The fact that social democrats should not be allowed to take on aesthetic tasks is shown not least by the design of the Austrian railway station landscape, especially the new construction of the southern railway station in Vienna. There, a red railway director, Christian Kern, who later failed to become Chancellor for a short time, initiated a whole district of lifeless glass house architecture that you can’t get past without having your eyes cramping.
In line with this, the SPÖ has the party academy under his leadership, the old Renner Institute in the twelfth district, which surrounded an almost contemplative atmosphere of calm and in which something like a protective zone for spirit and creativity developed under the leadership of the highly intelligent director Karl Duffek had moved to just that dreary transparent desert of glass palaces, where it now languishes under the leadership of a female career coward from the ominous left-left Section 8.
Career cowards are the typical characters of politics today. They have no conviction, no concise world view, no eros, no courage. The only thing they want is to level up through customization and keep the achieved position. Troublemakers like the German Green politician Boris Palmer, the leftist Sahra Wagenknecht or the brilliant Thilo Sarrazin, who created a great characterization of imperialist Islam with his book “Hostile Takeover”, are rarely found anymore. Such people are too intelligent and, above all, too open and direct for the mediocre career cowards.
Sarrazin has already been thrown out of the SPD, and expulsion proceedings are underway against Boris Palmer and Sahra Wagenknecht. Since the career cowards are also uneducated and incapable of discourse, they react against the atypical, unusual and uncharacteristic with administrative methods of destruction. Their ignorance forces them to use structural violence rigorously. None of them would be able to write books like Sarrazin or hold a discussion with him.
In Austria it is not even necessary to expel someone from a party. For here the parties are so spiritually withered and stunned by conformism that no critical voice is raised. The lifelessness of the parties is reflected in that of the media, or vice versa. If you open a daily newspaper today or listen to the ORF, they all seem to be synchronized, by whomever and wherever. Whether the Russia-Ukraine conflict, climate policy or the Corona debate, to name just a few examples, everyone is showered with the same monotonous information and opinion sauce.
