mind, having the next Adolf Hitler as a president of the USA. And that means, the average American does not mind having a war-monger person like Adolf Hitler as a leader. In the conservative US media they are already using vocabulary like "the mechanical obliteration of Islam". All I could think of, was "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?"

Just in case you DON´T follow the news: in Europe we have something called The European Union (EU). It´s like the United Nations, but only Europe-wide. It is lead by the so called European Council. Today, the president of this European Council, Donald Tusk, announced that the USA have to be treated as the same threat to Europe, as China, Russia and - read it and weep - the IS; the Islamic Terror. I don´t know, if you understand this. You, dear Americans, are considered as a danger. A danger to modern, western societies. This is no fake news; this is no "could be". This is how the European Union is treating you, because of your attitude! I don´t know, if you realize, what this means for America AND for the world. Ever heard of Michael Gorbatschow? He used to be president of the USSR. Thanks to him, the ex-members of the USSR are now independent countries. Thanks to him, Germany is no longer devided into east and west, seperated by a wall. Yesterday, Gorbatschow announced, that thanks to America, the world is preparing for World War 3. The US prez is strongly offending China and fraternizing with Russia, while Russia and the NATO are enforcing their military powers at the borders to the ex-USSR states.

Do you seriously want the world to burn?

Now you could say "What a sissy! Won´t happen! The Kraut has his pants full!".
Quite frankly, the Kraut has not his pants full. Basically I don´t give a shit about American soldiers being torn to pieces. Even in the event of WW3, it is very unlikely, that it has any effect on my direct surroundings. We live in an area with no strategic value. If someone nukes something, it will be the Volkswagen factory, which is 30 miles away. I already had my military service. And even IF they´d drag me: I would work in high command again, like I did during my service: quite safe.
So why am I concearned? Read up above, what I stand for; what I am living for.

Be aware, that we have seven billion people on earth and that it will be 10 billion before 2050. Most of you will still be alive then. Who will feed all these people? So basically, it would be good for the world population to have WW3, erasing a high percentage of human kind. That´s how your economy-experts are thinking, while the humanitarians try to save every African kid from starvation and every refugee from being shot.

So what now? Shall we just let it happen - for the greater good? And we will see, who survives the Apocalypse, that doesn´t even need zombies? Because that´s what´s about to happen... Do you really not care? Or do you even wish for a society á la "Borderlands 2"? Can´t you wait to go out there, living off scraps like in "The Walking Dead"? Would you love to live by your wits and the quickness of your sword / gun / crossbow? I can hear you shout excitedly "Wow, that would be SO cool!"
Please note, that it would also be a life without WiFi. Without the social media, like Facebook or YouTube - or DeviantArt. There would be no arts. We, my friends, would be enemies. If we would meet, we would have to see, who kills who first. You might have to watch, while some invader rapes your mom and your baby sister - because that´s what barbarian times are like.

Still SO cool?

So where does this leave ME?

As I say, I believe in the values and achievements of the modern western society. I believe, that a muslim female, who lived under the boot of a crusty old patriarchy, gets a TASTE, once she gets the chance to evolve under the influence of what we call freedom. I believe, that the muslims will regenerate Islam themselves. They will HAVE to, if they want to survive as a religion in a modern western society. That´s why we desperately are in the need of equal treatment of men and women. That´s why modern feminism is so important. That´s why RESPECT is so important. Shutting out muslims from a modern western society is a huge mistake. It plays these people right into the hands of the extremists, who have been saying, modern western society is their enemy, in the first place. It´s logical.

According to statistics, 16% of the German population has or had conflicts with the law. Or differently: 16% of the Germans are potential criminals. When I can assume this, I can also assume, that 16% of immigrants are criminals. In 2015, 1,2 million immigrants came to Germany. That means, 192.000 immigrants coming to Germany in 2015 are potential criminals. 192.000 murderers, terrorists, paedophiles, rapists and thieves - but also people who steal music or videos from the internet, who hold back taxes, who party too loud, who abuse drugs, who insult people or who treat their dog badly. And these criminals are the majority. What does a modern western society do in such a case? Increase the presence of police forces and find out, WHY people commit crimes - and, if possible, get rid of the reasons, why people commit crimes.
By the way, my daughter got robbed by an immigrant last week. Nasty experience, but she´s unharmed. The robber managed to escape unrecognized with the loot. I guess, we will have to be more careful in the future.
I have studied in London, England. While on the tube, the tube-station my train just went through, got bombed by the IRA. Also nasty experience. We can only reduce the risk of getting hurt - in every day´s situations.
Do you seriously believe, if Rapunzel would really go into a villain´s bar in that outfit, armed with a frying pan, she would get out unharmed? If I would go to a Skinhead concert, I would definitely not get out unharmed. Even if it might be my "good right" to go to a skinhead concert, it would be a dumb idea. As a black man, you don´t attend meetings of the KKK. And if you shut out 900.000 immigrants, making them prone to serious physical harm out of fear, because the 192.000 coming with them are potential criminals, then you are no better than those criminals you are trying to shut out. Just like back in school? One draws a caricature of the teacher on the black board and when the artist doesn´t report to the teacher´s order, everyone gets punished? That´s what you do, people - you punish the innocent.

And I haven´t even mentioned the damage all this will do to the environment, due to the cutbacks in funding scientific research and getting rid of laws that protect the environment.

Also health-care. I can only shake my head, that you let this happen.

Besides: in 2015, Germany had an economy-plus of over 40 billion Euros/Dollars. A lot of this money went to funding refugees, instead of the pockets of the rich. What happened? The refugees spent the money. The economy plus in 2016 was over 60 billion Euros/Dollars in Germany. One could say, refugees are good for the economy...

So do I really want to draw cartoons for people who punish the innocent? Who don´t mind a new Hitler? Who want to see the whole world burn?

No, I don´t. I want to draw for intelligent people. "Educated People Want To Know!" - remember?
I want to draw for christians, muslims, jews, hindi, buddhists, sikh AND satanists. I want to draw for white people, black people, red people, yellow people and for pink people. I want to draw for guys who like guys, for girls who like girls and everything in between. I want to draw for guys who enjoy naked women and I want to draw for girls who enjoy naked women - I usually don´t draw naked men, because I suck at it; sorry
I want to draw for Germans, Brits, Canadians, French people, Italians, Aussies, Kiwis, Brazilians, Mexicans, Russians, Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Turks, Japanese, Koreans AND Americans (basically for the whole world, so please forgive me, if your country is not mentioned explicitly). I want to draw for everyone who likes to smile and who likes to have a positive attitude on life and everything living. I want to draw for everone who has no problem with nudity and who thinks, that free expression is a good thing.

So what now?

My hope lies in California. That they really collect the necessary signatures to leave the United States and become independent, as announced. Then the presidency of that Donald Drumpf will be over. In California, you have Silicone Valley - we are talking Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Tesla, Ebay, Amazon, Uber and many others. Without California, the United States of America are done for - and that´s as certain as the "Amen" in church or the "Inshallah!" before the bomb blows up. California doesn´t need the USA, but the USA desperately need California. They provide 42% of America´s overall income and many many states are absolutely dependent on California´s financial support.

So GO, CALIFORNIA! Go, and save the world - literally. Save my western society, that I love and cherish so much. Save arts.

Please.    




Thank you for reading. Comments welcome. And trolls: troll, as you like. I will ignore, block, report and hide your comments.

PS: I have started a "Message From Kyoko" about this. I decided against it today, because I guess, noone would have read it anyway. It wasn´t very funny. You can find the first six panels in my scraps:

 

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