Meshugginah posts, and other things sundry

[Jules Siegel]

At 02:28 PM 07/7/97 -0400, jester <jester at snet.net> wrote:

>Maybe.  But comparing it to the Holocaust is bullshit.

I didn't compare it to the Holocaust. I compared the use of satire with
Hitler's use of satire, which had similar effects. At the beginning, Jews
were treated much the same as drug legal victims are today. The ovens came
later. They were made possible by the atmosphere of hate aroused by Hitler's
very effective use of satire as propaganda, among other techniques.

Hitler was a great artist. I say that as a Jew. Most critics dismiss his
watercolors as kitsch. I don't. They were gloomy and a bit academic and they
did not fit the taste of the time, but they were technically very good. I
don't paint as well as that myself and I am a pretty fair painter. His pen
and ink drawings are brilliant. Hitler personally approved all of the
designs for the Nazi propaganda and the military uniforms. Anyone who argues
with Hitler as a graphic designer and propagandist is just being dull. Even
the word is too condescending when you look at what he produced and what the
effects were.

We're not talking about ethics but talent.

Ultimately, I see Hitler as a satirist. The concentration camps were
conceptual art at its most compelling. He held industrial society up to a
mirror and reduced it to its most horrible essence.

The first poison used to kill Jews was carbon monoxide in the form of
automobile exhaust. Hitler's only lasting achievements were the Volkswagen
and the Autobahn. (Well, I guess you have to count ballistic missiles and
jet planes, too, even though they don't quite fit the metaphor.) Today, we
are our own SS. We buy our own gas chambers and we gather in our own
concentration camps, which we call cities, and, like the pathetic Jews who
fashioned their own imitations of SS uniforms and then brutalized weaker
inmates, we dress up in executive three-button suits and sneer at the
homeless slobs drifting about the streets without taste and style,
indistinguishable from garbage except by greater motility.

>Besides that, who says most drug dealers are black or hispanic or urban? 

I didn't say that. What I said was that most of the people who do prison
time for drug offenses are black or hispanic. That's what nails the
similarities with Hitler.


--Jules Siegel Apdo 1764 Cancun QR 77501
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