My Very Last Life

Americans have consumer culture, but Germans have consumer regret.

Is it possible to milk mice? Americans herd cats, Germans milk mice! (Spoiler alert: it really is possible.)

Americans have "nothing to feat but fear itself" – Germans are "afraid of their own courage." If you know what it means, it's great.

When Americans feel lust, it's a sin. Germans feel lust for everything, all the time.

We think of happiness as universal, but is it possible that different cultures understand it differently? It may be true for Germans, whose word for it, Glück, has two meanings that seem to contradict each other.

Sometimes you get what you deserve even if you don't like it. Like a fist to the eye.

"Liebe" means "love," but what does "lieb mean? And is it better to be loved or to be liebed?

Forget everything you know about passion - the Germans know it's the ability to suffer! 

To de-deceive – If you've been deceived, you need to be de-deceived. Sounds like a good thing, but is it?

What a buncha Gedöns!