Letters to the Editor
Settembrini
Published Letters: 155
-
Der Untertan
[Read the article: Jihadis throw a wild bash over the Protect America Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Conservative Revolutionary movement
The Conservative Revolutionary movement was a German nationalist literary youth movement, prominent in the years following the First World War. The Conservative Revolutionary school of thought advocated a "new" conservatism and nationalism that was specifically German, or Prussian in particular. Like other conservative movements in the same period, they sought to put a stop to the rising tide of communism by advocating their own brand of "conservative socialism".
The Conservative Revolutionaries based their ideas on organic rather than materialistic thinking, on quality instead of quantity and on Volksgemeinschaft ("folk-community") rather than class conflict and ochlocracy. These writers produced a profusion of radical nationalistic literature that consisted of war diaries, combat fictional works, political journalism, manifestos, and philosophical treatises outlining their ideas for the transformation of German cultural and political life. The movement had a wide influence among many of Germany’s most gifted youth, universities and middle classes.
The term "Conservative Revolution" predates the First World War, but the writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the political theorist Edgar Julius Jung were instrumental in making this term an established concept of the Weimar period.
The Conservative Revolutionaries, many of whom were born in the last decade of the nineteenth century, were all basically formed by their experiences of the First World War. The war and the German Revolution was for them a clean break from the past, which left them greatly disillusioned. First, the experience of the horrors of trench warfare, the filth, the hunger, the negation of heroism to a man’s effort to stay alive on the battlefield and the random death led to many recognizing that there was no meaning to this war, or to life itself. They also had to contend with the Dolchstoßlegende ("stab-in-the-back legend") of the end of the war. Second, in this Kriegserlebnis, they sought to re-establish the Frontgemeinschaft (the frontline camaraderie) that defined their existence on the warfront. They felt that they were "like a puppet which has to dance for the demonic entertainment of evil spirits". Some were attracted to nihilist ideas. In their Froschperspektive writings, they sought to give their experience meaning.
After 1933 some of the proponents of the conservative revolutionary movement were persecuted by the Nazis, most notably by the SS of Heinrich Himmler, who wanted to prevent reactionaries from opposing or deviating the Hitler regime in this early time. Many noblemen were anti-democratic, and were happy with a Nazi abolition of democracy, but they also opposed the revolutionary and extremely radical socialistic and racistic aspects inside the Nazi Party. Other conservative revolutionary movement members went into anonymity, some arranged themselves with the new regime and became NSDAP members, again others remained inside the Reichswehr and later Wehrmacht, to silently conspire on the lower levels of the 20 July plot of 1944.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Revolution
Eedjit?
How about fuckwit?
-
@Clint Brooks
[Read the article: Jihadis throw a wild bash over the Protect America Act]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Especially telling about Greenwald's post is how his last paragraph makes the bizarre claim that the telcos would cooperate where necessary because they are legally required "to cooperate with legal surveillance."
Unless and until the government stops paying the bills. Then it is their patriotic duty to the shareholders to shut the taps down.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14194.html
Dumbass.
-
Is Glenn Beck Part of The New World Order? The Illuminati?
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ron Paul Interviewed By Glenn Beck on CNN 12-18-07
CNN Ticker: A Subliminal Threat 2:10 ?
It scrolls Paul is Dead! Paul is Dead!
The Staus Quo is marshalling its forces to do Ron Paul in!
Spread the word!
-
The Historical Context
[Read the article: The worst, sleaziest press corps possible]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As Atrios says, there never was a Golden Age of Journalism.
Google the good old days of Yellow Journalism and the battling Citizen Kanes, Hearst and Pulitzer. Remember The Maines. Good times.
Everyone should read this by that Carl Bernstein:
Originally published in Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977.
How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up
THE CIA AND THE MEDIA
BY CARL BERNSTEIN
http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/cia_press.html
And from TNR before the first Fabulist was exposed:
“J-school Ate My Brain,” By Michael Lewis, Senior Editor, The New Republic, July, 1993, Pg. 5,
http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/MediaCultureUVM/jschool_critique.html
It was common practice to use the press overseas in the information warfare role, it has become common to use it in that manner domestically on the American people.
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/vp01.cfm?outfit=pmt&folder=2053&paper=2550
Add in the repeal of the fairness doctrine, corporate consolidation, the decision to make newsrooms profitable, they used to all be a write off and lose money...
And remember, there never was a golden age and now it really does suck.
-
And then there is The DeeperTruth
[Read the article: The worst, sleaziest press corps possible]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That Concern Trolls abound... concerned about this, concerned about that, and everyone is concerned because we don't want a McCain presidency, but our side can't agree about which candidate is the best way to prevent that. And on the other side, some are concerned there won't be a McCain presidency, and even they can't agree which Democratic candidate is the best way to ensure that, a McCain presidency.
Maybe this campaign is like the 1976 campaign in some respects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1976
But with a black guy from the north instead of a white guy from the south.