Friday, April 20, 2018
Imitating vs ignoring
When it comes to spreading myths about national Exceptionality, Krauts are historically a lot worse than Americans, and we're plenty bad.
Americans have always seen Germans as superior. We emulate their horrible example in education, and we follow their insane devotion to theory above reality.
Even during the brief periods when we were fighting the Krauts, we still considered them to be technically superior.
The results of those wars proved the opposite.
We UNDERRATE all other Current Enemies. Cuba and Afghanistan and Iraq and Persia and Syria and Ukraine and Russia were all relatively modern and prosperous when we decided to attack or blockade them for no reason except sadistic brutality. After our brutal sadistic attacks or blockades, the enemies were much closer to our "primitive" stereotypes. We promised to transform them into our bizarre delusional mythical image of ourselves, "democratic" and "capitalist"; but in fact we transformed them into our bizarre delusional mythical image of THEM, primitive and desperate and chaotic.
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So it's highly unusual to find an objective picture of Germany, especially in the tech or educational realms.
American Radio History has recently brought in a small collection of an unlikely periodical, Radio Progress, which served Rhode Island. It's much better than you'd expect for a market of that size, and it published an unusually literate and thoughtful picture of Germany in 1925.
This was shortly after the Weimar return to the gold standard to break hyperinflation, and it appears that the economy had stabilized quickly. Gold will do that for you.
Sounds like a top-down socialist system. Big transmitters and low-power receivers and licensing. This public-private mix continued during Hitler's allegedly fascist setup, and still works roughly the same way today. Corporations can make a profit but MUST serve public purposes FIRST.
Modern Kraut propaganda, and modern USA STRONG propaganda about Germany, continues to see Germany as super-prosperous and super-advanced. False then and now.
In short, the GOOD parts and BAD parts of the German system have remained relatively constant from Kaiser Bill to Fuhrer Adolf to Kaiserin Angela.
The good part is the tightly regulated private sector, which basically follows Sharia. Manufacturers must serve workers before shareholders, and health care must serve patients before shareholders. Working men get a fair shake, robber barons have to pay heavily for their privileges.
The bad part is the perpetual fetish for theories and details, and the arrogant Exceptionality.
We have always idolized and imitated the bad parts and ignored the good parts.
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Later, I remembered that I had included a model of a Telefunken crystal receiver with the USA Signal Corps stuff that I use for Morse scenes. Here's the Telefunken next to a USA military crystal set, both from WW1.
Then as now, Kraut stuff is sharper and crisper, more metal and less wood, more Bauhaus and less Bungalow.
Sounds like a top-down socialist system. Big transmitters and low-power receivers and licensing. This public-private mix continued during Hitler's allegedly fascist setup, and still works roughly the same way today. Corporations can make a profit but MUST serve public purposes FIRST.
Modern Kraut propaganda, and modern USA STRONG propaganda about Germany, continues to see Germany as super-prosperous and super-advanced. False then and now.
In short, the GOOD parts and BAD parts of the German system have remained relatively constant from Kaiser Bill to Fuhrer Adolf to Kaiserin Angela.
The good part is the tightly regulated private sector, which basically follows Sharia. Manufacturers must serve workers before shareholders, and health care must serve patients before shareholders. Working men get a fair shake, robber barons have to pay heavily for their privileges.
The bad part is the perpetual fetish for theories and details, and the arrogant Exceptionality.
We have always idolized and imitated the bad parts and ignored the good parts.
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Later, I remembered that I had included a model of a Telefunken crystal receiver with the USA Signal Corps stuff that I use for Morse scenes. Here's the Telefunken next to a USA military crystal set, both from WW1.
Then as now, Kraut stuff is sharper and crisper, more metal and less wood, more Bauhaus and less Bungalow.Labels: Natural law = Sharia law
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