Raymond.
Thank-you for the OpenDemocracy piece on Shadia Drury and Leo Strauss. Funny, but in the history of ideas, I hadn't come across Leo Strauss' name before - certainly not amongst any Existentialist reading. But it provides a philosophical continuity for what I see and hear in my current world ... it would seem, a modern philosophical framework on which to base, well, fascism.
Never did buy the whole Nazism as primarily a German thing. Always seemed to me that events somehow chose German, Jewish, Gypsy, etc. peoples to play out roles whose possibilities are deeply rooted in the human condition. In different circumstances, the British could easily have acted as the Germans, and the French suffered the persecution of the Jews. And certainly there were individuals on all sides that acted according to principles of human decency or cruelty irrespective of the social climate.
A fascinating read ... plan to look into this Strauss character a little more closely.
BTW, for anyone who hasn't seen the GNN video "The Most Dangerous Game", its worth checking out:
guerrillanews.com
If you can't get the Windows video to work, try the QuickTime version. Also, the John Stauber video on propaganda is very good also:
guerrillanews.com
Best regards,
Glenn |
