When we say that Henry Dawson's vision of wartime penicillin was 'inclusive', while that of Howard Florey was 'exclusive' , we are really getting at the key issue that divided all the world during, before and after WWII.
" Just who do we include in ; just who do we exclude out of our civil society's blessings ?"
Florey never called his vision for wartime penicillin 'exclusive' , but he did much use another term that means the same thing and in any case , his definite actions spoke much louder than his unspoken assumptions.
The word he always used to describe his goals for penicillin was 'pure' , chemically pure.
A dose of penicillin that excludes everything else in the original penicillin juice, whether that be helpful, neutral or harmful.
A 100 gram Vitamin C rich orange not merely concentrated into Vitamin C rich orange juice but further purified until it is a mere 100 mg of 100% chemically pure Vitamin C powder ... with all that impure orange taste and texture safely removed.
If Calvinists ever become our leading chefs, this is what our food will look like : pure carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals in enormous pill form and worked down with many cups of sterile water.
Hitler wanted to exclude Jews, Romas, Queers, the chronically ill and the handicapped , socialists, Blacks - you name it - to make Germany one big pure homogeneous Aryan nation and race.
Left-leaning Social Medicine, of which Dawson was a proponent , wanted to see that Medicine helped all those sick : it was inclusive.
And not just by helping those American blacks, aboriginals and immigrants usually neglected under 'for-profit' medicine either.
Its proponents also wanted to intervene (medically and otherwise), overseas ,to help those under attack by Hitler, Stalin and Tojo.
By contrast, the conservatives behind the idea of "War Medicine" wanted to use the defence of America as an excuse to roll back the New Deal emphasis on Social Medicine by claiming that in a Total War lead-up, all precious resources had to shift away from the (generally poorer) 4Fs to the (generally better off) 1A citizens.
Just because they talked war did not mean they were pro intervention overseas, just the opposite.
Their vision not just excluded helping sick 4F Americans at home, it also excluded helping sick 4Fs overseas as well.
Florey and Fleming both wanted penicillin to be chemically 100% pure and synthetic before it was produced in big volumes.
They were also both in intimate lockstep with the War Medicine proponents at Britain's Ministry of Supply and America's OSRD who wanted to restrict civilian access to (and knowledge of) the miracle cure , all the better to make penicillin a weapon of war.
If it could be kept exclusively as a secret weapon of war, the Allies could return wounded troops to combat quicker than the Germans or Japanese could.
By contrast, Dawson felt that doctors should help the sick and wounded soldiers of both sides (including Allied POWS !) and help the civilians of all sides : Neutral , Axis and Allied.
And he wanted penicillin - whether synthetically pure or naturally impure* he didn't care - produced in mass levels now , not after the war was over.
(* His team never let the impurity of their self-proclaimed "crude penicillin" stop them from being the first in history to give it systemically, via needle, to save a life.
They later even published a journal article speculating crude penicillin had additional beneficial substances that made it a better medication than just pure penicillin itself...)
Dawson definitely did not want to see the medicine produced in tiny levels so as to render acceptable the rationing of it, to justify giving it only to those civilians who were useful because of their involvement in the war effort.
He felt even a person incapable of almost any work still deserved penicillin, a warm meal, a warm bed and a warm smile.
Dawson felt this sort of American medical establishment thinking was far too close to that of Hitler's Aktion T4 projects - where people judged non-useful were starved, denied warm shelter and medicine or killed outright.
He believed if the Allies were seen saving the lives of people most of the educated world saw as 'useless' - even during an all-out Total War - this would help defeat Hitler morally in the many many Neutral countries and also strengthen the resolve of those Allied frontline troops facing death to defeat him militarily.
If the OSRD and Florey used penicillin as a weapon, we need ask did Dawson use it as a weapon, as well ?
Yes he certainly did.
As a weapon in a moral battle.
Dawson's touting of the inclusive use of wartime medicine definitely did have a moral cum political/diplomatic impact, in addition to the extra patients it medically admitted to be saved.......
Showing posts with label eugenics. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
It was the smallest of the wartime Manhattan Projects, but it had the biggest impact on making our world a kinder gentler place
Has the Manhattan-based Atomic Bomb and nuclear reactors really made our world a kinder healthier place ?
Was the Manhattan-based Norden bombsight and its delusion of mass bombing of civilians as way to end all future wars really the way to a kinder gentler world ?
Was Manhattan-based Dr Foster Kennedy's wartime project to propose the gassing of all the retarded children ,in emulation of Hitler's Aktion T4 project, really going to make us a better people ?
But Henry Dawson's tiny project was completely different : it was to see that abundant cheap natural penicillin was made available to all, without exception, at the height of a total war.
Even those judged medically in the Allied nations as being ' life unworthy of wartime medical care' .
Dawson wanted them saved not in spite of it being wartime, but rather precisely because it was wartime, because morally this was the best single way to combat Hitler's deadly yet globally popular eugenic ideology .
The legacy of the belief in life's 100% inclusivity, born from his tiny Manhattan-based project , lives on more than a half century after he's been gone.....
Was the Manhattan-based Norden bombsight and its delusion of mass bombing of civilians as way to end all future wars really the way to a kinder gentler world ?
Was Manhattan-based Dr Foster Kennedy's wartime project to propose the gassing of all the retarded children ,in emulation of Hitler's Aktion T4 project, really going to make us a better people ?
But Henry Dawson's tiny project was completely different : it was to see that abundant cheap natural penicillin was made available to all, without exception, at the height of a total war.
Even those judged medically in the Allied nations as being ' life unworthy of wartime medical care' .
Dawson wanted them saved not in spite of it being wartime, but rather precisely because it was wartime, because morally this was the best single way to combat Hitler's deadly yet globally popular eugenic ideology .
The legacy of the belief in life's 100% inclusivity, born from his tiny Manhattan-based project , lives on more than a half century after he's been gone.....
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Henry Dawson, Champion of the Second Chance ... and the Second Glance
Manhattan-based doctor (Martin) Henry Dawson championed the smallest, weakest and poorest of beings all his life.
On one hand, they were human beings, such as the institutionalized chronically ill at Goldwater Hospital.
Or discarded young people , dying needlessly from subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE).
In both cases, he wanted to give them a second chance at a near normal life in what was, after all, the famed City of the Second Chance.
On the other hand, sometimes his focus was upon microbe beings, creatures about whom it can't really be said that he wanted to ensure their continued survival - he felt they did that well enough on their own !
Instead, he merely wanted all of us to take a Second Glance at just how well these incredibly tiny ,delicate, immobile sacs of water managed against extremities of physical conditions and the potent threat of the human immune system and modern medicine.
Starting in the 1920s, he pioneered studies of their survival techniques such as HGT, Quorum Sensing, Molecular Mimicry and Biofilms : still cutting edge science even today, eighty years later.
His subtle point was that if these, the smallest of the small, can manage survival so well than perhaps small human beings and small human nations can also manage equally well, if we just let them live rather than trying to enslave and kill them in the name of a Progress that must always be Bigger , to be Better.
The Allied governments never one to miss a chance to match the Axis in moral turpitude , wanted wartime penicillin to remain a secret available only for the 1As - "Penicillin from New York's Cold Spring Harbour's Eugenics lab" , as it were.
Dawson was equally bull-headed in wanting to see the Nazis combatted morally as well as militarily, by demonstrating just how well we looked after our tired poor and huddled 4Fs, even during a Total War : "Penicillin from New York's Emma Lazarus", as it were.
Janus-like Manhattan tried both approaches at first , very strongly favouring the eugenic approach, until a few good Manhattanites rose up in protest.
Then wartime Manhattan was revealed to also come from the Venus of love and peace as well as from the Mars of anger and war.
Finally ... a Good News Story from the Bad News War.
On one hand, they were human beings, such as the institutionalized chronically ill at Goldwater Hospital.
Or discarded young people , dying needlessly from subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE).
In both cases, he wanted to give them a second chance at a near normal life in what was, after all, the famed City of the Second Chance.
On the other hand, sometimes his focus was upon microbe beings, creatures about whom it can't really be said that he wanted to ensure their continued survival - he felt they did that well enough on their own !
Instead, he merely wanted all of us to take a Second Glance at just how well these incredibly tiny ,delicate, immobile sacs of water managed against extremities of physical conditions and the potent threat of the human immune system and modern medicine.
Starting in the 1920s, he pioneered studies of their survival techniques such as HGT, Quorum Sensing, Molecular Mimicry and Biofilms : still cutting edge science even today, eighty years later.
His subtle point was that if these, the smallest of the small, can manage survival so well than perhaps small human beings and small human nations can also manage equally well, if we just let them live rather than trying to enslave and kill them in the name of a Progress that must always be Bigger , to be Better.
The Allied governments never one to miss a chance to match the Axis in moral turpitude , wanted wartime penicillin to remain a secret available only for the 1As - "Penicillin from New York's Cold Spring Harbour's Eugenics lab" , as it were.
The tired, poor huddled 4Fs
Dawson was equally bull-headed in wanting to see the Nazis combatted morally as well as militarily, by demonstrating just how well we looked after our tired poor and huddled 4Fs, even during a Total War : "Penicillin from New York's Emma Lazarus", as it were.
Janus-like Manhattan tried both approaches at first , very strongly favouring the eugenic approach, until a few good Manhattanites rose up in protest.
Then wartime Manhattan was revealed to also come from the Venus of love and peace as well as from the Mars of anger and war.
Finally ... a Good News Story from the Bad News War.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
the long AND the short AND the tall : the eternal commensality of the big and the small (and God blesses 'em all)
It is typical of the hubris of us individual humans and our individual human societies to always imagine that we alone are big and mighty and wise and that all other beings are small, weak and foolish.
A further human hubris of ours is to imagine how better our imagined Utopia would be when all the other, lesser/weaker/smaller forms of life have been liquidated, if need be with with extreme prejudice.
But germicides won't ever remove all the germs anymore than insecticides will ever remove all insects or eugenicides will ever remove all the weak, frail and elderly.
The various forces of Nature combine to interact upon all beings in various ways depending on scale, because each individual scale works over a particular - limited - spatial and energy scale.
Reality , the Reality of matter and energy , is thus permanently stratified into different layers or scale levels.
From the point of view of possible lifeforms, that means a variety of scale-defined niches that are permanently ("eternally") available for the lifeform best sized to excel in them.
Translation : kill off all bacteria sized life and some new life the same size will emerge to fill in that hole of opportunity.
Humans are currently the "fittest" for our big niche but we are not "fit" for all niches, though we continue to delude ourselves into thinking so.
Niches change constantly at the margins so all successful lifeforms display a variety of members, some who appear to be weak and useless, but in fact this merely an evolutionary way to ensure enough variety in the lifeform's generic material to surmount unexpected changes in their chosen niche.
For example , people with a moderate form of the disease of sickle cell anemia survive some insect-vectored diseases better than supposedly healthier people, at least in the many large regions of the world where these insects and diseases are endemic.
The big and the small lifeforms may never grow to like each other or cooperate with each other, but they might as well resign themselves that the big and the small, like the rich and the poor, will always be with us.
Henry Dawson grew to understand the profoundness of the concept of "eternal commensality of the big and the small" in his studies of human-oral commensal strep bacteria interactions.
That is why he was so damn adamant that even winning WWII couldn't come at the cost of tromping all over the weak and the small....
A further human hubris of ours is to imagine how better our imagined Utopia would be when all the other, lesser/weaker/smaller forms of life have been liquidated, if need be with with extreme prejudice.
But germicides won't ever remove all the germs anymore than insecticides will ever remove all insects or eugenicides will ever remove all the weak, frail and elderly.
The various forces of Nature combine to interact upon all beings in various ways depending on scale, because each individual scale works over a particular - limited - spatial and energy scale.
Reality , the Reality of matter and energy , is thus permanently stratified into different layers or scale levels.
From the point of view of possible lifeforms, that means a variety of scale-defined niches that are permanently ("eternally") available for the lifeform best sized to excel in them.
Translation : kill off all bacteria sized life and some new life the same size will emerge to fill in that hole of opportunity.
Humans are currently the "fittest" for our big niche but we are not "fit" for all niches, though we continue to delude ourselves into thinking so.
Niches change constantly at the margins so all successful lifeforms display a variety of members, some who appear to be weak and useless, but in fact this merely an evolutionary way to ensure enough variety in the lifeform's generic material to surmount unexpected changes in their chosen niche.
For example , people with a moderate form of the disease of sickle cell anemia survive some insect-vectored diseases better than supposedly healthier people, at least in the many large regions of the world where these insects and diseases are endemic.
The big and the small lifeforms may never grow to like each other or cooperate with each other, but they might as well resign themselves that the big and the small, like the rich and the poor, will always be with us.
Henry Dawson grew to understand the profoundness of the concept of "eternal commensality of the big and the small" in his studies of human-oral commensal strep bacteria interactions.
That is why he was so damn adamant that even winning WWII couldn't come at the cost of tromping all over the weak and the small....
Friday, December 28, 2012
Penicillin : from Modern to ante-Modern in six bloody years
The biggest battle of WWII was NOT Stalingrad ( physically huge but intellectually a mere bun fight between History's worst dictators) but rather the battle over wartime penicillin : who makes it and who receives it.
For WWII definitely had a 'war within a war' aspect to it .
The billions of individuals who made up the modern global civilization of 1939 had six long - bloody - years to re-evaluate whether the core values of their culture were really worth dying for, or were they only good for starting aggressive wars - but not the sort of values for ending aggressive wars and securing permanent peace.
The New York World's Fair of 1939 promised a total world of man-made-ness but in the case of penicillin, man-made-ness ended in abject failure and it was Mother Nature that brought us this wonder drug when Man proved to be 'not up for the job'.
The world of 1939 eugenically exalted the Big and the Mighty and denigrated the weak and the small : penicillin (once it was a perfectly pure crystal shining brighter than a thousand suns) would be distributed on strictly Darwinian lines.
It would not be made in such quantities that would require the Allies to make one less bomber or battleship : so it would have to be rationed and so would go only to the eugenically 1A people .
(Be they fighting in foreign combat lines or winning the war behind some important desk in London or Washington.)
But by 1945, those same bombers were being pulled off their jobs of riding shotgun over the NRA nation and converted into butterflies to deliver life-saving grams of Nature-made penicillin to the dying all over the world : regardless of age, color, gender and economic status.
1945 was indeed the year that baby "Baby Boomers" started entering a very new , ante-Modern world......
For WWII definitely had a 'war within a war' aspect to it .
The billions of individuals who made up the modern global civilization of 1939 had six long - bloody - years to re-evaluate whether the core values of their culture were really worth dying for, or were they only good for starting aggressive wars - but not the sort of values for ending aggressive wars and securing permanent peace.
The New York World's Fair of 1939 promised a total world of man-made-ness but in the case of penicillin, man-made-ness ended in abject failure and it was Mother Nature that brought us this wonder drug when Man proved to be 'not up for the job'.
The world of 1939 eugenically exalted the Big and the Mighty and denigrated the weak and the small : penicillin (once it was a perfectly pure crystal shining brighter than a thousand suns) would be distributed on strictly Darwinian lines.
It would not be made in such quantities that would require the Allies to make one less bomber or battleship : so it would have to be rationed and so would go only to the eugenically 1A people .
(Be they fighting in foreign combat lines or winning the war behind some important desk in London or Washington.)
But by 1945, those same bombers were being pulled off their jobs of riding shotgun over the NRA nation and converted into butterflies to deliver life-saving grams of Nature-made penicillin to the dying all over the world : regardless of age, color, gender and economic status.
1945 was indeed the year that baby "Baby Boomers" started entering a very new , ante-Modern world......
Sunday, September 30, 2012
"Race",before DNA, was BLOOD : literally. The hidden subtext behind penicillin's 15 year delay.
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| BLOOD was destiny, before DNA |
Their blood - that gooey red stuff - not Genes and not DNA.
"Blood" Eugenics has been re-written out of History
Don't let today's geneticists try and re-write history ---- the laws did not talk about genes or chromosomes ---- they said blood and they meant it.
In WWII, the great American Red Cross, won't let black blood pollute the lily pure blood of white folk even in transfusions to save a life.
No talk from the Red Cross of genes or DNA ---- blood.
The thought of sticking impure mold slime juice into white people's bloodstreams so sickened almost all middle class doctors between 1928 and what - 2028 ? , that they'd rather let their patient die than give them life-saving natural penicillin.
Don't ever forget the 6 million the Nazis killed of the Jews - or the 30 million dead from other groups as well - but give a thought to the Holocaust of people who might have lived out normal lives, if only hundreds of thousands of doctors had done with impure, dirty, crude, natural penicillin what Doctors Martin Henry Dawson and James Duhig did with it : save lives.
Penicillin didn't really start saving lives until 15 years after it was first discovered ---- using the same primitive level of technology in 1943 as was rejected in 1928 : what changed wasn't the technology but the moral character of the doctors involved : from 9-5 benchwarmer doctors and racist eugenic doctors to highly moral, driven, humanists....
1940's ISOLATIONISTS abandoned Europe's 4Fs and America's 4Fs
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| 1A = 53% |
Then in the Fall of 1940, these same Isolationists, using the excuse of preparing for an European war - a war that they were actually working all out to avoid - pushed for an abandonment of Social Medicine , in favour of War Medicine.
Translation of this hypocrisy ?
In Eugenics-speak, this meant abandoning efforts to provide medical care to both the well-to-do 1As and the poorer 4Fs, in favour of research on making the 1As into better fighters.
Rooseveltcare as unpopular then as Obamacare is today
Actually, the Isolationists had high hopes that America's 1As would never have to fight : this was all just an excuse to roll back the clock on providing care for the 47% in 1940s America.
Rooseveltcare was no more popular then among the well-to-do than Obamacare is today. (Or Romneycare was in Boston a few years ago - but that is another story altogether isn't Mitt ?)
It was this Isolationist hypocrisy that I believe pushed Martin Henry Dawson over the edge into his all out effort to rescue some American 4Fs (his equivalent of 1915's Belgians), with 4F natural - impure- penicillin, as his rebuke to uncaring America.....
Republicans: ABORTING the 47%, before they are born, will greatly reduce the federal deficit
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| ABORT the 47% ??? |
But tomorrow, some of the surviving 53% might also be down and hence would also be written off, in ever new rounds of 'tough love'.
Regarding 'the down and out' as permanently down is like a circular firing squad
In this numbers game, after a series of round of recessions and booms, very few people would be left in America, period - either to pay federal taxes or simply to breath free.
If Hitler had won the war and the world, the Nazis would have had round after round of purification trials, till almost nobody would be left alive - sort of like the Russian Politburo under Stalin or what happened in the last days of the French Revolution.
Purity and perfection tests never end, never are satisfied.
Ditto for Romney and Ryan who, unknowingly, are both advocates of seeing the world through the unvarying spectacles of the K-selecting eugenicist.
The world, to the K-selecting eugenicist, is simple, predictable and static.
In their view of world ecology, the whole world is one big niche, yesterday-today-tomorrow , and their job is to find the beings that best fill that permanent niche and discard the rest.
Commensalists, such as myself, feel differently : call us r-selecting types.
We don't believe in putting our eggs and sperm in one basket.
We see the world as dynamic and unpredictable, always changing.
See it filled with many constantly changing niches that are only partially and temporally filled by many different types of beings: we welcome diversity and feel it to be the best protection possible against tomorrow's unexpected massive changes.
We are not at all surprised to learn that some "pure-blooded" aboriginal tribes were almost totally wiped out by something like childhood measles, with the only survivors being a few "half-breeds", the children of tribe members who married Europeans with built-in resistance to measles.
We prefer to think of them as displaying hybrid resilience, not half-breed decadence, and we think the hard scientific evidence to prove it is on OUR side.
Romney's soaring political rhetoric sounds so good but it is based on outmoded, incorrect, science and when it collides with physical reality, it will always crash and burn....
Monday, September 24, 2012
Aktion 47% : saving the 4Fs in a time of the 1As , putting them back to work and paying taxes : the OTHER Manhattan project
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| Romneycare DEATH PANELS for the 47% |
Also in the 1941 medical gutter were the "4Fs of the 4Fs", those young men dying of invariable fatal SBE, seen as consuming precious medical resources at a time when many in the medical elite thought that the sole medical priority should be war medicine for the fit 1As.
Think of today's Mitt Romney as 1941's Dr Romney, if you aren't getting the picture yet.
But somebody - a nobody - in Manhattan had a different idea.
He thought both "unfits" (penicillin and the SBEs) could be redeemed, pulled out of that illusionary gutter, and put back to work combatting the Nazi evil.
For the Nazi evil included not just tanks and subs but also Aktion 4T : a scheme to kill all Germans ( and later everybody) who were judged not productive enough to bother having around .
Romneycare "death panels"
It is hard to tell just how many people would have ultimately have ended up dead in Romneycare styled "death panels", if the demands of the war for all forms of labour hadn't intervened.
Who knows , perhaps as many as 47%.
The nobody's plan was a sort of Aktion 4F.
It was to be a rebuttal to the Nazi Aktion T-4 .
And a rebuttal as well as to his own 1A eugenically obsessed colleagues, like Dr Foster Kennedy who suggested killing the unfit young in that same year, 1941, to a wide round of applause.
Think of it as "the other wartime Manhattan Project" : saving the 4Fs of the 4Fs at the very height of an all out obsession with 1As.
Think of it, perhaps, as the most profound rebuttal to everything Hitler stood for : it said, even in war, we Allies care ( or should care) about the least of the these, as well as the wise and the mighty.
So that nobody - Dr Martin Henry Dawson - put penicillin to work and soon his medical notes happily recorded that many of his SBE patients had indeed gotten up from their deathbeds and had gone back to work , paying taxes.
Hitler preferred killing people with such diseases outright ( see Martin Bader for an example) while the American medical elite in the 1940s and the American political elite in the 2010s, prefers to let them die quietly offstage, by neglect. The outcome is broadly the same.
Morally, it is only a short slippery slide from a fundraiser in Boca Raton to the death camps at Auschwitz....
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
As a EUGENICIST, Romney exceeds even Hitler , who never thought 47% of Germans were 'unfit'
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| the UNFIT vote democrat |
The other half of us pay no federal taxes and are the takers, the moochers, the dependents,the self-defined victims, Nature's 'unfit.'
Victorian 'culture wars' re-emerge into 21st century presidential election
Out in the real world, before Victorians brought in sentimental campaigns to protect children, slaves, women and animals, these 'unfit' would die a short and natural death.
But now soft-headed (Democrat) governments have kept this half of us alive artificially --- under Romney all this would change.
But some years, perhaps even Romney fits into these 'unfit' ---as in some years he too may have paid no taxes.
I don't know this for a fact admittably, but I am hardly alone in strongly suspecting it, if only from his most electorally costly decision: the decision NOT to reveal his past income tax returns.
But there is another view of Darwin and Herbert Spencer that doesn't throw out their baby with the bathwater: it is this that "the fittest will survive".
OOOOOOH !!! Did I say a bad thing ?
I don't think so and here is why:
'Fit' or 'fittest' : what's the difference ?
A tiny jockey doesn't seem particularly 'fit' versus a football quarterback but try to 'fit' that quarterback on the backside of a horse in a horserace and we begin to see that while the term 'fit' (and hence un-fit) is static, permanent and eternal, the term 'fittest' is highly contingent and varies from time to time and place to place.
In a world of the First Law (of thermodynamics), the fit will survive : it is stable and permanent and static.
But if the world is better described by the Second Law (of thermodynamics) and is is in constant and dynamic and chaotic change, then sometimes and somewhere , the small and the small eaters (those frequently judged unfit) will actually often do much better than the big and big eater.
Fantasy says that "God is on the side of the battalions of the biggest eaters", but the Earth's long history, grounded in ancient dead giant dinosaur bones and huge healthy present day populations of tiny bacteria, suggests otherwise.
Blue Sky fantasy or Grounded reality : no guess as to which world Mr Romney drinks the Kool-Aid in.....
Saturday, June 2, 2012
"Three Generations of JEWISH Cowards Is Enough"
Part Two of Two Posts on this issue
Since 1945 (and the revelations about the Holocaust and what Jews in the free world failed to do to stop it) a disproportional percentage of every country's well known controversial columnists have been of Jewish descent.
At first glance, it may appear that the children and grandchildren of that generation of free world Jews who failed to ACT UP or OCCUPY WALL STREET during WWII, are simply being very confrontational and controversial now, in a catch-up effort to negate the meek and mildness of their forefathers' generation.
I argue this is simply not so.
While the voters are usually pretty evenly divided between voting for parties of the left/green or the right/libertarians ,well known Jewish controversial columnists are not evenly divided left and right in their viewpoints.
Most of them, by far, are very right wing and write for very right wing media.
In doing so, they are merely carrying on an old family tradition: being as cowardly today, as their forefathers were during WWII.
The WWII generation of free world Jews was determined not to undermine what little they had already achieved in the anti-Semitic democracies of the Allies, by being seen as loud ,public, pushy and 'Jewish' in expressing their concerns over the fate of Europe's Jews.
"The way to get ahead is to get along" (work quietly,politely) was their motto.
This even when it was well known, by ordinary members of the Gentile community, that millions of Jews, polish and russian, were already dead at Nazi hands by the Spring of 1942 ----- before the infamous mass gassings began.
Brown-nosers, Jewish brown-nosers.
And their hard-hitting, opinionated, controversial children and grandchildren ?
Still Jewish brown-nosers: like grandfather, like grandson.
Courage then is what it would have taken to get yourself arrested by chaining yourself to the White House walls protesting inaction on the fate of Europe's Jews.
Courage today, for a columnist, might simply consist of writing in a trade union newspaper while defending the rich and assailing the poor - or by assailing the rich and defending the poor in a rich man's newspaper.
But defending the rich and assailing the poor and minorities in the rich man's media isn't brave or even controversial - it is called brown-nosing, or if you wish to go upmarket, being a 'HO' for Pay.
Doubt me ? Ask yourself how many of the well known controversial columnists of Jewish origin airily dismissed ACT UP ("homos") or OCCUPY WALL STREET("eco-criminals") calls for acts of civil disobedience ?
Grandpa did not approve of PETER BERGSON's calls for acts of civil disobedience during WWII and his gutless grandchildren are just carrying on his tradition.
When Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr ruled that "three generations of imbeciles is enough" in the case of BUCK versus BELL, legitimizing eugenics in America and in Nazi Germany ,he was wrong on both the facts of the case and on its morality.
I am not wrong on either in this case: "three generations of Jewish cowards is more than enough".
Civilian courage in non-combat zones during WWII might consist of stealing government-issue penicillin in an effort to save the lives of the poor, deliberately sentenced to death by neglect by that same government. The courageous Dr Martin Henry Dawson did just that - I know the courageous --- and Jewish brown-nosers you ain't it.
So - please ! - bugger off the pages of our newspapers and screens of our TV and do something truly courageous before you dare to show your brown-nosed faces around here again.....
Since 1945 (and the revelations about the Holocaust and what Jews in the free world failed to do to stop it) a disproportional percentage of every country's well known controversial columnists have been of Jewish descent.
At first glance, it may appear that the children and grandchildren of that generation of free world Jews who failed to ACT UP or OCCUPY WALL STREET during WWII, are simply being very confrontational and controversial now, in a catch-up effort to negate the meek and mildness of their forefathers' generation.
I argue this is simply not so.
While the voters are usually pretty evenly divided between voting for parties of the left/green or the right/libertarians ,well known Jewish controversial columnists are not evenly divided left and right in their viewpoints.
Most of them, by far, are very right wing and write for very right wing media.
In doing so, they are merely carrying on an old family tradition: being as cowardly today, as their forefathers were during WWII.
The WWII generation of free world Jews was determined not to undermine what little they had already achieved in the anti-Semitic democracies of the Allies, by being seen as loud ,public, pushy and 'Jewish' in expressing their concerns over the fate of Europe's Jews.
"The way to get ahead is to get along" (work quietly,politely) was their motto.
This even when it was well known, by ordinary members of the Gentile community, that millions of Jews, polish and russian, were already dead at Nazi hands by the Spring of 1942 ----- before the infamous mass gassings began.
Brown-nosers, Jewish brown-nosers.
And their hard-hitting, opinionated, controversial children and grandchildren ?
Still Jewish brown-nosers: like grandfather, like grandson.
Courage then is what it would have taken to get yourself arrested by chaining yourself to the White House walls protesting inaction on the fate of Europe's Jews.
Courage today, for a columnist, might simply consist of writing in a trade union newspaper while defending the rich and assailing the poor - or by assailing the rich and defending the poor in a rich man's newspaper.
But defending the rich and assailing the poor and minorities in the rich man's media isn't brave or even controversial - it is called brown-nosing, or if you wish to go upmarket, being a 'HO' for Pay.
Doubt me ? Ask yourself how many of the well known controversial columnists of Jewish origin airily dismissed ACT UP ("homos") or OCCUPY WALL STREET("eco-criminals") calls for acts of civil disobedience ?
Grandpa did not approve of PETER BERGSON's calls for acts of civil disobedience during WWII and his gutless grandchildren are just carrying on his tradition.
When Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr ruled that "three generations of imbeciles is enough" in the case of BUCK versus BELL, legitimizing eugenics in America and in Nazi Germany ,he was wrong on both the facts of the case and on its morality.
I am not wrong on either in this case: "three generations of Jewish cowards is more than enough".
Civilian courage in non-combat zones during WWII might consist of stealing government-issue penicillin in an effort to save the lives of the poor, deliberately sentenced to death by neglect by that same government. The courageous Dr Martin Henry Dawson did just that - I know the courageous --- and Jewish brown-nosers you ain't it.
So - please ! - bugger off the pages of our newspapers and screens of our TV and do something truly courageous before you dare to show your brown-nosed faces around here again.....
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Janus Manhattan
but it is still the world's most important
city.
The most power-filled city on Earth but
the most hope-filled city as well.
Home to Wall Street and Ellis Island.
Organizational birthplace of Eugenics and
home to more Jews than any other city on the planet.
The world's biggest life-ender was birthed here, as was the world's smallest (and best) lifesaver -- at the exact same time in history, in the same small neighbourhood.
The little boy and baby patricia both were born here.
Epicenter of an inhumanly endless megalopolis stretching from Portland Maine to Richmond Virginia, it is also home to hundreds of tiny ,distinctive, fiercely independent neighbourhoods.
Janus Manhattan.
The rest of the world is forced to function as any illiterate must, to become very very good at reading the face of this inscrutable giant, because the continued existence of our planet might depend on our skill at reading it correctly.
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