Wartime

Große Ohren kommen,
wenn man meint, dass du das Falsche denkst,
wenn du die falschen Leute kennst,
wenn du dich in den falschen Kreisen herumtreibst,
und Briefe an die falschen Personen schreibst,
wenn man meint, du hast etwas zu verstecken,
eventuell sogar kräftig Dreck am Stecken,
wenn du die falsche Einstellung hegst,
und du die falschen Gewohnheiten pflegst,
die falschen Bücher liest
und die falschen Filme siehst -

Man sagt dann,
du hast dich der falschen Gruppe angeschlossen,
den falschen Lebenslauf beschlossen,
du bist ein Feind unserer Demokratie,
leidest an Megalomanie,
du musst weg, auf der Stelle!
ab in eine dunkle Zelle,
Wir helfen dir wieder ganz zu sein!
zurück zum schönen Schein,
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Was, du willst nicht?!
Ach, wie kann das sein!
Bist du ein dummes Schwein!
Du willst unsere Liebe nicht,
siehst die Dinge nicht aus unserer Sicht
Raus mit dir, verpiss dich!
Mach doch rüber, da versteht man dich!
Ach nein, das geht ja nicht mehr,
und überhaupt, wollen wir deinen Verstand so sehr,
es gibt nur den einen Weg
und zwar den, auf dem wir alle steh'n!

Große Ohren werden kommen
und sie werden dich mitreißen wie eine Welle...
Tritt auf der Stelle,
oder versteh', was um dich geschieht,
wenn sich eine Welt die Wahrheit zurechtbiegt,
wirst du es kaum erkennen,
nichts bewegt sich durch herumflennen
und nichts bewegt sich, wenn du nur herumschreist,
die einen gehen anderen gern auf den Geist,
die anderen lernen bevor sie tun,
und erfahren, es braucht etwas mehr bevor sie ruhen.

Information vanishes when the last one to tell it dies.

First, there were fights over religion, then it was political ideologies, now it's about which food to eat.
Mankind really is bored like an overdeveloped ape with too much free time on his hands, isn't it?

Wisst ihr, warum der gesamte Westen nicht sagen kann "Kriminelle Asylanten lassen wir nicht rein in unser Land!" ( = Leute, die Asyl beantragen, die einem anderen Land bereits eine Straftat begangen haben)?
Weil sie dann ihre ganzen politisch liebsamen Flüchtlinge, die in ihrer Hemisphäre zu "Freiheitskämpfern" erhoben werden, während sie in ihrer Heimat als Kriminelle gesucht werden oder bereits verurteilt wurden, nicht mehr legal ins Land lassen könnten!
Diese würde die gleiche Regelung ebenfalls ereilen!
Genauso, wenn man plötzlich einen Teil der Bevölkerung eines anderen Landes zu seiner eigenen erklärt, ihnen die eigene Staatsbürgerschaft verleiht, um sie dem anderen Land als Bevölkerung zu entreißen!

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You know why the whole West can't state "We don't let any criminal asylum seekers into our country!" ( = people who sign an application for asylum that have committed or been sentenced for crimes in their home countries)?
Because then they couldn't let those political refugees of the pleasantly kind legally in anymore which they call "freedom fighters" in their hemisphere while those are wanted in their home countries or have already been convicted!
Rulings like that would apply to these too!
The same when they suddenly declare a part of another country's populace to be populace of their own and give them their own citizenship to take them away out of the sphere of influence of that other country!

Ein Panzer hat keine Rücklichter und er piept auch nicht beim rückwärts fahren!

Tanks got no reversing lights and they don't beep while driving backwards!

What would somebody say who died 10 years ago about the fuss that takes place today?
In politics as well as society as well as technology - how things in general developed during the last decade?
Would he think "the better that I have died, that's even worse than when I was still alive"?
Or would he say "I should have stayed, just to try to make a change in all these things"?
What about somebody who killed himself?
Would he be happy about his deed?
Would he scream in horror how the world has become, compared to 10 years ago?
What would his words be about Facebook, about streaming, about the current state the world is in - the economical crisis, the West's fight with Russia, the war in Syria, Libya, newly grown information sources that didn't exist back then?
Also, what would he say about culture, about current trends? About the rise of German Schlager, the dropping in the background of Hiphop, the rise of softened Electro House and the current remake mania in Hollywood?
What would he say if he heard that now it's a trend for the lost youth to travel to the Middle East and play "Call Of Duty" for real - voluntarily?

Sometimes it would be better if someone was alive again who didn't follow all these developments, just to give you a more distanced opinion, free from the political correctness of today, free from the frames and shapes which society and public likes to think in during current times.
Having been gone opens a door to potentially give you new ideas. Ideas you wouldn't have if you talked to somebody who's a child of his time and narrow-minded as the current episode is.
Too long ago may become a problem as the changes over 20 and 30 years or more are too huge for someone to comprehend in a small amount of time. There would be the danger of becoming overwhelmed by impressions.
Many things changed in a longer episode of time.

But even during the last 10 years, you have some things which totally took a major development, while you have others where you would say "business as usual". Nothing has changed.
The stupification of mankind hasn't stopped, quite the opposite, it has increased. Through the invention of smartphones and social media shifting from a text-based to a photo- and video-based issue. Bullying and mobbing hasn't vanished from the face of the earth, its results only have become quieter and no-one talks about it anymore loudly. Children themselves don't take a gun into their hands anymore nessecarily to make it known.
Adults don't have more time for their offspring, they even whip themselves some more and force themselves onto their place of work.
Poverty didn't disappear. And the rich have even grown richer than they used to be.
The only thing that maybe has become different, making an interesting change in the pack of cards, that keeping secrets has become more critical for the states. Not only is it more of an importance for them to survive than before, but also the means to do it need to scatter because it is more likely that somebody might get something out and show it to the public. Not all people entrusted with confidential information still agree on or are convinced of keeping their secrets anymore.
Also, there has grown an echo chamber which specialized in picking these things up and spread it as their own propaganda, just like you're used to it from the notorious usual suspects.
This changes the game of what to believe and what not to believe.

Someone who died earlier and was sick of this system might find its joy with the new circumstances...

Maybe there's a reason why the American establishment wants to colonize Mars so badly: If they can build themselves a shelter on a distant planet, maybe they think "oh, now we can make nuclear war as we want, we don't need to have consideration for anyone anymore - if we want something, we get that something by all means!".
They don't need to care about the destruction anymore, but about the business value.

Wenn alles immer nur gut werden soll, warum wird es dann trotzdem immer schlechter?

If everything shall only improve, why then do things only turn worse and worse?

Führerscheinentzug für nicht gezahlten (Kindes-)Unterhalt und andere Delikte, die überhaupt nichts mit jemandes Fahrtauglichkeit zu tun haben - wisst ihr was das ist? Daumenschraube.
Es soll sie niemand mehr einen Fehltritt erlauben, sonst könnte es für ihn den Einstieg in den Ruin bedeuten. Für die Meisten bedeutet Führerscheinentzug zeitgleich auch den Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes - Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes durch mutwilliges Handeln, bringt einem kein Hartz IV ein; wenn man also nicht gerade jemanden kennt, der einen durchfüttert oder Geld leiht, oder der für einen mitarbeitet (was Partner in der Regel tun), bedeutet das herbe Einschnitte. Eine herbe Kettenreaktion.
An solchen finanziellen Dramen sind schon ganze Familien zerbrochen.
Ganz zu schweigen davon, dass man durch den Entzug in seiner Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, in seiner Chance, von einem anderen Arbeitgeber angestellt zu werden, merklich beeinträchtigt ist, weil eine Erlaubnis, ein Kraftfahrzeug zu fahren, heutzutage schon dermaßen zu einer Standardvoraussetzung geworden ist wie ein Schulabschluss.
Niemand wird also versuchen, diese Kette in Gang zu werfen - es tunlichst vermeiden.

Ein netter Aspekt über die "Wiedervereinigung", den man wissen sollte: Abschlüsse, die nicht anerkannt werden, Geburtsurkunden, die nicht anerkannt werden - nur, weil dort ein Stempel mit Hammer, Zirkel und Ährenkranz drauf ist. Als hätten es sich die Leute aussuchen können, in welchem von beiden Staaten sie geboren werden.
Da weiß man schon gleich, dass man nur annektiert wurde.


A nice aspect about the German reunification that everyone should know: Graduations and degrees that don't get acknowledged, birth certificates that don't get acknowledged - only because there's a stamp depicturing hammer, dividers and garland of corn* on it. (*Note: It seems like there's no proper translation for "Hammer, Zirkel und Ährenkranz", so I took it word by word. As such it means the symbol in the flag of the GDR that distinguished the black, yellow and red German flag of that German state from the flag of West Germany, which can be found in the same colors, but blank in that middle space or with the black federal eagle instead.)
As if the people could have chosen which one of both states they were born in.
Such aspects let you know right away that haven't been reunified, but you have been annexed.