I

As often as in recent years, I have never been asked about my humanity. And it’s probably not just me. Who does not know the recurring such or similar questions when visiting a website. I would like to place this regularly demanded proof, which can usually be easily provided with just one click, in another context, namely in the so-called real life (not to be confused with the real real life).

II

Whether you look around in the small virtual world of your own filter bubbles or in the vast world of the rulers and despots and the media that serve them far too often, there is much talk of superhumanity – such as nationalism or transhumanism – and of inhumanity – for example surveillance measures, control or military conflicts. Both are closely related and even conditional on each other.

The assumption of the superhuman has not only today led to the creation of a myth of the superhuman. Where we as humanity have come in this way can be seen not only in the religious wars or the genocide of National Socialism, but also in the genocides of the present day. If one is better than the other, this is better than that, then humanity is trampled underfoot and what unites us all, namely our humanity, is not only questioned, but almost abolished. Anyone who thinks this way quickly ends up in rampant inhumanity. And it can not be done with the push of a button, no, it does not only stick to your fingers, it clouds the brain and heart.

And from the other side, an inhuman way of life leads to the path of superhumanity. Because the inhuman feels himself in the right, so puts himself above others, thus becomes almost a superhuman.

Both are human possibilities. But there is also a third: „true being human“, as I would like to call it.

III

But what makes this true being human and the associated humanity?

True being human is characterized by its deep connection with everything human, but also by a connection with the animate and inanimate nature. Often referred to as primitive cultures, which we nowadays call woke indigenous, which makes the differentiation and devaluation inherent in them not better, but better invisible, know this way of life. Our belief in technology has sent us into a maze in all areas of life, from education to medicine and social cooperation, from which we find no escape. Instead of progressing step by step in the labyrinth of life in order to reach our own center, we prefer to stumble on self-asserted beliefs and thought barriers. Not without reason have we been tried to fool any labyrinth for a maze, far too often successfully.

If today an Austrian Minister of Education – like many of his predecessors – tries to make it plausible that it is a question of acquiring skills, he denies the old humanistic concept of education, which has striven to make people into universal scholars with a good dose of humanity. If I have to work with text varieties at a German school but no longer have to make any reference to literature, then the end of a humane society is not far away. Literary creation offers us readers a wonderful opportunity for reflection, the classical tragedies a magnificent mirror, everything can go wrong, catharsis, i.e. purification for free, but not for nothing, included.

In the case of the struggling health system, inhumanity is also evident, as it makes sickness the norm and health the exception. It is not for nothing that the Gods in White have almost all mutated into superhumans who only supposedly want to make us healthy with the help of pharmaceuticals. Because the side effects associated with drugs usually make us lifelong customers of the pharmaceutical industry.

And if the meaning of society is merely to place competition and opposition at the center and to leave out togetherness – which is constantly discussed but never really fueled – then we deny another foundation of the human, namely the need for cooperation in order to live and survive. We simply depend on each other.

In this way, we become alienated from ourselves and are no longer even able to be there for ourselves or to love ourselves. We always have to grudge and optimize ourselves; another factor that has given rise to entire branches of industry, driving us on the one hand into superhumanity and on the other into inhumanity.

IV

Much is said about love nowadays. “Love goes out!” is one of those non-significant saga that you can hear even in football broadcasts. Love has always been misunderstood and requires critical consideration. It too must be pruned back to the human level so that it can unfold its true effect.

In Luc Besson’s film “The Fifth Element”, the attempt to fend off a catastrophe threatening humanity with bombs and missiles ends with a threat that increases with each impact. Only the willingness to evade this fight against evil, to deprive it of food with loving humanity, leads to the salvation of the world.

Again, one of those examples that people nowadays like to call naive or even “eso shit”. But the truth is so simple. Just like that.