The podcast appeared on The Weekly Testers on March 12, 2021.
Stephan Grünewald calls for a good culture of error in Germany in the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) podcast "Die Wochentester" ("The Weekly Testers"): "We need to recognize, accept and learn from mistakes," he says in an interview with hosts Wolfgang Bosbach and Christian Rach, warning against a permanent shift of blame. "Instead of forming camps, we should find ways out of the crisis with joint strength!"
That would only work with courage and encouragement. During the first lockdown and the opening movements in the summer, there were many good concepts. But with the second wave, many things went wrong: "We lost our strength of ideas that had led us through the crisis in the first year. But this is precisely what is important now, when the bursting spring energy has to be channeled.
The mask affair in the CDU/CSU also has psychologically fatal consequences for society: "The affair is morally absolutely reprehensible and must be severely sanctioned," said Grünewald. Psychologically, he said, it is difficult when the population now has to feel that those politically responsible are not only showing their strict or caring side, but are now going overboard themselves. "They are enriching themselves, they only have their self-interest in mind. Of course, in this corona-corrosion process, that additionally corrodes people's willingness to participate and show solidarity."
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Cologne-based psychologist Stephan Grünewald is the founder of the market and media research institute rheingold. Grünewald became a bestselling author with his books "Deutschland auf der Couch" (2006) and "Die erschöpfte Gesellschaft" (2013) as well as "Wie tickt Deutschland" (2019).
Phone: +49 221-466 828 0
E-mail: gruenewald@rheingold-online.de
