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Scene from "God": It's a long, hard winter
Photo: Julia Ter / ARD
After hearing various politicians talk in different variations about the “long, hard winter” or “the hard winter that demands something from all of us” or just “the winter”, I am amazed every morning that the Germans are not out there yet Army invaded Switzerland to track Stalingrad.
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Joseph Shrub
Sibylle Berg is a writer and playwright.
In 2019 her bestselling novel "GRM. Brainfuck" was published, and in 2020 the discussion volume "Nerds save the world".
Berg has received numerous awards for her literary work, most recently the "Bertolt Brecht Prize" and the "Swiss Grand Prix for Literature".
Together with Matze Hielscher she can be heard every 14 days in the podcast "Wesensfremd".
I have no idea what the constant murmur of horror does to others, it makes me look glassy and dull.
Heating and internet are still fine.
Not many friends of mine anymore, they are slowly running out of money after an almost complete year of absence in the theaters.
Me too, soon.
No matter.
The tax bill is coming soon, incoherently occurs to me.
It's going to be a hard, long winter, I understand we're all going to die.
The ARD chamber play »Gott« by the author Ferdinand von Schirach about dying was heavily advertised.
After that there was probably another Lanz, Maischberger, Illner broadcast, where theologians and doctors commented on the subject, also only presumed.
Maybe also a terminally ill person.
Who knows.
I lasted about ten minutes in the televised game.
It sounded like a lawyer had a glass of tea and then copied from various law books.
The actresses struggled through sentences like Wikipedia entries, and anyway, it was about dying.
Dying is a hot topic right now.
ARD soon followed up with a hot selection hit: the death algorithm.
Good horror, the development of a super AI that makes the difference between life and death (Will the AI kill us all? Sure).
The point is to carefully weigh the costs and benefits of a treatment.
The question is always which criteria are entered and on whose behalf.
Insurance?
I trust them blindly.
Private hospitals?
Well, what can go wrong there?
I think: At the moment the extinction of certain parts of the population is being negotiated with such audacity that I am perplexed.
That is the end point of the deliberately promoted de-solidarization and competition against each other.
Even when you're dying you don't have peace and quiet.
To die now means: He / she has lost the fight!
Competition down to the last breath, which is now being outsourced to code chains that determine the value of the individual even more effectively and precisely.
So at the moment it is mostly elderly, sick people who are dying, I don't know whether the pandemic would be handled differently if it only hit white male managers in their mid-thirty to fifty-years-old.
Secret name: manager plague.
Or just billionaires.
Although - that's nonsense, this target group has no general insurance, probably not even hospitals.
What we are currently experiencing is inhumanity and disdain unleashed.
As this author puts it so beautifully on the subject of end-of-life care: "The redemption that one grants to the beloved pet should also be granted to the person."
Your name is neither Covid nor Corona, but late capitalism.
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