Featured photo: Heilbronn vineyards
Life is changing faster than any of us would like. I even fear that life change and dealing with it is the real purpose of life.
Even though I love change myself, I still have my difficulties, especially with the increasing dumbing down and brutalization of our society. Just this morning in the city pool I had to shower next to the remains of a pile of excrement. The city employee tried, but was less successful. I don't want to blame him at all because I recently had to clean up a huge pile of excrement from a basement room in the city center. And if you don't have the appropriate tools at hand, this is a very unpleasant and quite challenging task.
Other people have different difficulties with the change, for example some farmers who still do not want to accept that a business model that has only worked because of subsidies for generations needs to be changed at least somewhat. In the end, becoming more and more conservative doesn't help; on the contrary, liberal and innovative would be the order of the day, but that has something to do with intelligence.
In addition to bathing culture, the Romans also brought us wine, both of which we still appreciated until recently. But here too the changes are unstoppable and it is probably not just due to the influx of Eastern cultures, for whom both seem completely alien.
When it comes to wine, we must note that it is not only a luxury food - at least some wines - but also contains the pollutant alcohol. Which used to not be a major obstacle, as alcohol is primarily a narcotic and this was almost a desirable addition. In addition, the average life expectancy was too short to have to experience the effects of constant ingestion of harmful substances - you simply died before the alcohol could take full effect.
This is the crux of the matter with wine, because we humans are living longer and longer and the word is slowly but surely getting around that you can enjoy old age sooner and better if you have consumed as few pollutants as possible over the course of your life. In addition, times are a little longer and hopefully will continue to be so that you hardly have to “beam yourself away” in order to be able to endure your own existence. In addition, wine is not the cheapest means of simply numbing yourself and these customers will therefore completely break away in the medium to long term.
And so our winegrowers, if they do not want to resort to the completely inappropriate and highly subsidized production of industrial alcohol, are not spared from producing wines that are worth not only losing a few brain cells for wine connoisseurs, but also their own to shorten lifespan. Already Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is said to have realized that life is too short to drink bad wine. Not to mention the fact that it could take over 100 years.
But this also means that our winegrowers have to compete with other winegrowers who have far better conditions for producing wine simply because of the soil, air and sun. And so our winemakers not only have to produce very good wine, but also pour it into the glasses with a lot of imagination and even more local patriotism. The better winemakers will continue to be able to make a living, while the less good winemakers should definitely rethink their business model. If this were based on subsidies, it would only be sustainable for a single generation - subsidies must not be inherited, because that is pure monarchy!
And so it would actually be appropriate for some of Wengert to fundamentally change their business model, e.g. B. rely on ecological wine that is free of alcohol and other pollutants. Maybe initially a niche, but maybe also the future of viticulture.
However, and this is due to the normal course of time, most local winemakers will no longer have a future in viticulture - a good 2 years of viticulture must certainly have been a good run, at least if you compare that with the combustion engine.
And so responsible parents shouldn't send their children to demonstrate with tractors and put some revolutionary ideas into their heads, but should ensure that they receive the best possible school and vocational training so that they can find employment in jobs that will continue to be available in the future have been in demand for decades.
That would not only be liberal, but also quite conservative! By the way, this was the CSU's original model of success in Bavaria, which once made this party so successful.
Demonstrations and rallies against change have never been conservative and will never be successful, they only prolong and worsen their own misery.
