So Done. My MIind. My Brain is Slithering Out My Ear

                This is being written in the aftermath of an 11 page research paper.

                All hope of survival has been lost.

                And sanity is no longer in the equation.

                Tonight. WE RIDE.

 

                So after that little loss of brain cells…Welcome to the German Culture final. Tonight we’ll be focusing on something I happened to stumble upon on Tumblr (which is legitimately the best website ever. EVER.) Naturally since Tumblr is only a blogging site I had to go a look for the source (Here you go: http://news.yahoo.com/german-police-used-only-85-bullets-against-people-155155175.html  ) Pretty legit. To summarize, German police only used 85 bullets against people this year and only 6 people ended up dead in the end. That was then followed by the story of the U.S. cops who shot 90 bullets at one unarmed murder suspect. Really guys? Really? Moral of the story: Likely to do with gun control.

 A few nights ago I spent 15 minutes explaining to my parents what the RAF was and what they did. It’s nice to know you can take things learned in class and use them in real life. Especially now with the type of world we live in and the fact that they were basically the first modern day terrorist group. Even though there’ve been like four posts (or what feels like four posts) on the RAF, the evolution of their group through the different time periods is fascinating as it get s more radical and violent towards civilians as it goes.

However, unlike the people who keep killing here, they did it to make a point and create change. Mass killings here are done by people who find that killing others is the easiest way to get their names into people’s households. American’s have an almost sickening obsession with becoming famous and coupled with a terrible mental health system and easy access to guns. We’re sorta asking for it.

Which leads into something I sorta wish we’d gone through in class. How the healthcare system works and what they do for people with mental illnesses because the only thing to go off of really is what we saw in Berlin Calling and that had more to do with addiction than anything.

While looking into the story on the police, the comments the people made on the article became the most fascinating part. Some people were saying that because Germany has laxer restrictions on drugs, it is less necessary for them to take out the dealers in the fashion that the American’s do. Another said due to the fact that America’s population is 4 times larger than that of Germany’s it’s somewhat expected. Then there was a whole bunch of really not politically correct jokes that naturally would show up where they’re not wanted.

Someone then dropped in to talk about how the German police force was trained. They’re better at hand to hand and riot control and apparently very good with a night stick. If you’re good with that and the subject is unarmed, it’s unnecessary to shoot. Here it seems as if that’s the only thing the cops know how to do. If you can’t make them go quietly, pull a gun on them and hope they understand it’s a real threat because they don’t know who has weapons on them and who doesn’t.

I’m honestly running out of things to talk about and I have a good 300 words to go. Usually I’m so good at this. Dragging things out until they’re just ridiculous. 800 words isn’t even that much. MY MIND IS EXPLODING. MAKE IT STOP.

Ah-Ha! We should have gone over some recent German pop culture. I mean really. Who’s famous there that we don’t know about here, who’s big there besides Hasslehoff. Though I guess we kinda did but not really. There were some people mentioned during the states presentations but didn’t really get to learn a whole lot about it. Pop culture is necessary to a thriving society. Seriously. Pop culture is whatever people are talking about. Shakespeare would have been pop culture at one point. What are German’s talking about right now?

Also a quick dive into the learning of foreign languages there. Here we sit down and we have a class on it and that’s all we learn. There (and I was talking to a girl who actually lives in Germany) they have English integrated into other subjects so it’s like learning the language in real time which is awesome and for the most part would probably be easier. Wouldn’t you think?

I really enjoyed this class for all I got behind on my posts (whoops) and I’ve already been able to take the stuff I learned from it and share it with other people. Yay German Culture! Yaaaaaay.