Never, in Europe, had philosophy been judged useless. Bended, amputated, censored, often even vilified and accused of intellectualism, philosophy has continued to be taught even in the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. In today's Europe, on the contrary, they want to erase it. Why?
Scholz's announcement to allocate 2% of German GDP to Defense represents a political earthquake in Germany. Forced now to question many certainties that had themselves become constitutive of Germany's post-Cold War political identity.
Values stand in front of Europe scourged by nihilism as nothing but a positivistic surrogate of the ancient metaphysics. When this happens, in concomitance with a war event, it becomes highly dangerous.
The Scholz government is creaking, and creaking on restrictions. FDP group leader in the Bundestag Christian Dürr has made it known that his party has no intention of voting for the extension of anticovid measures.
"Freedom is the recognition of necessity." This is how the German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach expressed himself, quoting G.W.F. Hegel, last January 26th in a speech to the Bundestag.
For a convergence of historical and political reasons, Germany is the weakest link in the neo-authoritarian European triad that it makes up with France and Italy. Between polls, inflation and international tensions, it does not seem that the government will be able to insist on a hard line for long.
Politics that abdicates, consciously or unconsciously, its functions in favor of technocracy, can only know the end of democracy as we have always known it. The scientific conception of politics is in fact at the antipodes of democracy.
The parable of Armin Laschet at the head of the CDU was short-lived. Now it is the turn of Friedrich Merz, who defines himself as an Atlanticist and liberal-conservative, a historical opponent of Angela Merkel.
Nemmeno il tempo di insediarsi (la cerimonia ufficiale avverrà solo il 6 Dicembre prossimo) e già il Cancelliere designato Olaf Scholz ha davanti a sé la prima matassa da dipanare. Manco a dirlo, la prima sfida del nuovo governo si chiama Covid-19.
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