America now is Germany then: Analogies

The German people of the late 1930s imagined themselves to be brave. They saw themselves as the heroic Germans depicted by the Wagnerian Operas, the descendants of the fierce Germanic warriors who had hunted wild boar with nothing but spears and who had defeated three of Rome's mightiest legions in the Tuetenberg Forest.

But in truth, by the 1930s, the German people had become civilized and tamed, culturally obsessed with fine details in both science and society. Their self-image of bravery was both salve and slavery. Germans were required to behave as if they were brave, even when they were not.

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Good read. Too bad nobody that needs to read it will.

I agree.

Germany was more technologically advanced. They almost beat us to the atomic bomb. Call it luck, divine intervention, or a moral high ground that led the leading scientists to defect from Germany and give the America the technology. But the good Germans know now that they didn't deserve to win then. I don't know what makes so many Americans think we are deserving our power now.