Two posts in one month about Germany being in the English language news. Oh boy.
Warning. There is some very suggestive language in this post/article. Reader discretion is advised. If you are offended by… I don’t know… the reality you live in, then you might want to click here. You’ll feel better as soon as do.
As I tried to say here, nothing interesting happens in Germany. Although this place seems to be governed with a social greater-good in mind, it does so at the cost of innovation and cultural dynamics. Sure, Germany has Internet access aplenty, high-speed trains and airports almost under every roof. It educates people to the university level almost for free and when those people finish with their education they all get Phds and could, if there were only more of them, run really undynamic companies like Deutsche Telekom or SAP, etc.
Then there’s that “green” thing where Germany has the highest per square-meter density of trees in all of Europe (but don’t quote me on that). It also has the world’s best separated trash pick-up and a bottle deposit return policy that forces consumers to consider not the type of drink they want to consume but the container it’ll be delivered in. In some cases the bottle return policy is so good in Germany that if you don’t have a receipt to coincide with the bottle you’re returning the vendor/retailer might not take it back. Which means you lose the .25 cent deposit.
Quick update a few days after posting this. I was trying to return a bottle but the retailer told me, because the bottle didn’t have the original cover, that is, the original wrapper (it was plastic returnable coke bottle) then he didn’t have to take it back. Is that just… spey-shall.
Where’s the empirical study written by Phd career professionals about the profits made from bottle deposits not returned? If I were a German politician, I would propose taxing the profits made from jerking consumers around with returnable bottle regulations.
What else is there to praise about the wonders of Germanland? Oh, how could I even dare to put this one last?! z’German thing with cars.
Being born and raised in the US, I really thought I had seen it all regarding how crazed humans can be about their cars. But then I moved to you-know-where. Get this. In Germany it is illegal to wash your car on Sunday. That’s right. There is actually a law in Germany that makes washing your car on Sunday a punishable legal offense. (Do I need to say that again?) And do you know why? Because if Germans could wash their cars on Sunday the entire country would dissolve from the face of the earth due to the amount of soap it would have to absorb. And that’s not all regarding z’auto.
Why is it that the Germans, who have a tradition of building great automobiles, do not have one single alternative powered car on the road? NOT ONE! And for you Americans reading this, get this regarding German innovation. You still cannot get (as an option) those fancy video screens behind car seats in German cars. Doesn’t that make car-lovers across the great United Mistakes just cringe with disgust? Ok, I guess you can get the video screens if you special order them in your new Mercedes 500 S-Klasse.
At least Germany has a political system that seems to care for its citizens, which is a great consolation for not being able to afford fancy video screens in your new Opel Vectra for those whining kids. Probably the most important part of the Great German Political System (or GGPS), is its health care. Now, when talking about health care in this day-n-age, forget the fact that German insurance companies over-charge because German doctors and hospitals over-charge which in turn makes German politicians raise taxes and bottle deposits and so goes the tune…
Ring around the rosie,
Pocketful of posies.
Ashes, ashes.
We all fall down. GGPS.
Of the major western industrialized countries, Germany has dealt fairly well with the whole welfare-state-thing conflicting with capitalism. But it does that by using that one magical solution that politicians so cleverly pull out of their frocks.
Taxation.
Living in Germany – as a privileged Ausländer – really is mind-boggling. Nothing innovative or dynamic happens here. NOTHING. Yet life is good. Just don’t expect to achieve something – at least not as an individual. But I suppose it’s kind of cool when something German is printed in the English news, especially when it has to do with hot German babes.
Let’s blog about blond, blue-eyed, hot German MILFs.
Her name? Eva Hermann. (What a name, eh?) Here’s an English language news report on her recent faux-pas that has the world aghast. And here’s another link (albeit from a German magazine – but in English) to her running her mouth a bit too much to sell a book. And that is ultimately what this post is about. It’s about a hot German chick/babe that is trying to sell a book. And guess what? The book the hot German chick/babe is selling has a pink cover…
Eva Hermann, a relatively famous news anchorwoman, was recently caught on German TV promoting Nazi family values. Of course, my German girlfriend says “that’s not what she said”. What my German girlfriend doesn’t understand is that, often, and perhaps disproportionately, it is not what a German says that matters but what is perceived that a German says that matters.
Eva Hermann is running her trap on the back of a book she wrote that is trying (I have not read it and don’t plan to read it) to push the clock back on German feminism. On top of that, during a recent TV appearance, (correction from original post) she refused to apologize for remarks she made (wrote?) about how much better the Nazis cared for families. Now don’t go ballistic on me for judging her book even though I haven’t read it. And don’t go postal on me for not even having seen her TV appearance. For one thing, my book reading list is too long already and I’m simply not interested in German chick/babes writing non-fiction books with pink covers. Another thing is, this is a blog where I can write anything I want and I really like bitchin’ about (having) to live in Germany.
No. Seriously.
I can tell you first hand, German women are in a pickle of a situation in this new century. And I don’t think a woman like Eva Hermann is gonna help anyones cause. The Germans have been reared by, as I like to call them, woman-folk who literally rebuilt a pacified and bombed-out nation. So it’s really no question in so-called family situations, who wears the pants over here. Having said that, many career oriented and ambitious German women (my girlfriend, my ex-wife, and many of the Tussies from my past) are very dominating. (What can I say, I dig chicks that almost act like men). And that’s probably a good thing. On the other hand, I am in complete contempt of German men.
Wussies.
(If had to translate the word “Tussi” then I’d used the word Wussie, but that probably doesn’t quite work. Tussi is a pejorative term used to describe young women of questionable character – whatever that means. I think the word is better suited to the men running contemporary German society.)
Women in western culture have to play more than a duel-role these days. As well as any pacified nation can, Germany is playing the globalization game. And they do this by assuming, based on gender, the role of the individuals in the game. As the game whines down, as the apex of the pyramid lengthens and stretches and the base widens and becomes more dense, there is less and less of the pie to split between the extremes. And so… the easiest of all possible routes is chosen. Men run to their role with the assumption that they are MAN. How archaic and devoid of merit. How exemplary. Simply because of gender, they go to their offices and desks and careers. And to top that off… there is not one woman running a major German corporation.
Arschgeier.
What does this have to do with Eva Hermann? As I (obviously) failed to state in facetious terms above, I think the situation for German women in modern Germany is downright unjust. When one looks at the situation in most corporations in the white, anglo, western man’s world, it is easy to see how women are (still?) being displaced. Things are getting tight in this global economy, right? Corporations have to watch, as though they, under “normal” and profitable circumstances never watched, the bottom line. It all can only mean that there’s simply no room left for progress. As if “progress” could ever so graciously stand still like a great and sustenance-giving corporation.
Honey, why don’t you stay home and raise the kids? Uh? Sweety…?
In Germany everybody goes about their mundane business, there is no (real) debate on any issues (other than taxation and bottle deposits) and women don’t have to wear Burqas. So every thing is OK, right? Right. Or is it possible that z’Germans just don’t get it? How can they? Life’s too good. It would be complicated, even for a bunch of Phds, to figure out that the dissipating reality of trickle-down, supply side economics is turning the clocks back on all human (feminine) progress. To try and put things in perspective, here’s a small example of what goes on in the mind of 25-38 year old Germans when considering the Times:
(Something) is preventing my beloved Mittelstand, the ones who inherited so much from the Wirtschaftswunder, from heeding the call of Fernweh (wanderlust) and I don’t understand this. What could that something be? Suddenly why do I have to work harder than my Wirtschaftwunder parents for my God-given Right to lavish vacations three times a year? “Vat, huh mean I Kant hev z’Audi A6 az firmenwagon b’cuz z’icon-o-me is schlecht? Unerhört. Scheiße!” Etc., etc.
Am I over-doing it? OK. I’m just one whacked-out blooger stuck in Germany who disagrees with some whacked-out German chick/babe that thinks women should spend more time at home taking care of the “family” because, well, that’s what a bunch of idiotic National Socialist would have wanted.
Economic hardship prevents human progress, right?
Or how ’bout this…
If the first casualty of war is the truth, then what is the first casualty of failed democracy? Isn’t it amazing how so many in the west are willing to give up the innate human right of choice? In a period in history where you have to calculate whether or not you can afford a family, especially when there’s so much gluttony in our political and social system, I guess it’s no wonder that we’ve long since given up on progress and creating more and better choices. Or something like that…
In terms of feminism, civil rights, habeas corpus…, the irony here stinks to the hilt! And so… The German press – and a few of the English presses as well – try to change the subject and avoid what really is important. Germany is struggling so intensely with trying to keep the “family” intact while misconstrued economic policies eat away at its foundation, that there is little choice anymore for the womb-laden to decide their own fate. Men, who are wrongly running the show in Germany, are wimps and scoundrels and they are the real Tussies. And now a famous chick/babe anchorwoman is rightly being ridiculed for saying that Uncle Adolf and his cronies enabled families to have a nice life because you could leave your bicycle unlocked on the street and it wouldn’t get stolen. How ’bout saying something about all the families that were torn apart because of the monster only Germans could create out of the civilized world. Gee, I wonder what the Nazis would do with all the profits from deposits on bottles of Afri-Cola.
Here’s a name for a new cola to put a deposit/tax on… Kristallnacht.
The whole of contemporary German society is falling apart under the lie that is Social-Market-Economics. And all they can talk about in domestic and international press is some mother I’d like to fuck who runs her trap a bit too much so she can sell a book with an ugly pink cover. I mean, why doesn’t Germany deal with something more important? Like raise a few more taxes, create more ingenious bottle deposit schemes, or… say something very loud about why women in Islam have to be covered in the year 2007. Oh. Here. I’ve got it! Why don’t the Germans, with all their innovation and agility and success in making cars without any options but have a really, really, really, really great nationalized health care system figure out a way to turn lowly, blue collar train drivers into shinny white collar pseudo-execs and then give them Phds and a career pathway to running the magical Deutsche Bahn all by themselves and still get five weeks of paid vacation a year and only have to work thirty-four hours a week and, and, and…
Eva Hermann, you dip-shit, why can’t you say something worthwhile to sell your book?
Rant on. Go figure.
-tgs-
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