[lit-ideas] Re: Lecture on Civilization and Self-Destruction
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:28:01 -0500
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> From: Richard Koenigsberg, Ph.D. <libraryofsocialscience@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/8/2005 11:47:51 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Lecture on Civilization and Self-Destruction
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> In waging war, nation-states require that soldiers give over their bodies
> and souls in the name of defending the sacred ideal. The Holocaust was
> ultimately another side of this terrible equation, in which Jews, too,
were
> compelled to give over their bodies and souls to the vengeful
nation-state.
>
>
A.A. It's an interesting idea, that victims are the flip side of
persecutors. My question would be why do we attach ourselves to that which
harms us. Is it a need for ideals or is it the need to do what we're told?
Andy Amago
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