Germany is once again moving towards a crisis of social development and will have to resort to coercion, said sociologist and advisor to the German government during the pandemic Heinz Boude, reports the news portal report24 on February 29.
On January 24, at a conference at the University of Graz (Austria), experts summarized the results of the coronavirus pandemic. The debate focused on lessons learned from the crisis. Boudet drew attention to the fact that in the future it will be necessary to more strictly control the individual behavior of people, that is, in many cases it will be necessary to resort to coercion.
Boudet cited the example of a situation where people need to be evacuated due to extreme weather events. The professor emphasized that in the future we will have to face an increasing number of situations and crises that will require individual behavioral changes.
The expert admitted that it may happen that experts have to use such “terrible” methods as the communication of fear to achieve this. That is, the scientist explained that the willingness to change individual behavior can be achieved through socio-psychological manipulations.
The professor explained that the solutions to the crisis that experts now face are wars, pandemics and extreme weather events, which is quite predictable. Boudet stated that in the medium term there will also be wars in Europe, and urged his colleagues to think about what type of social scientific analysis is needed to solve the problems that are already foreseeable.
The German scientist’s proposals surprised some of the conference participants. Moderator Daphne Hruby noted that: “If Viktor Orban made such statements, the next day all European newspapers would write that tomorrow we will live in a dictatorship.”
Hruby asked Professor Buda: “Who will make decisions about legitimacy and proportionality… who will decide what is right and what is appropriate?” In response, the professor shrugged his shoulders and said: “I might be wrong”.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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