Germanity & Slavs Again

The Salisbury Review has a short, interesting piece by Mark Griffiths which argues that Germany is moving towards conservative liberalism. This is a trend I see as well - Germany & Russia are becoming better places to live, we are getting worse. I am reminded of the poem Bad Bear, Good Bear, by Milne (I think).

Dulce et Decorum Est

What do they who honor sneer, of honor know?
Ask the dead. Or their brothers.

Faust upon the Wold

Daniel P Goldman contemplates, one more time, what the meaning of Germany is, through the lens of Judaism. Germany & the fate of the Jews are intertwined. What the meaning of that fate is, the greatest thinkers and seers are yet powerless to completely fathom. Perhaps because there is a Jew in each German, and a German in every Jew, now more than ever, and not merely ethnically, the two must eventually make a peace, over the embers of the world. So much of the modern world flows from this quarrel & friendship that one is left to wonder what else there is to say. And yet, because of the nature of the quarrel, there must be more. And because of the nature of that quarrel in particular, there will always be more. Man will forever reclaim the infinite, and the infinite lays claim to him. It is time to bury the dead, or better, let them bury themselves. We seek not just an eternal God, but an eternal home & people & an eternal self. Or, should I say, it is I who seek all things, and all things which answer me. Surely nothing but a god put this wound into the breast of man.