Monday, July 25, 2005
(11:25 AM) | Anonymous:
Can there be poetry after The Mighty Ducks?
"Hegel was the cause of the Holocaust." - Those of us who grew up under the shadow of that thought have all had to deal with it in our own way. I've become convinced that this is ultimately really wrong-headed. That, even if Hegel has some serious racist tendencies, there is nothing in his philosophy that suggests we should systematically kill tens of millions of people. Still, I think it may be possible to blame every bad Disney sports movie on the man. Actually, every bad sports movie where a rag-tag team of non-conformists and nerds come together to defeat the team united under a stern leader and a hefty budget. One team is certainly democratic while the other operates under a despotism, universally confused with fascism now days. I present you this evidence from his Philosophy of History.In the case before us [being the war between Persia and the Greeks], the interest of the World's History hung trembling in the balance. Oriental despotism - a world united under one lord and sovereign - on the one side, and separate states - insignificant in extent and resources, but animated by free individuality - on the other side, stood front to front in array of battle. Never in History has the superiority of spiritual power over material bulk - and that of no contemptible amount - been made so gloriously manifest.
I’ve already delivered a guilty verdict and plan for this to be my dissertation topic.
