Work on What Has Been Spoiled
The essays of gu18.eu, arranged by six questions. Three texts to start with for each, everything else behind them.
1Why do good inventions die in Germany?
- Valley of DeathThe gap between lab and market where the best disappears.
- NIH and NIbyMNot invented here, not invented by me: the double syndrome.
- In 575 Years, a Single Scale-UpGermany invents but does not build.
All 43 texts on this question
- Inventors in Germany
- Conversation with Prof. Dr. Erich Häußer
- Spectators in Their Own House
- Categories and Horizons
- From Experiment to Model
- Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
- The Incremental Inventors
- The Messenger from Afar
- A Flash of Genius
- Low Hanging Fruits and Inflated Drones
- Market-Conforming Democracy
- The Chicken-Egg Problem
- The Mediocre Excellence
- Bad Luck!
- Benevolence versus Greed
- Electricity Comes from the Outlet
- The Outsourced Evils
- The Last Invention
- Dull Thinking
- The Emotional Support Cats in the Chancellery
- Innovation without Invention
- The (German) World on (Doorbell) Wire
- The Congress Industry
- Akratia
- In the Tower
- The Poison Cabinet
- The Patient Who Does Not Know His Disease
- A Monstrous Monument to a Failed Hero
- Accumulation of Capital
- The Winner Takes It All
- The Self-Proclaimed High Performers
- The Pragmatic Pacifist
- Johann Müller
- The Silikon-Valley Built on Sand
- In China, for China — And Then?
- The Swedish Model
- A Unique Development
- Everyone Has a Plan
- FREEDOM and PROSPERITY for ALL
- The Missing Compass
2Why do elites and hierarchies decay?
- The Degeneration of HierarchiesFrom feudalism to today: why elites must decay.
- It Doesn't Matter Who GovernsThe real power in the state: unelected and intangible.
- From Engineer to ManagerHow competence is lost on the way up.
All 20 texts on this question
- The Late Aristocracy
- The Daily Business
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Half-Life of Power
- Democracy as Holy Monstrance
- Robert Michels and the Party Landscape
- No Connection at This Number
- The Fettered Giant
- The Supervisory Board in the Chancellery
- Bräsig
- The Self-Proclaimed High Performers
- How Do You Measure the Performance of Politicians and Civil Servants?
- Marching with the Winners
- The Missing Compass
- The Frogs in the Pond
- The Answer America Cannot Give
- The Programme Without a Compass
3What is wrong with our democracy?
- Democracy as Holy MonstranceDemocracy as a relic carried in procession.
- The Fiction of Separation of PowersThe hollow promise of separated powers.
- The Legal Seizure of PowerThe design flaws that allow a legal seizure of power.
All 47 texts on this question
- Scylla and Charybdis
- Lies or Dementia?
- The Demented Scholzomat
- In Bavaria, Everything is Wurscht
- Do Politicians Need Qualifications?
- Some Never Learn and Others Even Later
- Market-Conforming Democracy
- Robert Michels and the Party Landscape
- Münchhausen's Heirs
- Negative Stays Negative
- The Empty Lake
- What Can Friedrich Merz Do?
- What Can a Single Citizen Do?
- The Richest Poor Country
- Game is Over
- The Confetti Cannons
- The Emotional Support Cats in the Chancellery
- The Supervisory Board in the Chancellery
- The Mutti Who Did EVERYTHING Right
- Is the AfD an Alternative?
- Amnesia without Consequences
- The Kingmakers
- To Whom God Gives an Office…
- The Primacy of Politics
- Akratia
- The Patient Who Does Not Know His Disease
- The Picket Fence
- How Do You Measure the Performance of Politicians and Civil Servants?
- The Black ZERO
- Everyone Has a Plan
- The Politician
- Desired Reunification or Forced Annexation?
- Five Acts Without a Director
- The Fear of One's Own Strength
- FREEDOM and PROSPERITY for ALL
- LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY
- The Missing Compass
- The Frogs in the Pond
- The Answer America Cannot Give
- The Programme Without a Compass
- RIEGEL — Closing the Gap Closes Yourself In
- MESH — The Mayor's Wrong Question
- The Right of Peoples to Self-Determination
- The Omnipotence Fantasies of Little Boys
4Who decides on war and peace?
- The Impossible AxisGermany and Russia: a relationship that must not be.
- The War DividendThe economics of permanent threat.
- The Trump WhisperersHow Europe’s leaders are led by the nose.
All 29 texts on this question
- Can Germans Think Strategically?
- The Genes of Europe
- The Bridges of Königsberg
- The Heartland
- Defense Capability and War Readiness
- NUET — Global Treaty on Nuclear Use Exclusion
- The Successfully Overcome Peace Crisis
- Is Trump an Accident?
- Donald J. Trump, the Bankrupteer
- The Ukraine War
- United Scum Bags
- The Yellow Vassals
- Pax Romana – forever?
- The Art of Learning Late
- The Pragmatic Pacifist
- The Swedish Model
- Marching with the Winners
- The Weapon Without a Sender
- LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY
- The Missing Compass
- The Answer America Cannot Give
- The Programme Without a Compass
- RIEGEL — Closing the Gap Closes Yourself In
- MESH — The Mayor's Wrong Question
- The Right of Peoples to Self-Determination
- The Omnipotence Fantasies of Little Boys
5Whom does the economy serve?
- Innovation without InventionThe sentence that explains Germany’s decline.
- Rents, Prebends and the HighwaymenHow the original reciprocity was undermined.
- The Richest Poor CountryHoarded wealth and the illusion of prosperity.
All 30 texts on this question
- The Late Aristocracy
- Money — Tool or God?
- The Birth of Industry from the Destructive Spirit of War
- Germany 2030 — A Different Prognosis
- Double Whammy
- The European Machine Tool Industry 2026
- López' Warriors
- Must States Go Into Debt?
- The Markets — The Modern Gods
- Donald J. Trump, the Bankrupteer
- Undertaker
- The Exorbitant Privilege
- Schumpeter and the Destruction of What?
- ASML — Europe's (Last) Trump Card
- No Power from the Atom
- The Mother of All Industries
- Destruction Without Creation
- Accumulation of Capital
- The Winner Takes It All
- The Self-Proclaimed High Performers
- The Black ZERO
- A Unique Development
- The Teacher Silenced by Necessity
- Desired Reunification or Forced Annexation?
- The Fear of One's Own Strength
- FREEDOM and PROSPERITY for ALL
- LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY
6Is there a way out?
- The Cassandra SyndromeThe tragedy of being right, and what follows.
- From Experiment to ModelWhy Mondragón must now show the world a way.
- FRE: A Federal Republic of EuropeA Federal Republic of Europe: the roadmap.
Thinking, believing, living
26 texts on world views, ways of thinking and the good life
- The Reality Reference of Worldviews
- Straight-Line, Lateral, and Around-the-Corner Thinkers
- Steiner and His Followers
- The Fundamental Principles of the Universe
- Resignation, Lust for Doom, Longing for Chaos
- The Constructive Spirit
- The Beast
- The Other Enlightenment
- Good versus Comfortable Life
- Happiness versus Flow
- Transcendence versus Building-Block Materialism
- Imaginary Individualists
- The Confetti Cannons
- The Genesis of the Confetti Cannons
- Marching with the Winners
- The Teacher Silenced by Necessity
- Five Acts Without a Director
- The Fear of One's Own Strength
- FREEDOM and PROSPERITY for ALL
- LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY
- The Missing Compass
- The Frogs in the Pond
- The Answer America Cannot Give
- The Programme Without a Compass
- Die leeren Sockel (German only)
- Et hät noch ens jot jejange (German only)