In similar fashion, Indians in Eastern and Southern Africa and Germans (ironically) in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe fulfilled the same middle-class outsider functions in their respective locales (and were similarly despised by the natives).
On some kind of meta level, this thread reveals the great mystery of the Third Reich.
Hitler’s writings were slightly more coherent but not iota less insane.
And yet in this case we are amusing ourselves, cat-like, with the ultimately disposable posts of oestert, whereas 80 years ago, there was an entire sophisticated nation ready to take similar nonsense at face value.
Maybe if there were a huge, world wide depression, hyper-inflation, widespread economic collapse, and various extremist movements battling each other in the streets, oestert’s ideas would make sense.