Roaring Twenties

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Recently, I was made aware on social media that it would soon be that time again and the golden twenties would be right around the corner.

Even if, strictly speaking, these would not be due until 2024, I assume that we are already past the golden twenties and are heading straight for the thirties.

And that is exactly the problem with our fast-moving times, we only recognize the good when it is already behind us.

But the really bad thing about it is that even our ladies have missed the chance to fall back on bob haircuts, pearl necklaces, boas, headbands, handbags and, at least from my point of view, quite chic dresses and breathe something very special into the world.

Apparently we've all been too busy getting the relics of the 1930s and 1940s out of the cellar for a long time and therefore don't have time for it to be able to get something good out of even the greatest achievements and successes.

Even the most honorable and responsible newspapers are turned down before an article has even been read. Even the Tagesschau, which has managed to convey the end of the world in a boring and uninvolved way, is now being accused of "state agitation". Our state, which has managed with and for us to guarantee us all an open and at the same time social society for over 70 years, which can hardly be found anywhere else, is increasingly seen as the cause of all evil (?! ) viewed.

Apparently we are all doing far too well, without exception, for far too long, so that we have long since lost touch with reality. I can still hear the words of Helmut Schelsky from the 1970s in the ear, which warned of the dangers of too much state welfare.

But even he could hardly have foreseen that in an open, modern and tolerant society it would be possible for enough elderly men, who had suppressed their sexual inclinations for decades, to begin to sublimate this with fantasies of violence, to a sufficiently deep level meet embittered women and join them together with the most depraved parts of our youth to form a new and old moral alternative for Germany.

Let's all catch up on the Golden Twenties together!

Let's get the pearl necklaces, boas, headbands, handbags and, if you like, the cocktail dresses from the cellars!

Hope and joy instead of bitterness and hatred. These should be our New Year's resolutions!