— Bertolt Brecht, "Interrogation of the Good"Step foward: we hear
That you are a good man.
You cannot be bought, but the lightning
Which strikes the house, also
Cannot be bought.
You hold to what you said.
But what did you say?
You are honest, you say your opinion.
Which opinion?
You are brave.
Against whom?
You are wise.
For whom?
You do not consider personal advantages.
Whose advantages do you consider then?
You are a good friend
Are you also a good friend of the good people?
Hear us then: we know
You are our enemy. This is why we shall
Now put you in front of a wall.
But in consideration of
your merits and good qualities
We shall put you in front of a good wall and shoot you
With a good bullet from from a good gun and bury you
With a good shovel in the good earth.
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
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Aw FUCK that God-damned SHIT!
It is EVIL, and SOILS the MINDS and SOULS of all who harbor and contemplate it.
Pernicious nonsense conceives, then fosters and promotes DESTRUCTIVE impulses.
Once accepted as a point of view worthy of consideration by serious people it tends all too easily to become SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY.
I believe We ARE What We THINK, so it well behooves us to to follow THIS classic bibllical advice:
"[W]hatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
~ St. Paul - Philippians 4:8 (KJV)
I'm more of a Hannah Arendt mind... the "banality" of evil that turns the so-called "good men" into the Army of Satan.
...the "systemic" evil that banishes the core Western-Civ curriculum from the University class-room and prevents men from "thinking upon good things".
I would still insist that CULTURAL MARXISM is THE Primary Villain in the piece.
Not the ONLY villain, of course. Apparently, there was a generally pervasive aura of cynicism mixed with Weltschmerz in the early twentieth-century Germany that spawned many hideous cutural manifestaions.
Despite my absolute adoration of German high culture, partcularly n te field of serious music, there is something nauseatingly disquieting about the popular cukture of the time, and these deadly serious "ngtellectual" celebrants of nihilism and depravity.
The musical CABARET by Kandor and Rbb eloquently evokes the spirit of decadence, degeneracy and incipient despairthat seems to have characgerized much of Germany in the period betwen he two' world wars. But long before that the spirit of Sado-Masochistic degeneracy was captured with even greater poignancy by Emil Janning's masgerful performance in The Blue Angel (1930)
Well, you need only look to German film to understand the "systemic" sickness.
...but then you'd be listening to members of "the Frankfurt School".
from Zizek's "Pervert's Guide to Ideology"
A communist experiences himself as simply an instrument whose function is to actualise a historical necessity. The people, the mythic people - whose instrument the totalitarian leader is - are never simply the actually existing individuals, groups of people and so on. It's some kind of imagined idealised point of reference which works even when, for example in rebellions against the communist rule like in Hungary '56, when the large majority of actually resisting people raises up, is opposed to the regime. They can still say: "No, these are just individuals, "they are not the true people. " When you are accused of: "My God, "how could you have been doing all of these horrible things?" You could have said, and this is the standard Stalinist excuse: "Of course my heart bleeds for all the poor victims, "I am not fully responsible for it. "I was only acting on behalf of the 'Big Other'". "As for myself, I like cats, "small children", whatever - this is always part of the iconography of a Stalinist leader. Lenin in Stalinism is always presented as someone who likes small children and cats. The implication being - Lenin had to order many killings and so on, but his heart was not there - this was his duty as instrument of historical progress and so on and so on. The way to undermine Stalinism is not simply to make fun of the leader which can be,up to a point even tolerated. It is to undermine this very reference, mythic reference which legitimises the Stalinist leader: the people This is how I read the by far best work of Milo Forman - his early Czech films. Black Peter, The Loves of a Blond, and Firemen's Ball where he mocks precisely the ordinary people. In their daily conformission, stupidity, egotistic lust and so on and so on. It may appear that this is something very arrogant - but no, I think that this is the way to undermine the entire structure of the Stalinist universe. To demonstrate not that leaders are not leaders, they are always ready to say: "Oh, but we are just "ordinary people like you. "No! That there is no mythic people which serves as the ultimate legitimisation.
Vrag Proletariata! Where are you?
Here!
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