Ever since Angela Merkel spelled out this newfound optimism, proclaiming “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do it”) in regards to the refugee crisis, the real pessimists have been out in force again. In the current edition of the political monthly Cicero, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk warns that Germans need to relearn not just to appreciate closed borders, but to reacclimatise to what he calls phobocracy. For too long, he says, Germans have lived sheltered from the terrors of the modern world; now the time has come to “submerge oneself into the subconsciousness of the phobocratic mechanism”. Which sounds fun.
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