When the Continuum Becomes a Circle, from Kim Zussman
Putative freedom marketed using socialist demands and blackmail: "Attention YouTube: The Clock is ticking!"
Peter Ringel writes:
Oh god, that is painful!
You are describing it correctly.
I wonder how many in Germany will detect this sneak attack.
If he wouldn't be so imprisoned in his thought models of "job-security" and slave–employee vs greedy employer, he would realize that youtube content creators are little entrepreneurs and not worker-bees, that need rescue by a union.
I give them points for timing. The current wave of biased PC-censorship by youtube, twitter and Co gives them an opening.
Stalinism vs Trotskyism? (sorry getting hyperbolic)
The proposed solution: Lets throw another 1000 regulations on top of it to create "fairness".
The German mainstream media and public debate is full of nonsense of this nature.
I try to ignore it.
Otherwise I will get a heart attack. I simply feel too threatened by this nonsense.
Peter St. Andre writes:
Hallo Peter,
Good idea to ignore the nonsense! I went on a low-information diet 5-6 years ago and I've been much happier ever since:
Peter Ringel replies:
Hi Peter, You are right of course. I read a little in your journal before, especially your etymological analysis of the "-Isms". Great insights! Getting emotional about Germany/Europe is a bit of a tradition, that is hart to shake:
"Denk' ich an Deutschland in der Nacht,
Dann bin ich um den Schlaf gebracht,…"
Heinrich Heine (English Translation)
(Heine escaped to France, I escape to America.)