In response to the rising covid numbers, france closed all bars, restaurants, gims and universities. The quality most necessary for world domination is naiveness, a happy imitation and even purposelessness. It is eternally incomprehensible how a people so inclined toward self analysis could ever conceive the idea of whorld domination. I have been through it all. In other words, what i have tried to give you here, within the limits of time, was a piece of german self criticism. And truly, nothing could have been more faithful to germans tradition.
As the Nazi nightmare came to an end Thomas Mann thought long and hard about collective guilt. Can Mann’s idea help America in 2021, or do we need a new theory of collective shame.