Thanks, Mister Chancellor!

Dear Chancellor Kurz,

After your speech to the nation today, I would like to thank you. Though I agree with Armin Thurnher in his “Epidemic Column” that you obviously think of the party first and then of the country, but if your party thinks of the country, then it’s okay again anyway… 😉

We old people learned the rules differently. We old grew up before 1991, before the fall of communism and the rise of the internet. With us, in the analog world, there were still rules, a “before” and a “after”, a “first” and a “later”. There were clear divisions, divisions between places and times.

Today, a generation later, everything is there at the same time. Everything happens at once, everything at the same time and everywhere, “in real time” and “on the net”. We have become homeless, homeless and uprooted. We have thousands of “friends” and yet we are alone.

Today, in the virtual world, different rules apply. We old people have not yet mastered these rules. We’re lagging behind. We used to go ahead, today we are behind. Everything has become faster, everything has become digital, everything virtual. Unreal.

It’s time to pause. It’s time to calm down. It’s time to come to terms. Each of us knows that it can’t go on like this. Each of us knows that our planet is dying. Each of us knows that “climate change” is a sign; a sign we all don’t understand.

We all use up too many resources. We all use too much energy. We all use too much work. We humans have created so much and ruined so much in the process. Our culture destroys nature. This is the first and simplest law of mankind. Everything artificial is unnatural.

Let the artificial become virtual – and let the natural stay real. Let’s reflect on the essential, let’s slow down and come to rest.

Lockdown at last!

What do I want to tell you? I want to thank you. Many of us believe we could do better than you. But nobody can do better. Right now it’s your turn. And not only do you do it the best you can, you do it skillfully. Of course I don’t agree with everything, maybe not with a lot at all. (I’ve never voted for the People’s Party …) But:

I trust you. I think you got it. You have understood what it means to be Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria; that country that invented the Holocaust.

Dear Sebastian Kurz,

Thank you.

Sincerely

PW

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