[lbo-talk] as if on cue

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Mon Jan 31 08:46:54 PST 2011


On Jan 31, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
>> wrote:
>
>>
>> Wojtek:
>>
>>> before 1939 few believed that the nation of Bach and Goethe will be
>>> overrun by barbaric mass murderers.
>>
>> There was never a "nation of Bach and Goethe."...
>>
>> ...In fact, 1871 is only 77 years before 1948 in historical time, a
>> mere blip,
>> but somehow some nations are more "natural" than others.

The German *state* dates from 1871. The German nation is more than a few centuries older than that. It ill becomes someone who doesn't even know the difference between a *state* and a *nation* to use the word "moron."

Shane Mage

This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it

always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,

kindling in measures and going out in measures."

Herakleitos of Ephesos



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