I didn't say that the "worship of the natural" was a cause of the
holocaust. My point was that the rise of antirational, vitalist
ideologies in Germany was a symptom of alientation and social crisis that
helped pave the way for Naziism as a "solution" to those crises. My point
is also that we should look very carefully at today's antirational,
vitalist ideologies and their relation to today's social crises, in order
to be on the lookout for an ugly future.
Doug
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On Thu, 29 Sep 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Red Pine:
> According to my reading and historical studies, the holocaust and
> the rise of Nazis was not about a lack of anima, appreciation for
> the environment, or too much buracracy, it was about an economy
> in total collapse. 10000% inflation, it was about atrocity born
> of human desperation. And I disagree with Doug also about their
> worship of the natural as part of the cause of the holocaust,
> philosophy and religion come after as rationalizations to
> irrational responses.
>
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