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“Instead of interpreting [the loss of WWI] in military or economic terms, they chose to view defeat in moral terms, believing the cause lay in a domestic betrayal of Germany and God…the infamous “stab in the back” legend came not from a general or politician, but ima sermon preached on February 3, 1918”

“The paranoiac worldview of postmodern conservatives is a reactionary defense against all things “other” due to the profound anxiety caused by the possibility that the world might be more complex than their psychic construction”

We are not always aware of our having to die, but in the light of the experience of our having to die our whole life is experienced differently. In the same way the anxiety which is despair is not always present. But the rare occasions in which it is present determine the interpretation of existence as a whole” (53).