The land of prohibitions

Endless restrictions create narrow-minded people; narrow and restricted in both senses - timid, indecisive, unenterprising, not self-dependent, prone to prejudice, devoid of personal will, enthusiasm and courage for development and self-improvement. That's basically what the columnist for Der Spiegel, Alexander Neubacher argues in his book Totally Restricted. He believes that a free person is a responsible person, who doesn't need the constant tutorship of the state and society, or the terror of political correctness and the maniacal fashionable obsessions - in other words, some'd say he's the German equivalent of an Ayn-Randian. Undoubtedly, a very rare species in Germany.

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