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...violence is showing itself most ominously in scattered eruptions of neo- Nazism. Swastikas are turning up on the walls of Berlin and Cottbus and Leipzig, put there not by elderly lost-cause Nazis but by teenagers with crewcuts and black boots. The neo-Nazism is mostly an eastern manifestation, but it shows up in the west as well. In Bonn, the municipal symbol of a reformed and repentant Germany, a sidewalk last month blossomed with a childish scrawl: (swastika sign...
...NATURE CO. This is the neo-naturalist's answer to wet seals. No rock videos here, though. Enter these stores and you're more likely to hear the babbling of a brook or the haunting song of a whale, sniff the fragrance of freshly brewed chamomile tea or gaze through dappled lighting meant to resemble sunlight in a forest. "People come in and say, 'Ahhh!'," says Anita Treash, the company's marketing director...
...neo-Georgian ripoff," he adds...
Westerners, who have wandered through centuries of darkness and enlightenment and rationalism and scientific method and then the various neo- darknesses of the 20th century (Auschwitz, Hiroshima and so on), have some difficulty with these dreamy effects in which reality and illusion float back and forth interchangeably. Americans have a special longing of their own. They need to know they are working in a scheme of virtue. Americans feel a moral unease when they sense that their power is banging around loose in the world without being, in a sort of theological sense, justified. The antiwar slogan "No Blood...
...other side of the equation, Kuwaitis and other Gulf nationals viewed this action as a conspiracy by other poor Arabs, in the name of Arabism, against rich Gulf Arabs. Thus, they were frustrated by the neo-Arabism claimed by Saddam, alienated by the rest of the Arabs and chose, like Bader did, to disassociate themselves from them. This group was also blinded toward the horrible devastation happening to the Iraqi and Palestinian people...