Posted on 07/02/2009 1:49:59 PM PDT by FromLori
Some 100 years before the Nazis rose to power, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) ominously wrote that "we owe the animals not mercy but justice, and the debt often remains unpaid in Europe, the continent that is permeated with Foeter Judaicus...it is obviously high time in Europe that Jewish views on nature were brought to an end...the unconscionable treatment of the animal world must, on account of its immorality, be expelled from Europe."
That such words became prophetic under the umbrella of a secular religion of nature that was Nazi Germany, colored by an environmental totalitarian view during the 1930's and 40's, is a historical truth that has been underappreciated-and unreported-for too long.
There was in fact a convergence between early German environmentalism and Nazism that is stunning with regard to how the Nazis promoted nationalistic ecological ideas, yet also found themselves unable to match in practice the green rhetoric they were espousing for a variety of reasons.
Thus while it may be true that from the perspective of modern environmental historians, the Nazis were not nearly as green as they said they were, there was one aspect of their nationalistic environmental campaign that was accomplished with brutal efficiency -the elimination of the Jews-which in the eyes of the Nazis was the first necessary step, if not the most important.
While Schopenhauer could not have anticipated the green sacrificial offering of the Jews in the gas chambers of places like Dachau where organic farms were planted nearby to feed Himmler's SS troops, the Nazis never asked him "how" to expel the Jews from Europe. Only the turning tide of the war prevented the Nazis from finishing the job that Schopenhauer prophetically announced 100 years earlier. While Schopenhauer would have undoubtedly been aghast at how literally the Nazis fulfilled such
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& yes I do see the metaphorical parallels to the Oboobyhatch.
So I guess the term “environazi” is redundant, then?
Hmm. Gore *is* starting to look a bit like Goerring (WWII-era).
So if we take care of Gaia, and don’t trash our planet, we’ll be rounding up Jews and Gypsies next? Sorry, but this was a hit piece.
The Nazis also promoted daycares, good roads, and the VW Beetle. Plus they exercised regularly.
There is enough wrong with the cap and trade and the wacky environmentalists (as opposed to the non-wacky ones) that Uncle Adolf need not be drug into the conversation. IMHO
parsy, who says go to youtube and search “hitler nigerian email) for fun.
Gaia? And yes, the things are connected. The essence of their worldview requires that individual choice be crushed. When you belive the earyh is one living organism (Gaia), and must be protected and cherished above all else, you can’t have others doing things that “hurt” it.
Amd Nazi analogies hold well across the spectrum. Their mob bully techniques, their propaganda, their idolization art, their cultish health worship, their “back to nature” worldview, their collective daycare.
A modern liberal is indeed a Nazi. They are exceedingly dangerous and bear very close watching. It’s irresponsible not to note the very close parallels.
I think there was more at work in the Nazi mind than what you mention. If you are interested in digging deeper, read Male Fantasies I and II by a guy named Theleweit.
As far as the tactics, you mentioned, you should be aware that much of the techniques used by nazis were built upon American advertising principles, which are used to very good (or bad effect) by your typical capitalist businessman.
Where I agree more with you is the tendency of liberals to abuse individuals in pursuit of collectivist goals.
parsy, who wonders how we will treat AIDS under nat’l health care?
Well this does go some way towards explaining why people have said that Schopenhauer was Hitler's favorite philosopher.
Schopenhauer, the philosopher of the world as illusion, and Hitler seemed to be very different types until recently.
But what you're seeing now is a quasi-religious mystique getting translated into bureaucracy and regulation.
It's not going to work. In the end, association with regulatory red-tape is going to be a blow to Gaia-worship.
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