Now the "empire" is striking back. With its own website, "Peacocks with a Future", a committee is campaigning "for a discussion without bans on thinking", which is absurd to say the least, since freedom of speech and therefore freedom of thought prevails in Switzerland. Or has the "best government in the world" now taken power? a committee that represents the interests of the city council is accusing the opponents of the demolition of implementing bans on thinking. This reduces the "principle belarus rcs data of democracy" to absurdity, but also shows the red-green city leaders' understanding of power. Even criticism of their demolition plans is seen as an insult to the majesty. Or the logic is a little more complicated: anyone who has a different opinion than the Zurich city government and the management of the Schauspielhaus is assumed to want to ban them from thinking. A little more practically: a potential arsonist accuses the fire department of seeing him as a potential arsonist. He may not even want to set fire to the building. Of course, this example is not based on reality. But the city council is no longer a Biedermann, to stay with Max Frisch. What the Pfauensaal will look like in the future is certainly still an open question. It has long been clear that it is to be torn down. One can "think about it" for a long time, as the new committee demands. Incidentally, "Biedermann and the Arsonists" was first performed in the Schauspielhaus in 1958. In the Pfauensaal.
Why the pro-committee now? Are the supporters afraid that they will run out of arguments? Or is the whole thing a smokescreen to distract from the entire plan of destruction? It is also interesting that most of the signatories are in some way dependent on the state's coffers. This is not morally reprehensible, it simply has little to do with the introduction of bans on thinking.