ATDTDA (2): Echoes of the Holocaust??

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Sun Mar 4 13:36:43 CST 2007


http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/22-europe-core-and-peripheries/

On 2/12/07, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- 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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