Unsupported Speculation

In a Pervasive Advanced Technical Linguistic Environment

I was woolgathering today about something I remembered about Germans and the German language. You see, Germans are also famous for their German philosophers, but one thing about these German philosophers that most people don’t expect is that Germans prefer to read German philosophy in a language OTHER than German. Even German philosophers reading OTHER German philosopher’s works prefer to read it in English or French or anything other than German.

Why is this? I am not an expert about Germans or the German language, but I do know that the German language is ENORMOUSLY complicated, and one aspect of this is the level of precision Germans culturally attempt to obtain when expressing something. This precision goes far beyond what the inhabitants of other countries care to achieve, because those languages tend to use more figures of speech and expressions, which allow a listener to arrive themselves at what someone else means without being personally guided to it.

Germans, however, culturally attempt to strike a small plate on the moon with a laser shone from Earth whenever they say anything. They even have a mechanism in their language for essentially inventing a new word to express a concept for which there isn’t a word for by stringing-lots-and-lots-of-German-words-together-without-spaces until the new concept is defined by its own NEW sixty syllable word.

In my opinion, this is what indirectly caused the country of Germany to have the world-class engineering and industry they are famous for. To understand what I mean, imagine the precision of engineers that would accidentally result by them being raised from birth to think and express things in one of the most complicated languages in Western Europe. It is like having an entire country populated by human computers, who ALSO have a desire to try to express something perfectly, and leave as little room as possible for ambiguity or misunderstanding. Then, give these same people the ability to forge steel, and see what happens.

To digress just a little, Germans tend to not listen to techno music from other parts of the world. It isn’t that they have something against other countries. Instead, the reason is probably because techno from other parts of the world isn’t INTERESTING to Germans. There are few exceptions to this rule, but for the most part this is true. Germany is literally the techno capital of the world, and perhaps because of their native language and their susceptibility to think like human computers, no techno is more overtly or subtly as complicated as German techno.

This is similar to Scandinavian Death Metal. No area of the planet ROCKS the way the old Viking world does, and our rock music over here is laughably like nursery music to them.

And this leads to the idea of trying to impress one German with your own spoken German. Imagine being a native citizen of Germany, and being exposed from birth to some of the most complicated ideas ever written in German. Not only that, but you live in an environment where it is commonplace and practice for other Germans to attempt to nail down a complicated idea EXACTLY, and that in social or professional conversation, this is almost like a survival-of-the-fittest of the most adept speakers and writers.

This is why there is little likelihood of the country being swept away by another populist leader like Adolf Hitler. You see, World War 1 happened NOT because of a fantastic orator, but because of a number of criss-crossing alliances throughout Western Europe which caused the entire region to erupt into full scale war after a single assassination. But, World War 2 DID happen because of a fantastic orator.

It wasn’t just his speech giving that brought about the Third Reich, but the fact that he appealed to the perceived and probably correct injustices inflicted to Germany that occurred after the first world war by the winning alliance. These two things were enough to allow him to obtain control over the country, and everything else followed.

But it probably wasn’t possible without Adolf Hitler being a phenomenal speech writer and performer. It takes A LOT to impress a native German with spoken German, in the same way they generally don’t listen to other country’s feeble attempts to create techno music they actually enjoy.

And this is why on the NON-issue of whether anyone should be worried about Germany becoming a threat again (haha), the answer is assuredly NO. The odds of anyone fluent in German being able to make Germany’s eyes spiral into a fascist trance the way Hitler could is virtually impossible. They live and breathe in a world thought about and spoken about in, again, one of the most complicated languages of Western Europe, and it is GUARANTEED that if yet ANOTHER aspirant of full state leadership attempts to sweep Germany away with a speech and a performance, they will actually fail to do or say anything interesting enough to most people.

It takes a LOT to out-complicate a German, and current political hardliners have a mostly unobtainably high bar to reach.