My farm bordered the Santa Fe trail. Once a month the US Army Bar Wagon crossed the trail dispensing cheap whiskey. Trading their beads for booze, the Indians drank themselves into a stupor. The US army arrived and slaughtered them.
This put an end to the Indian problem. Our father who participated in this massacre never talked about it. He returned from the war with the Indian family he adopted.
Sigmund Freud was God’s messenger, imprisoning our egos and id. Reich was the anti-ID. Freud would not treat Reich knowing that successful therapy kills the golden goose, the neurotic Germanic soul. A young American doctor plays Judas and ships the orgone accumulator across state lines. Reich posed a threat to the post-war coalition, with Britain and the US rejecting the Or Acc as more bullshit from the East. Teddy Roosevelt, the Bull Moose candidate for president in 1912, promised to fight the certification of psychoanalysis calling it an oriental nightmare.
The political history of Germany is well known but its sexual history is more amusing. Wild Bill’s economic miracle left Eagle’s Nest Minnesota a taste of the Alps. With money to spare tourists ski over ghost farms. Rotting with the flesh of bull, citizens look forward to more government handouts. Gustafson promises universal television hookup. In return he wants the voters to approve a raise for himself, kickbacks for his friends, and non-partisan elections.
When the Kaiser brought in a Parisian sect of Huguenots, the sleepy backwater of Berlin became a minor metropolis. Theaters opened, cafes flourished, but something was missing. It was fun and games with the French, but too material and shallow. The German aristocracy asked for Polish Jews. When King Wenceslas invited the Jews to settle in Warsaw the city was in a terrible fiscal crisis, his bookie in the 30 Years War had gone broke. No one thought Napoleon could be defeated.
“We’ll bring in the Jews and save Poland. We’ll modernize our economy and maintain our independence. We’ll get them before Frederick figures out that those French aren’t worth a damn. It’s the Jews or disaster.”
