GRGR(4)79.4 Vanya

[Richard Romeo]

>Hi everybody!
>
>" A stronger stimulus no longer gets a stronger response"
>
>To me this looks like Vanya´s cortex and the brain of everybody else
>went through the same numbing process. In the winter of ´44 it was
>already obvious that the axis was defeated and everything would be over 
> >pretty soon, yet everyone goes on as if Britain would still be under 
> >siege.
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Good point, Lars.  never does the quest for funding abate.


Pointsman goes on manipulating dogs, other mammals and
>octopusses, Jessica and Mexico are still deperately clinging to each
>other, and so on. >Except for Pointsman wondering where to get his funds, 
>once V-day has >arrived, nobody seems to care about victory approaching 
>full throttle.
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funny how when we think of the V-E/V-J day, all we get are reels of 
celebration--not that it's not warranted, but that's all we see--no room for 
the small sufferings each shared as a result of so much mass violence.


>Anyway, Vanya´s "equivalent phase" describes pretty well the condition 
> >that those numbing years must have had on those who went through it. It 
> >would at least be an explanation, why the Allies didn´t treat the 
> >Germans accordingly to their behavior, once unconditionell surrender was 
> >achieved. For the Marshall-Plan looks like a pretty weak response to the 
> >stimulus of large-scale-genocide, I think. Or was that already the 
> >"paradox phase"?
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Well, those darn Nazis sure came in handy--de-nazification was successful on 
the "lower orders", but those big fish, well, we couldn't try them--we were 
too busy fighting the next war and we needed them, e.g. Klaus Barbie, Von 
Braun and a host of others.
weak response continues to today:  see Rwanda and that other place.
K something.
Rich


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