Complicity and _GR_ (was Re: IBM, Disney, Bush: Nazis?)

[Eric Rosenbloom]

jbor wrote:
> It is this question of complicity which looms large in _GR_ as well. A
> character like Blicero doesn't appear to be motivated by anti-Semitism in
> the least, personally that is, though he is undoubtedly a Nazi and stands
> accused of the same war crimes, atrocities and mentality as a Mengele or
> Barbie at the end of 1945 at Nurnberg. A parallel character such as Major
> Marvy would be, theoretically, celebrated as a hero at this time despite the
> fact that he is far more despicable in thought, word and action.

Which is precisely why the reports under discussion are important: to
remind us that the kind of thinking that gave rise to the Nazis and
which they continued to exploit was and is (and no doubt will always be)
prevalent in the Allied countries as well, maybe even in our own heads .
. . ("What would YOU have done?)

It is the realization of complicity that drives the Counterforce.

Till Monday,
Eric R

P.S. I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner, but the Mexican crime
novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo deals with a lot of the American inheritance
of evil (like Stephen King said at the start of _Cujo_, adapting some
Arab historian whose name I forget, evil is a constant, following its
own version of the laws of thermodynamics, alternately languishing and
thrilling in its inertia, never disappearing but moving from body to
body -- the best we can hope for is a broad dissipation of the
destructive force, preventing its deadly concentration). In particular,
_Four Hands_ heavily involves the CIA in Central America. See the notes
at Amazon:
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312130791/qid=982966732/sr=1-2/ref=sc_b_2/102-8673517-5347342>



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