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Has America never been a real alternative as a place to live and work?

Answered by Edgar Froese

It’s just right after flying over from Europe that you get a very positive impression of the lifestyle and the easy way of putting the artistic possibilities into practice. You really get the feeling of living in an open society. This will work out, as long as you stick to the rules and find ok whatever is accepted as, or I’d rather say, must be accepted as the general life philosophy in your environment. If you put working processes or traditional structures into question, you’ll become a spanner in the works. This is not allowed, everything must run like a properly oiled machinery, rapidly and perfectly. But this does not work, life is not like this, not even in America. I am no opportunist and thus certainly not a competent partner in certain lifestyle questions.