Comedian Hosea Ratschiller and 70 students asked questions, and Hatto Käfer, a well-versed EU expert and former Commission official, delivered dry answers. This year’s youth forum at the Neue Bühne Villach was an entertaining hour of democracy education for young and old. The topic: Europe in Madness – Only with Humor 🙂 was met with
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Klagenfurt Cathedral Pastor Peter Allmaier pointed out that the current madness in politics and society can also be viewed as a “consequence of a wrong lifestyle.” The Bible, in particular, provides numerous examples of how people became mad because they lived wrongly, Allmaier said at a press conference at Denk.Raum.Fresach in Klagenfurt. Allmaier’s entire statement
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Hannes Swoboda, Chairman of the Board of the European Tolerance Talks, fears that politics is maneuvering itself into a situation from which it can no longer find a way out. Since the ideological and religious frameworks have largely dissolved, we should not be surprised that we are now stumbling into a society of madness, said
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The well-known Viennese essayist and author Franz Schuh thinks, current global political developments are no cause for concern, and the parallels to the years of rising fascism very theoretical. However, the gap between what is happening and what individuals suffer seems unbridgeable. Schuh quoted Niklas Luhmann: “We live in such a way that everything can
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