[this is the most fascinating thing I've read all morning!]
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Oh my.
It definitely is a bubbling goulash of objectives and motives. But, strange to say, not entirely new to me.
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Years ago, a friend of mine -- who we called 'Brilliant, But Crazy Mike' -- used to go around saying and doing strategically annoying things designed to get under the skin of certain people.
There was for example, that Halloween when he went to a professional costumer and acquired a disturbingly authentic looking Gestapo officer's uniform (did I mention that Mike's African American?). This was done to needle his sister who was an endlessly speech-making, always 'on' black nationalist.
Needless to say, Mike could go too far from time to time...and by "from time to time" I mean nearly always.
Anyway, one night after clubbing we were sitting in a diner, enjoying cheap, greasy burgers when Mike's eyes lit up. "You know what would be a killer idea?!" he shouted, "a pan ethnic form of Nazism!"
Innovations on the National Socialist theme wasn't what I expected to hear at two in the morning in a diner filled with hungry, half drunk club goers so you'll understand why I choked a little on my mouthful of bun and meat. "Wha, what?" "Yeah. Imagine if the modern tribal thing the Nazis did could be opened up to all people and turned into a new kind of master race narrative -- only this time the master race is composed of members from every ethnic group and not just 'Aryans' or whatever. Damn. If someone could do that it'd be really difficult to stop."
"Yeah," I said weakly, "that would really be something else all right. Though a better option would be no Nazism at all, just the getting along part." He agreed but kept on creating what, at that moment, seemed like a bad sci-fi script.
I never thought anyone would actually do a riff on this heinous idea but the world's apparently full of clever people looking for ever new ways to mix it all up.
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