🤔 hmm. What didn’t work? Perhaps we each need to bring a second cellphone? Purchase real flashlights and use those instead? With enough flashlights we will defeat the armies of darkness! AfD evildoers must be forced to see the error of their ways!

A Song on the End of the World

On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.

On the day the world ends
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.

And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels’ trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.

Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
There will be no other end of the world,
There will be no other end of the world.

—Czesław Miłosz, translated by Anthony Miłosz
Warsaw, 1944

Berliner Zeitung:

Ein Zeichen gegen Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Herbert Kickl und Alice Weidel: Am Samstag findet in Berlin eine Großdemonstration gegen den weltweiten Rechtsruck statt.

Das Brandenburger Tor spiegelt sich am Pariser Platz in einer Pfütze

Zehntausend Personen seien angemeldet, mit Handytaschenlampen und Laternen werde man gegen ein Erstarken rechter Kräfte in Deutschland und Österreich, aber auch weltweit auf die Straße gehen. Eine Woche nach der Amtseinführung von Donald Trump als Präsident der USA, unterstützt von Tech-Milliardär Elon Musk, und einen Monat vor der vorgezogenen Bundestagswahl solle so ein Zeichen des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts gesetzt werden.

„ein Zeichen des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts“ 🤔 So 10,000 people will take to the streets with their cellphone flashlights and in a sign of social cohesion will demonstrate against the newly reelected US President, the leader of the most popular party in Österreich, and the Kanzlerkandidatin of the party which consistently polls the second most popular in Deutschland?