| What are we doing?
January 3rd, 2004 Some thoughts preceding and as a result of a conversation over drinks, with my colleagues, yesterday:
I only, by the by, write down these thoughts to be rid of them, not to instigate a broad social discussion; I namely do not wish to hold that at all. I wish to be left alone. For two days already, I've answered my phone as little as possible, call noone and do not venture outside, because I'm depressed, angry, and afraid of the future, and am disgusted by society and my fellow man. Call it a springtime dip. |
Of which I deem the tobacco law, effective from January 1st onwards, to be the worst so far. That we think a smoker should not be permitted to cause damage to others I both understand and second, as a nonsmoker (having smoked for fifteen years, before). But that, in doing so, we banish the smoking compartment, and the smoking spaces in many office buildings, I find fascist, beyond patronizing. To my mind, each individual should be allowed to destroy his or her own life, provided he or she does no detriment to others in doing so. That, moreover, we place smoking columns in railway stations to group the smokers there, I find blatantly nazist, because it stigmatizes those smokers as being a distasteful section of the population. What was it, again? 'Wer dieses Zeichen trägt ist ein Feind unseres Volkes'? The logical next step is a glider train destined for Auschwitz-Birkenau.