Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYE. ResistanceI. FundamentalsNow I turn to a very delicate topic which I have already mentionedbriefly several times. Since here as well I do not want to give the impressionthat I have tailored something to suit me, I may once more referin detail to the statements of various prominent personalities.I start with the behavioral scientist and Nobel Prize winner KonradLorenz who wrote: 195“Aldous Huxley has stated precisely that the freedom of the individualhuman being stands in an inverse ratio to the size of the nation-stateof which he is a subject citizen. […]The autonomous human being who stands on his rights to individualityand on his human rights is not the kind of citizen that isliked in large nation-states and, it should be noted, is not liked eitherby those doing the governing or by a majority of his fellow citizensbeing governed. [196] The public opinion formed by this majority prescribesvery exactly what ‘one’ does or does not do; whoever behavesdifferently is, at the very least, suspect, or is regarded as notnormal.”Lorenz’ student, the longtime director of the Max Planck Institutefor Behavioral Physiology Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeld, continued along thesame line as follows: 197“This behavior [of ostracizing the outsider] forces the outsider toadapt as far as he can. In that sense aggression directed against theoutsider has the function of maintaining [group] norms, and this mayhave been adaptive in small groups during the Stone Age. But thisdoes not apply today. Our society downright profits from outsiders,which are often particularly gifted pillars of culture.”In the leftist German weekly Die Zeit, which is certainly not suspectedof right-wing extremism, Jens Jessen wrote the following on 21March 2002 about the alarmingly escalating societal persecution in195 Konrad Lorenz, The Waning of Humaneness, op. cit. (note 62), p. 188.196 The German original states “…is not liked in large nation-states neither by authorities nor bypublic opinion. It [public opinion] prescribes very exactly…” Der Abbau des Menschlichen,ibid., p. 222.197 Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeld, op. cit. (note. 63), p. 105.177