This October has been relatively quiet on my blog, at least on my side. So I figured it might be best to just lay out my current thoughts.
On a personal level, I’m currently working on a book that takes up quite a lot of time and research (plus the procrastination and writer’s block that come along with it). While the main objective is to philosophize about the future of genetics and our responsibilities towards what we may be able to create, it is quite science-heavy considering the animal I chose – which will be revived in the thought experiment – has long gone extinct.
In a way it will therefore be like a mirror of the writing style of my blog, but instead of providing the sources at the end of the book the sources appear in the footnotes on each page. And well, maybe the one or other detour in the footnotes without getting lost.
Once the necessary science background is done, the philosophy part will probably look small, but I hope to encourage a discussion with it. An impulse, to put it in other words.
Finally, I’ll also talk about the current situation of science or at least the rather grim reality we currently live in (see: the current Trump-Administration, JFK Jr. in particular) as well as touching on the current state of humanity. I intend to end it on a positive note, though, as doom and gloom won’t get us anywhere. The future still won’t be pretty, but sometimes the best we can do is preventing worst things from happening. I already have contacted a publishing company and the book is written in English, so apologizes in advance for grammar mistakes – it isn’t my native language. I hope to have it finished by December.
On a societal level, I’m worried for my country (Germany).
The confirmed right-wing extremist party AfD is polling around 24-25% while having absolutely no answers to the issues our country is facing. They only prey on the resentment and prejudices of the people, and the conservative parties (CDU/CSU) preferred to echo the rhetoric instead of reflecting upon their past mistakes and showing those who are dissastisfied that they have genuine interest in improving their lives. The harsher asylum policies, which have already been aggravated by the previous government (Traffic Light Coalition = SPD, FDP and die Grünen), do more harm to Germany than addressing the main problem of the attacks that have happened (lack of networking among the security agencies). Illusionary solutions are presented, while the continued rise of right-wing extremism is being ignored and attacks quickly forgotten. The fanatics of the AfD still want to leave the EU (which would cost around 2,000,000 jobs) and destroy renewable energies (thus fulfilling the self-fulfilling deindustralization prophecy). Not to mention their open mass-deportation dreams which threaten the 20 million Germans with immigration background. And these fascists are backed by the richest man (Elon Musk), the Russian government, the Second Trump-Administration favours them and China has great interest in a weakened Germany (as it would weaken the European Union too).
At least on the municipal level there’s been quite some successes against the far-right, where in local elections the AfD-candidates lost (in East Germany too!) against other candidates. Then there were the massive protests against the far-right mass deportation plans in 2024 – I participated in three as well: Biberach, Ravensburg and Bad Waldsee. Hundreds of thousands of other people sending a strong signal and the AfD suffered in the polls. So, there’s hope, they are neither almighty or unstoppable, they just have a propaganda apparatus and a naive – sometimes just stupid – media landscape where only a few news outlets (like taz) see through their games. David won also against Goliath.
There’d be a lot more to talk about, like the climate crisis that is the biggest challenge of our time as it literally threatens our livelihoods: from the soil of our farmers that feed us to the villages, towns and cities we live in (rising sea levels, extreme weather events, etc.).
But I want to keep it short, as much as I would like to talk more about these issues.
Currently, I also work on translating an interview about Gisèle Pelicot which was published in the philosophie magazin. It had quite the impact on me, which is why I decided to write a translation. It’ll probably be published on my blog around early or mid-November.
For the German part of this bilingual blog, I’m going to write a new issue of Coniunctis Viribus – there’s a lot to address, so I don’t know when it will be published in November.
Most of the work on my blog is taking place in my head: thinking about the formulation of a sentence (particularly in English), what to include, how to present it, and so on.
It can take up to a week or two to finally finish a blog entry of mine. The research is the most fun part, that’s also what I re-discovered while writing my book. It’s just fun scrolling through search engines, finding PDF-files of university texts, book excerpts (or sometimes entire books!) and even digitized archives of newspaper. It’s a lot of work, but a lot of fun.
I have quite a lot of factual books too, so when I can include knowledge saved in these treasures it’s always a pleasure! Someday I’m gonna be a librarian, that’s for sure.
Well, this kinda has turned into rambling, just things that my mind is pre-occupied with.
Anyhow, that’s it for today. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Update: November 15, 2025
For some reason, a paywall popped up on the Gisèle Pelicot article in the philosophy magazine and now I can’t translate it. I’ll see what I can do, maybe I have to purchase a physical copy or something. For now, I have to put it on hold.
Baroque 