Jacques Schuster wrote up a fine article for WELT (worth a read if you can get the paper at a stand)....entitled 'Luckily, The Western World Is Not Led By German Intellectuals'.
So his criticism (which I've tended to suggest for several years) is that intellectuals of Germany seem to crank out public debate....after public debate....after public debate. You could spend four-hundred man-hours a year....viewing these public debates via public TV (ZDF, ARD, and the lesser public networks).
As Schuster does sum it up in a simple fashion....the intellectuals deliver except on one key element...."lack of sense of responsibility".
There are probably well over three-thousand different 'worries' that now exist in Germany.
About two years ago via my regional public TV network....I got the hyped-up discussion over closets being too full of clothing which people don't wear often. This led into some expert coming to a apartment and laying out all the clothing....then identifying that about one-quarter of all assets....had been worn one single time in two years since the purchase. Another quarter was clothing over six years old, and marginally worn an average of twice a year. So this was to introduce the worry of useless space and too much clothing.
Last year, I watched a food intellectual hype the problem of me buying food within plastic covering at the local grocery.
If I counted in an average month....between German print-media, and TV intellectual chatter....there's probably forty-odd instances where I'm getting a lecture.
Some Germans, I'm confident on this....are simply tired of the daily lectures, intellectual chatter, and just don't listen or pay attention anymore.
Maybe there is some end-point to all of this, but it only leads onto more intellectual hype/worry.
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