Conan and the Barbarians

I watched a good documentary last night about geopolitics and World War Two called Last Secrets of the Axis (the History Channel). An alliance between Germany, Russia, and Japan might have been unbeatable. Hitler had an intellectual mentor named Karl Haushofer who cautioned that a conflict between Germany and Britain would weaken both powers and let America take over the world. Haushofer wanted to make an alliance with Russia and Japan to stand up to the Anglo-American powers who controlled all the important trade routes. This might explain that non-aggression pact between Germany and the U.S.S.R. in 1939 which let both countries divide Poland between them and gave Germany such an edge in the first two years of the war. Hitler's invasion of Russia was personal. He let his emotions get the best of him. Hitler evaluated the Russian civilization on the basis of their plumbing. He thought the Russians weren't civilized because at that time most of them still relied on outhouses rather than underground pipes. It turns out that the Russians were saving all their steel for tanks, which they had in vast quantities. This shallow means of assessing a civilization according to the material standard of living it offers is still popular today, as with those who want to add a McDonald's to every street corner in Baghdad. Invaders often think they are doing foreign countries a favour by taking them over. I do not assess civilizations based on their standards of living but by how they treat artists, for the history of art is the history of civilization. And I would call what happened to my art in this proud consumer culture an act of the lowest barbarism. And while the people of Iraq may view Christ as a mere prophet, in some ways they exceed self proclaimed Christians in living according to God's Word. For instance, Jesus said that we should put God first and hardly anyone does that in the Western world. By contrast, the profound religious faith of the people of the Middle East has been incorporated into the very fabric of their culture. Now they will be forcibly secularized. Hooray for us.
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