Germany, its countries and Europe E-Book

Heinrich Labentsch

• Herausgeber: novum publishing
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 152

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Germany and Europe are facing numerous challenges. Financial problems, climate change, war and other problems threaten the stability of the democratic system and social cohesion. To avert the impending disasters, there is therefore only one answer: Germany must become smaller again. The solution lies in the reorganization of our federal states. The rest of the world would also benefit from this. In a satirical essay, Heinrich Labentsch unceremoniously extinguishes several trouble spots at once and paves the way for the future. Surprisingly, we only have to look to the past.

Leseprobe

Introduction

It all starts with fairy tales ...

Even the primordial unicellular organisms or uniform primordial organisms had to follow models when building up to multicellular organisms and these can only have been fairy tales.

Ours is not that old, perhaps a few or several election periods ago. All you need to know is that our intrepid European ancestors, the Celts and their tribes, were terrified of one event, namely that the sky might fall on their heads:

St. Peter sweeps the sky.

Now the sky had fallen on Adefix and Straufix's heads after all. (Note: You all know the story of the two heroes from Roman times. For copyright reasons, however, they are not allowed to take part here, which is why two equally brave storytellers appear, who were persons of public transport or something similar and should therefore have their place in high literature).

The whole of Gaul was hit. However, after the initial horror, people were able to live quite well in it, they just had to put up with the good Peter, God forbid.

If he had been a pompous Roman, solutions could have been found. A Peter as a benevolent druid would also have been accepted. But the one with the power of the keys was not tall and exalted, mild and wise, but small, puny, pedantic and opinionated, someone who was eager to fulfill the divine mission of transforming the land in heaven into a broom-clean region, which must have been deeply repugnant to the comfortable Gauls.

Thus a great lamentation arose among the Gauls, which can still be heard today.

One day, Straufix noticed Peter standing at his gate, the large key in his hand, staring longingly at the neighboring country, which, as the large signs on the border proclaimed, was called "GERMANIA ENTRY PROHIBITED". The cunning little man beguiled the brave man, raved about the neighboring country in the highest terms and offered Peter to lead him to the paradise of cleanliness in the evening by a secret route, so that he would see it as an example and repeat the same great work in Gaul.

The guardian of heaven heard it well and agreed to the deal. He allowed himself to be led on his way and handed the little rascal the key for a moment, because he submissively offered to guard the heavenly gate during his brief absence.

As soon as Peter had disappeared into the green bushes, the cunning devil hurriedly closed the door and threw the key far into another country, which was called HELVETIA. The good comrades there (the oath came much later) gladly accepted the gift and locked it safely in a safe deposit box with a secret numbered account.

This is how the Gauls still "live like the Lord God in France", the Swiss banks are still looking for the key to heaven because they have forgotten the account number and the Germans are under the delusion that they have to become the cleanest country in the world.

And continues with poetry ...

In passing

Where did you get that idea

Smile at me

So strange,

How we are each other.

What do I have on me,

That your expression

From the everyday view

Transformed into happiness.

Nothing to do with me,

I only have you

With a mischievous thought

Caught in passing.

You felt caught out

From a complete stranger.

And now the cheerfulness for me too

You smile - out of embarrassment.

Foreword

It is urgent. For this reason, the usual foreword has been omitted. Who knows how much time is left? Nevertheless, there is one thing that our esteemed readers, both male and female, need to know if they have not yet read the newspaper: We Germans are doing splendidly, say the parties. There has never been so much fear, say the media. The cooking programs on television are an unmistakable indication of the exuberant decadence, says the author.

The author

As a born German, he is of course a German friend of all Germans and only means well. That's all you really need to know about him. Perhaps that he is a quarter East Prussian, a quarter Saxon, a quarter Lower Saxon and finally a quarter Bremer. So he is partly an emigrant, which should have led to necessary and sustained research in this country, but which the local authorities didn't give a damn about at the time of his grandparents. The main thing was that they, the foreigners, could work and prove that they had an apartment.

This guy, the descendant, born in 1937 as a Prussian at the customs border of Bremen-Vegesack, also worked - what else could he do -, observed himself in the mirror and those around him and those in power in word and deed, registered many things and at the end of his work wrote down what he found remarkable.

He considers himself lucky to have grown up in a rare period of over 70 years of peace in Germany and to still be alive. But somehow he has the feeling that his people are once again overstepping their boundaries ideologically and materially, something that has never happened to this country before. He is not the only one to notice this.

Book 1

1. the country (this is more difficult to deal with)

Our country is part of the Old World and yet the nation is relatively young; it was founded in 1871. Although German was widely spoken long before this time, it was only spoken in a patchwork of small, opinionated states.

Bismarck believed that he had solved the problem of these arborists once and for all with the German Reich and we have solved it once and for all with the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany of May 23, 1949, but we have not, because in our federal superstate, the patchwork quilt celebrates its happy birthday.

However, Article 29 of the Basic Law offers the possibility of reorganizing the federal states by federal law and referendum, and this is where our proposed solution comes in once the reader and I have jointly scrapped the many swords of Damocles looming over us with the help of the scrapping premium.

2. many dangers

The serious statements made by former and current politicians, countless scientists and prophets, which we can read in the media every day, always point directly (the repressors) or indirectly (the radicals) to doom:

Danger no. 1: global warming

The prospects are promising. We have a free choice: Do we allow ourselves to dry up in an environmentally friendly way as a result of the global warming that is just around the corner and has perhaps already begun, or do we choose the wet death of the earth. We are not yet in a position to make this decision because the scientists, who are polarized towards "catastrophe", do not yet agree on what will happen sooner: the melting of the glaciers and the liquefaction of the South Pole with a huge swelling of the sea or the collapse caused by the greenhouse effect. (The ice of the North Pole floating in the sea will not raise the sea level by a millimeter if it liquefies. In the meantime, a minister of the environment has also been informed about this physical miracle and has promised to only talk about Greenland's melting ice and to fill the newspapers with it).

Everyone is talking about the greenhouse effect, but it doesn't exist scientifically. However, we laymen need to know what is coming, so let's imagine the greenhouse of an allotment gardener; the fat, plump, very red tomatoes in it are us. The allotment gardener has the official status of a pensioner, has far too much money and heats his greenhouse like the devil because gas will become more and more expensive in the future. But the heat can't go away because the glass roof has taken over the function of the CO2. Experts will laugh their heads off at this nonsense, but we have to get on with our thinking. The result is clear: we are all sweating ourselves to death!

Danger no. 2: Nuclear power plants

Some or all of these things could blow up. Many of our politicians are already practising for a television appearance with the content of such a message. So far there have only been minor incidents in our country, but if staged correctly, it's a great way to put yourself in the limelight. When it comes to the final disposal of radioactive waste, at the latest, the politicians making the presentations are in top form. They always forget that it was always politicians who prevented clarification of safe storage. After all, it could have cost them the elections.

No nuclear power plant in Germany has yet given us cause to worry about its safe operation, but it is still possible to generate a great deal of fear, especially as hardly any normal citizens are informed about the function, safety equipment and economic benefits of such a plant. They may not even be interested, perhaps even depriving us of the vitalizing feeling of permanent fear that Germans cannot do without. This means that arguments against opponents of nuclear power are of no use at all.

Conclusion: fear is killing us.

Danger no. 3: The low birth rate

That brings us to the next danger: the low birth rate. There is a lack of German children. Note: the emphasis is on German children.

The logical conclusion: We will grow old, run out of money and go to bed hungry. However, there will be enough of these storage facilities available for the rest of the nation to decide to bury the elderly in their beds.

Danger no. 4: Islamization

In fact, the fear that this religion will take over is widespread in this country and some citizens feel very sick at the thought of having to attend services in a mosque in the near future. They haven't attended church for a long time, but they don't want to have to go to a mosque in the future either, which none of those in power here can currently guarantee them. In this context, imagining our pretty female politicians in parliament hiding under the burka is no longer a source of joy.

Even mature Muslims who are familiar with the European dominant culture and society have noticed the growing Islamism in Europe, especially in Germany, and never tire of pointing out the danger to citizens and politicians in our country because they have now analyzed and exposed the particularly pronounced naivety and incisive cluelessness of our sovereigns. There is no doubt that Muslims are in the minority and Islam does not necessarily mean Islamism, but radical minorities have often caused disasters in this country.

In any case, things are already rumbling and a look back at history does not bode well.

Danger no. 5: Neo-Nazism

The attentive reader will already have noticed: when listing dangers, you go from dog to stick. The stick is called EUROPE and the dog is called NATIONALISM and the pedigree of the rabid animal is called FOREIGN ENEMITY.

"We are under the protection of a powerful state, the united countries of Europe, and any danger from within the German soil, either from the right or the left, from below or from above, will be nipped in the bud by the EU, which always has to keep a watchful eye on us!" Politicians in power in the 1960s articulated their opinions in these or similar terms, and the people bravely agreed.

The behemoth of bureaucracy in Brussels and Strasbourg is so busy producing superfluous laws that it cannot deal with regional mortgages. That is why no German should believe that the EU will protect us from a new nationalism. The real and latent post-nationalism that exists is our own soup to drink, so we have to spoon it up ourselves. It is well known that the constitutional protectors of the federal states and the federal government stand in each other's way in the fight against this phenomenon.

Just as the National Socialists exploited the global economic crises in the period after the First World War to push through their propaganda, today the widespread xenophobia among the people is promoting the influence of right-wing groups.

Not many people today know what that means: "Turnip off!"

Danger no. 4: Communism

When the Federal Republic of Germany had to take over the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which had been deliberately driven into insolvency, as a compulsory investor in 1990, it was believed on the Western side that this hammer-and-circle ideology had finally disappeared from the scene.

The emergence of the "Left" proves this misconception. The intellectual descendants of the GDR leadership from the East, in cronyism with West German KPD exiles and trade unionists who have fallen short, under the direction of sly demagogues, are now seeking the all-German challenge.

In the meantime, the German trade unions have almost openly declared their allegiance to the "left", in other words, these organizations are posing as parties.

You might quote Heinrich Heine and, deprived of sleep, look up at a wall in the red morning and see the bars of Spandau and Bautzen behind it, unless you grew up in Wandlitz.

Danger no. 5: Globalization

But even pure capitalism, which secretly smuggled itself into our free market economy with globalization, does not promise true bliss, as we are now experiencing in mid-2008. Living on credit works just as little as living according to an ideologically planned economy. A healthy middle way is not possible for Germany, this still existing nation. We are always dependent and yet we want to be independent, self-sufficient. In "Rhenish capitalism" (the period before the Berlin Republic), which functioned like an economic island, it was already possible to have the feeling of working independently. It was during this period that prosperity was actually achieved in Germany.

It is currently being gambled away because the German theater company and its various extras cannot get used to new stage directions.

Danger no. 6: The (and other) financial crisis

There is some consolation in the fact that Germany is not the only country affected by this banking disaster, which is currently being described as the biggest catastrophe since Black Friday (October 25, 1929). The cause appears to be the same: the collapse of artificially inflated share prices due to risky credit transactions.

The politicians' hour seems to have come:

For the leftists, who always make everything better anyway, who have felt the collapse of the capitalist system in their bones or elsewhere since childhood and who naturally take advantage of the opportunity to agitate.

For the ruling heads, who announce everything possible and impossible with a worried expression, there is a unique opportunity at the moment to be on air every hour.

For the right-wingers who are still operating in the dark, but who are still happy to let time work for them.

Rescue packages are being put together for the banks, the perpetrators of the disaster, which significantly exceed the annual budget of the entire republic. In view of the unchivalrous situation, the current ruling team is granting loans or guarantees (it is not yet known exactly how much) of around 500 billion euros to the financial institutions. Our politicians are not tapping into Fort Knox with its gold reserves, but juggling with fictitious German taxpayers' money.

Danger no. 7: The threat of poverty

The reader already recognizes the complexity of the dangers. The risks mentioned so far are interwoven and inevitably lead to downfall, which in the least severe cases begins with poverty.

Even campaigns such as the fight against the climate catastrophe (G1), which we are waging in Germany with the blunt weapon of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), are draining the substance of the national wealth, as it is not the sun, wind and water that are paying for these uneconomical processes, but us highly burdened citizens.

Everyone can imagine how the republic will change when red or brown people are in power. In addition to material poverty, there will also be spiritual poverty; it is better not to imagine other phenomena. Even a bourgeois government will not prevent the general decline should the feared financial and economic crises really materialize and result in mass unemployment. This is what Germans fear most: unemployment. Even more than terror. It said so in the newspaper.

Danger no. 8: German cars

An entire nation has focused on beautiful and expensive cars and distributed them very successfully around the world, and now a sales slump is looming, stupidly caused by G 1 and G 6 and ultimately resulting in G 7.

The mechanical engineering, automotive, chemical and pharmaceutical industries have ultimately remained as viable sectors in Germany. Almost everything else, including jobs, has been exported, scrapped or driven into insolvency. The remainder is now supposed to feed eighty-two million people, and now no more cars either - that can't work.

Apart from the trade unions, who see the solution solely in the foul propaganda of the "left", other parties seem more than clueless. All the rules of the vaunted free market economy have been reluctantly thrown overboard and yet there is no improvement. Share prices are tumbling down the abyss and we are following behind.

Danger no. 9: German politics

In general, the entire political situation in this country is muddled. It is too easy to blame the politicians in power. After all, the people alone have elected their parliamentary representatives and will continue to do so in the future, unless tiny dictatorships or perhaps a few tiny monarchies get in the way.

The politicians of the first hour can be blamed for not preventing the patchwork quilt mentioned at the beginning. The Allies' requirement to comply may serve as an excuse. After that, however, necessary corrections could have been made over the many happy years.