As much as I love my hometown, I can also hate it viscerally: for its provinciality and nationalism culminating in the city’s mind-numbing and degenerate carnival festivities fueled by the home-brewn beer called Kölsch, or for the mismanaged and ugly build-up of the city after 95% of it was destroyed in the merciless bombings of …
“It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.” Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles September 2020: Corona and the endless rule & policy insanities connected it are still going strong in Germany and many other countries across the globe. In what seems to be a sharp paradigm change towards …
