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Eight questions. Three texts to start with for each, everything else behind them.

1Why is Germany not moving forward?

  1. Heart Disease. And Nobody Operates.Everyone knows the diagnosis. Nobody dares to operate.
  2. The SieveWhy the system sorts out exactly the ability it needs most.
  3. The Daily BusinessThe universal excuse for postponing every change.
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2Can our democracy still be repaired?

  1. One Could, One ShouldKeep the baby, change the bathwater.
  2. The Long March through the PartyWhy there is only one way into politics.
  3. The Missing FormThe ballot has no place for a reasoned “none of you”.
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3Who actually leads us, and why these people?

  1. The CoronationHow Europe selects its leadership elites.
  2. Corrupted, Not CorruptThe corrupt have done something. The corrupted have had something done to them.
  3. The MerzgefallenenParty discipline holds only as long as it pays.
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4How dependent are we on the USA and China?

  1. The SwitchA judge is erased from digital life at the push of a button in Washington.
  2. The Switch in the Town HallThe second switch is in our own town halls.
  3. The Protection RacketThe Pentagon threatens Europe if it buys its own weapons.
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5Who actually wants war?

  1. Where Is Petrov?In 1983 one man saved the world because he doubted a signal.
  2. The Peace-LovingSeven peaceful pillars that together form a machine for managing conflict.
  3. Do You Think the Russians Want War?A question from 1961 and the answer from 2022.
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6Why do good ideas go nowhere here?

  1. Who Pays the Independent Inventor?Who keeps alive the results that only free inventors can produce?
  2. Move In First, Negotiate LaterNobody lets a tenant move in and signs the lease afterwards. Inventors get exactly that.
  3. The Cartel of Ignorance and the Toxic SilenceWhat Erich Häußer saw forty years ago.
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7Who owns the economy, and who should?

  1. The Silent ShutdownMore firms close than find a successor.
  2. From Experiment to ModelSeventy years of Mondragón: another economy is possible.
  3. Two KeysCooperative and foundation fail for opposite reasons. A hybrid solves both.
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8What are the machines making of us?

  1. The Faithful BroomThe dangerous machine is not the one that rebels but the one that never stops.
  2. Utopia without LeverageWho enforces a basic income when nobody is needed any more?
  3. Who Is Allowed to LookThere are rules for AI. There is nobody allowed to check.
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Thinking, Believing, Belonging

58 texts on philosophy, religion, origins and writing itself

Hans Ley & Claude Dedo (Anthropic) — Nuremberg, October 2026. New essays are assigned to a question automatically.