novemberland

if i were german i'd be a bit nervous today...the ninth of november is replete with events of note in the history of that country and at first glance you'd think it something of a coincidence or as some sort of proof of the validity of numerology...but i can see only one event that could be coincidence here...kaiser bill abdicated on november ninth 1918...all fine and good...and he fled to a reasonably comfortable exile in holland...ludendorf and hitler staged the beer hall putsch on the anniversary of that abdication as a reasoned ( if not reasonable ) reaction to the weimar republic...it was a conscious choice...and kristallnacht, while ostensibly related to the murder do a german diplomat, was connected to that train of event "celebration"...gunter schabowski precipitated the fall of the berlin wall in 1989 by mistakenly announcing the lifting of travel restrictions to the west a day early at what was supposed to be a run of the mill press briefing and that could be a coincidence...unless gunter has some subconscious german history going on...i'm not sure about that...later he said " we were assholes. the revolution was going on right in front of us and we couldn't see it"...so much for the wisdom of politicians and bureaucrats...so much for the wisdom of the powers that be...reality and causality are made up of billions of individual decisions and action taken on a daily basis...even the best informed among us can have only the most general idea of what's going on...life is not linear and coincidences are mostly non existent...when they do crop up they are fodder for conspiracy theorists because humans think they need an explanation for everything..."..bloody ignorant apes"