Wojtek
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
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> Wojtek:
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> > before 1939 few believed that the nation of Bach and Goethe will be
> > overrun by barbaric mass murderers.
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> There was never a "nation of Bach and Goethe."
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> Bach was born in the Duchy of Sachsen-Eisenach in the Holy Roman Empire,
> Goethe was from Frankfurt am Main, in modern day Hessen.
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> Projecting backwards in time some common German national identity is as
> stupid as when the present day EU lays claim to the ancient Athenian polis
> as a cradle of "European culture".
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> It's irritating whenever purported "leftists" regard the nation as some
> sort of eternal form of human social life.
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> It's funny how people are only critical about stuff like this when it comes
> to deconstructing Israeli national mythology à la Schlomo Sand, but every
> other nation on earth gets a pass.
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> In fact, 1871 is only 77 years before 1948 in historical time, a mere blip,
> but somehow some nations are more "natural" than others.
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