Germany look happy I can't see that it's like that.

Happy you mean people are happy, take a look, get out of your company car and walk through the streets, does anyone there look particularly happy or do they look like sedate animals, look into the living rooms and see how people sit there, blas and apathetic in front of the TV, and some high-gloss zombies tell them something about happiness that they haven't known for a long time, drive into the city and you'll see all the filth, the crowds of people colored together, the masses in the department stores going up and down the escalators like robots, no one knows anyone, and they all think they are 1 centimeter away from their happiness, but it's out of reach because you stole it from them, that's how it looks and you know it, but I have a message for you managers, the machine has run hot, we are just the harbingers but your time is soon over, technology has made you comfortable but the others have the rage. .... the people of Germany look happy I can't see that it's like that, you can tell the character of a nation by how it treats its soldiers after a lost war."
- Leopold von Ranke -