The phrases of Annalena Baerbock

Annalena Bärbock is currently the most popular politician with her slogans of “value-based foreign policy” and “feminist foreign policy”. How is this worship of moral phrases to be explained? With naivety? But we know that these are words, not actions. When Baerbock uses the German past at the beginning of the war as a reason not to support Ukraine. When she is silent on the women’s uprising in Iran. If she doesn’t object to arms sales to Saudi Arabia. If they… Why are we so drawn to the moral kitsch? Because we shy away from political realities? Already 150 years ago, Nietzsche complained about “conceptual hallucinations” like the “dignity of work”. He considered it a weakness of character to sugarcoat the fact that science and art were based on the exploitation of workers. Nietzsche preferred the honesty of the Greeks in professing slavery as a terrible but indispensable practice.