Weissmann is not guilty

[Terrance]

This culture of Death, this Patriarchal bond of Absolute
Power, this Techne-Dynastic Pathology, this Death of God
Nihilism, this Authoritarian Punishment, this rejection of
morality
and the consequences for the soul, is a "German Sickness" in
TRP's Fiction.  
P traces this pathology to the cultural setting of pre-war
Germany. 
The "Death of God" is mourned, the Aesthetic is tragic. But 
Art
continues to be dominated by Patriarch, as guilt, as
rebellion, as lamentation. The subject of Tragedy, is still
the
violation of Patriarch authority. In TSZ and in GS Nietzsche
portrays the
Death of God as a precondition for Gaiety, disengaging from
the values, the Absolutes. But the Influence, the Anxiety,
of those values also conditions tragedy. This presence of
Tragedy, I think, is still an appeal to Nihilistic
consciousness, although of course N hopes to reverse the
values of Nihilism in favor of an affirmative consciousness,
an affirmation of life and the power of creativity.  N 
celebrates gaiety and laughter, the earth, 
the body human, the creative human. He affirms
life, and Z says he could believe only in a god that dances.
 In a Patriarchal culture, Nihilism signifies the death of
the patriarch, the
death of absolute power and authority, control of life. Once
Dead, what will fill the void? Freud says it it will
be the Sons of the Fathers, but those sons will always have
a sense of guilt. Now N wasn't gunna have dat, no, no, so he
denied it and proposed what? Well, that the authority to
rule and the responsibility for governance should pass from
the representatives of God (the Priests) to the Higher Men,
thus reinstating the patriarchal and authoritarian Nihilism
he set out to cure.  N reliance on the value of Domination
for settling issues of authority in politics and in Morality
is still within the compass of self destructive Nihilism.  

In GR, Kurt Mondaugen, "One of these German mystics who grew
up reading Hesse, Stafan George, and Richard Wilhelm, is
"ready to accept Hitler on the basis of Demian-metaphysics
(GR.403) and Pokler was an extension of the Rocket, long
before it was ever built" (GR.402). 

Yes it is the  "German mania for subdividing" (GR.448) which
also infects and is infected by a cultural obsessed with
"name giving" (Enzian vs. Raketmensch), dividing the
Creation finer and finer, analyzing, setting namer more
hopelessly apart from named (GR.391, GR.366, GR.320-322).
the  German male at puberty who rebels against what he
considers a "detestable Burgerlinchkeit" (GR.162) and who,
in the wake of his "Wandervogel idiocy" (GR.162), reads
Hesse and company to become ready to accept Hitler on the
foundations of "Damian-metaphysics, a "Schwarmerei" that
soon degenerates into various forms of fanaticism for
technological specialization (GR.239) and fixed control
which is rationalized by those "folks in power" (GR.238). 

Does P say that  we are now caught in the apocalyptic
dynamism of
Western Paranoid logocentrism? Is this State of
affairs, an historical development, a postmodern vine root
twisting back 
out of the heart of men and into Fallen Man's crippled
consciousness? 
Is Man disabled by his mind? Is it a disability, and
inability and  not His refusal, but His Inability to accept
the Postlapsarian State of affairs? Aware that out side the
cave there is the light of the sun, but also that any and
all attempts to escape, to
grope towards the light is a blinding, the word against the
earth? 

Creation sees itself with both eyes
Open. Only our eyes are turned inwards

As soon as a child is born
We turn and force him so that he sees
All forms inside-out, not the real, that real
That shapes the animal's face--free from death.  (DE VIII)

A god can do it. But will you tell me how
a man can enter through the lyre's strings?
Our mind is split. And at the shadowed crossing
of heart-roads, there is no temple for Apollo. (SO I, III,
1-4) (GR.625-626)


 "In the Corporate State, a place must be made for
innocence, and its
many uses.. In developing an official version of innocence,
the culture of childhood has proven valuable. Games,
fairy-tales, legends from history, all the paraphernalia of
make-believe can be adapted and even embodied in a physical
place, such as Zwolfkinder." [GR.419]


The sadist's triumph is not and never, for even when he
thinks to explode into victory some implicit unavoidable
defeat rises: his victim looks up and makes of him an
object. The sadist then, is compelled to realize that it is
not an object but a subject he has possessed and this moment
is a failure for sadism but a failure for masochism as
well,  for an epistemological and ontological chasm
separates self from self, freedom from freedom, and each is
left to choose themselves within the system of the closed
circuit of solipsistic history. 

		--Sartre