Mass Psychology of Being German
Germany's current ambitions as new civilizing superpower to a large degree derive from a number of gross misperceptions about the past 200 years of history, incompletely given here:
-modern (French) nation as a mere power phenomenon (area, population, military strength)
-Napoleon's defeat as an achievement of europe-wide national liberation movements - the peoples: "Völker"
-the victory of 1871 as reward for Prussian style nation building
-the defeat in 1918 as unfair/imposed by jewish capitalism
-WWII as imposed by anglo-american/jewish/communist conspiracy
-German victims in WWII as unfair punishment
-resettlement of Germans after WWII according to German ethnic concept as sign of other country's ethnic violence
-the abscence of a general punishment after WWII as a sign of reconciliation
-the role as front nation(s) in Cold War as due to Germans' inborn industry
-post-WWII Wirtschaftswunder based on war loot and american remedy as self-propelled miracle
-the collapse of the Eastern bloc as Germany's "peaceful revolution"
-the post-Cold War power vacuum as opportunity window for new German ambitions
Summa: If anybody talks about postmodernism, political opposition, continuous crisis, a meaningless world, precarious individual condition - Germans are almost completely free from all that: no doubt, no self-criticism, no distance, no humour - just the blind belief in the own mission to save the world from unpunctuality, inefficiency, and what they regard as bad government - the abscence of total superimposition of people and leader(s).
-modern (French) nation as a mere power phenomenon (area, population, military strength)
-Napoleon's defeat as an achievement of europe-wide national liberation movements - the peoples: "Völker"
-the victory of 1871 as reward for Prussian style nation building
-the defeat in 1918 as unfair/imposed by jewish capitalism
-WWII as imposed by anglo-american/jewish/communist conspiracy
-German victims in WWII as unfair punishment
-resettlement of Germans after WWII according to German ethnic concept as sign of other country's ethnic violence
-the abscence of a general punishment after WWII as a sign of reconciliation
-the role as front nation(s) in Cold War as due to Germans' inborn industry
-post-WWII Wirtschaftswunder based on war loot and american remedy as self-propelled miracle
-the collapse of the Eastern bloc as Germany's "peaceful revolution"
-the post-Cold War power vacuum as opportunity window for new German ambitions
Summa: If anybody talks about postmodernism, political opposition, continuous crisis, a meaningless world, precarious individual condition - Germans are almost completely free from all that: no doubt, no self-criticism, no distance, no humour - just the blind belief in the own mission to save the world from unpunctuality, inefficiency, and what they regard as bad government - the abscence of total superimposition of people and leader(s).
Daniel Kulla - May 28, 00:32
