Gotterdammerung Syndrome definition

[OxQQme]

This from "Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson.
I'm currently reading this and got to this description that is too long for me to quote.

A search led to this google book site.
I am unable to copy the text from there.
It perfectly describes the orange donald.

https://books.google.com/books?id=K_DNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT292&lpg=PT292&dq=g%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung+syndrome&source=bl&ots=w2kpQRumCD&sig=ACfU3U098cEjrZmb0nnJjKHFaOajToO0Bg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjdosjrr5btAhVFnp4KHejxAKI4HhDoATAQegQIChAC#v=onepage&q=g%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung%20syndrome&f=false

[JHB]

1. Screen snip of the page

[catrose]

3. Damn. That's it. Can't we do anything but watch him

Blow us all up?

[OxQQme]

5. Thanks JHB.

How did you do that?

[JHB]

8. I use a Windows app called "Snipping Tool" to grab the portion of the screen I want to save...

...save that to my desktop, and then upload it to an image site. Once it's there, just copy the direct URL and past that into your message.

The site I use is Imgur, because it's simple, free, and does what I want it to do.

I used to use Photobucket, but they imposed a premium fee to link images at full resolution and without a watermark.


At least, that's what I do when directly linking to an image doesn't seem to be an option.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Yep - sounds just like him!

Of course he'd never be able to pronounce the very syndrome he has!

[Mike 03]

4. Brilliant post!

That word rang a bell from some recent reading I've been doing. This came up when I googled it:

Götterdämmerung is the name given to the last few days in Hitler’s bunker during the Battle for Berlin and before the surrender to the Soviet forces. Götterdämmerung comes from the final part of Adolf Hitler’s favourite Richard Wagner opera ‘Der Ring des Nibellungen’ which ended in mass destruction. Götterdämmerung did just this – Hitler ordered the total destruction of Berlin to punish those who had betrayed him –this was never carried out. However, the city itself was destroyed and many thousands were killed. To Hitler this would have been Götterdämmerung.



Götterdämmerung ended with Hitler and what remained of his entourage planning the rescue of Berlin. Hitler dreamed up imaginary armies that would fight the Soviet forces to the end. It was clear to many that Hitler had lost all sense of reality but such was his power over those at the top of the Nazi Party that no one challenged him. In his book about the last days of Hitler, Hugh Trevor-Roper described the world Hitler lived in as “cloud cuckoo-land”. Some of his orders bordered on the bizarre. He told his senior army officers that any of them who held back from the fight against the USSR would pay with their life within five hours of receiving the order to attack. On April 22ndhe accused his senior army officers of cowardice and told them that they were traitors to Nazi Germany. However, Hitler adopted the poise of one of Richard Wagner’s heroes:

https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/gotterdammerung/

[smirkymonkey]

9. +1000

That's where Trump is now. "Cloud Cuckoo-land". He has completely lost touch with reality. I just wish he would have the courage to follow through in the same way Hitler did.

[Klaralven]

6. It's a novel

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson
https://www.amazon.com/Ministry-Future-Kim-Stanley-Robinson-ebook/dp/B084FY1NXB

Environmental science fiction.

[OxQQme]

7. Yes. It is a novel

but that doesn't negate the description of a raving narcissist.