As Europe continues to stand paralyzed in the face of the inrushing human
tide, all an observer Stateside can do, is to wonder why they let it come
about.
A percipient essay in today’s Die Zeit -- a prominent
newspaper, and long among the cheerleaders of the Gutmenschen narrative, but at
last having second thoughts -- analyzes the psychology of the Kuschel-klatscher:
Ich und mein Syrer
Nach dem ersten Begeisterungsschock
herrscht eine merkwürdige Angespanntheit in Deutschland. Das hat einen Grund:
Die Flüchtlinge sind immer noch da.
Von Nina Pauer
As for what motivates Merkel, it is anybody’s guess. In her public appearances, she
continues to offer calm and lucidly worded defense of a disasterous policy,
with no intimation that she might ever change her mind. (One must at least admire her composure, in the face of
increasingly strident public criticism, and anguished appeals from her own
party ranks.) Personally, I
suspect that her background as a pastor’s daughter may be in play; but many are much less charitable. Some posit an Atlanticist Conspiracy, and claim that she is
taking orders from her American masters.
(If so, someone should alert those American masters. Why the US should desire its European
allies to descend into chaos, is never explained.)
The most exotic of the Verschwörungs-theorien is that the DDR-born Chancelloress,
under the code-name “Erika”, was
an agent of the Stasi (indeed, a great many East Germans were, to one extent or
another) and that -- wait for it -- she is still
faithfully carrying out a long-ago-hatched Communist plan for the destruction
of the West.
(Such, mutatis mutandis, is the plot of the classic Cold War
novel, twice filmed, The Manchurian Candidate. The eponymous protagonist is a sleeper
agent -- though unwitting -- and his controller is his imperious Mutti who, come to think of it, looks a lot
like Angela Merkel.)
Well. It is
tempting to pursue that plotline satirically, as we have done with so much
else. But this is all too real,
and inching towards tragedy (while, impassive on Olympus, the gods look
on). So if you’re
hankering for some good old conspiracy-mongering, I refer you instead (though
my heart is not in it) to our extensive files on …
(I earlier observed, that the self-satirizing antics of the
Republican Presidential candidates
put credentialed satirists such as ourself out of work.
But neither can we satirize a tragedy.)
[Update 18 Nov 2015] Terror and Satire: a contrary view.
http://www.focus.de/kultur/kino_tv/terrorismus-satire-in-terrorzeiten-ist-alles-erlaubt_id_5093192.html
http://www.focus.de/kultur/kino_tv/terrorismus-satire-in-terrorzeiten-ist-alles-erlaubt_id_5093192.html
ICH MUSS MICH BEI FRAU MERKEL ENTSCHULDIGEN. Ich habe sie einmal die mandschurische Kanzlerin genannt, aber das kann nicht zutreffen, da ja der Chip im Gehirn implantiert ist, aber die hat kein Gehirn. Oder wie sonst soll man sich erklären, dass sie derzeit beim schlimmsten Ziegenficker der jüngeren türkischen Geschichte die Bombardements der Russen verteufelt, ohne die geliebten amerikanischen Verbündeten zu nennen, die das ganze Schlammassel aus purer Geldgier verursacht haben ? Hunderttausende Tote und Folteropfer durch CIA + Konsorten. Nie gehört davon Frau Ferkel ?
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