Archive - The View From Up North

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We live in a world of visual sensory overload. A quadrillion ugly cat photos clog up the internet. But that's nothing, compared to the inferno of…

May 14 •

February 2025

The Power of Purity

After JD Vance's historic Munich speech: The truth bombs dropped by the Vice President have shaken Europe's firewall against reality. Can Germany's…

Feb 17 •

January 2025

Ilka loves Hendrik, but Hendrik hides his feelings from Ilka. Their love is about to be put to the test. None of this happens in Stanisław Lem's novel…

Jan 31 •

December 2024

A Soldier's Death (Funeral March)

Commemorating December 31, 2004

Dec 31, 2024 •

Straitjacket Paradise (34): Winter Doom

A TVFUN series: The world has become an overcrowded madhouse rubber room, where an electric shock at one end spreads all the way to the occupants at the…

Dec 6, 2024 •

November 2024

Be worried, be very worried!

The Germans, with their many phobias about Covid, freedom of speech, or climate change, should fear the elephant in the room for a change: a grey…

Nov 21, 2024 •

October 2024

La Bestia Negra

An ode to my blood-soaked jubliee

Oct 22, 2024 •

The Desiderata Phenomenon

If you thought poetry couldn't move the world, think again: an almost century-old poem by Max Ehrmann has touched millions of people in the internet age…

Oct 11, 2024 •

September 2024

The Deutschland of the Tribes

Two thousand years ago, Germania was a tinderbox full of competing warlords and clans. Today, in times of borderless mass migration, new “tribes” are…

Sep 7, 2024 •

August 2024

The Man Who Did Zilch

In our Lukewarm War with Russia, any glitch in both sides' early warning systems can accidentally trigger the Doomsday Machine. Just like in September…

Aug 30, 2024 •

House of Ghosts

In Hamburg's new Nazi bunker extravaganza for the leisure society, phantoms of a forever war lurk in every nook and corner. Inspection of a building…

Aug 24, 2024 •

All the Stops Before Derailment

How did we reach the threshold of disaster? Let's travel along a timeline of seven historical waypoints that have disrupted our lives and continue to…

Aug 19, 2024 •

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