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Philosophy and Literature

What topics do you like to discuss? There are no topics, I would not discuss. My only problem is a time issue: I spend 8 hours resting per day, 8 hours working, id est reading and writing or cleaning my home or garden or caravan or car or boat or my pool. 8 hours with my beautiful wife and our large family here in Australia, including eight grandchildren. Another large family with two sisters and a mother approaching 100, as born 17 Sep 1926. 100 guests I would guess in the middle of Holstein in Germany, where I was born in 1949. Means I will be 77 in Aug 2026. Counting the years, my dear old mother plus myself, 177 years … Time flies too fast. So no topics I find boring, no time for small talk. Only a few minutes per day. Curious? Good | Different Linked

Das Wahre und das Echte

Zwischen Glück und Unglück liegt ein Dazwischenfeld: Das Feld B ...Peter H Bloecker, Director Wo das wirkliche Leben stattfindet … Social Media and young folks in Darling Harbour in Sydney | Credit phb Themen wie Vertrauen, Geborgenheit, Stadt und Land, Demut und Sinn und einiges mehr. Eine essayistische Erkundung des Raumes, in dem das Leben wirklich stattfindet. P.H. Bloecker Burleigh Waters, Gold Coast, Tue 21 April 2026. Watch the English version on my Youtube Channel as a short summary. Einleitung: Die Frage, die sich nicht abschütteln lässt Es gibt eine Frage, die im Hintergrund fast jedes ernsthaften Gesprächs wartet, eher unausgesprochen, manchmal unbewusst, aber immer da. Sie lautet nicht: Was hast du erreicht? Sie lautet nicht: Was fehlt dir noch? Sie lautet in aller Regel: Warum? Warum das alles. Warum das jetzt. Warum immer ich, warum hier und jetzt, warum so und nicht anders? Es gibt immer einen Weg aus dem Elend, aus dem Frust, aus der Sackgasse. Diese Frage ist mein Einstieg in das, was ich das dynamische Feld B nenne, jenen Bereich zwischen den Polen des Lebens, der sich weder durch Statistiken erfassen noch durch politische Programme verordnen lässt, und der dennoch das Eigentliche ist in einem Leben. Das, worum es eigentlich immer und immer wieder wirklich geht. Der World Happiness Report, jährlich erscheinend, von den Vereinten Nationen beauftragt, von Ökonomen und Psychologen zusammengestellt, misst, wie zufrieden Menschen mit…

Love

Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow. I fell in love in Australia with Maria Ines born in Rio, Brazil. She had four beautiful daughters. As my contract in QLD in Brisbane was terminated, I asked her to come with me to North Germany for a few years until I would retire as a High School Teacher. She had not doubts at all. She gave up everything in QLD at the Gold Coast and went with me to North Germany to start our new life as a couple. We married later in Germany and have since then been a married couple living now at the Gold Coast again. Her four daughters with partners and children and the two of us have now formed a large Australian and German and Brasilian Family of 17 very happy human beings aged 18 to 76 years of age. In Aug 2026 I will be 77. Published by Peter H Bloecker Retired Director of Studies (Germany). Linked Credit phb

Gesine Cresspahl

If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why? Because she is a woman working for the UN in New York. As I am a man (Your Man in Cohen's brilliant song), I would learn a lot how women are wired and why they like shopping centres. I only like Baumarkt like Bunnings. Kindly P H Bloecker from the Gold Coast, where the early morning light is golden. Friend of Goethe F Schiller on Democracy | Credit phb

Music is the Language

What job would you do for free? No would here: Since I retired in 2015, my work on Grammar and Linguistics is free to access via my WordPress Blogs on Higher Education. The Grammar Beneath the Grammar — P.H. Blöcker bloeckerblog.com · Language & CultureP.H. Blöcker Linguistics · Anthropology · Culture The Grammar Beneath the Grammar If Chomsky is right that language is hardwired into the human brain, then music may be the evidence he never quite got around to citing — the universal deep structure that was there before the first word. P.H. BlöckerApril 2026bloeckerblog.com In 1957, Noam Chomsky published Syntactic Structures and quietly detonated a bomb beneath behaviourist linguistics. His claim was simple and radical in equal measure: human beings are not born as blank slates onto which language is written by experience. They are born with a language acquisition device already installed — a Universal Grammar, a set of deep structural principles shared by every language on earth, regardless of how different those languages appear on the surface. A child in Tokyo and a child in Nairobi and a child in rural Queensland are all running the same underlying programme. The surface outputs differ enormously. The deep grammar is the same. It was a liberating idea, and also, in retrospect, an incomplete one. Because if Chomsky was right — if human beings carry an innate grammatical structure that…

Community

How would you improve your community? Knock at the doors of me new neighbours, one by one. Then see who slams the door and who wants a 10 min chat. Then trying to get to know my neighbours, one by one. Then an X - mas street party though summer at the Gold Coast. A wine fest in winter. Kids most welcome for sure. No kids, no fun. Grandchildren? Yes, why not? Age means getting tired early. No brainer? Too true, blue! Aussies are not Ossies. Good, indeed! Happy Easter from Gold Coast OZ Jena | Best friends Schiller & Goethe discussing Democracy The Wizard What is a Knight Bus? Kindly yours Peter H Bloecker

Bloecker

If you could have something named after you, what would it be? The Wood Workers in Holstein in North Germany were the Blockers, blocking wood. Ein Holzblock. Die Holzbloecke. Auch gut als Unterlage, einem Gefangen den Kopf abzuschlagen. Mit einem Schwert. Was als ehrenvoll galt bei public Executions. Die Kriminellen wurden in der Regel aufgehaengt, wobei die Raben dann die Toten frassen, bzw deren Leichnam. Die Seele war ja in der Hoelle, so die Kirche. The forests all over the globe have been cut down either to harvest the timber or wood, or burning to cook and heat the homes or more. Logging was the word to ship the red cedar trees in Australia along the rivers by steam boats and then via larger Steamers across the ocean to Sydney and Melbourne. One tree was enough wood to build one house. Red Gold - Red Cedar Trees. Nothing left, indeed, but a few National Parks. Look at the USA, look at the Forests in South America. Humboldt went there and was blown away. His brother in Berlin was a linguist like Chomsky. Credit phb | Red Cedar Tree

Quantum Physics

What’s something most people don’t understand? Why? The mother of all questions, indeed ...

iPhone

How has technology changed your job? Significantly, indeed! And as I started my job in Brisbane as the last German Language Adviser of the Goethe - Institut in 1998, I designed my first website learning HTML. Now we have AI and Bots writing code. And this is only the beginning. Have a great Easter Vacations and a few days with your Families and Friends. You might detox as well. Kindly from the Gold Coast QLD Australia Linked Linked https://phbloecker.wordpress.com Peter and Maria Ines

Lying

This Essay is about White Lies and The Truth I read Sam Harris Lying and the Interview with his teacher. This Book and the Interview is about the Master and the Disciple and how they may interact. I understand Harris published this essay plus interview and what he learnt from his University Teacher Ron Howard as a kind chapeau id est simply Thank You. Education can succeed, but it needs two to tango. Passion Flower or teaching with passion l Credit phb First the English Version LyingSam Harris, Ronald Howard and the Art of Telling the TruthP.H. Bloecker · bloecker.wordpress.com · 2026 I. A Thin Book with Considerable WeightSam Harris’ essay Lying is not a long book. Barely a hundred pages, no academic apparatus, no mountain of footnotes. Those who pick it up because it is short will quickly discover: it is short the way a scalpel is short. It cuts deeply nonetheless.The argument is simply stated, and therefore provocative: lying is always wrong. Not almost always. Not in most cases. Always. Even the white lie. Even the protective lie. Even the polite silence that deliberately misleads. Harris acknowledges edge cases — the Nazis are at the door, Anne Frank is hiding in the attic — but he refuses to let the exception become the rule. Whoever makes habits out of exceptions has already dismantled their ethical architecture before realising they…

Elephants

Which animal would you compare yourself to and why? Why is the mother of all questions: Not because of the ivory, though ... When observing elephants in Namibia and Zimbabwe at the Chobe National Park for weeks, I came to the conclusion, I wished I was a mighty Elephant Bull in my next live. Not a monkey.

Learning

What is the last thing you learned? There is no last thing, as I learn about three new things per day. My definition of learning is very unique and only valid for myself: Observe and focus and reflect. Inspired by Atomic Habits and other authors. We all are standing on the shoulders of giants. Like Einstein. And many others. We are born to learn daily.

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