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| Michael Marshall |
Suitable only for the teen fare at the make-out pit at the local drive-in.
It certainly doesn't sound like any useful way to sum up WWII.
But recall how the Nazis dug up and revived the old myths about the Sky Gods and made the Swastika, often a symbol of sky gods like Thor, the master symbol of their belief system.
Remember that both Japan and Germany clearly thought of themselves as overmen, ruling the undermen.
(Ubermensch and untermensch.)
The communist parties, all over the world, also thought of themselves as a group of ubermensch SKY GODS, guiding with a bloody-firm hand the working class untermensch ,as they set about together to liquidate the middle and upper classes to bring about a new utopia.
Recollect that both the Germans and the Japanese went to war on a little petro and a whole lot of faith : their non-logistics systems can only be described as 'pie in the sky' or 'blue sky' thinking.
And even a cursory memory of WWII newsreel type imagery should remind us how often both chose to portray themselves as eagles on high swooping down on their enemy in Stukas or Zeros.
Earthlings ?
Well I admit the word, in its current meaning, wasn't even used till 1949 - by the very un-earthling sci fi writer Robert Heinlein - mostly because it was a word describing a concept not yet invented until after WWII, Auschwitz and Hiroshima .
All of us modern/civilized/urban humans suddenly seeing ourselves as small ,weak and vulnerable.
In other words, suddenly feeling post-modern and commensal with the rest of Earth.
But clearly the values Martin Henry Dawson fought for and the way he chose to fight for them, is a forerunner of Heilein's earthlings.
A 4F sized factory, run by 4F doctors with 4F fungi to save 4F patients against the efforts of A1 world interested in only saving the genetic A1s of the world .
Because there were as many SKY GODS in Manhattan as in Berlin or Toyko or Moscow....
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