Christianism, Bavarian-Style
March 18, 2007 § 12 Comments
One thing about those Germans: they are ruthlessly consistent. Once they’ve adopted the peculiarly modern idea that the sin-qua-non of public authority is to assure everyone access to equal freedom, they carry it out with a relentless efficiency unlike any other people.
It is the nature of public authority not just to tell people what to do, but to tell them what to do good and hard. If people don’t do what they are told there will be consequences, consequences enforced by the blunt instruments of police and military power.
If the sin-qua-non of public authority is to assure everyone access to contentless equal freedom, and literally the only thing public authority can do is order people around, this means that there must be – for the public authority existentially there must be – an oppressor-untermensch to order around. The oppressor-untermensch is whomever stands in the way of assured access to equal freedom for everyone. Usually that means some traditional category that persons fall into as an accident of history, with the further criteria that the untermensch must possess some kind of power that it is exercising to obstruct the treatment of every individual as a free and equal superman, a self-created superman unfettered by accidents of history.
The Jewish race didn’t work out very well as an untermensch category for those wackily consistent Germans, though, and now the new untermensch seems to be Christian parents, at least the homeschooling variety that constitute the “parallel societies” Germans have always found so terrifically threatening to the well-being of the Reich. Children of course don’t create themselves as free and equal individuals in an act of the unfettered will: parents, by accident of history, exercise power to shape children into persons who are not free and equal supermen, not products of their own plenary will and reason. And the herrenvolk can’t have that.
The good news is that when Germany needs some real estate to establish an institution for reprogramming the unenlightened untermensch, I understand that facilities are available.
If I find ONE MORE idiot American obsessing about the “poor homeschoolers” in Germany I’ll have to go and buy an extra supply of sick-bags.Get a modicum of < HREF="http://editrixblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/dumb-dumber-american-conservative.html" REL="nofollow">information<> about the FUCKING FACTS and the country you are denouncing (with some extremely cheap shots, I’d like to add) first before you react like a Pavlovian dog spouting the usual clichés. Specifically Catholics ought to be extremely wary of the type of parent who go for “homeschooling” in Germany.And by the way, it’s called “sin<>e<> qua non” — something like “(condition) without any no — i.e. an essential condition.Sin<>e<> = without! Got it? Hey! Maybe the German pope will help even American hicks to get some basic knowledge of Catholic essentials through his promotion of Latin Mass.No need to thank me, take it as gratuitious advice from a conservative, traditionalist practicing German Catholic, who has been called a “self-hating German” for her criticism of her own country by moronic Americans frequently, but who is equally prepared to defend it against retards from the other side of the spectrum.
<>And by the way, it’s called “sine qua non”<>I kind of enjoyed the pun myself, though I expect it may be lost on the unsubtle or the humorless.From your linked blog post:<>Fact is, the Pletts (ethnic Germans from Russia) refused to let their children attend a theater performance of König Drosselbart (King Thrushbeard) because they considered it “devil’s handiwork” and refused to pay the legally required fine. Coercive detention was the only possible consequence.<>And a happy sieg heil to you too.
Yeah, Zippy. We don’t want THOSE kinds of people having the right to homeschool. What’s the matter with you?Clearly, if parents are recognized by the state as the primary educators of their children, this would mean that some people with whom we disagree would end up teaching Unapproved Material to their kids.These people need to be rescued from themselves!As a young teen, I never thought I would say this, but; “Thank God I live in Arkansas!”.Want to know what is required, here, to homeschool your kids? You go by the local superintendent’s office and fill out a form that says “I’m homeschooling my kids, now”.That’s it. Pretty SCARY, eh keeds? Why, these people might teach their kids ANYTHING!
Frightening. Hmm. Wonder if The_Editrix washes her hands after typing such dainties?
Why, Zippy, I strongly suspsect that you’ve made this editirx person angry. For shame…
Oh, and editrix,<>Catholics ought to be extremely wary of the type of parent who go for “homeschooling” in Germany.<>I’m a great deal more wary of Catholics that swear like sailors and call blog hosts retards and hicks as a matter of course. If you need help with the sick-bags, I know a wholesaler…
Why is the girl’s handwritten letter in English? I just skimmed: I may have missed that.
I would suppose that the letter is in English because it is an open letter to the whole world, and like it or not what the world speaks is English. It would be fishy I suppose if it were a letter to her parents or something.
What a frighteningly reactionary post. Do you think you could have managed to make your point without a series of Nazi slurs? Shameful stuff, and from what is normally such a well-written blog.
<>What a frighteningly reactionary post.<>Thanks for the feedback. I wrote the post the way I write pretty much everything: exactly as I see it.
Here’s another letter to her English-speaking friends from Melissa, apparently written back in February.http://www.netzwerk-bildungsfreiheit.de/pdf/Melissa_Brief.pdfIt’s got mistakes in English and a few awkwardnesses, which in itself attest its authenticity. But her English sure puts my German to shame. Not to mention her level-headedness in the whole situation.Here’s a guestbook for leaving supportive messages. English is apparently fine:http://netzwerk-bildungsfreiheit.de/tinc?key=Iw1Q7LYj&start=-1&reverse=1Oh, and let’s hear it for reaction. Reactionary posts forever! 🙂
Let’s see: the German government enforces a totalitarian law enacted by the Nazis, one that strips parents of their right (as affirmed by the Church) to educate their own children. And to criticize this action, and name it for what it is – an act worthy of it’s fascistic legal “justification” – is “reactionary?” Wow, man. Come on. Are we that far gone? You’re over the top. I won’t even touch the Editrix’s post.. It’s like Chesterton said, if you aren’t reacting, you’re dead.