Circa twenty years ago, after the Berlin Wall had fallen,
and the two halves of Germany were being painfully reassembled, the New
Jersey-based company Franklin Electronic Publishers, where I worked as
Editor-in-Chief, hosted two executives in lexicography from the venerable
Langenscheidt company. I
picked them up at their hotel near my home in Princeton, and drove them to our
headquarters in Mount Holly.
On the way, I asked them about the affect of Reunification on the German
language.
To my surprise, they were not especially interested in the
question. More surprising
was the reason : in their
estimation, the German language, far from being strengthened by the new
political accession of fellow-speakers, would recede more and more from use,
and eventually go the way of Danish.
And to my astonishment
(particularly coming from German bilingual-lexicographers, for whom their
language, and the desires of foreigners to learn it, is meat and drink), this
prospect left them curiously indifferent.
By most of the Gutmenschen
of today’s Europe, such acedia (misconstrued as sang-froid) in the face of the
expected inevitable, would be reckoned admirable. But I found it strangely troubling.
Nota bene: The
unreferenced expected inheritor of the German-language mantle was English. Little did they imagine that, in some now-conceivable
scenarios, it could one day be Arabic.
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With comparable astonishment, the world now beholds
Germany’s self-dilution, quite possibly leading to self-dissolution.
Apart from the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this might
be the beginnings of the most significant geopolitical (voire, demographic -- which ultimately trumps all else) development
in our lifetimes.
To all this, I shall have no comment.
In part, because it’s not principally my battle (though I
care about this deeply).
In part, because hardly anyone reads this blog anyway (nor
is politics really its brief; vielmehr, Theologia Mathematika).
But principally, because there is already abundant
intelligent and impassioned commentary from Germans, and from all who care
about Germany -- nay, Deutschtum überhaupt. -- Not,
however, in the pages of the MainStream Media, which has long been gurgling
with Gutmenschenschwärmerei. Rather, in the lengthy and well-reasoned readers’ comments,
on sites like Telepolis or Die Zeit (in the latter case, massively contrary to
the bisounours editorial line.) [Later, I hope to append a selection of
these.
Kurz gefasst:
Apart from Thilo Sarrazin’s monster bestseller, from which I
have borrowed the title of this post, consult:
Hurra, wir kapitulieren! Von der
Lust am Einknicken ist ein 2006 erschienenes Buch von Henryk M. Broder, das
einerseits die Haltung der Regierungen Europas gegenüber Islamisten,
andererseits die angebliche Zurückhaltung und Selbstzensur der intellektuellen
Linken Deutschlands gegenüber dem Islam scharf und auf polemische Weise
kritisiert.
Hurra! Wir kapitulieren !!! |
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Interlude:
Die Deutsche Sprache schafft sich
ab
Using my wife’s tablet, I attempted to bring up
DeutscheWelle. It brought up only
the English-language site. I
specifically added “.de”; stubbornly, it changed that to “.com” and
re-presented the English site. So
I went to the German Wikipedia and clicked on the link labeled “Offizielle
Webpräsenz”: it too brought me to the English site!
Well, maybe that’s just the tablet. It has recently introduced a
dumbed-down version of news.google.[…];
I was able to revert to the original presentation on the English
version, with a few clicks, but
these didn’t work for the French and German.
So I tried it on the MacIntosh: same deal.
Ultimately I found the real site by having bookmarked an
article, back when you could still get to it easily, and from this clicked
through to: http://www.dw.com/de/themen/s-9077. [That is just today’s;
I never was able to pull up a permanent German homepage.]
[Weiteres zum Thema hier.]
[Weiteres zum Thema hier.]
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In Deutschland herrscht “helpers’ high” (a.k.a. “Sommermärchen”, “Glückswelle”, & “Willkommenshysterie”).
It is a strange
phenomenon. At the Bahnhofs,
ecstatic welcome is extended to Germany’s future (and partly present)
gravediggers. This
euphoria is hailed in all of Germany’s mainstream media, and nay-sayers are
smacked with the “Nazikeule”.
Our genes stopped
working.
Could you replace us
please?
(We left the key under the mat.)
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The reasons for all this, surpass my understanding.
The madness of crowds. So was ist in Mitteleuropa schon passiert, zur
Lebenszeit Freuds und Jungs; aber
weder dieser noch jener hat das Phänomen richtig zu bewerten gewusst.
For now, we’ll simply cite a sharp-eyed reader’s comment:
Und wehe es argumentiert jemand dagegen. Er wird zwar nicht als
"Volksschädling" bezeichnet, aber sehr ähnlich behandelt.
Stigmatisiert wird er, ausgeschlossen, erhält Redeverbot und ist
sozial ausgeschlossen vom kollektiven Glücksempfinden.
Und 1933 in Deutschland und 38 in Österreich war es sicher ähnlich.
Diese zermürbenden Parteistreitereien waren plötzlich weg, alle im
Gefühl der glänzenden Zukunft geeint.
Wir erleben ein Massenphänomen.
Wir erleben Politik der Gefühle.
Wir erleben Faschismus in einer ganz unerwartenden Form.
"Volksschädling" bezeichnet, aber sehr ähnlich behandelt.
Stigmatisiert wird er, ausgeschlossen, erhält Redeverbot und ist
sozial ausgeschlossen vom kollektiven Glücksempfinden.
Und 1933 in Deutschland und 38 in Österreich war es sicher ähnlich.
Diese zermürbenden Parteistreitereien waren plötzlich weg, alle im
Gefühl der glänzenden Zukunft geeint.
Wir erleben ein Massenphänomen.
Wir erleben Politik der Gefühle.
Wir erleben Faschismus in einer ganz unerwartenden Form.
~
Superb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_8kc19DL70&app=desktop
[Update 23 Sept 2015]
Swimming in the river of humanity
are shady characters, too, admitted criminals, ISIS sympathizers and a couple
of guys from Fallujah, one with a fresh bullet wound, who when asked their
occupation seemed confused.
“Army,” said one. His friend
corrected him. “We’re all drivers,” he said.
[Update 8 Oct 2015] Mum's the word:
Dieser Artikel kann nicht
kommentiert werden.
[Nov 2015] "With Open Gates":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0hD7IffTJs
Allgemeines zum Thema:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2015/04/autolytic-empathy_30.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0hD7IffTJs
Allgemeines zum Thema:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2015/04/autolytic-empathy_30.html
[Update 9 January 2016]
Travelers’ phrasebook
Enjoy your stay in
Germany !
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[Update Juni 2016]
http://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/ruhrgebiet/bin-laden-leibwaechter-klagt-gegen-abschiebung-100.html
Seit 2006 hat der Verfassungsschutz Sami A. im Visier. Er
soll enger Vertrauter von Osama Bin Laden gewesen sein und zu seiner Leibgarde
gehört haben. Die Stadt Bochum wollte ihn bereits mehrfach in sein Heimatland
zurückschicken. Am Mittwoch (15.06.2016) hat das Verwaltungsgericht
Gelsenkirchen entschieden, dass er nicht abgeschoben werden darf.
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