ATDTDA (2): Echoes of the Holocaust??

[Dave Monroe]

--- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:

> "In Austria," the Archduke was explaining, "we have
> forests full of game, and hundreds of beaters who
> drive the animals toward the hunters such as myself
> who are waiting to shoot them."  He beamed at Lew,
> as if mischievouly [sic] withholding the final line
> of a joke.  Lew's ears began to itch.  "Hungarians
> occupy the lowest level of brute existence," Francis
> Ferdinand declared -- "the wild swine by comparison
> exhibits refinement and nobility -- do you think the
> Chicago Stockyards might possibly be rented out to
> me and my friends, for a weekend's amusement?  We
> would of course compensate the owners for any loss
> of revenue" (ATD, p. 46).

"For the right-wing nationalists in Austria, there are
these imaginary borders of the Karawanken, the
mountain range along the border between Austria and
Slovenia: Just beyond it begins the realm of the
Slavic hordes. For the national Slovenians, this
border is the Kolpa River, separating Slovenia from
Croatia: We are central Europe, while the Croatians
are already part of the Balkans, entangled in
irrational ethnic feuds which don't actually have
anything to do with us -- we're on their side, and
have sympathy for them in the way one has sympathy for
victims of aggression in the Third World... For the
Croatians, this all-important border is naturally the
one between them and the Serbs, that is, the one
between western Catholic civilization and the Eastern
Orthodox collective spirit which cannot fathom the
values of western individualism. And finally, the
Serbs believe they are the last line of defense for
Christian Europe against the fundamentalist danger
embodied by the Islamic Albanians and Bosnians. (By
now it should be clear who within the borders of what
used to be Yugoslavia actually acts in a civilized
'European' manner: those who are on the bottom rung of
this ladder, the ones shut out by all the others --
Albanians and Muslim Bosnians.)" (Slavoj Zizek, "The
Malaise in Liberal Democracy", in Heaven Sent, Nr. 5,
1992, pp. 47 - 48)

http://www.rewired.com/97/0610.html

http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/node/text/.xslt/nodenr-156854

Le rêve du nationalisme expliqué par le rêve du mal
radical. 
par  Slavoj Zizek 
Mise en ligne le samedi 31 mai 2003

http://multitudes.samizdat.net/Le-reve-du-nationalisme-explique.html


 
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