Nowadays, we have Nazism in the news again and not as simply a metonym for evil or a symbol of the degree to which -historically- a rich country can lapse, but instead as a present threat. In the most powerful nation on Earth- armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons and economic bombs- the government has been occupied by forces of the far right. The country no longer resembles what it did even just a decade ago. It feels like 1933.
Back to Germany- the VP of the United States and Elon Musk, the RICHilieu of this era- support the ultra-right in that country, which gained ground in the latest elections. So let’s stick with the Germany metaphor for a bit.
So what are we to do? Let’s look at nineteenth and twentieth-century German military doctrine to get the answer: We need to determine the “schwerpunkt”* and go all in. In other words, what is the gravitational center of the enemy and how do we concentrate our own forces on that particular point?
With the sheer number of things they’ve unleashed- from attacks on minorities, to extra-constitutional arrests, from mass firings to the gutting of Science, from promoting violence against transgender people to gutting environmental regulation, from pulling federal funds from institutions, to a senseless trade-war, these folks have had a productive few months. A result of this is to confuse the rest of us, to dissipate our energy, and to exhaust us to the point of indifference. “It can’t get worse, can’t it? They’ll stop soon won’t they?” Oh it will get worse and no they won’t stop. We need to determine their schwerpunkt and ours too.
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So what is this acupressure point? How do we find their thermal exhaust port and from where do we conjure The Force? And when we do, where do we focus?
I’m asking. Truly.
*In German military doctrine, “Schwerpunkt” translates to”center of gravity” or “point of main effort” representing the crucial focus of decisive action, emphasizing concentration of forces to achieve a breakthrough and exploit enemy weaknesses.”
