tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post8669938432717541900..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Natural Vs. ArtificialAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-31342097536457995132012-09-07T11:01:15.634-04:002012-09-07T11:01:15.634-04:00I would have guessed that Wandervoegel was somethi...I would have guessed that Wandervoegel was something more like "migratory bird," but Wiki assures me that the traditional word for migratory bird is Zugvoegel. Wandervoegel apparently was made up for the new movement to connote pleasure-hiking and getting back to nature.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-48949881199309160332012-09-06T20:19:50.359-04:002012-09-06T20:19:50.359-04:00Midwest - Opening with Graham, Kellogg, and the Se...Midwest - Opening with Graham, Kellogg, and the Seventh Day Adventists.<br /><br />Hiking as a sport not a necessity did not have many adherents until the 20th C. The German/American/British dominance may be a function of being among the first nations to have wealth and leisure time. That there are moderate mountains in those places may also be part of it. Flatter places seemed to go more for cycling.<br /><br />As to David Foster's "not so simple;" indeed. It was easy to think so at the time, as all but the Hitler Youth were made illegal, and so seemed antagonistic. But that was Nazis putting competitors out of business, not defeating enemies. They both grew in much the same soil.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-70935338581299582512012-09-06T14:22:50.514-04:002012-09-06T14:22:50.514-04:00On my list of posts-to-be-written is one about the...On my list of posts-to-be-written is one about the German youth movement (Wandervoegel....literally, birds of passage), about which I've read a fair amount. I was inspired initially to research this subject by a passage in Erich Maria Remarque's "The Road Back," in which a couple of German WWI veterans are wandering in the woods and hear a group of boys singing. They initially think it is a Wandervoegel group, but it turns out to be a proto-Nazi organization.<br /><br />Remarque casts the Wandervoegel and the Nazis as polar opposites, but I think the real relationship was not so simple.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-20138205529460771912012-09-06T13:47:27.297-04:002012-09-06T13:47:27.297-04:00What a beautifully wandering post.
"The Ame...What a beautifully wandering post. <br /><br />"The American versions of this all-natural approach came from the Midwest..."<br /><br />Supporting information? Seems like a leap. <br /><br />"The earliest naturopathic, homeopathic, and related alt-medicine practices came a century before that from other Germanic sources..."<br /><br />Chiropractic from Palmer in Iowa. Palmer sound english, but Iowa -- yeah, German.<br />Homeopathy - Hannemann -- yup German.<br />Naturopathy - Father Kneipp to Benedict Lust -- yeah sounds German. <br /><br />"I thought I would get to ruin the song "The Happy Wanderer" for you..." <br /><br />Too late. <br /><br />"The craze (hiking) had always been British and American as well, and now everyone is getting into the act."<br /><br />By this, of course, you mean that YOU are getting into the act -- or returning to it at any rate. <br /><br /><br />"Germans are still not quite like us."<br /><br />Indeed. Dubbahdeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00075702513873912334noreply@blogger.com