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Minimalism
At the moment I'm more in the mood for minimalism than ever before. So I've been tinkering a bit with the blog and streamlining it a bit more.
Sometimes less is more. And whoever owns himself has nothing to lose.
That's why I won't report on my activities of the last few days, which I'll happily do in one or two conversations in the coming days.
stupidity
As a Dietrich Bonhoeffer When he wrote the lines below, he was already in a concentration camp. His letters and notes from prison, entitled "Resistance and Submission" (2022: 14f), are more worth reading today than ever before.
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of good than evil.
Evil can be protested against, it can be
expose, it can be prevented by force if necessary, the
Evil always carries the germ of self-destruction within itself,
It leaves at least a feeling of unease in people. Against
We are defenseless against stupidity. Neither with protests nor with
Violence can achieve something here.”
Especially today, when a German government has failed to actually want to govern and not just, as has been the case since Helmut Kohl It is usual for people to fight over the feeding troughs and otherwise just sit out everything, which even led to a new word being coined, "Merkelism", and it is urgently necessary to think about the reasons for the lack of government policy.
It is not the bad guys who have been enriching themselves from our country for decades, causing billions in damage and overall contributing to our country and our environment literally coming to the brink of ruin, but rather the stupid politicians who are simply invincible and who can also rely on a corresponding power base without much effort.
And we are really defenseless against that! What can you do when such failed ministers look at you with empty eyes and are already raving about their next adventure, for example as German ambassador to the Vatican?
"Popular speech, on the other hand, has nothing to do with the truth. It aims to inspire the crowd and sweep the uncritical listeners along in a storm."
Seneca, Book 4, Letter 40 (2023: 257)
