“When should this have been ‘earlier’?” A question that is just too legitimate, which Schwarzenwel poses as an open question in the room. And Konstanze Caysa in her column in this LZ issue number 97 points to the next question: “How mature is modern man?” This time she grabs the famous and so seldom read Hegel, which the philosopher Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer took up again in 2005 to discuss the relationship between servants and masters.This also applies to the individual: Are you capable of self-determination or are you dominated – by any feelings, rumors, moods, opinions? And what enables one to distinguish the formation of one’s own opinion from a passively adopted, foreign one?
The way we see ourselves, we also see the world around us. Which, by the way, touches on the subject of freedom. Because servants can shout freedom as loud as they want – they do not become free. You only become free in self-determination and self-discovery. Those who do not know each other are not free. And also not open to others and the opportunities that open up out there.
Opportunities that a lot of people talked about in this newspaper in the longstanding LZ series “When Leipzigers dream” Make thoughts – from Leipzig police presidents to the theater boss, from craftsmen to young climate activists and those morewho are by no means thinking of giving up in 2022. Because Leipzig, like the rest of Germany, is still far too slow on the way, on paths with equal opportunities for everyone and into a climate-neutral age.
Not the only topic where the activists in initiatives, associations and on the street notice how difficult it is for the politically responsible to correct undesirable developments and to create a city for everyone.
This particularly determines the subject area on the first pages, where the unstoppable process of gentrification in Leipzig is at stake, the permanent displacement of less well-paid tenants because residential buildings have become objects of sale and speculation. And social housing cannot begin to make up for what the Gentrification in Connewitz, Reudnitz or Südvorstadt in affordable housing is lost.
Which does not mean that the city is not looking for ways to meet this – as with Concept award procedure for Wolfgang-Heinze-Straße 29.
How much the problems are similar from city to city becomes clear in two new mayor interviews. Lucas Böhme has the mayor of Bohlen, Dietmar Berndt visits and Antonia Weber the outgoing Mayor of Wurzen Jörg Röglin.
In his article, Lucas Böhme shows that it is ultimately always about very personal fates “15 years behind bars”. Because after all these years, how do you deal with the killing of a partner who was a different person in the home than in public? Above all, how does a woman deal with it, who at that time already had to do with prejudice and in the end received the maximum sentence in court?
That touches the very sore point that everyone has to do with. And which we touched on in the book “Femizide”. How do we maintain our human dignity? And to what extent do social prejudices affect the private sphere and put people in hopeless situations?
A thought-provoking newspaper at the end of the year, in which the open questions of the day are also dealt with: How to go Culture and gastronomy deal with the restrictions that are still in effect? How does he survive Amateur-Sport this time when professional football is getting almost everything possible?
“For the year 2022, I wish that society as a whole will finally stop closing its eyes and starts looking again, ”writes the young climate activist Luise Steeck.
As you can see, there are these connections from text to text again. Dealing with the impacts of the climate is also about self-knowledge, without which knowledge of the world is not possible. We can only act when we see things as they are. “Close your eyes and through” doesn’t work, and it probably never worked.
“Open your eyes and accept the challenge” should probably be the motto.
From this point of view, it is again an encouraging start for the next year. Only the head-in-the-sand dream of a cozy “earlier”. But the future will be what we make of it. Or what we allow because we were too selfish to take up the challenge.
Even Ilse Schnickenfittich takes the word of “excessive egoism” in the mouth that we must recognize. Which brings us back to Hegel. The old boy would not have thought that he would be needed again after 200 years.
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