How Germany Gave Us Heino (via Nietzsche)
As Nietzsche puts it:
The Germans alternate between complete devotion to the foreign and revengeful craving for originality…. The Germans––to prove that their originality is not a matter of their nature but of their ambition—think it lies in the complete and over-obvious difference: but the Greeks did not think thus about the Orient … and they became original (for one is not original to begin with, but one is raw!)
[Birth of Tragedy XI, 110; cf. V, 246; VI 339]Â Kaufmann, Walter. Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP. 1950. Fourth Edition. 1974. Â p. 154.
Does this not explain the kitsch phenomenon of Heino?