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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (2023)	6/19/2001 12:44:07 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Re: What do you mean by neo-fascist? What a question! Charley, did you lose your bedside book? I mean, On the Cultural Life of Modern America, published in March 1889 by Norwegian Nobel prize-winner Knut Hamsun... You're so scatty! Here's what's Neo-fascism all about: Knut Hamsun and the Cause of Europe by Mark Deavin natall.com Excerpt: In January 1882 Hamsun's Faustian quest of self-discovery took him on the first of several trips to America. He was described by a friend at the time as ". . . tall, broad, lithe with the springing step of a panther and with muscles of steel. His yellow hair . . . drooped down upon his . . . clear-cut classical features." These experiences consolidated in Hamsun a sense of racial identity as the bedrock of his perceived artistic and spiritual mission. A visit to an Indian encampment confirmed his belief in the inherent differences of the races and of the need to keep them separate, but he was perceptive enough to recognize that America carried the seeds of racial chaos and condemned the fact that cohabitation with the Blacks was being forced upon the American Whites. Writing in his book On the Cultural Life of Modern America, published in March 1889, Hamsun warned that such a situation gave rise to the nightmare prospect of a "mulatto stud farm" being created in America. In his view, this had to be prevented at all costs with the repatriation of the "black half-apes" back to Africa being essential to secure America's future (cited in Robert Ferguson, Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun, London, 1987, p.105). Hamsun also developed an early awareness of the Jewish problem, believing that "anti-Semitism" inevitably existed in all lands where there were Jews--following Semitism "as the effect follows the cause." He also believed that the departure of the Jews from Europe and the White world was essential "so that the White races would avoid further mixture of the blood" (from Hamsun's 1925 article in Mikal Sylten's nationalist magazine Nationalt Tidsskrift). His experiences in America also strengthened Hamsun's antipathy to the so called "freedom" of democracy, which he realized merely leveled all higher things down to the lowest level and made financial materialism into the highest morality. Greatly influenced by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Hamsun saw himself as part of the vanguard of a European spiritual aristocracy which would reject these false values and search out Nature's hidden secrets--developing a higher morality and value system based on organic, natural law. [snip]