The title of this post is a reference to the Old English saying Wyrd bið ful aræd, which means, roughly, “Fate is completely inescapable.” Bernard Cornwell prominently featured the phrase in his series of historical novels entitled The Saxon Chronicles.
The word wyrd has the same root as “weird” in the Scots idiom to dree one’s weird, which means to endure one’s fate.
The following essay looks ahead to 2023 as the year when the nation of Germany will have to dree its weird.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Ansage.org:
2023 Will Be a Fateful Year for Germany
Dear readers, another annus horribilis in and for Germany comes to an end in 2022, one which one does not know whether one should be glad to have survived, or whether one should prudently keep it in honourable memory — because that what lies ahead is only going to get worse.
The rapid intellectual and material loss of substance and prosperity goes hand in hand with a rapid erosion of trust in the honesty and competence of politics. And no one can say when this development will become hyper-critical, when it will become life-threatening in Germany. We can still try to sugarcoat things, flee into private life, close our eyes in Biedermeier denial to the approaching impacts — but firstly, as all pre-revolutionary epochs of history have shown, this self-deception only works for a short time, and secondly, we allow the established facts to pull us deeper into the abyss with each passing day. The price to pay for the coming catastrophe is pushed higher and higher. The escalations are progressing at all levels. At the same time it will be respice finem (the end), and the warning reference to the inevitable outcome of the development more and more hysterically frowned upon.
Only escalations
What am I talking about here, what exactly is being escalated? The answer: basically everything. Company deaths, economic flight, increasing migration of the remaining elites abroad. decline in education and level of vocational training. Mass immigration of unskilled and culturally alien people. Islamization. Excess mortality, vaccine damage. Inflation. Disappearance of the transportation infrastructure. Overuse of social systems. Public debt. Reduction of freedom and more and more regulation through prohibitions. Reduction of sovereignty through the transfer of legislative and legal powers to supranational bodies, which are then no longer democratically controlled. Prosecution and criminalization of critical opinions through increasingly “creative” censorship. And, and, and.
Does anyone seriously think all this could go on forever with no repercussions? Or will it end and change for the better by itself? You don’t wake up one morning and realize: Oops, suddenly there’s a dictatorship out there! Or: Whoa, the world is on fire! It’s creeping processes that carry us there — although since Corona, things have been more or less galloping.
Constructive pessimism
Anyone who accuses me here of cacophony, who calls for “optimism” in these times, who reproaches us for seeing and painting everything black and this constant calling out to Cassandra is just as frustrating as it promotes depression, I unfortunately have to reply: Wake up! Times are too serious to keep burying your head in the sand. Constructive pessimism is the optimism of our time. We’ve come to a point where everyone is either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Where silence and retreat into the apolitical are no longer options. In 2023, every individual is therefore encouraged to rebel, arouse, protest and make it clear within the scope of their individual possibilities in their environment that they are aware of the intentional ruin of their homeland and everything that is dear to us, and are no longer willing to watch. If this succeeds at least within a critical mass, then — and only then — the reversal process of healing can be initiated. This is certainly not to be expected from those who want destroy us. We don’t have much time left for that.
With this in mind, I wish you — in addition to personal happiness and health — a restless and alert year of 2023!
Yours,
Daniel Matissek and the Ansage team
Afterword from the translator: