Chapter 104 Chapter Nineteen Towards a New Millennium

We are at the beginning of a new era characterized by extreme insecurity, perpetual crisis, and the absence of any "permanent status quo"... One thing we must understand is that we are in Burkha What Jakob Burckhardt describes as one of the great junctures in world history.The significance of this juncture is by no means inferior to that after 1945-although the conditions for overcoming various difficulties seem to be better than before.But in today's world, there is neither a winning side nor a defeated side, even in Eastern Europe. ——Sturmer (M. Sturmer in Bergedorf, 1993, p. 59)

Although the ideals of socialism-communism have disintegrated, the problems they intend to solve still exist: the abuse of social superiority, the lawlessness of the power of money, and the combination of power and money power completely guide the development direction of the world.If the historical lessons brought to the world by the 20th century are not enough to prevent the world from happening, then the red whistling whirlwind is bound to come back and repeat itself all over again. - Solzhenitsyn (New York Times, 28/11/1993) To be able to survive three regime changes—the Weimar Republic, the Fascist state, and the German Democratic Republic—was really an age to see the Federal Republic come to an end.

——Muller (Heiner Muller, 1992, p. 361)