I watched a piece (podcast) in the past ten days....where two older Germans (I'd assume they were both in their 60s...originally from DDR/old East Germany).
The two went through five or six quick topics...mostly having to do with woke-BS, news-coverage, politics, social media being lite-police-action, and Germans being told what they 'think'.
Yeah, it wasn't really a positive talk.
What they got around to....drilling into the idea that in some weird way...we were in some new-age DDR.....sounding free-and-open....while 'boiling' (frustrated) in the same way that East Germans were accustomed in the 1980s.
The trouble here....you can't readily blame Merkel, the CDU-CSU folks, ARD/ZDF (public TV), the police, Scholz, Merz, the SPD, the Greens, or Trump.
Added to this....you can't say it's a DDR/East German 'creation' or evolution.
About fifteen minutes into this 'talk'....I muted the conversation. It jump-started a pondering session for me.
This woke-BS leading back to 1980s DDR-thinking? Well....you can probably say this....but only if you are over the age of 60 and remember the 1970s/1980s. These 18-to-30 year old Germans (particularly from the western side of Germany)...have no viewing point to talk about.,
My question....just how many former older DDR folks think this way? Ten-percent? Thirty-percent? Sixty-percent? Ninety-percent?
It's just an odd topic and I would imagine no one from public TV will engage upon this.
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