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From David Richardson, ISCSC
Gert Kohler's idea of modern praxis are upbeat and so, too,
are most of the opinions
aired at WSN. The attitude was utterly different a
century ago +/-. I mention some
pessimists: Arthur de Gobineau, Jacob Burckhardt, Friedrich Nietzshe,
Henry and Brooke Adams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Oswald Spengler and his most powerful
admirers, Adolph Hitler and his retinue, Nietzsche soeur and her prestigious
library, The Frankfort School and Herbert Marcuse, Sartre, Foucault, Fanon,
Horkheimer and Adorno, Norman Mailer, and many other famed authors. They
took the successes of colonialism too seriously. Mommsen (Nobel prize,
1805) probably chose Rome as his theme and was
celebrated partly for the same reason: the final solution seemed to be
empire. Hitler was both a monster and an idealist: to produce
Spengler's final work of creativity, a totalitarian empire (which is the form of
empire Spengler preferred).
Who looks to empire, today?
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