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Re:Germany is not as stable as we think. Just ask its preppers by danjac on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:09AM (#28613533)
Given all that Germany went through the past century (albeit if much of that was self-inflicted), it's hardly surprising that "prepper culture" will find fertile ground.
Re:Germany is not as stable as we think. Just ask its preppers by andrew_eit on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:22AM (#28613596)
Actually, I would say that their history is an argument against the case that they are unstable.

The fact that Germany had such a massive political and existential crisis that led them to war and genocide is still very much present in their memory. National pride is still something that is quite frowned upon (it would make people very uncomfortable say, if you walk around the street with a German flag and it's not clearly due to a football game).

On the other hand, I would say countries that have not yet had any cultural or existential crisis in the last few hundred years as a nation are more at risk of collapse. Unless the country and culture is constantly changing and evolving and its population are similarly keen to routinely update the status quo, at some point it will fall out of sync with, people will get upset and wonder why things aren't like the good old days, find arbitrary reasons for this (identification of perpetrators and allocation of blame) and the upheaval will begin.

Re:Germany is not as stable as we think. Just ask its preppers by danjac on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @03:47AM (#28613984)
I'm not arguing that German society or politics are unstable, rather that there is a justifiable deep-rooted fear of instability at an individual level - which doesn't have to be rational.
Re:Germany is not as stable as we think. Just ask its preppers by andrew_eit on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:53AM (#28614282)
Ok that I agree with - German conservative culture does value 'keeping everything as it is and not changing anything except when absolutely necessary'.