(Published in GralsWelt 60/2010) Today's world of work, dominated by automation, presents our welfare state with the greatest challenges we have ever known. An inventory - and possible new ways for a decent life. I recently visited an automobile factory, where I myself had worked 35 years ago, to see how the people I once knew [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 18/2001) Tensions are escalating At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, after Napoleon's defeat, European diplomats created a so-called balance of power, which was supposed to give the continent stable conditions and save wars. The unification of the German provinces into a common state (1871) and the subsequent rise of the German Empire to an important industrial nation disrupted this [...]
“The Master of the Seventh Seal” - just a historical novel or more? Published in Gralswelt 58/2010 The history of the world consists of an interplay of many forces, and it is not uncommon for apparent trivialities to be of paramount importance. This was also the case with the well-known naval battle between the great Spanish Armada and the English fleet in 1588. The English victory […]
By Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D., Koha, Burgrain, 2006. Published in GralsWelt 57/2010 The Analytical Method In the history of the natural sciences, the decisive advances in the application of analytical methods can be attributed to the 17th century. A problem is broken down into smaller and smallest components until each part is simplified so far that [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 58/2010) May 29, 1453 is an important date in European history. At that time the Turks conquered Constantinople and with this action cut off Europe from trade with Asia. Venice lost its leading position as the center of maritime trade. The Portuguese and Spaniards felt compelled to intensify their efforts, which the Turkish Empire [...]
Martin Luther and the Insurgent Peasants: A Critical Look at "Evangelical Freedom". (Published in Gralswelt 59/2010) At the turn of the 15th to the 16th century, the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age [i], there were all sorts of tensions in the German Empire. The land was divided among more than a thousand princes and lords [ii] who pursued their own personal goals. [...]
The Asians will not take us into consideration An analysis of the “yellow danger” based on global economic developments over the past decades. Published in GralsWelt 59/2010. In April 1983 I traveled to (South) Korea for the first time for several weeks. My job was to set up a Korean bicycle tire factory with the development and construction of motorcycle tires, back then [...]
By Menzies, Gavin, Droemer, Munich, 2003. (Published in GralsWelt 57/2010) China's historiography mentions a sea expedition that led a Chinese fleet into the Indian Ocean under the command of the eunuch Zheng He. That was almost eight decades before the Portuguese (Vasco da Gama 1498) reached the Indian coast, and against the much larger, more numerous, [...]
(Published in Grail World Issue 3/1999) What can we expect from the turn of the millennium, which so many people are looking forward to with apprehension? Does the year 2000 mark nothing more than a round number to which we attach an unjustifiably high priority - or, as gloomy prophecies suggest, does the fate of mankind actually stand at this time [...]
The utopia of the omnipotence of science (published in Grail World Issue 3/1999) The belief in the limitless possibilities of science and technology is perhaps the most important utopia that has shaped the 20th century. It has led to unexpected developments that hardly any people on earth could ignore, it has led to a triumph of the Western Christian [...]
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