Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Humans always need a religion. If you no longer have to go to church for that, but can simply keep consuming, all the better ;)

Read Aero's post again carefully and see if a statement was attacked, or if Nordly was addressed very directly and personally. This has nothing to do with discussing anymore.

I do not want to defend Aero, I do not want to leave Nordly's statements like that.

What is the alternative to discussion? Everyone lives in their bubble of self-affirmation through like-minded people. "The others" just don't want to understand. People no longer listen to other viewpoints. That is comfortable. And narrow-minded. In a fair discussion, I must at least consider that the other person could be right. At least that not every one of their arguments is nonsense. As the Sporties once sang: "Empathy is not a problem" ;)

As I said, in my opinion, many things—almost everything—can be discussed, but not this attitude.

Why don't you first try to question and understand how he comes to this opinion and attitude? What gives you the right to criticize an attitude that is absolutely within the bounds of the constitution so harshly? I am slowly losing hope for our society.

As I said, in my opinion many things can be discussed - but not this attitude.

So much hubris, hypocrisy, self-righteousness, attitude of superiority. I have read my statement again. I stand by every sentence. Yes, I am older, that’s just what happens unless you die beforehand. Yes, I am white and male, that has always been the case since the cradle. And I can see, hear, think and observe how the Saralinas and others of this world behave. They make up max 15% of the population, but act as if everything belongs to them. And now once more objectively: The electric car. It is good that it exists. As an option. It is outrageous to want to impose this option on everyone regardless of how they live it through bans. A good, fast railway. Great if that is or would be the case. But it is outrageous to push the railway by fostering flight shame. If it is better and its offer establishes itself, if Lufthansa is better, then that is how it is. The single-family house. It is the most human form of living, already since the Bronze Age when we became sedentary farmers. Yes, in densely populated areas difficult, but precisely the advantage of rural areas is that they can offer this form of living. Insulation etc. Good, but effort and benefit must be in proportion. The same applies to environmental technology. Here too it is outrageous to try to force things through bans / e.g., photovoltaic obligation on roofs. This makes homeownership unaffordable for normal people. Language. Trying to change thinking by changing the mother tongue is a totalitarian project. The Third Reich worked like that too, as do the gender enthusiasts. Only back then other words were banned, other books, at that time Lenz Deutschstunde, today PiPi in TakatukaLand. — And those who don’t go along with it are silenced at universities in Germany. That is a fact.

"City dwellers from well-off academic circles," saw us, they don’t even have overalls :rolleyes:

Nordlys is probably right about that, or do you actually see it differently? I really don’t know any city dwellers with saws and overalls. Why would they need them? In my assessment, city and rural life definitely differ. I lived for many years directly in the center of a city with 350,000 inhabitants, without a car, without a saw, without overalls, never wore flat shoes. Actually never needed any of that. Then several years in a small village. That’s when I bought my first car and started driving at over 50 years old. I would have liked to have avoided that, but it wasn’t possible otherwise. And yes, I really needed a saw there.

and that comes from someone who lets himself be fed by the taxpayer with a fat pension and previously fumbled around in the administration.

In my personal opinion, a functioning administration with dedicated employees, some of whom are civil servants for good reasons, is very, very important for a community. I would not want to do without it.

You’re just annoyed that no one wants to hear your wisdom anymore because you live in the world of yesterday.

I am one of those who very much enjoy reading Nordlys’s posts. So “no one” is not true. I would even go so far as to say that there are more people here, as well as in real life, who find Nordlys’s posts stimulating.

You have no idea of the world we live in because you narrowly hide away in your newly built hut in the countryside without intellectual access to current knowledge.

In my experience, people with pronounced intellectual and cognitive abilities do not point out possible deficits to others. They would have a lot to do otherwise and wouldn’t get to anything else. ;-)

You can’t bear that you are left behind ...

Depending on the point of view, each of us is left behind.

and that’s why you just put down the young, well-educated people who are so much ahead of you in many ways.

That’s not how I understood Nordlys, he has children himself; why should he disparage this generation? I understood Nordlys as saying that he considers some of the innovations superficial cosmetics. Please look at the latest studies in this context to see whether and to what extent younger (also FFF-) people are willing to make sacrifices.

For me, Ms. Neubauer, for example, is an interesting person. She comes from one of Germany’s richest families, which made its money inter alia with logistics. It would have seemed obvious to me that Ms. Neubauer would have studied electrical engineering or mechanical engineering, to help develop something for her family’s companies so that the huge container ships could transport freight over the oceans using fuels other than diesel.

Now Hampshire is missed so much. Please, Hampshire, come back.