#PostHeroic
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August 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Well, 35 years of decadence inevitably lead to this point. Now most European societies are mollycoddled and postheroic beyond salvation. Priorities are consumption and culture wars.
August 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Europeans are "tired of war" and, without admitting to it, long for a Minsk III or, if all eventually fails, will be content with a new iron curtain from Poland to Romania.

The mollycoddled and postheroic European societies are too weak to stand tall, to make clear-cut decisions since 2014 already.
August 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
what is post-postheroic-post-post-fordism?
June 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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June 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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March 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Lack of intrinsic motivation. Lack of persistence. Lack of attention to detail. But always entitled to special treatment.

Many don’t know that Germany as a whole is very much a hedonistic and postheroic nation.
March 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Not much different in academia. Lack of intrinsic motivation. Lack of persistence. Lack of attention to detail. But always entitled to special treatment.

Germany as a whole is very much a hedonistic and postheroic nation.
March 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Current read! Picked up at ReadOut; cover art had me hoping for a sweet sapphic subplot.
Even if that doesn't pan out, so far I'm enjoying the gentle worldbuilding, postheroic plotline, and warmly painted characters.
Fast becoming my new favorite genre. More, more!
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March 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
But playing victim and weeping into their wubby is just what postheroic mollycoddled Europe always wanted, no?

1. Serve ever more bowls of finely clipped word salad
2. Feel good and righteous
3. Refrain from any meaningful action
4. Wail, sob, and complain

People are so weak, it hurts.
February 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Against Putin, Trump and Xi, the languid, mollycoddled, and postheroic Europeans have no real chance.

35 years were recklessly squandered, and the EU is more divided than ever.
February 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This. In fact, the entire thread.

I fail to see how politicians can manage to sell their postheroic entitled societies, highly loss-aversive after decades of prosperity, that the party stops here - higher taxes, less social benefits, higher debt.

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9/ Europeans must decide what price is too high. Filling US armsmakers' order books rather than building our own industries? Letting US tech firms undermine our democracies? Passive complicity in a bad deal on Ukraine negotiated over our heads? Some realism & self-respect needed...
February 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It is almost impossible to sell the mollycoddled, postheroic, entitled, and ageing German citizenry higher defence spending - meaning higher taxes, reduced social benefits, and other spending cuts.

Loss aversion is almost epigenetically engrained after 80 years of prosperity.
February 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Europe is weak, a postheroic continent, except for a few smaller nations. It wants to keel over like a dog, exposing its belly in a gesture of submission.
February 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Ternopil this morning. Yet the mollycoddled postheroic West gives a damn.
December 13, 2024 at 7:58 AM
The fundamental problem is, though, how to convince the hedonistic postheroic European societies to make the necessary sacrifices?

They are already not seriously interested in climate change mitigation and other pressing issues.
December 13, 2024 at 7:05 AM
A very good speech with very good points. Without production, everything is nothing.

The fundamental problem is, though, how to convince the hedonistic postheroic western societies to make the necessary sacrifices?

They are already not seriously interested in climate change mitigation.
December 12, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Sure, but the postheroic disintegrating West doesn’t care. All it can muster are ever more bowls of word salad.
December 5, 2024 at 7:26 PM
I'm afraid the ship has sailed. The fearful postheroic West, focused on culture wars, consumerism, and a romantic notion of the past, is neither able nor willing to muster the all-out effort that would be necessary to push back the empire of evil.

I have not once managed to convince an appeasenik.
December 3, 2024 at 9:03 AM
Postheroic mollycoddled Germany wants to sleep www.srf.ch/news/interna...

Germany is tired and traumatised by all that war on TV and online and wants peace.
Militärexperte: Zuversicht in Russland – Zaudern im Westen
Ein österreichischer Militärexperte sieht die Ukraine im Abnutzungskrieg gegen Russland zunehmend im Hintertreffen.
www.srf.ch
May 14, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Pistorius versucht das Thema Wehrdienst/Pflichtdienst auf die politische Agenda zu bringen. Ob das der Bundeskanzler weiß? Auch wenn ich persönlich es wichtig finde, das Thema endlich anzugehen, habe ich meine Zweifel, ob das wirklich verfängt. Postheroic age und so ...

www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
December 17, 2023 at 10:36 PM