american intellectuals (m&d-related)

[Otto Sell]

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From: Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de>
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Subject: american intellectuals (m&d-related)
>
>  "the impressive liberality of the united states

-- against Blacks, Indians, Communists, Dope Smokers, Convicts and other
minorities.

>  has also to do with the fact that
>  there the intellectual consciously comprehends himself as part of his
>  society.

-- We are all Prostitutes.

>  he does not want to be more important than the baker who takes care of
>  the rolls every morning,

--  no one is really important where only money rules,

>  and very certainly he doesn't consider himself to be
>  more important than those lumberjacks who, back in the days, defined the
>  'frontier' through their work."

-- Which, as we've learned not only from M&D, was invading a continent,
cutting the trees, killing the animals and Aboriginis, and later on
poisoning air and water, cumulating more money and spreading more CO2 than
any other nation.

>
>                   (peter vogt in today's faz, p. 50, own translation)
>
> kfl
>

--  Kai, but interestingly enough he took the baker as an example which
--  brings us back to M&D, Chapter 20.

Otto