{"id":2234,"date":"2023-12-31T22:13:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T22:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/2023\/12\/31\/deflecing-lulling-and-hysteria-the-strange-new-german-leitkultur\/"},"modified":"2023-12-31T22:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T22:37:21","slug":"deflecting-lulling-and-hysteria-the-strange-new-german-leitkultur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/en\/2023\/12\/31\/deflecting-lulling-and-hysteria-the-strange-new-german-leitkultur\/","title":{"rendered":"Deflecting, Lulling and Hysteria – The Strange New German Leitkultur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The mood in the country is bad<\/a>, I have just heard from friends, and there are many reasons why exactly. However, one of the reasons is our success over the last few decades, which has made us overconfident. I notice this again and again in conversations in intimate company or on stage, where there is inevitably someone who says “we are well positioned”, “we are better than , or “they would never be able to do that” or “they first have to prove that\u2026<\/a>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six years ago, an appearance by the then VW boss Matthias M\u00fcller made the rounds when he said that we should “leave the church in the village” as far as Tesla was concerned and gave all sorts of reasons why Tesla should not be taken seriously. These statements have not aged very well, as we now have to worry about VW, which is experiencing sales difficulties and production problems with its electric cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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