The result of the US American presidential election in November this year has scared many people around the globe. The unpolished and in part utterly crude style of communication around this election reveals an inner attitude and a style of thinking which bodes ill for the development of US national, international, and human affairs in general [1]. However, the USA are certainly not the only country to plunge into the rough waves of an increasingly coarse political culture - or rather un-culture. For a number of years, populist politicians have been gaining more and more ground in European countries as well. With simple, loud, and often aggressive arguments, they purport simple solutions for complex problems, promote nationalist or racists ideas, and enhance distrust and hostility among groups of people with different ethnic and cultural origins or world views. The result is an increasing loss of the humane in human affairs, a process of ‘dehumanization'.

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Citation: Heusser, P. (2016). The Humane, the Society, and Us: An Unconventional Christmas Contemplation. Complementary Medicine Research, 23(6), 332–333. https://doi.org/10.1159/000454796

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