[lbo-talk] Heidegger and Ratzinger....oh freude, freude

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sat Apr 23 05:48:17 PDT 2005



>From: Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au>
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>... According to his biographers and his own memoirs, the eruption of
>left-wing student protest and mass workers’ struggles in the late 1960s
>had a profound impact on Ratzinger, propelling him to the right and
>bringing to the fore his deepest political instinct: hatred and fear of
>socialist revolution. ...

Odd how POVs differ. The protests and struggles of the late '60s, when I was a college student, propelled me to the left and produced as my deepest political instinct a real yen for socialist revolution.

The Ratzo of the Nazi Youth period was actually more admirable than Ratzo the reactionary cleric because the young Ratzo at least chose eventually to flee the Nazis.

All in all, I think Ratzo would a suitable target for fragging by the legendary Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. From "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," a reading from the Book of Armaments, chapter two, verses nine to twenty-one:

"And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats .... And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'"

Carl



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