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Singer Nena 2019 at a performance in Frankfurt am Main: "Positive change"
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A Gabriele Susanne Kerner from Hagen wrote something on Instagram from which we can learn a lot about madness - our own.
Ms. Kerner, 60, is better known than Nena.
People like Nena.
Therefore, yesterday's message has been viewed more than 120,000 times at this time.
Your words are now considered to an interested public as proof that after a dancer, a potty singer, a cook and another pop bag, it doesn't matter, now the singer fell into the rabbit hole of the corona deniers.
This interested public is also under stress, their willingness to jump is enormous, no stick is too low for them.
And the pitchforks are close at hand.
After "the" Wendler made "serious accusations" to the federal government and various media on the basis of a telephone call with Attila Hildmann, there was indeed great anticipation.
Who'll go crazy next?
Many would have been happy about Til Schweiger, but Nena also suits them.
We agnostic laicists can no longer cope with spirituality.
Nena has by no means, as it is said, made a cryptic contribution.
It is quite clearly a religiously motivated message to her fans.
We agnostic laicists cannot cope with spirituality for good reasons.
This does not release us from subjecting the text of Nena, like all religious texts, to a thorough exegesis.
Scripture begins with the sentence: "I have my deep faith in God. This is where my trust comes from in life".
This is a simple creed and cannot be denied.
It should be there and must be respected.
Indeed, Nena is a spiritual person whatever that may be, in her case presumably a bespoke syncretism.
First, in 1989 Nena lost her first born child, a son.
He wasn't a year old.
There are people who, for less reason, go in search of answers to final questions.
Second, Nena was the queen of the world in the 1980s.
25 million records of "99 Luftballons" alone have been sold to date, and the title was even in second place in the US charts - right behind Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson ("Say, Say, Say").
At the time, Nena was 23 years old.
Insisting on common sense is always a warning sign.
Long and sad is the list of older and more experienced artists who paid for such an early and such gigantic success with their lives or their mental health.
Anyone who has ever had the displeasure of seeing her backstage or in an interview knows that Nena has what the more tolerant British call "whimsy".
However, it is not alone in the industry.
She further writes: "And I have my common sense, which breaks down the information and the scare tactics that pour in from the outside into all its parts".
Well, the insistence on supposedly common sense is always a red flag.
In science, one speaks of the Dunning-Kruger effect when people who are half-knowing consider themselves to be particularly clever.
This is also indicated by the narrowing of "information" and "scare tactics".
So she lumps cause and individual effect into one pot - only to be able to immediately dismantle both "into all individual parts" and thus render them harmless.
A simple maneuver to cushion the impact of a threatening reality.
This reality consists of things "flowing in from the outside".
Who would deny that?
Isn't that aptly sketched out virological events?
In any case, "allegations" against the federal government, the press or reptilian octopus people paid for by alien lizards with the blood of young children cannot be read out.
We do not read a political statement, but esoterically trembling lines of touching awkwardness.
The following sentence also reminds us of this: "And so it is possible for me not to be hypnotized by fear into the darkness".
Fear is actually a bad advisor.
Here it does not lead to drivel about a "New World Order", but straight into the darkness - and thus to one of the oldest religious motifs of all.
Xavier Naidoo acknowledged the post with a heart emoji, the modern equivalent of blessing.
Late antique Manichaeism already conjured up the eternal struggle between the forces of darkness and the current album by Nena ("Light"), which is woven in here as a subtle product reference: "Let's go into the light and stand for love, because despite all madness, that we are experiencing here, I believe and know that the positive change can no longer be stopped ".
So spoke Nena.
It remains to be seen what the "positive change" consists of and who might be interested in stopping it.
But that's the way it is in the genre of religious beliefs, the meaning of some words eludes the exegete and is only revealed to other believers - like the well-known very pious Xavier Naidoo, who promptly acknowledged Nena's contribution with a heart emoji, the modern equivalent of a blessing.
What she can not do anything for, even if she praises his sermon ("What we cannot do alone, we can do together") elsewhere.
Nena may well be irradiated, but her wavelength is clearly different from that of other warriors of light.
In any case, it cannot be inferred from her words that she will soon go underground (or to Telegram) to sing about "99 aluminum hats" or intend to set fire to the Reichstag together with Qanon.
Indignation to be shown the next supposed freak.
As a precaution, her management has already explained what Nena means by "positive change".
There are "many aspects of our coexistence and our society in need of improvement", and the artist believes "that these grievances can and will change for the better".
Who would not do that?
The list of musicians whose careers could not harm murder, manslaughter, drug trafficking, rape and membership in Scientology is long and high-profile.
So it would be appropriate to let a Gabriele Susanne Kerner her harmless belief.
Anyone who wants to can scoff at it.
But if there is something really delusional about this affair, it is the dubious indignation of an interested public to see the next supposed freak brought before them.
It doesn't help anyone and only encourages the
really
crazy.
And there are currently enough of them.
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