Our author analyzes the past week and the debates of recent months. In the future he will probably need a big hat to protect himself.
Sun protection if you put on too much Photo: imago
Every self-deception has its season, at least for me. It's not that I like the concept itself, but I can't stand worrying about everything the same way for twelve months. Unless there is an election, like this year, my existential despair usually subsides a bit in the fall. With a mild 15 degrees and drizzle, at least you won't have to deal with heating the Earth at full capacity every day.
This fall, repression and lukewarm confusion of the brain did not work, they began on October 7. Since then, I have been reliving that day over and over in my mind. In a broader sense, but also in a very specific sense: I continue to review this Saturday internally, reading WhatsApp messages over and over again. From the first call at half past six in the morning to the first of many subsequent nervous breakdowns at night.
It's been four months now and I still don't know exactly when that day I realized that the world had divided into two parts. When exactly everything was torn out of context, time and space.
Visor lowered – bam
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As if that matters. In any case, last night was still summer, at least metaphysically. It was hot and I had talked to my friend S.'s roommate about the best sun protection: she had specially ordered a sunshade from Japan. Not just any fancy colorful cap, but something that, big, black and a bit like a beekeeper's helmet, covers your entire face when necessary. I was excited.
If reality slapped me again next summer, I'd just pull down my visor, bam! S. was not so enthusiastic, she is too smart and too honest in the fight against the Earth's fossil destruction to give in to such self-deception.
But I'm not alone with my attitude: what I don't know doesn't make me hot (at least to my face).
Information note at the AfD party headquarters
The SPD, for example, or more precisely the party leadership, has separated from X (formerly known as Twitter) retired. Because “the spread of disinformation, fake news and hate propaganda” is now the order of the day there, especially through Russian troll factories. And, as every child knows, the SPD never wanted anything to do with Russian trolls.
Some clever people at the AfD party headquarters took the opportunity to present their partly anti-constitutional party as a balaclava for freedom of expression and accused the SPD of a lack of democratic understanding and an unwillingness to tolerate other opinions.
Actually, that says everything you need to know for this super election year so you don't end up looking exhausted. Freedom of expression certainly does not exist if no one opposes it. Precisely for this reason the withdrawal of X can still be understood. Disagreeing alone does not create a discourse and fake news also exists real life appropriate.
The famous Center for Political Beauty, for example, used AI to put a top-notch Antifa speech into Olaf Scholz's mouth that he never gave. We don't get together like that.
The only questions that remain are how many differences of opinion must be tolerated (many, I would say) and where the red line is drawn (perhaps with anti-constitutional constitutional judges?), to what edge of the multiply divided society. You must ally yourself and with whom you must unite against what has been proven. One thing is clear: none of us will get it all: climate protection and a lot of carbon in the account. from the river to the sea and not be anti-Semitic. Etc.
Perhaps it is still possible to find one or two lowest common denominators (is there no AfD in the government?). For more details, I will definitely treat myself to the sun visor next summer.