Dear Hans,
I Hope you’re well. How’s Bertha? I’m writing to you because
we need to talk about your country. I know that Germany has some nice ales, beer
festivals, cars, and classical music, but it’s a struggle for the good to
outweigh the bad. I appreciate I’ve been critical of Germany in the past, like when
I made a video highlighting recurring German totalitarianism. This drove
the usual neo-Nazi trolls mad, you know, the ones that say they’re not
neo-Nazis, but still defend and promote Nazi revisionist history (Hitler did
nothing wrong, and Nazis never hurt a single hair on a Jew’s head, don’t cha
know?).
But we have to be honest here; Germans have been at the heart of every problem in Europe, since the fall of Rome. So I’m writing to you in the hope that you can help me explain to Germans that, while I appreciate that #NotAll (as one commenter pointed out to me), Germans need to take a long hard look at themselves. Might I suggest you take a moment to study the meme on the side of this paragraph, because it’s extremely relevant to what I have to say?
But we have to be honest here; Germans have been at the heart of every problem in Europe, since the fall of Rome. So I’m writing to you in the hope that you can help me explain to Germans that, while I appreciate that #NotAll (as one commenter pointed out to me), Germans need to take a long hard look at themselves. Might I suggest you take a moment to study the meme on the side of this paragraph, because it’s extremely relevant to what I have to say?
The meme shows a clock, with numbers being replaced with
the words “Destroy Europe”. There are also four German figures around the
clock, and a background image. This depicts the German Goths causing the aforementioned
fall of Rome (one German I came across even tried to deny that the Goths were
German – that’s how much denial there is among Germans, when it comes to their
history). Yes, they took advantage of a Rome already weakened by decadence and
corruption. But from this moment onwards in history, the Germans would always
end up profiting from every political and religious catastrophe in Europe, by
manoeuvring themselves into a position of advantage, at the expense of everyone
else. This leads to a cycle of German supremacy that has two stages:
- Germans bring down anyone that has more power than them.
- Germans co-opt or destroy their rivals.
Back to the Goths; after Germans sacked Rome on multiple
occasions, they eventually took it for their own, creating a Holy Roman Empire
that co-opted Roman identity, just like the pattern I mentioned above. There’s
no win-win here, Hans, where everyone benefits from things like trade, cultural
exchange and scientific understanding. It’s about dragging everyone down, and towering
over them when they’re in the gutter. That’s how Germans consistently operate –
it’s like clockwork, hence the pertinence of the above meme. Germans need to come
to terms with the reason for this behaviour - a collective inferiority complex that
they deal with by projecting this onto other groups, so they can feel superior.
There’s a word for this kind of insecurity masked as superiority, Hans –
narcissism.
Now onto the second earliest figure on the clock - Martin
Luther, the man responsible for religious war in Europe. To be fair, he did
call out the flagrant corruption in the Catholic Church, and was instrumental
in the Bible being translated to languages other than Latin. This drive also
led to improved translations from ancient Greek. But it’s not as though Luther
put an end to what caused the corruption in Christianity; organised religion.
Instead, Luther ended up splitting the church into multiple denominations that
emulated the corruption of Catholicism on a much smaller scale. Lutheranism did
nothing to end the control of the priest and political class over Christianity,
by far the biggest problem with Catholicism.
The reinterpretation of scripture for political power
therefore became much worse after Luther’s reformation, whether this was Henry
VIII’s Anglican Church, strict Puritan doctrine, or our modern interpretation
of Christianity, where Jesus was a socialist who only focussed on compassion,
and Christians don’t need to do anything to fight against temptation or sin. We
also mustn’t forget that Luther’s reformation led to religious wars in Europe that lasted
for over 100 years, and culminated in Germany being at the centre of the
reformed church. And this, Hans, is another example of the historical cycle of
German supremacy, where Germans end up benefitting from destruction in Europe.
Wilhelm II, the German emperor during World War One, is
the earliest figure after Martin Luther (he’s the man with the funky moustache).
It was Germany’s expansionist ‘lebensraum’ policy and ‘war socialism’ that
led to this war, because, yet again, Germans had ambitions for supremacy in
Europe. This war is often considered avoidable and unnecessary, but anyone
making such a suggestion doesn’t understand the mass psychology of Germany, or
its policies during this period. Germans just can’t handle the idea that anyone
is better than them, and their reaction is to vie for power, bringing others
down along the way. When you understand this, the Treaty of Versailles makes
sense – an enemy that’s only satisfied with supremacy must be forced to submit unequivocally.
This is exactly the same solution for another supremacist ideology - Islam. Supremacists
have to be beaten down so much that they eventually accept the only option they
have left is an outcome of mutual benefit and respect.
The next earliest figure on the clock really needs no
introduction, because he’s been cast as the biggest villain in history - Hitler.
His rise to power didn’t come out of nowhere, Hans. Supremacists react very
badly when they lose. Their delicate mass psychology simply can’t handle it. So
they become very destructive as a result. We see this on an individual level
with narcissists, and as I’ve already suggested, Germany is a very narcissistic
nation. After World War One, Germans just couldn’t handle losing their great empire.
A nation capable of introspection could have moved past this and become better
for it - but not Germany. Instead they doubled down into madness.
Few people realise that Germany had the first welfare
state. It was German chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck, who was largely responsible
for this. Some suggest he was some sort of conservative, but I guess it depends
on your definition because he was most definitely a collectivist that very much
embodied the mass psychology of German statism, where individuals were
secondary. Then there’s Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, both German citizens
that founded Marxism. Some try to blame Marxism on the Jews, but Engels was
German, and Marx was a Jewish German citizen. When we combine all this with the
first welfare state being German, and the war socialism policies of Germany
during World War One, it’s safe to say that socialism was born in Germany, even
if Jews played a role.
So how did Germans double down into madness? Through the destructive
socialism that took root in Germany. Hitler attempted to revive the German
empire, with the kind of policies that Bismarck and Wilhelm II were responsible
for, combining this with his Aryan ideology. At the same time, communism began
to take hold, which advocated a stateless, classless world free of religion. While
these two movements had their differences, they were both very authoritarian
and collectivist. You can see why Freud believed that society had a death drive
when Germans repeatedly made decisions that led to such destructive groupthink.
And the rest, as they say, is history, Hans. Germany lost
World War II, and was split into east and west. You would think that Germans
finally learnt their lesson, and started to embrace individual sovereignty over
collectivist groupthink driven by mass psychology. Alas, this wasn’t to be.
Somehow, some way, Germans being Germans, they couldn’t handle not dominating
Europe. So they managed to become the strongest voice in the European Union. In
a bizarre situation where Germany was not only reunified (despite all the
trouble they caused in history) we now have Angela Merkel and Germany dictating
how many rapefugees EU members are supposed to take in, and having the final
say on every decision. This is the last and most recent figure on the clock,
and yet to play out in its entirety.
As if this isn’t enough, this meme doesn’t even cover
every destructive outcome that Germany is responsible for. How about German
Idealism, Hans? It’s shit! All it amounts to is yet another German reactionary
movement aiming to bring down something that Germans don’t control, namely the
enlightenment and industrial revolution that originated in Britain. Heaven
forbid that Germans would lose influence after this took place! So they came up
with an anti-enlightenment, created by a bunch of pretentious high class German
tossers that wanted solipsism to continue keeping the commoners in their place,
people like Arthur Schopenauer, Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heiddegger, and all the
other Germans that laid the foundation for the postmodern rot that we’re
suffering with today.
And of course, there’s the German-Hungarian iron founder,
Orban, constructing the cannons that helped the Turks conquer
Constantinople, you know, the place now called Istanbul. It was German
technology sold to the Hungarians that led to this, Hans. This brought down
Byzantium, leaving the German Holy Roman Empire as the sole remaining seat of
the Rome Empire. Isn’t it convenient that Germans had a hand in this, Hans, and
that they benefitted once again?
That’s a pretty good summary of my issues with Germany,
Hans. I know you’re a nice chap, as are many of your fellow Germans. But my
word, the mass psychology of Germany is really messed up! I hope you can help
me explain this to other Germans, because they need to deal with this problem once
and for all, in a genuine way that won’t lead to yet another groupthink
ideology that causes the destruction of Europe. I’m not sure you can sense it,
Hans, but we’re reaching that time again, when Germans are going to be at the
heart of another “Destroy Europe” moment, this time through the EU. I really
hope we can avoid this, but it seems as though Germans only understand one
language – war. I truly hope I’m wrong, for all our sakes.
That’s all I have to say for now, Hans. Say hi to Bertha
for me. Until next time.
Yours sincerely,
Rocking MrE.
Excellent letter concerning this warped country called Germany. I've always considered this place the "Land of Dead Men". It's only a matter of taking a few seconds to recall in what model has been based our failed educational system, and it'll conjure itself: the Prussian Educational Model. Here in Mexico they think Germans are a great civilization; in my point of view, quite the contrary.
ReplyDeleteOh, the Prussian educational model - another gem that Germans have given to the world. Thanks for reminding me about that. I neglected to mention it here.
DeleteA well written article and an eye opener to say the least.
ReplyDeleteThank you :-)
DeleteI think you went off the rails when you started talking about the welfare state, but I laughed along until then.
ReplyDeleteLOL, wow...and from the mouths of babes...This is a great example of what an incomplete education can do for someone. Or it's an example of what someone, who already has prejudices in place, believes to be the truth. It wouldn't be that difficult to convince people that this individual is mostly right, although he doesn't really have a grasp of some key concepts. Germany wasn't a country, didn't exist on any map you can find that's historical, until roughly the mid to late 1800s. Given the author is unaware of this key fact and several other foundational facts that are missing from his self-created "History of the World." Were it not for the ignorance, veiled bias and the almost imperceptible tones of contempt, resentment and anger this would be a very fine piece of propaganda. However, taken in it's whole, it just has to be chalked up as the writings of a delusional lunatic. But be concerned, I got the impression this lunatic had an agenda he wanted furthered and his writings are incapable of that.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why you have a complaint about the Germans having a strong voice in the EU. Who were you going to propose? The Greeks? The Italians? The German economy is what makes the EU possible. It contributed more money to the EU than any other country in each of the last 5 years if not longer.
ReplyDeleteGermany's contribution exceeded the bottom 18 countries combined. It was also the voice of the German people and their refusal to accept the division of their country any longer to appease the USSR. Their intolerance of USSR politics brought about the final disintegration of the Iron Curtain and the heavy fisted communist influence smothering eastern Europe. France has continuous struggles with large group of middle eastern immigrants and its intolerance of civil unrest in these communities is watched by everyone in Europe. Shortly after World War II, there was a massive immigration of middle eastern peoples into western Europe. Many were fleeing communism and even more were fleeing the rising power of various sects of the Islamic faith. If you thought the Catholics had been intolerant of the rise of competing sects of Christianity? I find it hard to believe with all your researching that you wouldn't also be aware of the incredible brutality and violence that competing sects of the Islamic faith treats the others. This pervading truth to the middle east and the Islamic faith is what once again is causing another massive migration of peoples from the middle east to Europe. HOWEVER, I feel it must be mentioned that the middle east is a clusterfuck because of the UN and its division and creation of countries following world war II. In particular, former colonies of the UK and France wanted independence but the UK and France steered control of those countries back to themselves with promises of subsequent independence. Every one of those areas, with the exception of India, has become a problem area for the UN with ongoing problems of civil unrest and violence.