Living in Germany truly has felt surreal this past week. I guess I just never had to know how propaganda felt. Of course, there always were apparent biases or dominant media narratives. But I always thought "at least it's not as bad as fox news". I'm not so sure anymore. Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but I didn't experience the "falling in line" to be that complete. And that includes all the prominent dissenting voices, totally in line now.
Ok maybe I framed this post wrong, maybe I was a bit oblivious before. Of course there was a majority behind the "staatsräson" previously, but I felt that this time even "it's so tragic and complicated" is a fringe position.