Just how much of a Nazi was Philip Johnson?

[David Morris]

If you are rich and famous, you can call yourself a whore, and ask
forgiveness for your Nazi fetishes of power and (jokingly) lust, after
having called your mentor's ground-breaking modernist Bau Haus school
inescapably tainted by Comunism, and then continue to be an undeserving
rich celebrity till your death.  Easy? Who fucking cares?

David Morris

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 9:07 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> It’s never easy to ask forgiveness or admit you were wrong.
> > On Nov 8, 2018, at 4:27 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It's easy to ask for forgiveness after your Fascist Champion has been
> > defeated and repudiated.
> >
> > "“Later he would rather unconvincingly justify his attraction to the
> Nazis
> > in sexual terms, as a kind of homoerotic fascination with the Nazi
> > aesthetic: all those chiseled blond men in jackboots and pressed
> uniforms.
> > It was easier to whitewash sexual desire than the egregious social and
> > political ideas that truly captivated him.”Mark Lamster, pg. 114
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 3:12 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Come on, the guy later described his infatuation with the Nazis as
> >> "unbelievable stupidity", and said "I don't know how to expiate guilt"
> >> which suggests he paid a lifelong price for that 'stupidity'.
> >>
> >> On 08/11/2018 20:10, Mark Kohut wrote:
> >>> The fall of another Crystal Palace.
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 2:58 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I've been to see the New Canaan house, so I knew of him, his name,
> >>>> that he was a top flight architect, but I'd NO IDEA about this aspect
> >>>> of his life.
> >>>>
> >>>> I did, however, know that he was gay. I guess that was more shocking
> >>>> and worthy of mentioning than him being a Nazi somehow.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jerky
> >>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 2:50 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>> Yes.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:26 PM Mark Thibodeau <
> jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com
> >>>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> What... wait... the architect?!
> >>>>>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 11:41 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> https://archpaper.com/2018/11/mark-lamster-philip-johnson-man-glass-house/
> >>>>>>> Quotes from The Man in the Glass House, released today, author Mark
> >>>>>>> Lamster, that provide insight into Philip Johnson's Nazi past:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> “The Nazis were ‘Daylight into the ever-darkening atmosphere of
> >>>>>>> contemporary America.’” Philip Johnson, pg. 165
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> “Submission to an artistic dictator is better than an anarchy of
> >>>> selfish
> >>>>>>> personal opinion.” PJ, pg. 93
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> “When interviewed in 1942, Johnson’s former secretary Ruth Merrill
> >>>> told the
> >>>>>>> FBI that Johnson believed ‘the fate of the country’ rested on his
> >>>>>>> shoulders, and that he wanted to be the ‘Hitler’ in the United
> >>>> States.”
> >>>>>>>  ML, pg. 139
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> David Morris
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