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Dear Colleague,
Please scroll down and read the post below (on Goebbels and the Jew) before proceeding.
One can say “Jew” or “kulak” or “landlord” or “communist” or “capitalist” or “Islamic terrorist” or “infidel:” in our hearts the dream remains the same.
A single dynamic shapes the course of political history.
The Other is conceived as the negation of one’s society’s omnipotent fantasy. The enemy symbolizes doubt or disbelief in an absolute truth. The “greatness” of one’s society and its ideology is imagined to be contingent upon eliminating a certain class of people.
It all has to do with nothing: these gigantic histories, monumental history books—documenting the enactment of fantasy.
Where is the struggle against Russia now? Where are the Nazis now? Where is the ideal of communism in the name of which societies killed tens-of-millions of human beings?
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
But when one fantasy dies, another arises. And living within the heart of a fantasy (“what’s happening now, baby”), it seems “really. really real.”
One fantasy after another, one form of nonsense following another—dignified with the name “history.”
Richard Koenigsberg, Ph.D.
rak@LibraryofSocialScience.com
718-393-1081
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