Flight Cham! Cham leg! Children indie world setting Cham! Chased by shame

What has become of the good old saying "live and let live"? Unfortunately, I know: "Ashamed and ashamed." Endurance gauntlet is the new popular sport, and no one is asked whether they want to participate. There is always some reason: once it was premarital sex and illegitimate children, today there is a danger of flying shame! Meat Cham! Cham leg! Diesel Cham! SUV shame! Chimney and New Year rocket fine dust shame! And the latest: children's world setting shame!

Chased by shame

I'm already afraid of the first suicide out of livelihood, to relieve the ecological balance: too bad for this world! There is no need to be surprised about the lack of self-love everywhere and increasing depression. The Swede and father of two, Pericles Nalbanits, reported on the radio about his illness from "climate depression". At Swedish universities there are already coping courses against "climate fear", from which even Crown Princess Victoria suffers.

How can you be happy with a self-image as the greatest "ecological pest"? As long as a person lives, they have to breathe, eat, excrete and at least consume minimally. No matter how hard you try to save the world, you do something wrong and feel ashamed to death under the evil eyes. For example, if you need a bag for spontaneous shopping after work because the 99 cloth bags and nets are at home. You feel like the humiliated Queen Cersei in "Game of Thrones": At every step and misstep pursue a self-righteous figure with a bell ringing and shouting: "SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!" Welcome back to the Middle Ages.

Shame is psychological violence

Foreign shame strikes me for these zealots, online and offline. A good state cannot be made with ashamed people. Especially since those who should be ashamed of their behavior never do it anyway: psychopaths, billionaire economic fraudsters and large corporate tax evaders, to name a few good bad examples. A study has shown that rich people are the least likely to change their climate-damaging behavior. The higher the income, the more environmentally friendly they travel. The infantry, the endeavored middle class, remains ashamed on the ground – frequent flyers continue to take off around the world because no one has to prescribe anything to them.

If there is no shame, you have to use violence to rule people, Confucius is said to have said. Shame is even more psychological violence and the sharpest all-purpose weapon from the poison cupboard of black pedagogy: Parents who wanted to drive out something for their child without having to give reasons, simply shouted: "Shame on you!" This command is implanted in the psyche like a computer virus that crashes the self-esteem system. Shame has never caused insight or goodwill, but self-loathing and defense and defiance. I now have shame-free times.

KARINA LÜBKE partly writes and feels ashamed in Hamburg. Fortunately, typing shame doesn't torture her yet.