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The call to enlightenment culture has degenerated into a "sentence" at the present time: historian Philipp Blom made a point at the opening of the Salzburg Festival with an accurate account of today 's political discourse in Europe. Blom targeted the retreat "to clean, the nation" – the politicians who claimed today, "We are children of the Enlightenment", emphasized above all the "we" as a demarcation against all others
"Neither the Enlightenment even philosophy is a construction of doctrines, but in the spirit of Diderot, it emerges from the debates:" Blom recalled the pre-revolutionary culture.This is a "risky thought "But it still turns out" clear "as irresistible.However, current history tells of a powerful attack against the Enlightenment – more on that in salzburg.ORF.at
Opinions and dogmas, the "false news", the "lies" deliberately used, would marginalize critical thinking. "In this country, the rumors of worldwide Jewish conspiracy are stoked," said Blom, who also places a human rights society to two clbades: "Who is richer, he has more human rights than others. "
the German writer Blom the Enlightenment in the center. The present is marked by an attack against the Enlightenment. Paradise Europe is threatened
"We want to protect our own paradise"
In the present, many wanted to protect "their own paradise" because they saw this paradise as threatened. In the meantime, it is "our freedom and our equality," according to Blom, who declares a retreat to his own, to the nation, what he wants to protect with barbed wire.
The phrase "We are children of the Enlightenment" "We" stresses. Clarification that it does not apply to Muslims or the unintelligible, as we hear in the present speech again and again. "We want to preserve what we have," says Blom, for whom the "Enlightenment as a defense of the powerful" threatens to degenerate.
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"It's only about our freedom"
"Maybe that's the beginning and end of the Enlightenment," Blom says , asking aloud why Enlightenment culture is about to end, "where less People are always hungry and where there is more and more prosperity."
Blom baderts a "culture of fear" in which more and more people are afraid of their status: "The global economic order has become a travesty of the Enlightenment." Rationality today means rationalization. "Equality, according to Blom, today is called statistical standardization.
"We operate for the system"
People have lived themselves in societies in "constant turmoil". And some would make a lie: "More and more, they realize that they are working for the system and not for them." The post-war idyll, according to historians, has come to an end in the dominant market culture.
In the ZIB2 interview, Blom talks about fear, its effects on politics and society, and the modern understanding of democracy.
Nevertheless, in the West, one wants to live in "an endless present", in which preserves the old dreams and protects theirs. "But the future is coming in. In the form of the warm winter, algorithms, people from outside."
"Buy us time"
For Blom, the rich companies bought "the time" – but on credit. They wanted to build an "umbrella against the unknown" while being part of a "generation of heirs who feel superior because their ancestors were brave."
"Maybe It's time to finally grow up, "says Blom in his address to the badembled political leader. In addition to global warming, "another climate change" is occurring – and it is indicative of the erosion of democracy, which is a "very young and fragile form of government". "Democracy," concludes Blom, "is not a natural state". She could not create her own "survival conditions".
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Gernot Blümel warns of an egalitarian culture in Europe
No need for Gleichschaltung of Europe
A few minutes before Blom, the Austrian Minister of Culture and Media Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) had also found that "the challenges to be solved
There is no exaggerated cause of pessimism – but the differences between Europe's countries are big right now and the desires are national at the European level, said Blümel. "The EU will never be a super-state able to govern centrally," said the minister. In Europe, life can not always be the same everywhere, said Blümel, who said: "We do not need European equality."
Speech by the Minister of Culture Gernot Blümel (1965-19005) "We do not need a whole is equal al, "says Gernot Blümel in Salzburg
. For Blümel, however, art and culture in particular have provided the counter-response to nationalization. "There is no national baroque", if you look at the architectural culture of Salzburg
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The president of the festival, Rabl-Stadler: Rabl-Stadler: "We are contradicting ourselves!"
In her opening speech, the festival's president, Helga Rabl-Stadler, once again evoked the European and very political thoughts of the festival. "We contradict those who abuse their speech for European apocalyptic scenarios," said Rabl-Stadler
Speech by Helga Rabl-Stadler
The Festival President recalls the Festival's mission and its European spirit. promote "the idea of a united Europe". This could also happen at the September European summit, "which stands here in the Felsenreitschule," said Rabl-Stadler in reference to the opening square
Van der Bellen: "Let's trust the strength of Europe "
The Festival as every year by the Federal President, this year for the second time by Alexander Van der Bellen. He also stressed the European spirit of the Festival and warned against the weakening of the Union.
Speech by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen
President Van der Bellen urges confidence in Europe's forces and strengthens transnational cooperation
"I know that There are parties, virtually in every member state of the Union, who are attached to the ideas of old national sovereignty.I think it is the political illusion par excellence. There is no longer the old national sovereignty in a globalized world Without transnational cooperation in the EU, every Member State becomes the toy of the great powers .We rely on the strengths of the EU. Europe, "said Van der Bellen
Haslauer also questioned confessional sentences
The prayer wheels in their introductory remarks were also addressed by provincial governor Wilfried Haslauer." We will never swear, let us warn from the n early. The question of whether a repetition is actually excluded depends on the ability of humans to change, "said Haslauer
Speech of Governor Wilfried Haslauer (ÖVP)
The metamorphosis we have developed has long since begun, says LH Haslauer.
It depends on the conditions in which we live, "it depends on what we consider decisive, what we do with ourselves, what we are worth," says Haslauer, who dryly said, "The metamorphosis has long since begun, open to the result. "
Gerald Heidegger, ORF.at, of Salzburg
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