About the Poor Germans

Writes Paul Gottfried:

My latest piece on your website generated many notes, mostly in German to which I responded auf deutsch. But this letter is the nicest one I have ever received to anything I’ve published or posted:

Paul: This is just to thank you for continuing your incisive writing on the migrant crisis confronting Europe. You raise all the right questions and note plausible answers as to why the Germans are destroying their own society and culture.

As a former American career diplomat who has studied the cultures of a number of countries, including Germany and Switzerland, I am dumbfounded by what is taking place in the former. I took my Ph.D. there and thought I understood their issues fairly well. Now they have revealed once again what to me is a frightening aspect to their collective character, and that is their tendency to go to extremes submissively and en masse.

C.G. Jung, whose writings have helped me understand the psychology of mass movements, once noted that one has to be “anchored in God” to be strong enough to resist the overwhelming power of mass movements. Dietrich Bonhoeffer represented that truth in the time of Nazi Germany, but there are always only a few, and I don’t see anyone of stature from Germany spelling out the grave civilizational issues at stake today. There is only Victor Orban in Hungary, the country of my birth, who has been thoroughly vilified, but whose reputation has now been steadily improving.

Europe’s decline is taking place faster than many of us would have imagined. I very much hope you  keep writing about it. It may be unstoppable but there is encouragement in seeing truth articulated even if it is being crucified.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.