grgr: nazi occultism

[Terrance]

Muchasmasgracias at cs.com wrote:
> 
> This will be a tedious point, especially since I mean it in the least
> accusatory sense possible (which may run counter to the tenor of the
> list...), but when I saw the above quoted I instantly felt like I would be
> more comfortable to see it written as '"German" sickness' to mock the very
> idea that it is something inherently Germanic which is at issue here.  After
> all, if we are attributing something to the influence of "texts" then that is
> as fundamental to the issue as anything.

Well it's both, it's something Historically German--german
nazism, german idealism, but inherent in MAN, in
Europeans--European tradition,  in Americans--"It has
learned EMPIRE from its old metropolis." The Rocket travels
from Germany to America, the connection is the most
important one in the novel. Why is the issue the idea that
it is something inherently Germanic? That misses the whole
point of the novel, doesn't it?