German Mystical Altruism

 

Russian-American author Ayn Rand, like Friedrich Nietzsche, wrote about how mystical altruism was killing Europe (link)

The German newscast, DW.com is my favorite source of European news and I highly recommend it.(link) Yet soaked into the fibers of their worldview (and the American worldview as well) are assumptions of mystical altruism. Before the USA made a mission of interfering with Germany’s pharmaceutical industry, nearly all Germans then believed in invisible gods and devils–beliefs reinforced by the Gutenberg Bible at the close of the Hundred Years’ War. “The spirit of the Lord has descended upon me, because I am Emperor of the Germans! I am the instrument of the Most High. I am His sword, His representative. Woe and death to all those who resist my will! Woe and death to those who do not believe in my mission!” (link)

The above quote from Kaiser Wilhelm was business as usual in 1914, when Americans (and Germany’s competitors), using the Hague as a stalking horse, sought to curtail German pharma production in an ecstasy of prohibitionist zeal. So today’s report is on how German military personnel executed a crowd of children for failure to rush and attack American tanks in 1945.(link) Decades before China and the U.S. pushed Europeans into signing first opium, then “drug” restrictions the Kaiser had proclaimed: “…it may come about that I order you to shoot down your own relatives, brothers or parents but even then you must follow my orders without a murmur.” Small wonder then that “The Common Good Before the Individual Good” plank in the Christian National Socialist platform gave moral, ethical and legal justification for both the Kaiser’s and the Führer’s subsequent deeds. Similar collectivized justifications brought starvation to Ukraine and death camps in German-occupied territory.

Defeated in 1919, Germany was charged reparations by the Treaty of Versailles which ALSO imposed crippling regulations on Big Pharma, her remaining lead industry by giving the League: “general supervision over the execution of agreements with regard to the traffic in women and children, and the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs.” This package-dealing verbiage, incidentally, is where MAGA republicans got their habit of disparaging all who oppose their agenda as “crackheads and pedophiles.“

The same treaty gave Japan all German rights in Shantung & Kiaochao (Arts 156-7) and bound Germany to renounce all claim to indemnities from China accruing under the Boxer Protocol of September 1901 (Art 128). Japan cultivated coca in Formosa/Taiwan much the same way The Netherlands did in Java and Sumatra–this in the course of shutting down opium farming out of Christian concern for the natives. Japan too was burdened by the Sino-American mission creep demonizing first all narcotics, expanding to anything they could get the Hague or the League to say was “dangerous” without benefit of comparison to the effects of gin and cigarettes. Prior to China’s 1905 boycott of U.S. goods, Republicans were tickled pink to distribute cocaine to miners and dock workers to stimulate production.(link)

By mid-1931, the prohibition laws China had successfully extorted from the USA had caused WW1, worsened postwar German hyperinflation, contributed heavily to Europe’s 1927 Crash, ditto America’s 1929 Crash and the Panic and crumbling of Germany’s banking system and major industries in summer of 1931. This last recession elevated of Hitler’s National Socialist party to power. Small wonder both Germany and Japan quit the League of Nations and braved the scorn of League and USA alike to fashion their own alliance, unfettered by alien prohibitions on production and trade.

In the final chapter of Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand–who actively supported the Allies’ side against Germany and formulated the Non-Aggression Principle during the war-crimes trials–offered the following amendment to the U.S. Constitution: And Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade. She also explained how you can value altruism or life, but not both. Germany would do well to reject mixed-economy mystical socialism and resume unrestrained competition in her best fields of endeavor. *-*-*

Good Reading: The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, by Robert Silbey, also the author of an insightful book on the Filipino struggle against U.S. domination, is a worthwhile narrative of a standoff between mystical prohibitionist China and an improvised assemblage of mixed-economy cartel mercantilist nations accustomed to treating the Chinese the way General Billy Tecumseh Sherman dealt with Southern rebs and Comancheria tribesmen from Texas to Canada.(link) The impromptu alliance resulted from a wave of drought-intensified discontent permeating a populace torn between cultivation of native opium to stanch the bleeding of national treasure off to foreign suppliers of goo from the same breed of poppies. Missionaries were planted among the inhabitants precisely for their capacity to enrage the populace and be cut to pieces. These events were exploited by foreign powers as pretext to demand more power, reparations and control over the hapless Qing empire. The truth is not at all like the Charlton Heston movie depicting the Chinese as barbaric dope peddlers and foreigners as devout, altruistic Christians there to shepherd the more benighted and uncivilized folks into the light of a Christian and scentific world. (link) Here is a comparison of outlooks giving a nice introduction to the context of the times.(link)

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Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the adventures of a Rio de Janeiro man-about-town and the beautiful daughter of an elderly scientist–touting alcohol prohibition, eugenics and racial collectivism–in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

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