As a citizen, one can only describe what German politics is delivering as absolute madness. But is it really madness, or are the politicians acting absolutely rationally from a higher perspective, and the citizen, in the depths of their existence, is simply intellectually incapable of understanding it? And should, therefore, we simply bow to the superhumans in governments and parliaments and follow them?
The author believes that both are true: what is happening is absolute madness, but from the perspective of the protagonists, it is absolutely rational. If you look for people whose actions are completely insane from the outside, but absolutely logical and correct for them based on their inner logic, you end up with drug addicts. There is some evidence that our protagonists are highly addicted to dopamine, and that this has reached dangerous levels. The problem is that an addiction to a substance produced by the body itself does not have the same side effects as other drugs like alcohol or opiates.
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