A poet with a mocking heart,
roamed the streets of time,
from digital markets, to temples of power;
and behold: left and right a cry resounded,
that could not be more identical:
“ Recently, oh what a spectacle, the right has been raising its voice against the status quo, with a critique that—brace yourselves!—is the very echo of the left’s lamentations. Tucker Carlson, that envoy of indignation, and the crypto disciples reveling in the digital gold rush, are the colorful standard-bearers of this drama. Some, believing themselves savants, are reaching for the horseshoe to interpret this spectacle.
But, with all due respect, this is a farce for fools! ”
“…”
“ Nonsense , ” I say, wiping my brow. “ These right-wingers, with their zeal to tear apart the status quo, are also pointing the finger at the “left”—a phantom of their own making, a mishmash of liberals, postmodernists, wokeists, and, oh horror, even Marxists!”
Poschi's "Shitbürgertum", —a term seemingly coined in the mindset of a shitposter and as clumsy as a sack of potatoes—is a shining example of this nonsense. "
“ But why? ” asks the astute mind, “ are they aping the left-wing critique that has been in the air for decades? ”
“ Oh, my friends, here blows the wind of perfidy, a wind of »pure Niedertracht!« !
It is a clever move, a selfish maneuver to seize power. They sense the collapse of the neoliberal temple and see their hour has come. So they seize the left-wing critique, which has only gained relevance over the years, and twist it, like a conjurer his shells, til it has become a weapon – against those who once conceived it. Two birds with one stone, what a masterstroke! They fish in the murky waters of people's despair and paint their rivals, the left, as demons in order to marginalize the liberals.
Such deception is familiar from old fairy tales. Evil continually slips into a seductive mask, with a poisonous apple that plunges the unsuspecting into ruin. "Fitna," as Islam calls it, a word that whitewashes lies. But how does one protect oneself from such deception? Only through knowledge and wisdom, my dear friends, which are far removed from the mere informational chatter that bombards us every day.
Yes, information, these false narratives, blind us to the truth. With their inflated self-confidence, they suffocate our ability to separate lies from truth, like a pillow smothers a sleeper.
And so, because our culture has fallen in love with this morass, the coming decade will be a carnival of madness: right-wing radicalism, technosocialism, polarization, violence, and fear, all driven by cognitive dissonance that staggers through the alleys like a drunken dancer. —While some reading this may have already intellectually unfollowed, you, of the liberal arts, remain united in beauty, truth and goodness. “