Ask A Genius 141 – The Brontës and Austen, and War
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/07
[Beginning of recorded material]
Rick Rosner: Women, particularly, lived constrained lives in the domestic sphere, largely. The Brontës and Jane Austen, the Brontës first published using male pen names.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: [Laughing] Something else you mentioned, or was implied by what you said. You mentioned body count with Hitler as number 3, and Mao and Stalin as number 2 and 1.
RR: All of the deaths attributed to Hitler. He killed 11 million in the camps, of who 6 million were famous for being Jews. Then there were the deaths by the horrible conditions of war. You can assign him 30 million deaths. Then Mao via his various social revolutions, then may 40 or 50 million. Between Mao and Stalin, one has 50 million to him and other has 40 million. Given thatthose were acts of mass slaughter under repressive regimes, you’re not going to get accurate body counts anyway. Go ahead.
SDJ: Each of those cases. Hitler with racist and specific an anti-religious ideology, against Jews as a people and a tradition. Mao with communism and the attempts to unify China’s provinces into a single country.
RR: Hitler wasn’t anti-religious. Hitler had or promoted a certain mysticism, if not exactly—
SDJ: Oh! That’s where I clarified before. It was racist and specific anti-religion: Jewish tradition.
[End of recorded material]
License
In-Sight Publishing by Scott Douglas Jacobsen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Based on a work at www.in-sightpublishing.com.
Copyright
© Scott Douglas Jacobsen and In-Sight Publishing 2012-Present. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Scott Douglas Jacobsen and In-Sight Publishing with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. All interviewees and authors co-copyright their material and may disseminate for their independent purposes.
In-Sight Publishing 