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science

Why Elon Musk will shape the development of humanity like no one before him – Part 2

Present and future

There is a connecting link that recognises and analyses all the developments that have shaped humanity in the past and creates the conditions for the future of humanity:

Artificial intelligence – interface and game changer between yesterday and tomorrow

The invention of artificial intelligence (AI) – Turing, McCarthy, Hinton, the father of deep learning, and many others Artificial intelligence (AI) is no ordinary invention – it is the transition point between the great inventions of the past and the epoch-making innovations of the future. It expands not only our tools, but also our thinking, our creativity and even our self-image. AI marks the beginning of a new era – an era in which technology is no longer just executed, but also thought through.

This is exactly where we stand today. Artificial intelligence is on everyone's lips. Inventors around the world are discovering what it can do – in medicine, industry, and the control of all kinds of processes. But every individual in developed civilisations suddenly has access to knowledge, analytics and conversation. Schoolchildren and students use it for their research, entire books are written by AI, pieces of music are composed, works of art are created. AI is revolutionising our everyday lives. This is the new status quo. Are you ready for the next steps in the development of humanity?

28 May 2025

science

Why Elon Musk will shape the development of humanity like no one before him – Part 1

The author of this series of articles is aware that this is a provocative headline. The article has become so long and complex in content that we have divided it into three parts, which will be published on consecutive days. Once you have read the articles to the end, you will understand why we chose these particular words and that they are correct and indeed appropriate.

Part 1: Introduction and historical overview

When you read, hear or see anything about Elon Musk in the media these days, it's almost always negative headlines. Insane, populist, right-wing extremist and worse. Prominent users are leaving platform X, formerly Twitter, in droves. The only strange thing is that the number of users isn't falling. Quite the contrary. And, if you believe the media, no one is buying a Tesla anymore. The share price has indeed plummeted. But Elon Musk doesn't seem to care. The man is beyond the stage where a short-term drop in profits throws him off track. He thinks long term. Very long term. And he has a plan that is likely to work out – despite all the doom and gloom.

28 May 2025

Political education

The end of the post office as we know it?

One of the truly meaningful achievements of our civilisation has always been a functioning postal service, ideally with daily delivery of letters and parcels. Greeting cards, bills, job applications, online orders, medicine deliveries, and for some time now even baked goods and fresh meat – sent today, delivered tomorrow. That's how we knew it. And that's how we love it.

Until 1 January 2025. From this date onwards, a new postal law will come into force, bringing with it many changes. As a first step, we will have to adjust to longer postal delivery times. In future, 95 per cent of standard letters must arrive on the third working day and 99 per cent on the fourth working day. Official and court correspondence will no longer be deemed to have been delivered on the third working day after posting, but only on the fourth working day.

That is the theory as regulated by law. But what is the reality? It is not uncommon for letters to be delivered after being in transit for much longer – sometimes several weeks. Television magazines for consecutive weeks arrive in the letterbox on the same day, which means that the earlier issue was in transit for a whole week longer than the other. Urgently awaited documents take much longer than expected. Appointments are missed as a result. There is real chaos in the postal service's delivery system.

19 May 2025

online lecture

Democracy between form of government and ownership claim – Why „our democracy“ belongs to no one

web seminar

Date: Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Time: 7–9 p.m.
Speaker: Birgit Kelle

The more politically fashionable it becomes to save democracy, the more endangered its actual existence becomes. – In a disturbing manner, political institutions and parties are systematically excluding those with different political views from the open discourse of a free democracy. Where a second opinion used to be seen as evidence of debate, today it is quickly reinterpreted as an alleged attack on the constitution.

16 May 2025

face-to-face lecture

Erika Steinbach visits the Hamburg AfD parliamentary group

On Friday, 9 May, our chairwoman, Erika Steinbach, accepted an invitation from the Hamburg AfD parliamentary group and gave a lecture in the venerable ballroom of Hamburg City Hall. Around 200 guests had come to learn about „Germany's deficient democracy“ – the theme of the lecture. Protected by a strong police presence, Ms Steinbach spoke about the latest moves by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution to defame Alternative for Germany, apparently orchestrated by outgoing Minister Nancy Faeser. The election of Friedrich Merz as Federal Chancellor, which, due to a lack of his own majority, could only succeed with the help of the Left Party MPs in the second ballot, was also discussed.

10 May 2025

online lecture

The True, the Beautiful, the Good – On the Necessity of a Renaissance

web seminar
Date: Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Time: 7–9 p.m.
Speaker: Silke Schröder

We are at the end of the age of deconstructivism. Even without having studied Spengler's vision of „The Decline of the West“ in detail, anyone with functioning senses can now see the aesthetic and moral problem zone in which we find ourselves.

To recognise this, it is enough to walk through any pedestrian zone in Germany on a weekday and take in the people, architecture, fashion and language around you. Even though taste is a matter of opinion, anyone who compares the current state of Western societies with that of a few decades ago will see that we are witnessing an aesthetic, moral and civilisational decline, in which the basic principles of order and harmony seem to have been lost.

9 May 2025

face-to-face lecture

4 lecture evenings on „Tax competition & democracy“

Invitation to four lecture evenings:
Topic: Tax competition & democracy
Speaker: Claudio Zanetti

4 dates in Bavaria:

Tuesday, 22 April Günzburg room

Wednesday, 23 April Munich

Thursday, 24 April, Mühldorf district

Friday, 25 April Bayreuth area

Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
(Admission from 6:30 p.m.)
The exact locations will be announced with the confirmation of participation.

14 April 2025

online lecture

How can we create a new economic miracle?

web seminar
Date: Tuesday, 8 April 2025

Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Speaker: Prof. Emeritus Dr Ulrich van Suntum

After three years of coalition politics, the German economy is in tatters and the new government faces a mammoth task.

Minor corrections and minor reforms will no longer suffice. Rather, we need a complete fresh start, similar to the „economic miracle“ initiated by Ludwig Erhard at the time.

Milei has demonstrated in Argentina that such a thing is still possible in the 21st century.

This webinar will focus on what specifically needs to happen in Germany and the EU.

3 April 2025