Well, basically,
I just cannot,
or maybe no longer,
understand
or maybe I never understood,
if I am totally honest.
- Why father and mother had so many and so very unnecessary arguments;
- Why I was beaten at school, (too);
- Why there was a totally senseless war fought in Vietnam when I was young;
- Why a country like the BRD never made use of the historically unique chance to live without an army, just because they were afraid of the Russians … (re-armament);
- Why the Israeli act exactly like they basically must not;.
- Why the Federal Army is to get 130 billion euros between now and 2013 (while at the same time we urgently need money for other important things, such as education);
- Why everybody ignores and tolerates the deaths on German motorways, reasoning that otherwise jobs would be lost;
- Why they justify endless stupid projects saying otherwise jobs would be at risk;
- Why people today are not happy to see how you can drink water from all taps and how you can buy everything that makes life more agreeable – for instance fresh full milk with normal durability and 3.8 % fat in the brown glass bottle (isn’t that something to be really happy about!);
- Why the elderly gentlemen in the public swimming pools keep let the warm water under the showers run for several minutes while standing in the ante-room and having conversations;
- Why people buy yoghurt and similar things in plastic containers and why said containers are often more important than what is inside;
- Why there are still people living in Munich who eat walnuts imported from California;
- Why cars have become the means of transportation for everybody as a matter of course;
- Why sex is still a taboo topic;
- Why so many persons think prisons might be a way to make the world a better and safer place;
- Why some others believe in “creativism” but still think there is no “climate catastrophe”..
- And a whole lot more …
Well – if these things do not make you shake your head, than what does?
(Many thanks to Bert Brecht, because I took parts of his Dreigroschenoper as a model for these lines).
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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