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#tight it all up: irony stress test for German society

2021-04-23T18:41:50.525Z


When relationships are over, sarcasm is often the only thing left. Some cultural workers are apparently so disappointed with politics that they resort to this stylistic device.


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Videos of the campaign #allesdichtmachen:

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Photo: #allesdichtmachen / picture alliance / dpa

When everything is said and you know it, all that's left is sarcasm.

"Sure," says the man, when the woman is grumbling again, "and of course you are the greatest," the woman poisons back.

Everything is turned through the meat grinder of contemplation, you hate each other, but still love each other or in any case you can't leave each other.

At this stage of exhausted disappointment with the government, politics, science and the sad back and forth between half and quarter o'clock, the actors seem to be who are distributing notes on the present under the hashtag #allesdichtmachen - somehow against the Corona -Measures, somehow completely with bitterness and a last revolt, but also without any idea how it could be better.

But it should be different.

But you don't want to belong to the corona deniers and anti-measure hooligans, which is why, like Heike Makatsch, with impeccable funeral pathos, you "deeply regret" such a misunderstanding after a few hours.

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Certainly it was

thought of

in a

sophisticated

way, a kind of irony stress test for German society, which is practically identical to total lack of humor, we know that and we deeply regret it.

After all, we now have something to talk about, in this deserted place in the village, where you usually exchange the gossip of the week and where no one is standing now, because everyone has to stay at home, where they piss each other off Raise eyes accusingly to the sky and wearily stretch out a little fist towards fate.

With the irony, the sarcasm, the cynical wave of disapproval, it is unfortunately the same as with all other forms of communication:

It's all about context, baby.

This is the living room of the individual, from Jan-Josef Liefers to his followers: inside. What they do with it is up to them. If you attend the next anti-corona measures demo with a Liefers mask over your face, the next deep regret is certainly due. Until then there is at least entertainment while you wait for the pizza delivery guy.

Source: spiegel

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