Penguin,
read Roland Baader's "Totgedacht. Warum Intellektuelle unsere Welt zerstören."
LINK You may or may not agree or disagree with liberalism and its economy and money theory, but in this book Baader goes more beyond that than in most of his other books. The historical link to explain the bias of the German "feuilleton", is to the socalled 68er generation, and the overtaking of all education and opinion-forming offices by their (very left-leaning) thinking and ideology: schools, universities, and by that: media, politics, last but not least "Geisteswissenschaften" and social and paedagogic "sciences", school teachers. Important parts of the state monopoly in socially relevant areas has been abused to spread this kind of thinking, especially schools and universities, wherew the poltical interference is massive and cannot be missed anymore, also the state TV and the almost gleichgeschalteten major newspapers. The original 68er are out of the job world already - but they had been given the opportunity to breed and implement their seeds deep into the education of future generations, since 40 years now. Generation 2 and 3 of their intellectual offsprings now have taken over from them. And that spells desaster.
We pay the price for that today. Our population voluntarily moves again according to the patterns and manipulative operations that once the Eastgerman StaSi and the Soviet KGB have tried - to control the Westgerman peace movement, the SPD, and to influence the media and the public opinion forming, to weaken support for NATO and the US: an effort to influence and destabilise the political situation in Westgermany. They would rub their eyes if they would still be there and see what is happening. It'sheir wet dream coming true.
What do you think why do politics now systemtically reduce and even delete history courses from schools?
A population not knowing history, cannot put political decisions of the present into historical relation, cannot compare, cannot assess competently the consequences. A population of poltical idiots gets formed that way, and that is ploltically wanted, so to not have critical thinking interfering with politicians' feudal governing. If there is one word that describes perfectly what is happening in Germany currently, than this word is "infantilization". We are all being turned into teletubbies - teletubbies who have a right to vote politicians into their desired offices, of course.
"Deutschland, Land der Dichter und Denker", das war einmal, und ist schon lange vorbei! Infantility trumps all! Merkelianism! Socialism!
Ich fühl mich gut, ich fühl mich toll, ich fühl mich einfach wundervoll! Collective solidarity with everything as most superior citizen's duty, and you better don't disagree with the plebs,
else...!! Consense-tyranny!
Europe falls, and we today must live to witness it. I nowadays watch it happening in slow motion with unmoved eyes, confused that such amounts of stupdity are still possible after the centuries of rise and knowledge- gathering. I cannot change it, and my energy to try, was and would be all wasted, I now understand. Every action has reaction, karma is consequence, the essence of justice is "deserve". Compassion I feel none anymore - its not needed, but would even be unfair, because undeserved.