Posted on 06/25/2017 4:46:00 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
[I]t is important to point out that the popular image both of Angela Merkel and of modern Germany is deeply flawed. Because far from representing a negation -- or a misguided attempt at negation -- of past German policies and attitudes, the modern German mentality is in many ways a mutation or an update of the same mentality that has guided Germany since the eighteenth century, and especially since the unification of the country in 1870.
Let us begin with the more obvious parallel: German support for further European integration. Despite all the German talk about subordinating narrow national interests to the European project, careful observers must have noticed the coincidence that the Germans always see themselves as the leaders of this disinterested project, and that the measures deemed to be necessary for further European cooperation always seem to be German-made.
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However, the most frightening thing is that the parallels between Merkel’s mentality and that of her authoritarian predecessors go deeper than mere geopolitics. Because the philosophical premises underlying modern German policies are also at least partly similar to those that motivated Germany in both World Wars.
First of all, Merkel’s ideas about both immigration and European integration have a decidedly utopian character, an echo of the old obsession with the construction of a New World Order, which motivated both Hitler and the German leaders in the First World War. Merkel dreams of a society where immigrants and natives will together build some kind of ideal new world, opposed to the selfishness and materialism that has characterized Western societies until now.
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Germany has ALWAYS been, and will ALWAYS be, a threat to civilization.
From ancient Rome to the modern day, Germany is a threat.
It appears that Germany is ruling the world under the guise of the top gun in the EU. The invasion is just more clever that the events of WWII.
EXACTLY!
The more Europeans--and especially Germans--determine to escape the horrors of the past, the more inexorably they condemn themselves to repeat them.
"You can't escape your fate!"
"Hubris and denial lead inexorably to tragedy!"
Western Civilization began with tales of hubris and denial leading inexorably to tragedy. It appears that it will end with a fulfillment of this prediction.
Europeans refused to heed their own warnings.
So true.
German marxist theory has been responsible for over 140 MILLION deaths caused by Communists and Nazi fascists.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Friedrich-Engels Proxy Highlight
Jul 27, 2016 ... They coauthored The Communist Manifesto (1848), and Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marx’s death.
Frankfurt School
School of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory
The Frankfurt School (German: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of social theory and philosophy associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
However I disagree with the author's position that Germany's behavior results from a desire to control the rest of Europe.
It's much deeper than that. It's hubris and denial and a desire to overcome and avoid the horrors of the past. A desire to control the rest of Europe is one result of this. However, de Jong is correct that the German mentality that lead to these horrors is leading Germany to a repeat of them.
Most Germans--most Europeans--cannot see this. They are as blind to this reality as Oedipus and Jocasta were to the reality that they were in fact mother and son--and for the same reasons: hubris and denial.
Europeans have even made it illegal to speak the truth! What more blatant example of hubris and denial could there be?!?? Yet they are completely blind to this reality.
They actually prosecute and punish people for speaking truth.
And as blatant and obviously absurd as that is, it's not their only absurdity. Yet they cannot see it.
This is idiotic. Germans of Hitler wanted a GERMANIC utopia and an increased area for them to breed and use for natural resources. The immigrants would be ground up or killed as inferior useless eaters.
What this idiot isn’t stating is that just maybe somewhere in Germany there is a brave police officer or soldier that feels betrayed by the elites in power. That those elites are liberal, communist, bankers and (insert any group like muslims or Jews) and have wrought havoc on his beloved Germany. He and others will look back and read the banned books and speak the banned speech.
Then this little group will takeover a minor political party and bring back the Germany that we should really fear. Merkel and her EU cronies will swing on a rope or be in pieces on a road somewhere.
Just give it 5-10 years and germans will start doing German things again.
Germany is restocking the shelves with a new batch of anti Semitics. This will be the third time Germany blows up Europe in one hundred years.
Selfishness and materialism? What utter garbage. United States and other English speaking countries are constantly helping others, teaching about altruism and freedom and creating well being.
Germany can’t protect herself from muslim animals. They are NO threat to anyone but themselves. Next stupid idea!?
Pooty-Poot probably recognizes that the WORST THING that happened when the USSR fell was the reunification of Germany. I thought the weight of rebuilding that wreck would take Germany 50 years. They did it well enough in 25.
In World War One Germany was aligned with the Muslims.
In World War Two Germany was aligned with the Muslims.
In World War Three Germany will use the millions of Muslims they have imported to fight the war.
Inside every german beats the heart of a true nazi....and they know it
This time it's even worse than the Third Reich.
Europe's going to explode. Our challenge is to keep America healthy, which means defeating the forces of decadence within the USA--a formidable task.
Will America send her sons to die--yet again--to rescue Europe from its insanity? Probably not. The cost is far too high, and, furthermore, Europe will merely succumb to insanity again--and again.
In World War Two Germany was aligned with the Muslims.
In World War Three Germany will use the millions of Muslims they have imported to fight the war.
You write crap!
In "World War One" England/USA were aligned with the Muslims. (REMEMBER LAWRENCE of ARABIA) After which ahab arabs consider themselves able to confront other world powers because of their new oil wealth.
In "World War Two" England/USA were aligned with Joe Stalin THE COMMUNIST, as well as Iranian and other mooslims.
In "World War Three" English mooslims, US mooslims will use the millions of Muslims they have imported to fight the war.
WWIII, going on now, is Muslims using the military of Western Civilization as mercenaries to fight their internecine wars. The Europeans and Americans killed in the fighting will never be replaced while muzzies multiply. Demography is destiny.
Germans hate America. Been there, seen that.
WHOA! Nikolaas de Jong 'gets it''.... Thanks for posting Rooster.
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