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Ein, wie ich finde, treffender Kommentar von Georg Leyrer (Kurier, Österreich) zu den vielfach tobenden Meinungskämpfen. Georg Leyrer (Kurier, Austria) wrote an, as I find, apt commentary on the so many raging battles of opinions. #society #conflicts #opinionation #manipulation #populism English (shortened) Populism: 12 points – The Song Contest was politically poisoned this year. For the first time in its history, it taught us something about the world. – This time not Austria but the Song Contest was the "small world in which the big one holds its rehearsal", as Friedrich Hebbel said 1862 in the Vienna opera theatre. Grand opera the Song Contest usually is, a musical theatre spectacle that takes itself far less seriously than those who criticise it with zeal. This year, the mostly trivial "shit" (Andi Knoll) was bitterly serious. The small world rehearsed in Malmö was oppressively simple: Israel is evil, and it's okay to threaten, persecute and mob a 20yo singer on stage. When artists put each other down. When you shout "Shame on you" at the audience, even though shame is one of those ancient instruments of power that the Song Contest played a leading role in abolishing. Dutchman Joost Klein, on the other hand, is good in this small world. The fact that he is said to have aggressively attacked a camerawoman is suddenly not a problem in the "peace and tolerance" circus. They insist on jurisdiction: as long as Klein is not arrested, he should perform, was suggested after his disqualification. As if criminal law were the only boundary that determines how we live together. This is outdated nonsense. The song contest thus showed how principles that have already been conquered are immediately dropped when it suits the situation. How easy it is to enter a spiral of destructiveness, how much encouragement destruction receives if it only happens ideologically on the "right" side. And that is always the own. The song contest, of all things, showed what is going wrong in Western democracies: More and more people are getting caught up in the destructive view that they have figured out the world. The politicians? All bad (except the ones I vote for). The media? All bought (unless they write what I think). The young? All spoilt! The old people? All problem bears and problem women. Everyone has long had their opinion on Israel and Palestine and Russia and Ukraine and gender and identity, neighbours and new arrivers, which they don't question but have confirmed on the internet all the time. The democratic population lapses into a poisonous complacency that believes it has all the answers. To see the shades of grey and ambivalence is a sign of weakness. But the world is not that simple. Anyone who indulges in simple answers will only find them in political populism. And one can see where this leads everywhere. This was particularly evident in Malmö recently.