I had about ten minutes of Heidegger in my college philosophy classes. Memorized enough to get an A on a final. My brain wiped what I knew afterwards, forever.
"Jewess" is a curious antiquated label I sometimes encounter in fiction written in the 1930s and before. Sort of the same era from when it was common to call us "Hebrews", which I often see in older government records, such as census reports, when I am conducting genealogical research for my family from Romania, Poland, and Belarus.
Most of my relatives who chose to stay in the Old Country before the 1920s rather than emigrate to Canada and US were predictably murdered en masse. The village in Romania is gone. All the Jews in the village in Belarus were marched into a field - 1000 plus men, women, children and babes in arms - and given shovels to dig their mass grave, then machine-gunned. These "little Holocausts" saved the time, resources, and soldiers to ship them to the camps.
Consequently, I admit to be unreasonable when someone tries to paint any of the Nazi government's hierarchy with virtue. (I do know there were officials who secretly did their best to mitigate what was happening, not just to Jews but to intellectuals, clergy, gays, the disabled, "Gypsies", and any other groups or ethnicities singled out.) None the less, your rant is much much milder than mine might be.
I don't expect perfect from the people I admire. Hannah Arendt is one of them. Read her best-known books in the day.
Is there a word - similar to narcissism, hubris, arrogance - which covers the same attitude across genders? Maybe something obscure in classical Greek or Latin? (grin)
I had about ten minutes of Heidegger in my college philosophy classes. Memorized enough to get an A on a final. My brain wiped what I knew afterwards, forever.
"Jewess" is a curious antiquated label I sometimes encounter in fiction written in the 1930s and before. Sort of the same era from when it was common to call us "Hebrews", which I often see in older government records, such as census reports, when I am conducting genealogical research for my family from Romania, Poland, and Belarus.
Most of my relatives who chose to stay in the Old Country before the 1920s rather than emigrate to Canada and US were predictably murdered en masse. The village in Romania is gone. All the Jews in the village in Belarus were marched into a field - 1000 plus men, women, children and babes in arms - and given shovels to dig their mass grave, then machine-gunned. These "little Holocausts" saved the time, resources, and soldiers to ship them to the camps.
Consequently, I admit to be unreasonable when someone tries to paint any of the Nazi government's hierarchy with virtue. (I do know there were officials who secretly did their best to mitigate what was happening, not just to Jews but to intellectuals, clergy, gays, the disabled, "Gypsies", and any other groups or ethnicities singled out.) None the less, your rant is much much milder than mine might be.
I don't expect perfect from the people I admire. Hannah Arendt is one of them. Read her best-known books in the day.
Thank you. Feel free to rant on.
I'm a positive person and prefer not to rant, but certain things stick in my craw, and male chauvinism is one of them!
Is there a word - similar to narcissism, hubris, arrogance - which covers the same attitude across genders? Maybe something obscure in classical Greek or Latin? (grin)
Methinks "hubris" will do. :-)
Which, as I recall, the gods will punish...
Ayn Rant couldn't have surpassed this!
Das war wirklich ein Rant!