"Italy is a good example of the theory that it is possible for countries to have the shape of a boot." - J. Reed

I was once looking at a historical atlas and the maps of the Risorgimento caught my eye. A boot shaped country was not inevitable, but one possibility out of many possibilities. Thus, my theory was born.

Haha...I think perhaps your rise is a little too high.

Long live EMPIRICISM!

I thought Nietzsche had brain syphillis?

In any event, I disagree, I think modern Germany is a great nation with an excellent social contract and focus on technology that offers it's populance something more than the average. But like most of Europe, it panders and is weak in the face of Muslim anti-Semitism for which it cannot even find a name. Perhaps it too will fall.

I heard recently that more people move to Germany than any other country, besides the U.S.

I have been to southern Germany on a few occasions on business.
Its a beautiful country and i have always found the people really friendly.

The German bashing is not about the German landscape. It's nothing to do with mentality and certainly not with biologism. It's about German ideology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_German_Ideology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_idealism

Further reading:

http://www.ca-ira.net/isf/beitraege/bruhn-who.are.the.anti-germans.html

http://www.cafecritique.priv.at/interviewIN.html


German Ideology believes that ideas rule the people.

For those who speak a little German I'd recommend the book "Gegenaufklärung" (Counter-enlightenment) by Alex Gruber and Philipp Lenhard. The introduction can be read here:

http://www.ca-ira.net/verlag/leseproben/gruber.lenhard-gegenaufklaerung_lp-einleitung.html

"The German Ideology" by Marx and Engels criticises German ideology which is the ideology of the Younghegelianism (Feuerbach, Bauer, Stirner) that originated from German idealism (Hegel, Fichte etc.)