Merkel

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Angela Merkel in connection with the Greek crisis. For him, the opposition between Merkel and Tsipras extends the conceptual opposition between the German and the Greek, and that between North and South1. He returns to the Caudine Forks imposed on Greece and to the withholding practised, together with the Bundesbank, towards Greeks deemed "diarrhoeic"2. He links this attitude to the trauma of Weimar inflation and to the German word Schuld, which means both debt and sin3. He also cites her while reading Nietzsche: her nickname "Mutti" illustrates German good-naturedness4, and her speech about the Greeks echoes the "Latin race in its decline"5. Other mentions are briefer: the woman presented as the most powerful in the world, bourgeois women who put women out of work, the NSA spying on her, her criticism of Facebook and Twitter, her ordering of Russian and Chinese vaccines, and Biden treating her like cattle to be led.

1. 1Freud1 Aug 2017 · 7:29
2. 210#6 Guerre et Paix : "Les pulsions de mort progressent en silence..." (Freud)8 Dec 2021 · 49:18
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4. 4Monde d'avant, Monde d'après - 1ère partie16 Jan 2021 · 45:43
5. 5Musicosophie 12. Nietzsche (tout) contre Wagner28 Jan 2021 · 1:43:07

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