re: #163 Sol Berdinowitz

Having lived with the Germans, I find that they do tick a bit differently. Some of it is a matter of language. And some of it is a remnant of their Germanic ideals of honesty, loyalty and honor that linger to this day. Not in any absolute sense.

I’ve been in Germany a lot too. And those ideals of honestly, loyalty, and honor are Roman ideals, and I don’t see why you attribute that to the pre-Roman contact German culture and not, well, Roman culture.

But I want to return to my point that the reason they are so big on efficiency and organization seems to be that they are so individualistic and bloody-minded while being simultaneously so abstract and other-worldly that there is no other way that their society would function.

And again, to me, that seems like a horoscope, which I could equally apply to Brazilians and Australians.