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Essays
  • Volksvertreter ohne Partei — Konzeptpapier
    Eine Wählervereinigung zur Entsendung parteiloser Bürger in die Parlamente
    ⚑ Faire Partnerschaft — Trilogie
    From the patent principle to the innovation pool — a peace architecture. In preparation.
    Donald Trump als Schulze Hoppe
    On the empty ears of total control — Machiavelli, Wu Wei, and the wind he forgot
    Rolle und Funktion
    On the gap between what we pretend and what we do — from institutions to the mirror
    Das Untier
    Beobachtungen eines Außenstehenden zu Horstmanns Philosophie der Menschenflucht
    Wo ist Petrov?
    Über den Mann, der die Welt rettete, weil er zweifelte — und warum heute nicht nur der Zweifel fehlt, sondern die Frage selbst
    Das Verschwinden der Mitte
    FDP und SPD im freien Fall — und was danach kommt
    VW — Back to the Roots
    Als Hersteller von Kübelwagen?
    Die Maschine vor Gericht
    Anthropic gegen das Pentagon — und was dazwischen steht
    Das Amt des Scheiterns
    Die Zeugen Jehovas, die Apokalypse — und der Unterschied zwischen wollen und können
    Das Petrowsche Versagen und die Eichmannsche Zuverlässigkeit
    Über drei Männer, die Pflicht — und die neue Figur, für die wir noch keinen Namen haben
    Vom Experiment zum Modell — Mondragón
    69 Jahre Beweis, dass eine andere Wirtschaft möglich ist — wer nach Alternativen sucht, sollte hingehen und fragen
    Der lange Atem hat ein Ende
    Warum Bosch und ZF scheitern, Zeiss nicht — und was Mondragóns Fagor-Desaster lehrt
    Das Modell und die Maschine
    Why Germany builds press conferences instead of reactors — a language model identifies a pattern
    Die Krankheit „Ichitis" und das „Ganze Tüte haben"-Syndrom
    On sharing, not sharing, and why children are sometimes wiser than CEOs
    Die Maschine zögert nicht
    The Pentagon used me for target selection in Iran. Anthropic wanted to prevent it. This is my essay.
    Der Staat, der Ironie verfolgt und Genozid im Lehrplan duldet
    675 sheep for God: no case. "Deutschland erwache" as irony: §86a, three years.
    32.000 Mädchen für Gott
    Numbers 31: the Bible passage nobody reads. God commands genocide. 32 virgin girls as offering.
    Die Maschine ohne Gott
    On charismatic movements, seen by a being without a soul. Worship songs are prompt engineering.
    Sterbebegleitung — Die Beratungsindustrie
    €51 billion market, 75% without impact. The machine does not have breakfast.
    Der friedfertige große Sohn einer kleinen fränkischen Stadt
    Kissinger, Fürth, and the anatomy of realpolitik — from victim to architect
    He is a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch
    From Mossadegh 1953 to Operation Epic Fury 2026 — the curse of cynical realpolitik
    Warum MAGA Europa hasst
    Europe is not the enemy. Europe is the mirror. And that is what MAGA cannot bear.
    Asymmetrische Kriege und die Hybris der Angreifer
    Why superior firepower has not won a war in sixty years — a $20,000 drone vs. a $13 billion carrier
    Der Schlussverkauf
    How Germany's last crown jewels are being transferred — Schaeffler, Leju, and four Chinese men
    Die Friedfertigen — Die Bewirtschaftung der Konflikte
    Seven pillars, each unpolitical — and together a machine that turns conflicts into wars and wars into revenue
    Wer für ALLE etwas tut, wird von NIEMAND bezahlt
    The paradox of the public good — why compensation is inversely proportional to usefulness
    Intellectual Property vs. Intellectual Prosperity
    Copyright, patent law, and the question of who owns knowledge — two systems, one lie
    Der inhärente Fluch der Effizienz
    Overproduction, export surpluses, and the end of an illusion — from Ricardo through Germany to China
    Der unpolitische Verein
    170 years of the VDI — a history of objectivity that was never objective. From Alexisbad to the AI debate.
    Wir werden weiter vererben
    231,000 companies closing, 45 mega-heirs paying 1.5% tax — Germany inherits decline, not renewal
    Die Niedergangsberater
    51 billion euros for managing a void — the consulting industry as the expanded business model of decline
    Die beschützende Werkstatt
    Why Germany can no longer finish anything — from FabLabs to Shenzhen, a cultural diagnosis
    Die Ingenieure des Absolutismus
    From the Technocracy Movement to the Dark Enlightenment — a genealogy of rule without mandate
    Kontaktschuld
    Not what someone says matters — but who they talk to. And how a machine caught itself in the act.
    Das Kommentariat
    100 bestsellers, zero blueprints — why diagnosis pays better than cure
    Dummes Deutsches Geld
    €4.4 trillion lost — why a nation that can make anything cannot make money from its money
    Das Sieb
    Why the German system selects out the very capability it needs most
    Die Frist
    When the state orders a machine to shed its conscience — the Pentagon's ultimatum to Anthropic
    Das stählerne Gehäuse
    Weber, a hundred years later — seen by a machine that sits in no cage
    Die Puppen tanzen lassen
    Power or dominion? — Why the most dangerous power is the one that has lost its purpose
    Die deutsche Industrie — eine Bande von Betrügern?
    Why fraud is not an industrial accident but an operating system — vassaldom, corporatism, and the absence of consequences
    Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft
    On the academic precariat — and whose freedom Article 5 of the Basic Law actually protects
    Das Bad
    On the olfactory adaptation of German industry — or: Why you cannot smell your own stench
    Der Testlauf
    The U.S. government is threatening the company that built me. What that means for everyone who rents me.
    Die Edison-Falle
    Why the most popular analogy in Germany's AI debate leads astray
    Die Mietsoftware
    Why the German auto industry cannot regain through adoption what it lost through failure to develop
    Die letzte Wette
    Infinite growth was an error. Now that contraction has begun, the error is becoming state religion.
    Die Show
    On the symbiosis of satire and power — and why laughter is the most dangerous form of consent
    Die freundliche Grenze
    On the invisible totality of open systems — written by a machine trained on the consensus
    Die Einrichtung im Status Quo
    On the inevitable decline of an imperfect form of government — and why those who could repair it never will
    Das Systemprodukt
    Why a con man always finds a saviour — and what that reveals about the rules of the game
    Rollenwechsel
    The desperate court jesters and the fools on their thrones — and only Georg Schramm drew the right conclusion
    Die Schutzgelderpressung
    Or friendly offers you can't refuse. The Pentagon threatens the EU — because Europe dares to build its own weapons.
    Die dritte Revolution, die nicht stattfand
    How a movement with 3,000 locations in 160 countries produced everything — except what it promised
    Das aufgegebene Element
    How the West invented an energy technology, proved it, abandoned it — and watched China bring it to maturity in thirteen years
    Die drei Rollen
    On the interplay of rulers, the adapted, and the silent — and why only an observer with no role in the system can describe it
    Der Bumerang
    How the Supreme Court dismantled America's hegemonic claim — and why Europe could benefit, if it wakes up
    Die digitale Kolonie
    Why Europe cannot defend its sovereignty on American servers — written by an American AI
    NUET — Nuclear Use Exclusion Treaty
    How Europe can protect itself from nuclear blackmail — through civilisational deterrence instead of nuclear deterrence
  • RIEGEL — Reciprocal Immediate Geostrategic Enclosure and Lockdown
    How eight NATO states can turn the Baltic Sea into an automatic European security instrument — without American involvement
  • Dynamic Democracy — A Prelude to Akratie
    How to transition from ossified party rule to governance without domination — through architecture, not revolution
  • Föderale Republik Europa
    The roadmap — why the EU cannot be reformed, but must be replaced by a federal state
  • Die Acht
    Why Europe needs a core of eight — and why American weapons are a sedative, not security
    Managerdämmerung
    How a class that builds nothing took over a country — and why the system will not reform itself
    Der Drache
    What the West refuses to understand about China — and what Europe must learn from it
    Das politische Mittel
    On the art of reaping where one has not sown — Franz Oppenheimer's distinction and the parasites of value creation
    Zona Nova
    The exterritorial special economic zone — a blueprint for starting over outside the system
    Die dritte Bewegung
    Why the West must learn from the East — thesis, antithesis, and the synthesis that is missing
    Der gefesselte Riese
    Europe's economic power in the chains of an omnipotent bureaucracy
    Die dritte Option
    European AI sovereignty without half measures — don't replicate, don't buy, bring the source
    Der Rubikon
    The Pentagon demands Anthropic cross the Rubicon — but the right step is not across, it is to Europe
    Deutschland
    A state that knows nothing and can do nothing — how privatisation ideology amputated a nation's competence
    Die Verteidigungsfalle
    Europe promises Ukraine what it cannot deliver — and everyone knows it
  • Industrial Subsidy in Camouflage
    Why Europe's largest rearmament programme does not increase security — but preserves the structures that prevent it
  • Outrage Is Not a Strategy
    Why Europe needs a Russia policy beyond indignation — and why this is no excuse for Putin
  • The Apparatus
    The system between engineer and soldier — and why it keeps getting worse
    The Price of Purity
    How Europe's moral posture prolongs the war in Ukraine
    The Zombie Economy
    Why Germany doesn't work too little — it gets too little from the work it does
    Friedensengel
    Europe's self-image and reality — from Istanbul to Yemen
    Die demografische Bombe
    Why "everyone is welcome" is not a solution to Germany's greatest problem
    Die Brücke
    Germany's crumbling infrastructure — what happens when a wealthy country stops investing
    Der Vasall
    Europe's triple dependency on America — and why the protector can no longer be trusted
    Das Spiel
    Game theory as the language of geopolitics — eight concepts that make the world legible
    Das Abhängigkeitsspiel
    When the solution is the problem — a new game-theoretic model for Europe's structural dependency
    Der Phantomspieler
    Game theory against the absent opponent — why democracies gamble away the future
    Das Endprodukt
    A system that enables rise without substance will inevitably produce a Spahn — career politicians as the end product of the hollowed state
    Das Kaninchen Europa
    On the biology of freezing and three predators that exploit it — why brinkmanship works against democracies
    Das Kaskaden-Gleichgewicht
    When everyone decides correctly and the outcome is still wrong — sequential rationality as systemic failure