Re: GR translation: the Götterdämmerung mentality

[Mark Kohut]

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Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring ...
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From: Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon Mailing List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 1:23 AM
Subject: GR translation: the Götterdämmerung mentality

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?