111) the fight against dinosaurs Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334 79 74

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The fight against dinosaurs The ancient dinosaurs were almost extinct. They had saved the nineteenth century into the twentieth and thought it would go on like that forever. Yes, the nineteenth century! Actually a lot of positive things! People like Darwin who finally opened our eyes. The laws of nature replaced God. However, there were also fear makers like Mary Shelley - Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Mankind shouldn't overestimate herself. They were often associated with religiosity. And it was precisely this mixture of belief in God and the misinterpretation of science that led to nationalism, racial theory and fascism. Even after World War II, it still looked like they hadn't learned anything from the past. And then, the liberation with hippies and punk appeared. That is how we thought it was in the 1980s and 1990s. The struggle for personal freedom, women’s rights, legalisation of abortion, abolition of anti-drug laws, free travel rights for all, the pushing back of outdated, religious morals. Especially the development within the European Union, the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the prospect that these countries would also be included in a European Union, international space programs with an international, permanent space station orbiting the earth indicated that the whole earth would work together in conquering space. And here, the twenties of the twenty-first century. One has the feeling that stupidity returns in a hundred-year cycle. Nationalism, churches and sects. They all look backward. For them, liberalism is a plague. They don't want to be free. This is mainly due to an outdated view of history from school. The great king and his great country. But don't they know how much small people suffered under these great rulers? But how can this shift to the right be explained? The reference to economic problems is not enough here. For every development in nature, society, economy, etc. there is a counter-movement. Globalisation, an opening towards the world, understandably arouses fear of losing one's own identity, especially in people whose “ego” is based on a group consciousness or a certain place within the group. The dissolution of this background brings out the colourlessness of this individual. The clergy's outrage sounds almost touching when they see fewer and fewer sheep coming on ritual days, their influence on the community wanes, young people leave them because they can’t see any future in the old, traditional world. The transition from kitschy national dress, humtata-folk music and fat food to apparently uniform Adidas, T-shirts, Coca-Cola and pop culture seems difficult to process. Back to list!

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