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As I have already stated in some of my videos ( in German Language) and articles, I believe that one should be critical of media coverage. On the one hand, the reporting is often very one-sided and on the other hand untruths are sometimes spread.
This phenomenon is not new, it has been spreading insidiously over the last decades and has mostly remained hidden from the population.
The astonishing thing is that despite proven untruths, the excitement is actually limited. The two Gulf wars are a good example of this. To legitimize the wars, false statements were spread without anyone questioning these statements. As we know today, there were neither weapons of mass destruction nor infanticides that would have justified an act of war. By the media simply everything that came out of the White House was spread without being questioned.
Well, in times of the Corona crisis we are experiencing a new form of reporting.
In one corner of the ring we see the mainstream media spreading the government lines and mostly uncritically publishing the decrees of governments and authorities. Dissenters are either not heard at all or denigrated as conspiracy theorists.
In the other corner of the ring are the alternative media. They spread the counter positions to the mainstream media. There other experts are quoted, other facts are spread and various basic rights are demanded which have been suspended or suppressed by governments.

The alternative media spread through the social networks, YouTube and other internet platforms. The mainstream media serve the classic newspaper, radio and television channels and of course the digital channels with the respective websites of the various media.

Surprisingly, the alternative media are rarely questioned by their followers. With the mainstream media every word is put on the gold scale, often rightly so, with the alternative media everything is simply swallowed. As long as it is not mainstream, it must be true. That there are a lot of charlatans among the alternative media is completely ignored.
Basically, the questioning must be applied to all media, not only to the mainstream. If some common sense is added to this questioning, it will be a little easier.
But what really worried me is the creeping radicalisation of the population.
On the one hand, there are people who agree with public intervention and look with complete disbelief at those who disagree.
On the other hand, the representatives of the alternative media cannot understand the supposed blindness of those loyal to the line and draw attention to themselves with demonstrations and rallies. Often these rallies are infiltrated by left or right extremists in order to instrumentalize the folk wrath for their respective purposes.

I hear from People that they want to acquire a weapon. They give the same reasons for buying it as they were strongly condemning until a few months ago.
I see fellow human beings who want to exchange the citizenship of a halfway functioning constitutional state for a citizenship of a German kingdom. Democracy for pseudo monarchy with an at least questionable monarch.
Still others live out their political disobedience by ignoring all orders and thus snub their dissenting, loyal, fellow citizen.
With all these examples I can only shake my head in surprise.

"Do not disturb my circles" as Archimedes said. Respecting the life, the integrity of the person, the property, the actions and the thinking of the fellow human beings, as long as the behaviour does not restrict the rights of another fellow human being.
These simple rules would already greatly simplify coexistence and unite rather than separate fellow human beings.
Exactly this attitude must be exemplified by the sceptics and political opponents. If they disagree with the behaviour of politicians, the press, experts and supposedly blind fellow human beings, then they must not use their practices either. Only if they face the mainstream with respect and decency, as well as with good arguments, they can spread their views and motivate to rethink. At the same time they take the wind out of the sails of the mainstream and governments and reveal their incompetence.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the lockdown will have unforeseeable economic and social consequences. Even though this is still not widely communicated by the mainstream media and politics completely ignores this fact, at least externally. The aid packages worth billions, which are generously distributed, only postpone the problem into the future.
There is no question that a large part of the companies, whether large or small, will not survive the Corona crisis. Company bankruptcies and unemployment figures will rise in the coming months, loans will default and banks will, once again, get into serious trouble.
Therefore, the question arises whether the healing of the Corona crisis will not be much more expensive and worse than the crisis itself.
If we look at the current situation, we can see that we are facing difficult times. We will also see that the current system will collapse. The system of ever-increasing indebtedness of individuals, companies and states will come to an abrupt end. The consumption frenzy on credit will fall on the heads of many of us and bring those into serious existential distress who have gotten themselves into debt up to the brim of their hats. Freely adapted from the advertising slogan: " My house, my car, my motorcycle..............", actually belongs to the bank.

To solve all these future problems we have to work together. Radical groupings don't help there. But that doesn't mean that everyone has to agree and march in the same direction like one man. It does mean that all opinions are listened to and discussed, in a culture of free speech and respect for other opinions.

In that sense.
Tschüss Euch


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