tree hugging nazis, and a quick note on Peter Singer

Ken Hanly khanly at mb.sympatico.ca
Fri Mar 10 10:45:14 PST 2000


Seems to me that Bertrand Russell once remarked that it was very fortunate that the US national anthem was rather difficult for masses of people to sing unlike the German national anthem Deutschland Uber Alles. Everyone could belt that out whereas only professional singers can easily hit the high notes in the Stars and Stripes. Think how bad it would be if Americans had a national anthem as simple to sing as the Nazi anthem!

Cheers, Ken Hanly

Michael Pollak wrote:


> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Michael Hoover wrote:
>
> > Principle exponent of eco-fascism was Walter Darre, Hitler's agricultural
> > minister from 1933-42. Darre's ideas were mixture of Nordic racialism &
> > idealization of rural life: 'Blood & Soil' philosophy that helped Nazis
> > gain support in German countryside. Darre held that Germany's well-
> > being was tied to recreation of peasant society, living close to nature,
> > organic farming.
>
> That's a good point to keep in mind. The voelkish ideology that led to
> Nazism posited a mystical connection between the features of a people and
> the land that gave them birth -- i.e., Germans were deep because they came
> from forests, and Jews were shallow and rootless because they came from
> deserts. It's not organic farming that has a natural affinity with
> Nazism. Rather it's the idea that land determines race, a key voelkish
> idea that was important to both Nazis and organic farming types at the
> time. And this is an idea that's completely missing from modern American
> environmental and vegan consciousness, whatever it's other faults. You
> can say many bad things about Americans and veggies, but our mystical
> attachment to our rural birthplaces is not one of them.
>
> Personally I think I get closer to the Nazis when I stand up for the
> national anthem in a sports stadium.
>
> Michael
>
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