8.11.02024

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Pogroms

Unfortunately, pogroms - just think about tomorrow - are not only a historical reality, but also part of everyday life today. Minorities are still regularly massacred in India and China, for example, which, statistically speaking, hardly plays a role there. In Russia, on the other hand, pogroms are part of the country's culture and receive little attention, similar to Schuhplattler dancing in Bavaria.

And a Donald Trump is now preparing its compatriots for mass deportations, which can very quickly lead to pogroms, as we already witnessed on January 5, 2021. In Europe, on the other hand, where pogroms took place at the end of the 20th century, before the last pogroms under and as a result of Nazi rule had even been dealt with, things will once again become very dangerous.

What is really bad about it is that no matter how bad things are for us Europeans, none of this is comparable to a European of Jewish faith. Even worse, where could these poor people even migrate to? — even in the USA they are now in danger of being lynched. While the Russians have already started officially slaughtering “Jewish Nazis” again in 2022, sparing no expense or effort and, like Adolf Hitler already before, and would love to invade other states.

Meanwhile, we Germans are holding back, because anything under four million victims is not a real challenge for us.

China

By that I mean the dictatorship, not the island of Taiwan, which is still a democracy today. How long democratic China can continue to exist is now more questionable than ever before. The example of Hong Kong shows quite clearly that contracts and promises made by mainland Chinese cannot and should not be trusted.

I have recently started reading some newer books about China and have come across Lea Sahay , a journalist from Germany who has been dealing with the Chinese privately and now also professionally since she was 16. “The end of the Chinese dream – life in Xi Jinpings New China” does not seem to be the usual Chinese propaganda that is currently pouring onto the book market by paid writers. In any case, it is the only book I have recently read that charter 08 and thereby points to a continuing Chinese resistance in China itself. The Chinese from China I interviewed in Heilbronn did not know this charter, or at least they claimed not to — and German journalists like a Stefan Baron do not know this charter, even though he created his own psychological profile of the Chinese.

daft

Recently I quit the so-called social media (again) and unlike Robert Habeck I still intend to 'leave this field to the loudmouths and populists' - I don't want to become Chancellor either. Although it is surprising that in our case an X or Facebook account is clearly enough to be considered as a candidate for our parties.

I still have my YouTube account just because of the YouTube videos that I like to link to here on the blog, and have done so since 2011. Before that, I ran my own, not very successful video website. On YouTube, however, I have used the “Community” function on my channel not activated, so it is not really "social media"; nevertheless, 20 subscribers have been found to date. But to put everything back into perspective, a Mr. Beast (active since 2012) is currently the most successful YouTuber with 328 million subscribers.

Since the antisocial social network Daft has been around, I have also been using it and have even included the last five of my posts on my blog via RSS. Interestingly, Daft has its own challenges with RSS, or my RSS reader with Daft - which could certainly be worth a little investigation for one or two computer science students.

And so I use social media with Daft, namely the “Anti-Social Social Network for Minimalists“. However, you can only read this one, and you would have to respond to it here on my blog.

And if you look there today, you will find my suggested poem for the day, including an exciting review — and somehow it fits Phillip Larkin on today's blog topic.

"A change of will indicates that the mind is drifting, appearing now here, now there, as the wind blows."

Seneca, Book 4, Letter 35 (2023: 237)

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