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- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Sprache: Englisch
Fairy tales about human weakness and strength in the face of the devilish temptations of evil Once upon a time, there was a pond called the Devil's Pond in the Orléans area. Since the Middle Ages, many stories have been told about it, which have survived to this day and can be applied to modern times. The author was inspired by fairy tales from his childhood. In the past, such fairy tales were used to educate the children of kings and the elite, teaching them to think and act ethically and to strive for moral behaviour. Fairy tales always have a moral message, even if this is considered outdated by a large part of the population today. Especially in times of upheaval in the existing world order due to wars, epidemics and natural disasters, the weaknesses of human beings and the absurdity of their actions ultimately become apparent. In particular, the neoliberal economic policies of recent years, the relocation of a large part of production and the dependence of most of the world on one or two countries make it clear how high the price of short-term greed for power and wealth is for humanity. It is therefore time to rethink everything and remember some fairy tales and stories. The author does not want to be a moralist or a know-it-all; he is simply trying to hold up a mirror to all of us, including himself, with this little fairy tale – in the hope that we will all return to the essentials in life.
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Content
Dedication
Title
Copywright
About the author
1. Foreword
2. The Forest
3. The place of rituals
4. Fairy tales and myths
5. The Devil's Pond
6. Wilhelm the farmer
7. Jacob the Woodcutter
8. Roland the nobleman
9. Genevieve the noble lady
10. Tensions between the royal couple
11. The Druids
12. The Rat Plague
13. The Plague
14. Fighting the plague
15. The famine
16. The Devil
17. The pact with the devil
18. Raoul and Lucrezia
19. The wedding of Raoul and Lucretia
20. The betrayal by Raoul and Lucretia
21. The Disempowerment of Roland the Nobleman
22. The banishment of Roland the nobleman
21. The banishment of Jacob the woodcutter
22. The banishment of Guillaume the blacksmith
23. The banishment of Abraham the Just
24. The banishment of the Druids
25. The sale of souls
26. The appointment of the devil's representatives
27. The redistribution of power
28. Everything has a price – or the prohibition of humanity
29. Water and drinking water more expensive than gold
30. The harvest in abundance
31. Total freedom
32. The multiplication of gold
33. Eternal life
34. The drama of the eternal oath
35. The immortalisation of an unhappy love
36. The battle of an angel with the devil at the Devil's Pond
7. New plagues in the principality
38. The uprising
39. The decline of the principality
40. The end of Raoul and Lucretia
41. Eternal Punishment
42. The return of the old prince
43. Two principalities become one large principality – new hope
44. From the Devil's Pond to the Pond of Hope
45. Epilogue
Dedication
This little fairy tale is dedicated to all those who warn and cry out in isolation, who care deeply about the well-being of our society. Every critical mind is lonely and belongs to a minority. However, today's minority may be tomorrow's majority.
It is also dedicated to my wife, Marlene, for her critical and wise advice, which has guided me throughout my life.
Bonn, October 2025
Title
Michael Ghanem
“ Thoughts Are Free ”
The Devil's Pond
A Fairy Tale
Copywright
© 2025 Michael Ghanem
Website: https://michael-ghanem.de/
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About the author
Michael Ghanem
https://michael-ghanem.de/
https://die-gedanken-sind-frei.org/
Born in 1949, Michael Ghanem grew up in France and graduated from an elite French university for industrial engineers. After moving to Germany, he studied economics, sociology, political science, philosophy and ethics.
Bonn, October 2025
In the field of philosophy, he was strongly influenced by the philosophy and teachings of Zarathustra, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Rabelais, Michael de Montaigne, Baruch de Spinoza, Thomas Aquinas, Ibn Chaldun, Niccolo Machiavelli, Rene Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Voltaire, Jean Jaques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried W. Leibniz, Auguste Comte, Arthur Schopenhauer, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Karl Marx, Henri Bergson, Karl Popper, Karl Jaspers, Erich Fromm. The Frankfurt School with its teachers Jürgen Habermas and Adorno have strongly influenced him, as have Michael Schmidt-Salomon, Claude Levy-Strauss, Dalai Lama, Luc Ferry, Peter Sloterdijk, Werner Lachmann, Amartya Sen, Oswald Nell-Brauning and Niklas Luhmann.
In sociology, he is strongly orientated towards the Cologne School with his teachers Rene König and Erwin K. Scheuch as well as Gustave Lebon. In political science, he was also influenced by the Cologne School or the Cologne-Mannheim School.
In the field of economics, he was strongly influenced by the post-Keynesian and behavioural economists. He is very critical of the teachings of Milton Friedmann, the Chicago Boys, the Freiburg School and Friedrich A. Hayek. He feels a close affinity with Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, James K. Galbraith, Daniel Kahneman, Thomas Piketty and the Club of Rome.
His professional career initially led him to an international organisation, for which he worked for 5 years as a project controller for large water projects, mainly in Africa, where he got to know a large number of countries and their leaders. He then worked for many years with a European organisation and several international consulting firms as a consultant for the modernisation of a wide range of industries and companies.
He sees himself as a critic of today's globalisation and has been a strong advocate of water management issues since 1974.
This experience has resulted in a deep understanding of geopolitical issues and enables him to assess current political developments, particularly against the background of economic interdependencies.
Since his retirement, he has lived in seclusion in Bonn and works as a writer. In his publications, he focuses primarily on the pressing social, economic and political issues of our time, as well as water management.
To date, numerous publications have appeared at on the topics of politics and geopolitics, society and the economy. He is the author of more than 100 books to date. In the field of politics, his main focus is a critical examination of Germany. Other topics include health, identity, racism, the environment, migration, water management, Africa, population development and alternative economic systems such as the anti-fragility economy. He has also published a number of short stories and fairy tales.
This is a selection of his publications to date:
Non-fiction books on politics, economics, society
Geopolitics
‘The Deep Fall of the West and the Bitter Tears of Europe, Part 1 - Introduction - A Critical Review of the West 1949-2023’
‘The Deep Fall of the West and the Bitter Tears of Europe, Part 2: Deep Fall of the Military, Building Blocks of Geopolitics, World Order in Transition, Conflict Potentials’
‘The Deep Fall of the West and the Bitter Tears of Europe, Part 3: Building Blocks of Military Potential - The End of Hegemony’
‘The Deep Fall of the West and the Bitter Tears of Europe, Part 4: Country Profiles - Multiple Systemic Failures - Accidents of History - Water and World Hunger - Climate and Energy Supergau - BRICS versus G7’
"The deep fall of the West and the bitter tears of Europe, Part 5: Problem cases: Population bomb migration, integration poverty and hunger raw materials"
‘Africa between curse and blessing Part 1: Water’
‘Water as a global power - Part 1: Overview and assessment 2021’
On the state of Germany
‘Germany's deep fall, Volume 1A Health’
‘Germany's deep fall, Volume 1B Health’
‘2005 - 2021 Germany's lost 16 years - Angela Merkel's balance sheet’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 1: Angela Merkel - An interim balance sheet’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 2: Political system - Quo vadis?’
‘2005-2018 Germany's Lost 13 Years Part 3: Society - Balance Sheet and Outlook’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 4: German economy - Quo vadis?’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 5: Internal security - Quo vadis?’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 6: Justice- Quo vadis?’
"2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 7: Health - Quo vadis? Volume A"
"2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 7: Health - Quo vadis? Volume B"
"2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 7: Health - Quo vadis? Volume C"
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 8: Poverty, old age, care - Quo vadis?’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 9: Building and renting in Germany - No thanks’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 10: Education in Germany’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 11: The decline of the media’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 12: Literature - Quo vadis - Part A’
‘2005-2018 Germany's lost 13 years Part 13: Development policy - Quo vadis - Part A’
German politics
"German identity - Quo vadis?
"German identity and homeland - Quo vadis?
"I know we can! An opportunity for Germany"
"The Germans - a cursed people?
‘The Greens or The Feminist Club - 10 reasons NOT to vote for the Greens’
‘AKK - No thanks!’
‘A chance for democracy’
‘Non-voters are also voters’
‘Germany's Titanic - The Berlin Republic’
‘In the stranglehold of the political parties, part 1’
"Lord forgive them not! For they know what they are doing!"
‘Symptoms of Germany's decline - do we have to put up with it?’
‘Is Germany built on sand?’
‘Four million disenfranchised Germans’
Economy and finance
‘Approaches to an anti-fragility economy’
‘In the stranglehold of the financial sector, part 1’
‘In the stranglehold of government debt, part 1’
‘In the stranglehold of government debt, part 2’
Population, migration, integration
‘In the stranglehold of migration and integration’
‘In the stranglehold of the population bomb, poverty and nutrition, part 1’
Racism
‘In the stranglehold of racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, right-wing radicalism, fascism, part 1’
‘Theses on the equality of the races’
‘Balance and decline and the fear of the white man’
Man and society
‘The power of the word’
‘The new horsemen of the apocalypse’
‘Crises in times of Corona, part 1’
‘Corona 2021 - Waiting for Godot’
‘Time - an unrecognised world power’ Volume 1 of the ‘Man & Society’ series
‘Only courage - stand up’
Stories
‘Adventure Germany: Confessions about this country -’
‘A little prince and a little blue siren’
"I often think ... of the Rue du Docteur Gustave Rioblanc - Sunken Island of Tolerance"
‘Tales of a shadow man’
‘21 days in a clinic full of fools’
‘Sayings and wisdom’
‘Leonidas the Great - I am a human being’
"50 years of life in Germany - A mistake? A destiny"
‘A road without a soul’
‘The devil's pond - a fairy tale’
‘The legend of the house by the lake’
‘If I were the Lord God one day’
‘Love means’
‘Thank you, Mr Teacher,’
‘The legend of the spring’
‘The legend of Annette - Dream of an unfulfillable love’
‘Peace and freedom: I wanted to plant an olive tree - I wanted to plant an orange tree’
‘The world is so beautiful’
‘The old ship - A tribute to old iron’
‘If she would read this, The little grande dame so brave for me’
"I can never stop loving you. Tender memories of 50 years together"
‘The forgotten strand of hair’
‘The lilac’
1. Foreword
The author drew inspiration for this story from fairy tales he knew from his childhood. In times past, such fairy tales were used to educate the children of kings and the elite, teaching them to think and act ethically and to strive for such behaviour.
