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Topicality of Utopia - Interdisciplinary Lecture Series Fall Semester 2020/2021 Listen The Corona pandemic has led to massive restrictions in both private and public life. Many of these restrictions were unthinkable before the virus-related emergency. In one fell swoop it became clear what is feasible and changeable if only the need is great enough and the will to implement change is there. The drastic corona measures have an impact on environmental pollution, the flow of goods, working life or the meat industry. The social challenge posed by the virus
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life without the welfare state—Europe's real, lasting contribution to the twentieth century. The technocrats were about to forget that, but the electorate remembered it. This is also what the populist [...] seek? What do refugees seek? What is their driving force? Are they fleeing something or going towards something? Are they experts on the welfare state who risk their lives to become life-long clients [...] as in George Orwell’s dystopic Animal Farm, some people are more equal than others and the refugee is not a citizen, but rather is doomed to remain a halfcitizen for the rest of her life. Everyone
