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what do american anons think about rosenbergs assessment of the usa around 1930?

“The American man still ruthlessly forces his will on society. The ceaseless hunt for the dollar almost exclusively governs his existence. His culture is represented by sport and technology. All paths of art, science and politics stand open to the emancipated woman. Her social position is undoubtedly superior to the male. The consequence of this rule by women in America is the strikingly low cultural level of the nation. A real cultural and vital type will come into existence in America only when the chase after the dollar has been tamed and when the contemporary technological man has begun to think about the nature and aim of existence. Emerson represented the first reflective moment in America. But unfortunately, this was only a moment. In spite of the social predominance of woman, the state is nevertheless, by necessity, masculine. If diplomacy and national defence were also female controlled, then America could not maintain its existence as a state.”

Rosenberg, Alfred; The Myth of the 20th Century, 1930

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german original:

„Der amerikanische Mann gebraucht im Leben heute noch rücksichtslos seine Ellenbogen, die ununterbrochene Jagd nach dem Dollar bestimmt fast ausschließlich sein Dasein. Sport und Technik sind seine „Bildung”. Der freien Frau stehen alle Bahnen der Kunst, Wissenschaft und Politik offen. Ihre soziale Stellung ist unbestritten der männlichen überlegen. Die Folge dieser Frauenherrschaft in Amerika ist das auffallend niedrige Kulturniveau der Nation. Ein echter Kultur- und Lebenstyp wird auch in Amerika nur dann einmal entstehen, wenn die Jagd nach dem Dollar mildere Formen angenommen hat und wenn der heute nur technische Mann über Wesen und Ziel des Daseins nachzudenken beginnen wird. Emerson war vielleicht der erste nachdenkliche Augenblick des Amerikanertums; aber zunächst allerdings nur ein Augenblick. Trotz des gesellschaftlichen Vorherrschens der Frau ist der Staat aber naturnotwendig männlich; wäre die Diplomatie und Landesverteidigung auch weiblich, Amerika als Staat wäre überhaupt nicht mehr.“

Rosenberg, Alfred; Mythus des XX. Jahrhunderts, 1930

from wikipedia:

Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (12 January [O.S. 31 December 1892] 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a Baltic German[1] Nazi theorist, theologian, ideologue and convicted war criminal. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart, and he held several important posts in the Nazi government. He was the head of the NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs during the entire rule of Nazi Germany (1933–1945), and led Amt Rosenberg ("Rosenberg's bureau"), an official Nazi body for cultural policy and surveillance, between 1934 and 1945. During World War II, Rosenberg was the head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (1941–1945). He helped direct the mass murder of the Slavs. After the war, he was convicted of crimes against peace; planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression; war crimes; and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials in 1946. He was sentenced to death by hanging and executed on 16 October 1946.

The author of a seminal work of Nazi ideology, The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930), Rosenberg is considered one of the main authors of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory and its hatred of the Jewish people, the need for Lebensraum, abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to what was considered "degenerate" modern art. He was also known for his hatred and rejection of what he regarded as "negative" Christianity,[2][3] however, he played an important role in the development of German nationalist Positive Christianity, which rejected the Old Testament.