How To Tell

that things are getting worse!

The best indicator is probably that more and more people are losing their sense of humour, are becoming "tierisch ernst" (beastly serious). And John Cleese is probably right when he links this to the loss of a sense for proportion. If one has nothing to relate to, one cannot actually tell if something is out of proportion and exaggerated, which would make it funny and something to wholeheartedly laugh at, which does tend to make the issues smaller and manageable. Instead fear will let them grow abundantly.


Wider den tierischen Ernst - Against the beastly seriousness!