Music - Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss salvages the Romantics from nothing*

German culture in the 19th century has a lot to answer for.

German idealism (idealism is the philosophical position that ideas come before the world “out there”) was a poison that is still with us. In particular, the dialectics deployed by Hegel (he borrowed it from Kant) has been what social commentator James Lindsay calls the “operating system” behind Marxism, communism and the current woke nonsense such as critical race theory.

Lindsay also notes that Hitler was a fan of Hegel, …

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