What to do with hate when it grows like cancer? phew If ANYONE else pushes a “lateral thinker” discussion on me, if I read about ANY escalated demonstration by corona deniers, then I’ll get the multiple vaccination, stomach and brain breakthrough here! All of this can no longer be true. What’s up with the people? Living in the wealthiest country in Europe, pimped from an early age, and are so scared of a needle and the evil world it represents that they would even do with a civil war in “self-defense” (almost funny when people use that word, whose most blatant first-hand experience with need and misery is that Aldi once ran out of wet toilet paper).
Adults, spoiled by wealth and blinded, incapable of empathy and unfit for living together in a society based on solidarity – and all out of fear, fear, fear. “Don’t be so afraid for what little life you have!” we used to call out to a shitty friend. Yes: we were young, stupid and without a feeling what it meant to be threatened in one’s life. But look: We then got older and learned new things! And also beware when the sages have spoken: “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear breeds anger, anger breeds hate, hate breeds suffering.” Says Master Yoda. It has never been as valuable as it is today.
Apparently we all belong sooner or later against the wall
“Where does the hatred go?” asked Jochen Distelmeyer on his first solo record HEAVY (I now deny the fact that it’s already 12 years old, because that would mean that I – whoops! – was almost 50! I’m a skeptic of aging , trust alternative timekeeping and stand by my opinion that HEAVY came out three years ago!). People “hate quietly until someone tells them: where to put the hate”. And that’s what they’ve been told for a year and a half now, in YouTube videos, on Telegram, on demos, etc.: Their hatred is due – logical! – those who are struggling to maneuver the country through the corona crisis and everyone who supports this “system” (which also means that people like you can be annoying around here and don’t end up in a labor camp like elsewhere): law enforcement officers, journalists* inside, administrative officials, sometimes gas station cashiers. Teachers soon? Doctors? Restaurateurs and artists who support infection protection?
Apparently we all belong sooner or later against the wall. In 1979, Jello Biafra recommended “A holiday in Cambodia” to those who had so wrapped themselves up in an affluent society that they had lost their “moral compass”. Today, a two-week winter spa stay on the Polish-Belarusian border would be an option for some to regain their senses. And when you’re on the road, please take my hate with you too. You caused it, it is meant for you. And I don’t want him anymore.
This column first appeared in the Musikexpress issue 02/2022.