GR translation: the Götterdämmerung mentality

[Paul Mackin]

On 11/12/2011 1:23 AM, Mike Jing wrote:
> P165.17-24  The big scandal around IG Farben this week is the unlucky
> subsidiary Spottbilligfilm AG, whose entire management are about to be
> purged for sending to OKW weapons procurement a design proposal for a
> new airborne ray which could turn whole
> populations, inside a ten-kilometer radius, stone blind. An IG review
> board caught the scheme in time. Poor Spottbilligfilm. It had slipped
> their collective mind what such a weapon would do to the dye market
> after the next war. The Götterdämmerung mentality again.
>
> I saw the reference mentioned in the Companion, but what kind of
> mentality is this "Götterdämmerung mentality" exactly?
>
one willing to contemplate the unthinkable or worst case scenario, 
comically in this case

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