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8/ The Germans in the 19th Century considered themselves spiritual and maybe even physical descendants of the Hellenes. Before German unity, the Hellenic ideal was felt even to be reflected in the political arrangement of the German states, and of every aspect of the culture
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9/ Anglo-American scholarship generally had nothing to add, and I believe 19th c German philology is still unmatched in its erudition, insights, methods and science of study of texts. This died out for a number of reasons and after 1950 there was nothing to replace it in America
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10/ There are many interesting tangents to this, but the point is that much of mainstream commentary was boring, moralistic, and somewhat stupid. It was designed to promote a Whig-Protestant view of historical progress and was quite naive. This weakness was easily exploited
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11/ As to the left-wing reinterpretations, I won't spend too much time on them, because their program of subversion is obvious to you already. They are all intellectually derivative off Marxism. Marxism sees all ideas, all culture as superstructure of economic conditions...
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12/ It hardly matters if replace "economic" with some other underlying condition or even motivation; race, gender, class is the famous trio, but the interpretation of culture in terms of sexuality and so on is just a restatement of Marxism, "Marxism by other means"...
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13/ And you must understand that Marxism isn't itself fundamentally about economics or history or dialectical materialism or any of things it claims to be about. It is as Lowith said, a secularization of Judaism and attempt to overturn Western civilization (see also esp. Cuddihy)
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14/ You see an especially naive, blatant statement of real purpose of this kosher-left concern with the classics in the work of Agamben, so important for critical theory crowd, who sees Auschwitz as the "secret" founding principle of Western civilization/thought since beginning
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15/ And in many ways this is the great fear that motivates many of the attempts to redefine the classics and to gain a monopoly on their interpretation: they fear that national socialism in some form IS the revival of antiquity in modern age. They fear this even if not true
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16/ The fear is there, whether they know it or no, because of the entire phenomenon of German Hellenism...of Wagner also in this movement, of the "tragic spirit" that Nietzsche speaks of, and especially of politics conceived as aesthetics, of the State as a work of art....
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17/ Whether national socialism is a betrayal of that vision, an adulterated form, an abortion, doesn't matter ...it's a risk they and Anglo-Jewish commercial civilization feels is too great. Therefore the great angst over control of Greek antiquity and its interpretation...
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18/ Indeed a nationalist Germany led by people like e.g. Junger or Ernst von Salomon, without the excesses, mistakes of Hitler & co. would have been far MORE dangerous to them. It's not a path they ever want reopened again...this is not to say it's a conspiracy I'm talking about
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19/The other side of it is particular purely to the faction I'm talking about. You must understand that the religion itself is conceived as antagonistic to universal Hellenistic civilization--Western civilization--and everything it stands for. This began with the Maccabees
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20/There is indeed no record of any Jewish kingdom at all before the Maccabees, which is I believe the first book of the Bible and the time when the history of Israel was falsified. Almost the entire peoplehood is conceived in opposition to the Greek ideal
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21/ Hanukkah is a celebration of military victory of Jewish particularism over cosmopolitan Hellenistic civilization. Every time a menorah is displayed during this time of year, it is an open insult toward their enemy. Absurd and masochistic that it should be put on WH lawn
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22/ Religious men, however, aren't relevant to any of this. Many are very conservative and only care for their own traditions, but they're about as relevant to public life as the Amish are. When secularized, the only element that remains is the ancient antagonism to the West
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23/ this antagonism is INTENSIFIED. This is why Hanukkah, which was never important among the religious, takes such great importance in American Jewish secular life. Above all ofc it's a rejection of Christmas, but is also reminder of bigoted defiance against Western civilization
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24/ the animus against Christianity, which is itself a continuation of Hellenistic civilization, I'd argue isn't primarily religious, but a holdover of the ancient enmity against Rome. This antagonism, again, continues and is even intensified when religious motivations disappear
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25/The proof that the primary motivation is civilizational strife (or "ethnic," from their point of view since they reject civilization) you can see if anything about Indo-European origins comes up. Here a certain desperation and obsessive-impulsive behavior sets in, for example:
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26/David P. Goldman or Asia Times "Spengler" who devoted at least one entire article trying to disprove that Indo-Europeans ever existed, using absurd analogies. But every member of this faction I've met at any level of society has displayed intense hostility to the idea...
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27/The reasons for this are obvious (see also Dumezil) but brings me to most interesting part of this problem, and the one I really wanted to talk about, which is the ""right wing"" reinterpretation of the classics, which is at bottom the same as the left...(thred ending soon)
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