The Scars of War by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781461645535
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2013-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

The German Achievement

How can our democratic critics counter these facts? And we emphasize that what has been accomplished thus far in the cultural sphere is no more than a beginning. While the democracies are merely yakking, our theater is performing. With magnificent performances it has delighted the masses, consoled them, exalted them. Our film has continued its production. The world acclaim of German film cannot be denied. And we have written poetry, composed, painted, built. We ask ourselves: What will remain a century from now of the chatter of democratic journalists? And which of our cultural creations will last more than a century? Which of the two ennobles itself and can look down on the other with clear contempt—we can decide with no room for debate.

Even though we say this, we’re not in the least throwing our weight around. We know our own faults better than anyone else. With the profoundest internal vigor and the greatest responsibility, we are working to achieve the people’s new life-sense and culture-sense. We wish to set a truly meaningful brand on the twentieth century, which has yet to achieve a unified style overall. In contrast, the democracies are still stuck in the nineteenth century. Democracy is the last remnant of the modern age. Both in spirit and in soul, it has been conquered long since by the fortunate races.

Democracy claims with impudent arrogance to be modern, but in fact it gives off the foul stench of rot. To modern ears its loud slogans sound shallow and give off a sense of exhaustion. The culture of democracy mixes the stench of poverty with the perfume of prostitutes. Together, the two reach the stomach and induce vomiting. For all its riches, in its cultural expressions democracy is sterile; it has lost the power of fantasy. Against our modern European states, it maintains itself by persistence and a certain dogmatism, but these elements have already lost the vigor to show signs of new life. . . . Its false morality is a gaudy thick makeup that it uses to cover up the countless cracks and wrinkles in a face marred by death.

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