Currently, bourgeois writers are once again preoccupied with an old theme: speculation about an afterlife. While the economy prevents them from even offering the majority of their citizens the usual necessities—namely, a regular working life—the newspapers let people report on those who have "stood with one foot in the afterlife." The enlightenment of the age is reflected in these accounts of the briefly "clinically dead" in such a way that such experiences have made those affected more resilient, because, firstly, they are pleased to have been "given" a second life, and secondly, death has lost its terror for them. Only seemingly contradictory to this is the fact that dying itself has become a problem, and that process at which a person ceases to be a person is discussed as a matter of human dignity. While the everyday demise in conflicts between states and the commonplace breakdown of work life are at best registered as a statistic, the press discusses...
If a scientist were to present the following insight as a result of his research: " Water is for washing , faleri and falera, and can also be used for brushing teeth; water is needed by the dear livestock, falera and faleri, and the fire brigade also needs water very much... and Hawaii, the South Sea island, would be a dreary palm brush." While his originality might not be questioned, his academic qualifications would certainly be challenged, and even the greatest exam pressure wouldn't prevent students from considering such material banal or nonsense. This is not the case, however, when the same academic expresses similar views about political parties. "It is the political parties that, against this backdrop, make an election decision with alternatives possible in the first place, and thus the core of a democratic process. The parties influence opinion formation and the emergence of the electorate's will with their political concepts and pronouncements; they ...