I’m leafing through the TV program right now – made of paper, so nostalgic! – and the synopsis of a feature film jumps out at me: “Peter Parker can’t enjoy his trip to Europe with some friends because evil forces from a parallel world are aiming to destroy mankind.” Yes, shit, that’s annoying, of course. Something similar happened to me once. I once drove to Hungary with a couple of friends in a mobile home, but then the weather at Lake Balaton was so bad, then we went back and over to Italy, and you have no idea what an endless drive it was through the middle of the Night, what’s more, I had already changed forints! Well, maybe not comparable 1:1, but it was also corrosive back then.
I don’t know, is that still a first world problem if you can’t enjoy your vacation carefree because foreign powers want to destroy mankind? Of course, the light-heartedness goes a bit farther, but a lot of other people can’t afford a vacation at all! So, check your privileges, and don’t be silly. I think that’s how many people think, and that’s how you have to keep it in this super travel summer.
You have to be able to treat yourself sometimes
Of course, there are also evil forces in our time and world that strive for the annihilation of at least parts of humanity and European democracies, as well as stupid forces that want a renaissance of nuclear power. And it just doesn’t look that great with the planet, the said humanity and all that fuss. But you also have to be able to treat yourself and enjoy a carefree – attention, catchword – “well-deserved” holiday (unless, of course, some assistant from the hotel has stolen all the reservation towels from the beach chairs, I can THROUGH-H, really !).
Speaking of villains who want to destroy democracy: when we were roaming around Hungary back then, Victor Orbán was still, I don’t know, cryogenically frozen or something. In any case, it only started later on a large scale over there with the nationalist roaring, since then the weather at Lake Balaton hasn’t interested me that much either. And if we’re talking about the deluded masses: here in Munich, 90,000 people attended an open-air concert by Andreas Gabalier last week.
Again for better understanding: We are talking about 90,000 (!) people who were at a concert by Andreas Gabalier (!). Most of them get to vote, and each and every one of them could probably explain why that “Layla” madam song isn’t so bad after all, you woker square!, the Spider Murphy Gang used to sing about prostitution too! Hm. Speaking from the point of view of the Siberian tiger, the pond turtle and the sea anemones, the annihilation of mankind wouldn’t be such a bad move, by the way. Just sayin’.
This column first appeared in the Musikexpress issue 10/2022.