”As is well known, Kant defined enlightenment as man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. In Austria, they are still looking for this way out, but are unable to locate it. Someone took down the exit-sign, and since then, in the event of fire, people will rather trample each other down than look for the exit that leads to the coming of age. Why this lack of enlightenment in Austrian social community? One of the reasons is the fact that, in this country, enlightenment—wherever it occurred—was always imposed from the top (and never demanded from below). From Joseph II up to Kreisky & Co.” (Oliver Marchart)