Only Volkish Can Cure The Pain Of The Modern World
Volkish is a total life answer. Consider this video clip in light of the passage.
Industrialism seemed to such men to have destroyed the traditional relationships among men and to have exposed the basic irrationality of human nature. There were others, like Karl Marx and Frederic Engels, who were also concerned with the “alienation” of man from his society, but they continued to hold to a belief in man’s basic rationality. Hitler, needless to say, was not the heir of this tradition. He placed himself instead in the camp of Sorel and Le Bon. Hitler’s understanding of this approach enabled him to take the road to power in a nation ravished by crisis and defeat. The use of basically irrational prejudices and predilections helped to bring about the acceptance of the Germanic Worldview which was Hitler’s solution to ending the modern alienation of man.
For example, Hitler believed the mass meeting necessary because it enabled man to step “out of his workshop” in which he feels small, and to become part of a body of “thousands and thousands of people with a like conviction.” Thus, he succumbs to mass suggestion. Alienation was to be exorcised, but the irrationality of human nature was basic to Hitler’s own view of the world. These meetings were liturgical rites, staged with close attention to detail and purpose. We have reproduced accounts of two such festivals—one that was frequently held in the schools, the other a summer-solstice festival. The individual, Hitler held, was obsessed by anxiety, and in the mass meeting he received courage and strength through a feeling of belonging to a greater emotional community.
The mass meeting become one of the most important techniques of the Nazi movement, especially in the years of its rise to power, where there were almost daily meetings of this sort in various regions of the Reich. But by themselves such meeting could not accomplish very much; mass suggestion had to pervade every area of culture: literature, painting and sculpture, the theater, films, and education. As a “total culture” it would animate the basic nationalist prejudices of the people, overcome their feeling of isolation, and direct their creative drives into the proper channels of race and soil. This is why there is an astonishing coherence among the documents of Nazi culture, for they all served the same basic purpose.
-Excerpted from “Nazi Culture” by George Mosse (1966)