12. (a) Attracted by the possibility of earning money,
Indians and mestizos of the area show up at the
site, which has been immediately named by
Taudlitz (for reasons not yet disclosed)
"Parisia".
(b) In his person he combines a ruthlessness that
stops at nothing with the addled idea of re-
creating - in the heart of the jungle - the French
State in its heyday of monarchical splendor, for
he himself is to be the reincarnation of none
other than Louis XVI.
(c) In a region several hundred miles removed from
the last outposts of civilizations, the expedition
comes upon ruins that are atleast twelve
centuries old, ruins of buildings that were raised
in all likelihood by Aztecan crews: the
expedition takes up residence in these.
(d) Several years pass and from such activity
emerges the shape of the realm that Taudlitz
had envisioned for himself.
(e) The fifty-year old Siegfried Taudlitz, a fugitive
from the crushed and occupied Reich, makes
his way to South America by organizing an
expedition deep into the Argentine interior with
the help of other drifters and adventurers from
Germany, carrying with him a part of the
"treasure"- a trunk bound by steel bands and
filled with dollar bills - amassed by the
notorious Academy of the Schutzstaffel.
(f) The former Gruppenfuhrer makes efficient work
brigades out of them and sets his armed men
over them as taskmasters.
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(a) The walls of this niche squeeze the individuality
out of him, smash his personality and compel
him, in effect, to conform or die.
(b) It is difficult to overestimate the force with which
this pessimistic prophecy grips the popular
mind, especially among young people.
(c) One of the most persistent myths about the
future envisions man as a helpless cog in some
vast organizational machine.
(d) The fear of being swallowed up by this
mechanized beast drives executives to orgies of
self-examination and students to paroxysms of
protest.
(e) In this nightmarish projection, each man is
frozen into a narrow, unchanging niche in a
rabbit-warren bureaucracy.
(f) Since organizations appear to be growing larger
and more powerful all the time, the future,
according to this view, threatens to turn us all
into that most contemptible of creatures,
spineless and faceless, the organization man.
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