Heinrich Himmler was a chicken farmer before he became a  leading light of Hitler's racist, murderous  Nazi regime. The recent flurry of American films and plays about American Slavery have cast all slaveholders as Himmler's demented heirs: mad, mean,  and demented chicken farmers. Alas, these Millennial attempts to explain or contextualize American Slavery fail to explain the American Goebbels; those  intellectuals who supported, enhanced and presided over slavery. Goebbels was no chicken farmer; he held a   Doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in Philosophy. Yet there he was, complicit in the chicken farmer's mass murder and the failed painter's genocide.  None of the Millennial attempts, to address American Slavery, offer up an explanation of how a peculiar institution could survive 240 years, being administered by chicken farmers. One film tried and succeeded, in explaining the survival of American Slavery,MANDINGO. It did that service by highlighting the s

This Blogger gets more than his allotted share of emails and comments; some lead to Blogs. Some lead to Blogs; which are never completed,  orphan Blogs.  This Blogger has decided to close out    anno Domini 2022, by offering up truncated versions of the orphan Blogs.   THE MISSION STATEMENT OF THE MAXEY CHRONICLES-   Readers keep asking what is the mission statement of THE MAXEY CHRONICLES? Even though this Blogger has borrowed his mission statement from Carl Jung.   It seems many current denizens of this planet have not read Carl Jung, nor been introduced to him. To quote Robert Duvall in the film, THE EAGLE HAS LANDED: Jung was a very great thinker.   “In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age