LET THE FUTURE BE HUMAN | Kai Gerhardt | 2019

THE HUMAN – A STRANGE BEING

THERE ARE A LOT AND QUITE DIFFERENT DESIGNS OF THEM WITH DIFFERENT TEXTURES AND FEATURES. EVERY HUMAN GET BORN AND EVERY HUMAN WILL DIE.
BETWEEN THESE TWO POINTS OF TIME THE HUMAN HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP HIMSELF, TO GROW AND TO BECOME IN VARIOUS WAYS. WHILE THIS JOURNEY HE IS ACCOMPANIED BY OTHER PEOPLE. SOMETIMES BY MANY AND SOMETIMES BY A FEW. THE HUMAN IS BORN AND BELONGS TO A GROUP THROUGH THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS BIRTH, SO ITS TOLD. THIS “GETTING-INTO-A-GROUP BY-CIRCUMSTANCES” ACCOMPANIES THE HUMAN THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE.
HOWEVER, HE ALSO HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A DECISION – TO DECIDE FOR OR AGAINST A GROUP . TO EVALUATE THEM FOR THEMSELVES AND TO MAKE A DECISION TO ATTEND THEM OR TO LEAVE THEM AND THUS TO TAKE A POSITION. MANY FACTORS INFLUENCE THIS DECISION. SOME OF THEM ARE CONSCIOUSLY MADE AND OTHERS MORE UNKNOWINGLY. THROUGHOUT HISTORY VARIOUS GROUPS AND COLLECTIONS OF HUMAN OR INHUMAN GROUPS HAVE EMERGED AND DISAPPEARED. EACH INDIVIDUAL BEING ASKED TO POSITION THEMSELVES AND MAKE A DECISION. OVER THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY THE IMPORTANCE AND CHOICE OF GROUPINGS AS WELL AS THE NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF THESE GROUPS HAS CHANGED.
NEVERTHELESS THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN GROUPS WITHIN HUMAN EXISTENCE. BUT IS IT POSSIBLE TO REALIZE THAT ULTIMATLY AND BY A LONG WAY NOT ALL OF US REGARDLESS OF WHICH GROUP WE FEEL OR BELONG TO THAT WE BELONG TO ONE GROUP? THE GROUP OF HUMAN BEINGS. WITHIN THIS APPROACH IT IS NOT ABOUT TO SAY THAT WE ALL HAVE TO BE THE SAME WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF
IDIVIDUALITY.
RATHER THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THIS GROUP OF HUMAN BEINGS WHICH INCLUDES US ALL SHOULD MAKE CLEAR TO US HOW MANIFOLD THIS GROUP IS DEFINED. IT CONSITS OUT OF SO MANY DIVERSE CREATURES THAT IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THEM ALL IN ALL THEIR DIVERSITY AS PART OF THIS GROUP. WE ARE HUMAN AND SHOULD BEGIN TO PERCEIVE OURSELVES FUNDAMENTALLY AS THESE. WE ARE ALSO MORE – WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS MADE UP OF AN INCREDIBLE NUMBERS OF DIFFERENT FACETS, IDIOSYNCRASIES, EQUALITIES, DIFFERENCES – BUT NEVERTHELESS WE ARE AND WILL REMAIN HUMAN BEINGS. WE SHOULD RESPECT EACH OTHER AND TREAT EACH OTHER WITH
RESPECT . IT IS NOT ABOUT MAKING EVERYONE BEING BEST FRIENDS FOREVER AND LIVING TOGETHER IN A BIG BRIGHT PINK BUBBLE IN A COLORFUL HAPPY WORLD – BECAUSE THAT IS NOT WHAT HUMAN BEINGS ARE MADE FOR. NEVERTHELESS IT WOULD BE DESIABLE TO PLACE THE IDEA OF THIS GROUP OF HUMAN BEINGS IN THE MINDS OF ALL TO CREATE A BASIC CONSENSUS WHICH CAN HOPEFULLY BE A WAY TO ACHIEVE A MORE POSITIVE TOGETHERNESS. FOR MORE INCLUSION THAN EXCLUSION. CERTAINLY THIS DESIRABLE BASIC IDEA DOES NOT SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT HUMAN BEINGS HAVE WITH AND AMONG EACH OTHER. AND OF COURSE IT REMAINS THE QUESTION OF MORALLY E T H I C A L L Y A C C E P T A B L E INTERACTIONS WITH EACH OTHER WITHIN THE GROUP OF HUMAN BEINGS. AFTER EVERYTHING IT IS THE HOPE THAT THIS BASIC IDEA THAT WE ALL BELONG TO THIS COLLECTION OF BEINGS CALLED THE GROUP HUMAN BEINGS CAN HELP US TO COME A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE SOLUTION AND MAKING IT MORE ACCESSIBLE AND ACCEPTABLE TO ALL. IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW THE CREATURE LOOKS LIKE, HOW IT MOVES, WHAT COLOR ITS HAIR OR SKIN HAS. IT DOES NOT MATTER TO WHICH MUSIC, NOISE OR SOUNDS IT DANCES. THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN BEINGS AS SUCH EXISTS INDEPENDENTLY OF THESE DETAILS THEY ONLY DESCRIBE FACETS – INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS OUT OF THEM IT IS MADE AND COMPOSED – OF THE ESSENCE