context?

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

rj wrote:
> 
> flaherty:
> > > The Hereros were sold on suicide *before* "the extermination the Germans
> > > began in 1904".(317.6-10)
> >
> > Before?
> 
> Yes. Check the page and line references (i.e. context) I provided.

317.1-13

Revolutionaries of the Zero, they mean to carry on what
began among the old Hereros after the 1904 rebellion failed.
They want a negative birth rate. The program is racial
suicide. They would finish the extermination the Germans
began in 1904.

	A generation earlier, the declining number of live Herero
births was a topic of medical interest throughout southern
Africa. The whites looked on as anxiously as they would have
at an outbreak of rinderpest among cattle. How provoking, to
watch one's subject population dwindling like this, year
after year. What's a colony without its dusky natives?
Where's the fun if they're are going to die off? Just a big
hunk of desert, no more maids, no field-hands, no laborers
for the construction or the mining--wait, wait a minute...

Your statement was that the Herero were "SOS" before the
1904 program. Is your point that a generation earlier the
Herero birth rate declined? Why did it decline? Is "SOS" the
same or different here for this earlier generation? How is
it different? What is the motivation for "SOS" and the
earlier birth decline? What does this have to do with your
moral relativism? 




> 
> > Indeed, young Enzian's "gods had gone away
> > > themselves".
> >
> > By themselves?
> 
> 323.37
> 
> best