Today, I attended a concert by Mal Élevé, a former member of Irie Révoltés, in the Lustgarten in Potsdam. The music was quite fun and very close to the sound of Irie Révoltés, according to my musically uneducated opinion. However, what was not so much fun was that the lead singer introduced nearly every song with a negative statement about the time we were living in or marginalizing some group. For example, the singer said our current lived reality is extraordinarily shitty or that everyone in the police is a racist bully. Quite a positive attitude for a concert. I used this as a chance to train my capability to block negative thoughts while staying open-minded and to be honest; I was pretty successful. In the aftermath of the concert, I started to contemplate how complex charged things like zeitgeists or racism in the police could be discussed without oversimplification and keeping a positive spin. Yet I found no solution…