Say no, no, no, negative no, double no, three times no, just no<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/wespennest-1024x704.jpg\")
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Punks had more fun than the equally nihilistic Last Generation of today, Balzer concludes, and unlike climate activists, made music and<\/em> art. But they were \u2018neither clearly \u201cleft\u201d or \u201cprogressive\u201d, as people romanticizing this youth movement suggest\u2019.<\/p>\nActivist generations<\/h2>\n
Analyses of generational differences regarding \u2018No future\u2019 come from theatre director Elfe Brandenburger (b. 1958) and her daughters, Esther (b. 1998) and Merle (b. 1996). Their interview is entitled \u2018Macht heil, was Ihr kaputt macht\u2019 (\u2018Repair what you break\u2019, a play on the 1968 slogan: Macht Kaputt, was Euch Kaputt macht<\/em> \u2013 \u2018Break what breaks you\u2019).<\/p>\nElfe Brandenburger protested NATO and atomic energy, and recalls the first organic-food and macrobiotic stores (because all supermarket food was supposedly be poisoned): \u2018We really felt like our world was coming to an end \u2026 \u201cNo Future\u201d wasn\u2019t just a slogan.\u2019 For Elfe\u2019s youth, they aimed to \u2018live fast and die young\u2019 while also believing that indigenous<\/em> peoples had the answers; now, she says, concerns are global. Daughter Esther says she hadn\u2019t known the climate movement was so old<\/em>, while Merle is disappointed to learn that \u2018indigenous knowledge\u2019 is no new<\/em> promise.<\/p>\nElfe recalls destroying things just to draw attention and gluing yuppies to windows. Today\u2019s activists glue themselves <\/em>to the streets. Her daughters volunteer for homeless women, seeking to balance not destroy the system, and feel empowered by \u2018reformative reproductive actions\u2019. They\u2019re fearful and concerned, sensitive to the other side \u2013 including the police. \u2018Binary thinking, viewing things as black and white is over,\u2019 Elfe says. \u2018Nothing\u2019s that simple any longer.\u2019 She and Merle agree that war, climate catastrophes and food shortages are the worst scenarios. Adaptation<\/em> is the future.<\/p>\nDownhill from now on?<\/h2>\n
Tipping points are often evoked \u2013 with respect to the climate, migration and looming authoritarianism \u2013 and every generation thinks they\u2019re there. But young people, too, are at a tipping point, writes psychoanalyst Wolf-Detlef Rost, noting young patients\u2019 extreme fears. Doomsday visions could make us act in time, but would that unleash a state of emergency and increase social polarization?<\/p>\n
According to psychoanalyst Delarum Habibi-Kohlen, just 25 per cent of the population can introduce fundamental changes and create a social<\/em> tipping point. When alienated people remember to act by \u2018separating the garbage, riding bicycles or not flying\u2019, they can reconnect. \u2018Without [such actions], there\u2019s no long-term change. Because those who do not act individually lose the staying power needed to exert political pressure.\u2019<\/p>\nWhen eternity begins<\/h2>\n
In \u2018No future, forever and a day\u2019, Stephan Steiner writes on how German composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681\u20131767) abandoned his Baroque style to create \u2018The Day of Judgement\u2019 oratorio, featuring an atheist who mocks pious souls awaiting the Apocalypse in \u2018probably the most gripping, moving and unforgettable aria of the whole piece. From then on, Christian inwardness is knee-deep in the Enlightenment\u2026 [T]he Day of Judgement is denied and dismissed.\u2019<\/p>\n
Steiner discusses the Christian \u2018final future\u2019 when time stands still and eternity begins. Early Church thinkers conceived of hell as extinction rather than torment, or saw universal reconciliation as the final state. \u2018At one time, religious people could have conceived of a future perfect a last time. Then: nothing. Eternity. In any case, no future.\u2019<\/p>\n
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