CIVIL COURAGE in AUSTRIA
02.5.2008
„What went wrong in the land of Sigmund Freud?“
REPRESSION, TUNNEL VIEW and DUAL MESSAGES
„Apart of Lipizzaner horses, Mozart balls and
the opera ball in the international focus of media!“
In the land of austrian bessedness, nobody has counted with this huge echo of the press. Our government fears an enormous image damage for our land and considers about measures. On the one hand people are glad that there is a break in the matter of reporting about disputes in the coalition. On the other hand there is developing some kind of alarmism about how simple a dreadful event like the one of Amstetten is gaining momentum.
People wonder and are annoyed about the foreign commentatorship, because they ask more accurate questions, than the authorities and those responsible ever have done. They feel as mutes, when they hear the stereotype statements at press conferences and when they have to hear the itching questions of foreign journalists. The questiones asked, raise principle topics, that are repressioned from one to the other happening.
There is not much left of the Austrian charme, when people have to occupy with the dark sides of emotional distress. Nothing can delude us, when the true morbidity of deep mental cruelty in the role of a technically tough conservative man is visualized, who has known very well to enjoy his life so far. We can not repress, that we have assisted to raise the framework conditions in which such dreadful events can happen – even if have not commited such things ourselves.
The widely spread belief in authority (superego) and the confiding in experts, who are just commenting and not acting, belongs to the character of a lot of people in this land. This Character trait is called inferiority complex. The mind of Sigmund Freud has been deported in the Third Reich, now it seems as it comes back in the form of unpleasant questions. This is good for our social and mentas hygiene.