03-12-2021, 12:49 AM
(03-11-2021, 04:28 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: "The partisan divide on issues" today is not liberal vs. Marxist. Ignore Einzige.
As usual with extremists, so much hostility hinges upon tiny details of difference. See the murderous rage of Stalinists against Trotskyites. Maybe fascists are more tolerant of each other because they are partners in crime, although once they successfully divided the world into realms of subjection they would go to war on conflicting claims of racial superiority (things never quite got to the stage of The Man in the High Castle... thank God! (well, Britain, America, the Soviet Union, and China, among others). It is easy to see Nazis and Klansmen as allies against common "racial" enemies, but I doubt that Klansmen would like having to listen to this:
Bruckner's seventh symphony, a long, richly-scored, contrapuntally-brilliant masterpiece. Obviously it isn't for people with short attention spans. (Paradoxically Bruckner seems popular enough in Israel. Then again I, being about half German or Swiss in heritage consider the Ashkenazim at least cousins in culture and moral values....) Then again I am not certain that American neo-Nazis relate to this music well, either.
Technology makes things possible that were not possible before -- making things available that ideally are better in quality, more usable, less costly, and with lesser costs of resources from material to energy. To be sure there are some basic needs such as food, water, and protection from the elements for which there can be no technological alternative. Thus technological miracles will be unable to stem any famine that results from global warming causing the inundation or desertification of prime farmland on which millions of peasant farmers live -- and feed people other than themselves.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.