
Originally Posted by
jspas
I really appreciate your question and do feel very similar to you, when it comes to revisionism, though I don't hold a grudge against Wagner.
Towards your question. I consider myself first and foremost a Saxon, and I feel like a Saxon, that means: I'm against feudalism, pro direct democracy, being defensive, aware of your nature, hard on yourself and others, nature loving, pantheistic, stoic, pessimistic... well... enjoying silliness too.
I love the German musical tradition, it's "Wehmut", like it can be found in many folk songs, classical music and nowadays in some movie scores too. I know it's mostly alpine, ranging from Bohemia to Strasbourg. So, that's something I picked up outside of my Saxonism.
Germany can be proud of it's medieval society, the cities it brought forth, the social peace and the prosperity.
I like traditional festivals in the northern German protestant style, though nowadays you'll find more of them in Sweden then in northern Germany.
I like protestant church songs, again the "wehmütigen".
English people are all like 12yearolds, they possess no maturity. And deception has been engraved into their culture that thoroughly that they are deceiving themselves without ever noticing. I like the intellectual ancientness of German thinking, when present. I'm not such a big fan of Goethe, Schlegel and so on. Too much dreaming up of sense that is supposed to be there, but just isn't.
Oh... and I like the idea of an elegant women that popped up with Queen Louise in the north eastern part of Germany and adjacent territories.
I really love 80 year old women from Eastern Prussia. But they are dying out.
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