The migration crisis in 2015 & Covid in 2020 further socially divided the country. People who were against (Muslim) immigration, lockdowns or vaccines, were vilified. Those people (25% of the population and growing) were stigmatised as far-right, extreme right, fascist or outright nazi. And the propaganda against this section of the population is becoming increasingly aggressive.

I wonder, 60 years from now, how this period in history will be characterized. The environment you describe could approximately have been written about the U.S. today. This sense of unease, of a nation turning against itself, is not limited to Germany and the U.S.

Today we teach about the 1848 as being a year of revolution across Europe. The 1930s are described in terms totalitarianism rising. We are in the middle of a definite trend now, a definite movement, and it's not limited to Germany or the U.S.

Do you have this sense of history, of being in the grip of movement? I do.

Was it COVID? Was it immigration? Maybe it's something bigger. Maybe in the post colonial world the inequality in distribution of wealth (globally) led to unrest and mass migration. Maybe we're in a post-post colonial era.

I really don't have a clear idea, but something is definitely happening and it is changing the course of history.

I think :)))