Unfortunately, there is no such thing as the original meter in Paris as a measure of the level of crisis in the world. Otherwise you could take action on the Cuban missile crisis, Chernobyl, September 11, the financial crisis or the refugee crisis and link them to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, climate change and industrial downsizing and say: children, behave you not like that. room for improvement, and anyway: it’s still fun, as they say in the Catholic Rhineland.
Relativism is the enemy of alarmism – but the relativists are now seen as rejecters and deniers of reality. The Federal President also admits that people tend to paint things black, as it were, because of their species in his new book We and then make it clear that the situation used to be ‘regularly better than the mood’, but that is no longer the case today: ‘Now the situation is really difficult.’ In other words: This time it’s different! This time it’s really serious.