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Hello and welcome to a new edition of "Der Abschweifung",
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where I occasionally almost never, but sometimes, but sometimes not from the topic
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I'm digressing. I'm Sascha Markmann and I say hello. Today's topic is a wish from the community
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Or, as you might call it, spectatorship. It is about opportunism and
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More specifically, in everyday life. Take, for example, an example from everyday life. The nice colleague,
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who still blasphemes about the boss in the hallway, but literally speaks to him after the mouth in the meeting or
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Flag in the wind. It is about the definition of everyday life. It's about pure selfishness, about the
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Exploitation of a situation for one's own benefit without regard to loss, morality or decency.
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Let's start with the basics. The origin of words, the epidemiology, how to be so beautiful
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says. The term comes from Latin and is derived from the word "obatornus".
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Obatornus. This means as much as "cheap, convenient or convenient". It's an obatonist.
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often chooses the most convenient and easiest, easiest way of least resistance,
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As soon as the moment is right. The everyday definition would be something like the absolute
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Unprincipled. You don't act on what's morally right or what's right.
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What you believe in in the deepest, but only according to what you believe in the greatest
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It brings personal advantage. And then you have to distinguish, so to speak, between a
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healthy egoism and stop bringing egoism to the opportunist. 'Cause there's kind of
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Something like self-care. So that you make sure that you are well. And that can
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It is done in many areas. So don't donate so much money that you get problems yourself,
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but also that one is kind-hearted or requires more work as for a good,
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Just to please my colleagues. It's kind of a healthy selfishness. But an opportunist,
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he is very determined and he takes in the purchase that other people are at a disadvantage,
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Only for his own benefit. But how do we recognize an opportunist in everyday life?
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It is an extreme flexibility of opinion, because opinions are not made out of conviction.
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but rather changed in such a way that it serves comfort,
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That you don't stand out negatively, that you have the greatest advantage from it. And that's something,
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what I personally do in my private environment, at work or in association work,
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During school, while studying, yes, you've already met one or the other time. Such people are
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They also like to be very friendly, almost as if they are crawling in someone's ass, for someone who
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It brings an advantage or a benefit. Ignores or devalues others who stop
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have no advantage. Particularly popular in the content creator bubble, one encounters such
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Phenomena very often. There's one or two experts from my own experience. And then there is
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This is the principle of purpose loyalty. Friendships or alliances are only for as long as
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importantly chosen or continued as long as they bring a yield, i.e. advantages.
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You can take advantage of it and if it gets too uncomfortable or the other
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successful, then you turn against them and you almost have to fight them or you let
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They fall. I've only recently experienced this, especially in the YouTube Content Creator.
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world. My God, no. But so do these coincidences. Now let's see why we humans do this.
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So we have already defined it between the healthy egoism, that one just pays attention to it,
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That you don't come so short yourself, but there are other aspects to it. Mostly
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It is also because there is a missing internal compass for good and bad. It
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There are no deep-rooted inner values or beliefs. Action is always on it
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to get one's own advantage and not be anxious to be favorable to others
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To act, to effect something positive. Everything is used to present itself well.
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Then there is the aspect of conflict. Well, not everyone has that,
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but there are representatives of this genus of Oberturists who have a conflict aversion.
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You choose the path of least resistance. You want to be a favorite,
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You want to please. There is, too. I have also experienced this myself in the content creator world and
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It wasn't even that long ago. Because it is always exhausting for one's own opinion to be one.
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kick. You can also make yourself unpopular and there are people who then choose the
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Away from the slightest resistance and talk after the mouth. After all, you want to please. And then
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Let's get to the third point and that is also a very important point. They can be narcissistic.
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There are trains. I know it's such a total buzzword by now. This is still thrown
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More inflationary around such as ADHD, depression, personality disorder, but narcissism is also
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It's already a personality disorder, but it's used so much that the term yes.
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has almost lost a futility, because everyone who is exhausting and complicated
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When you think of yourself, you are automatically a narcissist. Your own success and status is
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super important. Financial gain is also super important for someone who is narcissistic.
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There are trains. And so everything is done in such a way that you just take advantage of it.
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Be it fake empathy, solidarity. This can all be hypocritical and faked,
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Just to get your own profit from it. A typical person with narcissistic traits.
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Of course, the whole behavior also has consequences for the environment. Impact, destruction of trust,
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Relationships or teams disappear, which disappear, above all security,
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the trust, the psychological security, because there are people who carry information
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outwards, which should never be carried outwards. There will be alliances in the background
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played, false information sent, just to stop yourself in a better light
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stand by. A poisonous climate, which again refers to destruction
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of trust. An elbow society is formed. Honest, authentic people pull themselves
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back because tactical providers are rewarded. I've only recently seen it all.
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Also in the YouTube Creator Bubble. You can see that it is also a very
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is a toxic place and a consequence of all these behaviors is of course also a
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emotional exhaustion. Dealing with such people robs an unlikely amount of energy.
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You are constantly on guard. You have to be careful what you say, how you say what you do. Before
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Everything, if you create content yourself, you have to be careful, because otherwise there comes next
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Again a letter from the lawyer and at the same time a bill. You have to have one yourself
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Lawyer, then there's another bill, there's a lot of money being burned, which you don't have anyway.
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And that's really stressful and there are some people just pulling back or doing
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The creator game in the form it took before no longer stops. We are coming
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Now for such an intermediate conclusion. What can you do with it? How can you protect yourself from it?
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Klipp and clearly draw boundaries. If one separates oneself and prevents opportunists
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Taking up too much space, if you allow it, you run the risk of
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It is used to be a stirrup holder. And yes, that's where it helps best to be blunt and clear.
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Say up to here and no further, and document everything. And I can only get out of
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to speak of my experience, in the past, in the longer, even in the shorter past,
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You have to be very consistent. Even if this is not understandable for many others,
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You have to be absolutely secure against this small minority that is acting in this way. And there are also the
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Boundaries between healthy selfishness, healthy self-love, self-sufficiency and overtones
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are very spongy, very flowing, you just have to see for yourself that you are not out
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Convenience, because you want to please yourself, just fall into this pattern of proportion. Maybe
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Maybe you have to be a little more willing to compromise here and there, maybe even here.
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and since more insist on his own opinion, but not always the path of least resistance
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Let's go. This is the "culture of the year". This does not work in the long run, you yourself become unreliable and
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Above all, it is exhausting. I found it interesting to think about it in advance.
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And above all, a little bit of literature. How is it
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almost like falling from the scales, from the eyes, when I put this together,
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that much of what we have experienced especially here with the sound radio project in the
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in recent months, since the summer of almost last year, so fits into this scheme,
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from viewers, from opponents, that I found this really fascinating and how easy
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That explains. And I'm really grateful that a spectator wanted it.
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Now, unfortunately, that's already a bit of a deal. I don't even know,
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whether the viewer will then remember that the topic was once on the table,
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But I would like to say thank you, because how I have dealt with it so intensively,
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I thought you knew it all and it seemed so familiar to you. And precisely because
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these experiences and events in the recent past were so explosive and concise,
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I found it really interesting that I saw the parallels right away. It is so,
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that in this bubble, especially on YouTube with the viewers, there are people,
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They migrate from one content creator to another and then stop there for good weather,
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Change the fronts when one person says something that isn't going to happen. And I remember,
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that we were really foolishly turned on because we didn't post a story where it
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It was about animal welfare. Now the sound radio project is not necessarily an animal welfare project, but
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hold an opinion blog, a podcast, in which it is about content critical of media, about psychological
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Explanations and processing, perhaps also social criticism, but not animal welfare.
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You would have stopped the Lavan story … so that was just an animal welfare incident … you would have
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You can only take up the matter if you had just gone there and then dealt with the
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It would have been on social media. Otherwise, there would be no room for this format.
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Not a place where that would happen. And because we didn't do that, we're offended.
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They were taken away, and so on. We have similar behaviors in the past.
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experienced again and again. And that's really hard. If you don't agree with me, you are
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against me. Interesting, isn't it? There is so much about freedom of expression, about the individual word
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But then there is a total restriction on freedom of speech. And I have to say, we have
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We recently decided, Sarah and I, that we should also withdraw from this game.
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we will continue to make our content, but stop focusing on these dynamics and
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This bubble thinking. This is absolutely toxic and, above all, all echo chambers.
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So for every content curator there is just such an echo chamber, such a bubble that
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Self-reinforcing with affirmations, yes, opinion-reinforcing, by all thinking and saying the same thing. Then
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There are a few overlaps with other bubbles, but by and large that's just
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such a – I have such a structure as clusters of cells that exist side by side. And this
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This is one of YouTube's niches. Now there are a few bubbles, actually such a few
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Cells that go into each other like this and then there's an exchange. But woe to the one who says
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What's wrong is immediately war. And that's what we watch all the time and that's
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interesting dynamic processes on a psychological and sociological level. And that's what we want
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show such things, but we no longer participate in such trench fights. We have
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Unfortunately, let God be so enthralled there, because of opportunists who stop in the bubbles everywhere
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are represented and some content creators are also such candidates that we then
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have in some places also been instrumentalized and then have also lost the objective view,
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To show how destructive these dynamics are. Yeah, what am I supposed to say about that? You're over it
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Disappointed, hurt, in places there are even harassing, malicious announcements to the point of insulting,
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that you withdraw from this game because you think about its authenticity,
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They want to hold on to what is important to them and, above all, to their own health.
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I want to respect. Especially mental health. And this will be presented to you or
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It is also used to act as a sharp knife. This is an interesting logic and
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A consequence that we have drawn. And that's what we're going to stick to. Because nothing is
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more important for us than that we are authentic and above all our own
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mental health. And you have to say that community care is really a time-consuming thing. If:
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I think that I only have a few hours a day where I can do something, because besides the
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Everyday care and some household and so, I just don't have much time to deal with the things
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Dealing with things that are important to me. And if I care for community all the time
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Take care, then it takes a lot of time. It is also an aspect to consider. And that's why we can
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I also understand that great content creators act differently and have their people for it,
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Those who stop it.
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So much for overtunism. Then I have a question. Maybe he wanted
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I'll answer that, but you know, the comments are different.
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As before. Have you ever had such an experience with extreme
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Top tunists and how did you deal with them? That would be me again
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interested. Even if the comments are now moderated more strictly and not everything
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It is immediately unlocked. After all, this must first be approved. Good,
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I say thank you for listening and say until next time. Goodbye, Sasha.
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In this edition of ‘Difference’ Sascha Markmann is dedicated to a topic that we encounter again and again in our professional life, in private life and especially in the digital world: the opportunism.
What distinguishes a healthy egoism and necessary self-care from unprincipled purpose loyalty? We will shed light on the Latin roots of the term – from opportunus (cheap, convenient) – and analyse why people choose the path of least resistance as soon as there is a personal advantage.
The main focus of this episode:
- Definition & delineation: Why opportunism often means absolute unprincipledness and how it differs from healthy self-care.
- Characteristics of everyday life: From extreme flexibility of opinion to ‘purpose loyalty’, which lasts only as long as a yield flows.
- Psychological background: A lack of inner compass, conflict aversion and the role of narcissistic traits in social structures.
- Focus Content Creator Bubble: A critical reflection on toxic echo chambers, instrumentalized loyalties, and why Sascha and Sarah consistently draw boundaries to protect their mental health and authenticity.
- Self-protection: Practical approaches to dealing with opportunists, setting limits and preserving one's own credibility.
An in-depth analysis of the mechanisms of the ‘Anniversary culture’ and the courage to stand up for one’s own convictions even against the wind.
Topic overview:
- Intro and Welcome
- Introduction to the topic of opportunism as a community wish.
- Basic principles and definition
- Etymological origin: From the Latin ‘obatornus’ (cheap, comfortable).
- Definition of opportunism as acting according to the greatest personal advantage without regard to morality or principles.
- Distinction from ‘healthy selfishness’ and the need for self-care.
- Analysis: How do you recognize opportunists?
- Extreme flexibility of opinion and tactical behavior depending on the situation.
- The concept of ‘purpose loyalty’: Alliances only exist as long as they bring benefits.
- Devaluation of others as soon as no advantage can be derived from them.
- Psychological root cause research
- The lack of internal compass and lack of deeply anchored values.
- Choosing the least resistance from conflict aversion.
- The Role of Narcissistic Traits: Focus on status, success and fake empathy.
- Impact on the environment
- Destruction of trust and psychological security in teams and relationships.
- The emergence of a poisonous climate and an ‘elbow society’.
- Emotional exhaustion in fellow human beings through constant vigilance.
- Transfer: The Reality in the Content Creator Bubble
- Personal experiences with toxic dynamics and echo chambers on YouTube.
- Reflection on instrumentalization and the loss of objective gaze.
- Examples of conflicts: The handling of expectations of the spectators (using the example of animal welfare/Lavan story).
- Conclusion and outlook: Strategies for self-protection
- Need to draw blunt and clear boundaries.
- Importance of documentation and consistent action.
- The conscious withdrawal from the bubble game in favour of one’s own mental health and authenticity.
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Playing time: 0:25:53
Date of admission: 12.05.26
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Author: Sascha Markmann
Sascha Markmann is a creative mind with a moving biography – and a person who has rediscovered life after a stroke. After working as a paramedic and elderly caregiver, Sascha found his way into creative expression. As a blogger, podcaster, musician and visual storyteller, he brings together things that just don't fit at first glance: He combines his keen enthusiasm for technology – from self-hosted servers to electronic music production – with emotional depth and an oblique sense of humor. His contributions are somewhere between borderline, acid basslines and assistance – honestly, directly and with a wink. Guiding principle: “Audio-visual dullness with no usefulness – but perhaps that's why it's so valuable.” View all posts by Sascha Markmann
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