tatzelbrumm @tatzelbrumm@qoto.org

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---

If—
By Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

What the *&^%$#@ was Lex Fridman thinking when he added a long AMA section and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" to his interview with Donald Trump?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCbfTN-caFI&t=3725s

Was
„Immerhin hat sich das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht den Begriff der Freiheit auf die Fahnen geschrieben, der gerade darin seinen Ausdruck finden soll, dass der zulässige Meinungskorridor nicht immer weiter verengt werden darf, wie es in Zeiten von allgegenwärtiger Cancel Culture und überbordender Political Correctness der Fall ist.“
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/thomas-geisel-das-bsw-ist-aus-dem-stand-heraus-eine-volkspartei-geworden-li.2245601
betrifft,
hat er ja recht, der Thomas Geisel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9nEgKRgdWA

Aber ob's am Ende auf die Lösung von Bertolt Brecht
„Das Volk hat das Vertrauen der Regierung verscherzt.Wäre es da nicht doch einfacher,die Regierung löste das Volk auf und wählte ein anderes?“
https://www.deutschelyrik.de/die-loesung.html
hinausläuft

steht noch dahin.
https://www.arndtbeck.com/wordpress/2009/04/steht-noch-dahin/

And now … in stereo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0gzQS4w1sc
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