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>germans before 1945
>deep metaphysical soul
>mystical
>incapable of unserious or merely sensuous living
>the heirs to the greek soul
>founds every modern intellectual and artistic movement
>created all of modern science
>created the modern research university and humanistic education
>when asked to describe how to tie a knot writes 18-volume prolegomena to the foundations of knot-tying
>germans today
>bald thin man with goatee and rectangular glasses explaining to foreign tourist (in lisping but grammatically perfect english) why he should stop trying to speak german because it's a hate crime and makes people feel unwelcome in germany