reliability

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Civilizations are built primarily on the reliability of their people. Without reliability, they all fall apart again. Our history offers enough examples of this. People then like to claim that this or that culture has simply outlived itself and made room for something new. Some attribute these declines to external factors such as environmental changes or migration of peoples, although in both cases the internal cause is often ignored or simply subsumed under a decline in morals and all good customs.

It is always the reliability with which every community stands and falls. The most banal form of reliability is punctuality, a quality that even the stupidest citizen could adopt.

Reliability leads to dependability, trustworthiness, credibility and, last but not least, the functionality of an entire society.

For us, the times are long gone when you could seal any matter with a handshake and the paperwork was just a useful addition to the whole (a simple remedy for the forgetfulness that can befall even the most willing among us).

Worse still, punctuality has already been degraded to such an extent that it is now only expected of supplicants. And as soon as a person is singled out a little bit from his fellow citizens, he signals this by keeping everyone else waiting. And the higher these people feel elevated, the longer you have to wait for them - you can already set the clocks accordingly.

But the worst thing now is the unreliability that is rampant even at the level of the federal government, prime ministers and ministers, which has our entire country firmly in its grip: “The “what do I care about yesterday’s chatter” policy.

In Germany, unreliability was made the only maxim we still have. And this is probably the only reliable thing we have left!

And we are all really proud of that! The only law that still has universal validity in our country is that every German law is immediately invalid as soon as it is announced - if it wasn't just cringeworthy, I could even laugh about it.