David Lynch Wants Invincible Germany Hitler failed to build?
A university where students learn to meditate? Consciousness based education and world peace? It actually all sounds quite beautiful if it doesn’t so alarmingly resonate with the Scientological agenda of world domination. In any case the famed director David Lynch has been touring Europe these couple of weeks to promote and found universities to teach the philosophy of Transcendental Meditation. Since I know nothing about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi or his Transcendental Meditation methods which Lynch has been practicing for decades, I’m willing to give his vision of world peace the benefit of the doubt. It’s world peace after all! However, his appearance this week with his partner Emanuel Schiffgens (link to AGPF, in German), who styled himself in a white robe and a golden crown, at a culture center in Berlin to promote his pedagogical ideality after having bought a piece of land in town where the University of Invincible Germany is to be built, seriously undermined Lynch’s seemingly benevolent intention.
Things starts to go very wrong when Schiffgens invites the audience to chant with him “unbesiegbares Deutschland, unbesiegbares Deutschland…” (undefeatable Germany, undefeatable Germany) at which point astounded laughter and uncomfortable giggles become audible in the audience. Someone asks, “undefeatable by whom then?” to which Schiffgen replies, “by all foreign influences!” A laughing roar bursts out of the audience, more stunned than amused. When someone asks Schiffgens to explain the concept of “an undefeatable Germany”, the apparently ruffled Schiffgens replies, “an undefeatable Germany is a Germany that is undefeatable! Every soccer team wants to be undefeatable!” “Adolf Hitler wanted that too!” Someone shouts from the audience, to which Schiffgens retorts, “Yes unfortunately he didn’t succeed.” You can hear the horrified gasps and shocked anger; the audience starts booing as the Raja tries to explain himself. “You’re a charlatan!” “Don’t keep repeating yourself!” “You’re the new king or what?” Vehement protestations are hurled at Schiffgens, while Lynch, apparently doesn’t speak any German and at a loss of what’s going on, maintains a stiff smile. Finally Lynch comes to Schiffgens’ rescue and concludes, after some New Age mumble jumble, “words, we understand, trigger things in us; you all have a history, and Raja Emanuel has triggered things, but underneath that, it’s a surface thing, so I would say deal with it, have it out with Raja Emanuel, but he’s a great human being trying to do something, not trying but doing something for Germany on the deepest level…”
What do you think? Is Scientology 2.0 coming upon us?
This and more is captured on camera by a blogger and viewable on YouTube. This is as good as any David Lynch movie. (Tell me if the curtain at the back doesn’t remind you of the red room in Twin Peaks!)
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