prⅳate cinema berlin, july 12, 9 pm: a rat attack from ambush - europe vs. greece

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                                                                          sunday
                                                                            9 pm
                                                                            rsvp

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The wind has blown away the town. It has gone to ruin. Because everything is in 
ruins, everything has been degraded. But I could also say that they have ruined 
and degraded everything. Because this is not some kind of cataclysm, coming 
about with so-called innocent human aid. On the contrary, it is about man's own 
judgement, his own judgement over his own self, which of course God has a hand 
in, or dare I say: takes part in. And whatever he takes part in is the most 
ghastly creation that you can imagine. Because, you see, the world has been 
debased. So it doesn't matter what I say, because everything has been debased 
that they have acquired. And since they have acquired everything in a sneaky, 
underhand fight, they have debased everything. Because whatever they touch - 
and they touch everything - they have debased. This is the way it was until the 
final victory. Until the triumphant end. Acquire, debase, debase, acquire. Or I 
can put it differently if you like: To touch, debase and thereby acquire, or to 
touch, acquire and thereby debase. And it has been going on like this for 
centuries. On, on and on. This and only this, sometimes on the sly, sometimes 
rudely, sometimes gently, sometimes brutally, but it has been going on and on. 
Yet only in one way, like a rat attack from ambush. Because for this perfect 
victory, it was also essential that the other side, everything that is 
excellent, great in some way and noble, should not engage in any kind of fight. 
There shouldn't be any kind of struggle, just the sudden disappearance of one 
side, meaning the disappearance of the excellent, the great, the noble. So that 
by now these winning winners who attack from ambush rule the earth, and there 
isn't a single tiny nook where one can hide something from them, because 
everything they can lay their hands on is theirs. Even things we think they 
can't reach - but they do reach - are also theirs. Because the sky is already 
theirs and all our dreams. Theirs is the moment, nature, infinite silence. Even 
immortality is theirs, you understand? Everything, everything is lost forever. 
And those many noble, great and excellent just stood there, if I can put it 
that way. They stopped at this point, and had to understand, and had to accept, 
that there is neither god nor gods. And the excellent, the great and the noble 
had to understand and accept this right from the beginning. But of course, they 
were quite incapable of understanding it. They believed it and accepted it, but 
they didn't understand it. They just stood there, bewildered, but not resigned, 
until something, that spark from the brain, finally enlightened them. And all 
at once they realized that there is neither god nor gods. All at once they saw 
that there is neither good nor bad. Then they saw and understood that if this 
was so, then they themselves do not exist either. You see, I reckon this may 
have been the moment when we can say that they were extinguished, they burnt 
out. Extinguished and burnt out like the fire left to smoulder in the meadow. 
One was a constant loser, the other was the constant winner. Defeat, victory, 
defeat, victory, and one day - here in the neighborhood - I had to realize, and 
I did realize, that I was mistaken, I was truly mistaken when I thought that 
there has never been and could never be any kind of change here on earth. 
Because, believe me, I know now that this change has indeed taken place.

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