From
Aurelie von Blazekovic
Ten years ago things were so different. The Google logo, for example, the font still in serifs like in the 90s, really, google it! And the internet in general. People laughed, that was in 2013, about Angela Merkel’s “The Internet is new territory for all of us.” From today’s perspective, one has to agree with the former chancellor. The Netflix documentary with the weird title The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker shows why. She tells of this naive, distant time, the internet, the memes, and the media of the year 2013. And of a person whose obvious mental suffering and whose potential for violence was consistently giggled away at the time because everything was so funny. Then he committed murder.