Human planet or Machines? Draw wisdom from 2025, take the challenge in 2026

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The year 2025, as any erstwhile year in the 21-year past of the Institute of civilian Affairs, was a year of challenges. And challenges aren't good or bad. They are just challenges worth facing, if you want to take care of the common good, see the beauty of the planet and enjoy the life of man, not machines.

In 2025 We fought for the right to choose – “cash or card”. Within the framework of the Citizens' run ‘Cash weapon’ We gave the impulse to engage above the Coalition divisions for Cash. due to the fact that where others see divisions – we look for bridges. We spent an essay "The cash – 1 of the pillars of freedom: the reason for the diagnosis of digital civilization". We prepared 2 draft laws fighting the exclusion of Polish and Polish cash for president Karol Nawrocki. And of course, we have been preaching for a full year The Good NewsThat cash hasn't died while we're alive.

We were building a fun childhood, not a phone.. Within the initiative “Save the children” We resisted the lobby, which wants all Pole to grow up wrapped in bubble wrappers, looking at the screen “for 5 hours and 36 minutes on weekdays, and on weekends for 6 hours and 16 minutes”. We resisted the lobby that screamed that everyone Who doesn't do digital heroin and points to the finger of dealers, who depend our children on antisocial advertising platforms and Wi-fiThis one's a public enemy, a scurvy, a plastic wrapper, and whatever else the demagogue cops do. Thoughts can come up.

I am peculiarly pleased that in 2025 our volunteers worked over 4500 hours. ‘On the barricade but from the back’ More than 60 people took civic activity. I'm glad we attract those who want to make sense. “Volunteer can take different forms, but regardless of them it can be a kind of rebellion towards a planet oriented towards consumption, materialism and comfort in acquiring, collecting, earning to have more and boasting about it in front of its neighbors. Volunteering can be a way of showing that you can act and live differently," she notes. Veronika CourseOur volunteer. As part of our internships, internships and volunteering programs, we have collaborated, among others, with the National Institute of Freedom, the National Centre of Culture, the Career Office of the University of Lodz and the City Office of Lodz. You want to engage in civic activity that makes sense? Join us.

We called for food without GMO NGT, pesticides and glyphosate. Within the framework of the Citizens' run “I want to know” We looked at Brussels and Polish power on our hands. A power that wants to give freedom to large biotech corporations. Why? To feed, you and me, junk food: modified and carcinogenic. The EU-Mercosur agreement is just a preview that ‘winter is coming’, and if you do not combine dots, read in a paper that “does not matter”, the article entitled "What poisons in Argentina? Six litres of pesticides per citizen, i.e. GMO soybean will kill us”. It is worth adding that We fought with disinformation on this subjectWhen it wasn't trendy yet. Today, evidence-based discipline showsWho's right. Unfortunately, the fact for us is that “it does not substance who is right but who has a restaurant”. How to live, Prime Minister?

In 2025 The year we were a good spirit for people who wanted to work with meaning, not only to prosecute profit. Within Social Economics Support Centre We supported these good people from the first thought to the minute their social company is already moving and creating jobs. due to the fact that even though the logic of greed is frequently included in today's promoted business models, it is worth doing titanium organic work for the benefit of another business model. Titanium due to the fact that you gotta go in the snow to your knees. And the wind. And it's not a sidewalk in town, it's a sighting of a way on Babia Mountain. In winter.

We talked live and seriously about Poland's place on a big, planet chess board. Before our eyes, the powers are forming a fresh order today. Technology, not geography, is crucial in this process. And that is why after six editions of the Geopolitical Forum we changed its name to 2025 Technopolitical Forum. At the event we hosted experts from the front pages of newspapers and those that no 1 has always heard of and who have unique knowledge. I especially urge you watch the video recording of the conversation with Thomas Gabis. At this point it is besides worth noting that last year the geopolitical topics went under the roof of Łódź Voivodeship, thanks to us Regional Centre for global Debate.

Last year We strengthened with thought, speech, and social works. Within Academy of the Institute of civilian Affairs and Public Service improvement Academy We hardened our attitudes, gave knowledge, and developed the skills needed to take care of our small homeland. And this large country. We formed without strengthening our self-importance. Without approach, I deserve a reward for my social activities. And without the slogans on the banners like “to make us all live better” (Altman, OpenAI, ‘Support’). erstwhile individual tells you – “I want to save/change the world” – go where the pepper grows. Beware of young idealists who start like Mark and They end up like Zuckerberg.

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We have published the guide “The Future of War Theatre: Autonomous Weapons Systems, Control and Responsibility”.We're unveiling the scenes of autonomous weapons systems. Technology that revolutionizes war, beyond the control of society and without any regulation. (In times erstwhile we are lovingly discussed about deregulation.)The civilian Affairs Institute is simply a associate of the halt Killer Robots global coalition. We do not agree that machines make their own decisions about who to kill. Since you haven't seen it yet ‘Hardhead’I encourage you. In 2025 I realized that the script of the future shown in this episode "Black Mirror" is an optimistic version. The realistic version will be drones alternatively of robot dogs. And I have another challenge: what to do about it erstwhile I live to see a device revolt?

Last year We strengthened companies in building competitive advantages. Within Centre for the Support of Workers' Councils We trained and advised employees and board members how to talk business language to each other, not the Labour Code. erstwhile we base our relation in an organization on paragraphs, not on trust, we're on a slippery slope. due to the fact that trust is the foundation. Without him there is no teamwork, no efficient enterprises, no strong economy. There is no spirit of man, only the letter of law. Oh, and 1 more thing – we spent last year ‘Civil Activity’In which I talk to Henryka Bochniarz with the Leviathan Confederation and erstwhile Deputy Prime Ministers Jerzy Hausner and Grzegorz Kolodko. I urge it!

2025 besides proved to be a year of intensive action on the run front "Citizens decide"We've been moving since 2012. We have mobilised politicians to grant us citizens the right to sign onlineWhen we collect 100,000 signatures under civilian legislative initiatives. Ridiculous chases absurd due to the fact that The parties are blocking our shift And at the same time, they're pushing the knee into a bill that gives them the ability to collect electronic signatures under organization lists of candidates in elections. That's the climate. And 1 more thing. By the way, last year's presidential election, We have requested parliamentarians to amend the Electoral Code and to introduce "None of these" on the ballot card. Today, Poles and Poles who do not want to support any of the candidates do not have the right to give an crucial vote. In 2025, of the 29,363,722 entitled as many as 8,518,366 did not cast a valid vote. We have over 8.5 million citizens who are not policy players. They're subjects of organization games of interest groups.

We stood up for the electrosensitive. Their rights to life. "In a day of continuous technological progress, where 5G, Wi-Fi and mobile devices permeate all sphere of our lives, more and more people study symptoms that attribute the activity of the electromagnetic field: headaches, insomnia, fatigue, problems with concentration or cardiac rhythm. Nevertheless, the subject remains unexplored, treated very leniently, and frequently completely ignored in public and medical debate" – Mr. Fighting disinformation and taking care of the quality of the Polish public debate we talked to abroad and national experts. The interviews were given to us by Dr. hab. Joel M. Moskowitz, Kent Chamberlin, Dariusz Leszczyński and Paweł Wypychowski. Electrosensitive people themselves besides spoke: Bożena Leszevich, Zbigniew Gelzok and mentioned Margaret Narkiewicz. I can't aid but compose here, like defenders of various minorities on the left, and church defenders on the right side, discriminate and terrorize left and right electrosensitive people with their smartphones and their dependence on wi-fi.

We continued the run of 1.5% CIT taxation on companies for public benefit organisations. We have gained the support of the economical community on this front. This is confirmed by the study “Faza 1.0 Deregulation in Action” of the We Check. The typical of Deregulation Entrepreneurs, Rafał Brzoska, points to the request to redesign relations with the public authorities towards partnership, listing the anticipation of transferring part of the CIT to social organisations, as 1 of the crucial demands of business. Synergy of the demands of the civilian sector and business leaders shows that the 1.5% CIT mechanics is seen as a tool of deregulation, which allows to build the resilience of a country based on trust and cooperation.

In 2025 We told you sometimes that you don't want to read, hear and see. O electrosmog, o Technological unemployment, o misinformation on Serbia. We did this due to the fact that we take journalism and freedom of the press seriously, which Orwell wrote about: “If freedom means anything at all, it is only as a right to tell people things they do not want to hear.” Last year, too. celebration of the 5th birthday of the Weekly. On the 1 hand, I am glad that we are already 5 years old, and on the another hand, the challenge we face is gigantic. How to find yourself in the planet of media torn apart by a herd of technological predators (Facebook, TikTok, Google)? Greedy parasites who, as a consequence of misinformation, furnished all our heads, calling their antisocial sales platforms social media. What do you suggest?

We have created the Iron Institute of civilian Affairs. This is simply a tool for you if you want to strengthen what we do. Iron capital is simply a separate fund aimed at long-term financing of the mission and expanding the independency of the social organisation. It's a fund whose core capital doesn't seem to be there. Only income from his investment (e.g. interest, dividends, rents) is allocated to the current business. erstwhile I co-founded the Institute in 2004, from the very beginning, I thought of it in terms of an utmost long distance walk. I'm inviting you to the Institute's 100th birthday. “I will not live” – I hear you talking in spirit. And I said, "You will live" – in memory as 1 of the donors of the Iron Institute of civilian Affairs.

And 1 last thing. (The last will be the first and the first will be the last.)

Here and now I thank with all my heart everyone – employees, coworkers, volunteers and sympathizers from all over Poland – for their commitment to civic matters in the old year.

Year 2025. Draw Wisdom

What is worth doing with the old year? It is worth making certain that 2025 does not become a burden. It should be “expelled from personal/organizational history” – remember the lessons it gave. And free from the emotional balance of his failures or the illusion of success. Cut yourself off from social expectations like: you didn't get it, you didn't effort hard enough, you could do better. Cut yourself off and do yours solidly and flawlessly. Without looking at grades and fantasies and lies.

My top individual discovery last year is the depth of the proverb “There is no bad thing that doesn’t work.”

There's no evil in the world. What seems evil to us today, erstwhile we “give time” (Stachura) will prove to be good.

In both private and professional/organisational life. Of course, it is easier to compose about specified an attitude than to put it into practice. For example – Kowalski is in the hospital. He was diagnosed with “gossile appendicitis, with spilt purulent peritonitis”. He hears from a surgeon that mortality in this case is 8%. The challenge in this situation is to keep Kowalski calm, and that what happens to him present on the infirmary operating bed will be good for the future. The life of the organization is similar. How many times in my 30-year public service have I heard about Damocles' swords hanging over the boards of foundations, associations or companies. Experience has taught me that the proverb “there is no bad thing that does not work out well” contains deep wisdom. The challenge is to have the courage to face the fear “here and now”, to withstand utmost stress and to have the power to “give time”.

Year 2026. Prophecy

What can we be certain of in the fresh Year?

First and foremost: technological improvement will accelerate, while human freedom will weaken. For “freedom and technological improvement do not go hand in hand”, as Kaczynski pointed out in a manifesto, which Jacek Dukaj considered, one of the most crucial intellectual texts of the 20th century. The hand goes hand in hand with advancement and mass execution (John Gray, “Dream Dogs”).

Examples of life here and now? Mass intellectual wellness crisis of children and young people related to “screens”. Excluding and forcing citizens to pay with digital technologies. Gaza and the Holocaust. past examples? Technological unemployment in 19th England.IBM and genocide. Hiroshima and mass murder.

The power of machines will grow, and the power of man will decrease. If you are a unfaithful Thomas, I urge reading the celebrated essay “Why does the future not request us?”Who saw the light 25 years ago.

Secondly, all the signs in heaven and earth indicate that the “play for the throne” on the large chessboard will sharpen. Technological barbarians will proceed to kill average people on a massive scale. Because “famous and gold” are the main motivations of psychopathswho regulation straight or from the back seat (corporate). They regulation everywhere, regardless of latitude.

And do not believe in marketing narratives of values: democracy, human rights and the free market. due to the fact that it's not narratives. It's misinformation. “Everybody fights for peace until blood pours out”: Venezuela, Ukraine, Palestine. It has always been, is, and will be (?). And a time without war in Europe, which we enjoyed after planet Massacre II (with a break for bombing of Yugoslavia), we only had due to the fact that the hot war took place in Asia, South America, Latin America Or the mediate East. We just didn't want to read about it, perceive or watch it. due to the fact that we were comfortable.

A 3rd prophecy: a fistful of free people will grow, aware that something is incorrect with our “civilization”that The planet of Machines is the evil that wants to destruct the planet of Man.

"Sometimes, people have set aside reasoning about machines with the hope that they will be free, but only let another people and their machines to subdue themselves" (Frank Herbert, "Diuna").

You can see it on the palm of your hand, or on the screen, how rapidly and massively stupid people are influenced by mass demolition technology.

Here the human species has already fallen into a funnel. This process can only be stopped by a miracle, given the large technological power of the ruling planet today. (Although their power is simply an illusion.) Only a miracle (some comet?) can save us, due to the fact that surely not reason. It's obvious, for anyone who, without anesthesia and fantasy, analyses how people's intelligence grew for centuries and degenerated their wisdom And with her, humanity.

New Year's Wishes

The planet is simply a mystery worth experiencing, not a problem to solve.

In 2026 I want you wisdom in discovering this mystery and in making choices: whether to go against the current or with the current; whether to bear witness or not to give it; whether to act or not. (Sometimes the best action is to stay put and not act.) I want you the weather of the spirit, due to the fact that only a sense of humor can save us from madness. And most of all, I want you health.

And finally, "Mr. Cogito's Message" from Zbigniew Herbert.

“Go where they went to the dark end
For the golden fleece of nothingness your last reward

go upright among those on your knees
among those who turn their backs and fall into dust

You saved not to live
You have small time to give a witness

Be brave erstwhile reason fails be brave
in the final account, that's all that matters.

And your wrath be like the sea
Whenever you hear the voice of the humiliated and the beaten

Don't let your sister despise you.
For executioners, cowards – they will win
They'll go to your ceremony and take a break.
And the cork will compose your easy life story

And forgive not in your power
Forgive on behalf of those who were betrayed at dawn

Beware, however, of unnecessary pride
Watch your foolish face in the mirror
repeat: I was called, was there not better

Beware of the dry heart Love the morning spring
bird of unknown name winter oak
light on the wall of the sky’s splendor
They don't request your warm breath.
They're here to say, "No 1 can comfort you."

Watch – erstwhile the light on the mountains gives a sign – get up and go
As long as the blood spins your dark star

repeat the old spells of humanity fairy tales and legends
Because that's how you get the good you can't get.
repeat large words repeat them with stubbornness
Like those who walked through the desert and died in the sand

And they'll reward you for what's at hand.
a flogging laughter with a execution in a dumpster

Go due to the fact that that's the only way you'll be admitted to the company of cold skulls
among your ancestors, Gilgamesh Hektor Roland
Defenders of the kingdom without end and city of ashes

Be faithful. Go.”

(source: https://herbert's foundation.com/herbert's library/rows/send-pana-cogito/)

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