Discussion culture-The Uncle Hans phenomenon | nd-aktuell.de

The Onkel-Hans phenomenon describes that type of explanatory onkel that used to exist in many families. In mine that was that uncle Hans: born in 1933, cozy-jovial guy, cigar smoker, very good civil servant board-and thus equipped with enough day leisure to get over all the sources accessible to him (from Karl-Heinz Köpckes “Tagesschau” to Gerhard Löwenthals “ZDF-Magazin” to Werner Höfers “, Peter”, Peter Scholl-Latour’s books and “Peter Moosleitner’s interesting magazine”) to take a rather stubborn picture of the world.

So far, no matter – would not have been the uncomfortable slope of the uncle, everyone who did not find the vastness quickly enough to bother the world situation with his snapped half -knowledge and the resulting findings. Just as I had to experience it repeatedly and painfully whenever I met Uncle Hans; Which was inevitable thanks to a number of family celebrations.

As soon as one had met for Aunt Ilse’s birthday, Grandpa Wilhelm’s funeral or cousin Jochen’s engagement in the more or less large family network, Hans managed to get to me in a very short time to deal with it without long preface, but all the more in his opinion “the Jew” to solve the Middle East conflict, “the Russian” no longer dominated ” and “the bricklayers”, as he abbreviated the Freemasons, no longer had to affect the fortunes of Germany.

The courtesy offered me to follow his explanations at least for a few minutes with played interest. But as soon as there was the possibility, I watched that I won land before his never -ending world explanations. Which was sometimes more difficult than expected. Because no matter where I was looking for hiding, Hans felt me ​​unexpectedly again to keep going exactly where I had just stuck it under excuses (must be on toilet, represented my legs, greet me cousin kathrin). Some family festival came to the ordeal to me.

Uncle Hans is dead for a long time. But the phenomenon named after him survived. Especially in recent times it is increasingly on the pelle, namely – where else – on the Internet. Above all, on Facebook, that replacement family for many of us boomers, in which some quite stately explanatory bears were up to mischief right from the start, but which has now developed into a real nuisance at some of them.

In my case, there are some Faceboomer, Peter, Paul and Pit that- now about as old, although not quite as well as Uncle Hans at his most strenuous times- seem to turn up a large part of her partial retirement for all the sources available to you (all German, English and Russian-speaking online portals; on this side of the payment, there is only digital information on this side, on this side of the payment. To cover backgrounds and analyzes for today’s world events.

So far, so it would not- if it is not your insatiable slope, your gained knowledge about the geopolitical, global economic and both war and peace-stinling relationships in times in shorter, mostly longer, but always guaranteed and guaranteed to pour the Facebook or instant posting and, sometimes every hour, to get out of your accounts, so that it is- similar to that- like that. Uncle Hans Weitstudent world situations – sometimes no mercy and no more escaped. Unless you consistently remain offline or avoid the impositions of such Hans-Wurstersen, which has long been overcome by temporary blockages or even abortion.

So, it gradually let your baseless conspiracies, colleague Peter. And you, long -time buddy Paul, please return from your ever -focal postings and oh so shocking useless comments on the location of the world. And I, dear Pit, I call: Finally end your long-awaited book, instead of finally overestimating your long-awaited self-overestimation, anticoamic adhesive and spit-sliding contempt for a supposedly spreading Bellizen and Green Center to bring your once so flawless reputation as witty as funny and life clever friend.