These days we are witnessing multiple expressions of a new political Dadaism. The bizarre pardon of the president's son in the USA has now been followed by absurd political theater in South Korea, in which the president placed the opposition under martial law. At the same time, the Chinese representative refused the German foreign minister a press conference after she, the green-socialist representative of German decline, had once again publicly pointed out human rights violations to the Chinese giant like a petulant child.

And the shadow of the NATO alliance's defeat against Russia in Ukraine, the scene of the biggest money laundering operation in living memory, looms over everything. Tomorrow, the minority government in France will experience its Waterloo in parliament, while the technocrats of the European Union are driving the old continent to the brink of collapse with a controlled invasion, over-regulation and the climate apocalypse.

This political Dadaism is the expression of a dead cultural drive that has long since lost its clout, its creative sources and inspirations. The Dadaism of the Weimar Republic was once followed by Hitler's Third Reich. Where will our culture end up, where will it run out, will the process of decay accelerate? These are truly turbulent times, in which even the smallest plant of hope provides comfort.