Warning! She is among us.

It is small or large, but in any case tough, extremely resilient, can survive for a long time, almost forever, without food, and can survive periods of cold as well as periods of heat, cold wars and nuclear strikes.

You could almost confuse them with cockroaches if their external appearance wasn't often much lovelier - unless you're an entomologist and have a soft spot for everything that crawls and crawls. The title of cockroaches of poetry could certainly drive one or two readers to real storms of enthusiasm.

The eating behavior

Relatively little is known about their feeding behavior, but their favorite source of food seems to be humans, humans in all their diversity and simplicity.

She ambushes him, sometimes in secret, but sometimes blatantly and cheekily, then she jumps right in his face and yet a number of potential victims are unable to defend themselves against her. She more or less enters into a symbiosis with her victims; she “feeds” the victim a distorted, exaggerated worldview and in return receives their emotions. An interesting phenomenon is that although it triggers the emotions internally, it obviously draws its true nourishment from the emotions shown externally.

What exactly is happening?

It sucks itself in, but also and above all in its victim, whose emotional world experiences, depending on the basic talent, every conceivable emotion, from loud laughter to silly giggling to sheer horror, horror and anger-dripping indignation, even drooling Outbursts of anger are said to have been observed in isolated cases.

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What is interesting in this context is the fact that, depending on your emotional state, the subsequent realization that you belong to the victims of the species under consideration here leads to a completely different further reaction.

The victims can be divided into several groups. Let's look at the two most extreme ones here.

The conscious victims

On the one hand we have the conscious victims, what exactly are conscious victims? These are the victims that they specifically seek out and willingly become victims of. You could say they are addicted to it.

They literally enjoy the big grins, loud laughs, the pinching of the diaphragm.

The harder, but at the same time more hidden, the bite of the cattle, the greater the joy of this group of victims. The only thing missing, at least for most of them, is the loud call that resounds to the world

“I see you, give it to me, you lyric bitch!”

However, since these are voluntary and knowing victims, their subsequent reaction is correspondingly peaceful, they present themselves openly and talk about their last experience with great enthusiasm and enthusiasm, and it is not uncommon for other voluntary victims to follow the same paths and make pilgrimages the places where their friends willingly gave their minds to attack themselves and to delight in the resulting consequences, already described.

The inexperienced

On the other extreme side, there are the victims who fall into the net cast completely unaware. However, she obviously enjoys it much more when she can jump straight into the eyes of this group of victims with full swing and forcefully suck into their brain lobes.

She does this in a very targeted manner, so she doesn't indiscriminately suck herself in somehow, no, she specifically targets the areas of the brain in which the victim's worldview is stored.

Now everyone has a worldview and there is nothing reprehensible or even unfair about it.

Some are a bit weird from a scientific perspective but nice, while others are truly twisted. If it now encounters one of those distorted world views in one of the lobes of the brain, then it gathers all its power, supports it or, at best, reinforces it.

From now on, the victim will see them as a reliable source and will carry their theses around the world as their own or as evidence of the truth.

To accuse this group of victims of being mentally deficient would be to miss the point; rather, it is their worldview that prevents them from perceiving the true character of their supposedly safe source.

But that's exactly where the crux lies, she feeds her victims with supposed facts, uses their worldview against them, reinforces their reservations, their prejudices - everything fits and in the end she turns out to be a mirage, as Mata Hari, who is playing her double game with him , i.e. the victim, played.

It is then not surprising that all the energy in the form of anger, which she previously found and strengthened in her victim, is thrown back at her in concentrated force and rage.

Much worse than being deceived by them, however, is the gloating and malice that is now raining down on their victim from outside.

That doesn't make things any more bearable for him; he feels, quite rightly so, humiliated and stupid, which makes his anger all the greater and he shouts it at everything and everyone in frustration.

Will her victim learn from this?

Probably not, because as soon as she puts on something different and sings her song slightly differently, it (the victim, be it male or female) will hang on her lips again and sing along at the top of her lungs - until... exactly until she reveals herself again and anger and frustration are thrown out again.

Can you avoid her?

No, you can't, it's too present in the networked world for that; it has a large number of supporters, patrons and lovers. It has survived for thousands of years in a variety of forms. Dictatorships survived. No, you can't avoid her, sooner or later you will be confronted by her.

If I can't avoid her, can I at least recognize her?

The question can definitely be answered with YES. For example, if an article with the title “ Revelation: Hamburg Rose Monday parade, canceled because of refugees ” appears, then it is enough to just take in the headline to come to the conclusion that the Hanseatic city itself understands nothing more than a Rose Monday parade than changing apartments on that very day, although he would prefer it on the weekend, which is why Rose Monday parades in Hamburg are not part of the cityscape.

Of course, there may also be a number of fellow citizens in Hamburg who move around in an event room that has been renamed the “Prunksaal” and indulge in a meeting based on the Rhenish model.

BUT, these fellow citizens probably wouldn't think of standing on trailers and throwing candy at unsuspecting passers-by. Never not!

So you can tell if you don't have a slightly skewed worldview and if you look at everything that says something about "refugees" with skepticism in advance and then if it says something about "BECAUSE of refugees" you already have the next hate cap on.

If the article then turns out to be the false friend described above, and you realize that the hate cap was only perceived by everyone around you as what you were wearing anyway, namely a fool's cap, then you are fully on the topic of Rose Monday arrived, but also correspondingly annoyed.

Is there an easier detection method if I can't necessarily rely on my mind?

Again, a YES! Some of their best-known fans include the “ Postillon ”, the “ Tagespresse ” or the “ Norddeutsche Nachrichten ”, to name just three.

With internet presences of this type (not just these, but also all of their colleagues not listed here by name) it often helps to take a closer look: either it is already visible in large letters or you can find what you are looking for in the imprint. She will be introduced to us there at the latest.

The one it was all about all along, the lyric cockroach that has lasted for thousands of years and yet is as fresh and refreshing as ever... and yet it has a simple, simple name, simple but melodious - satire.

Author: Jens H, mimikama.org

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