Unfortunately, I agree with you. I worked in a plant in a heavily German-American community. The people I worked with took pride in following the bosses rules to the letter even when it made their work harder. If they would have just spoke up and suggested a better way, they could have produced more and made their own life easier. But, they didn’t. They told everyone around them how stupid the bosses were, but continued following orders no matter how difficult it made their work.
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Very cogent observation McGowan. About the obsessive rule-keeping: I think there is a realization of this among younger Germans—partly due to the youth culture and the contact with the USA. However it is a deep part of German culture. Kant and other philosophers from 200 years ago pushed HARD a concept of “duty” in replacement of traditional Christian grace-based ethics. Germany is still very secular, and when there is no reliance on the grace of God in Jesus Christ—”duty” alone is left.
Today’s Germans are pacifistic—that’s been drilled into there heads since infancy, so we need not fear the old militarism—however without real Christianity, raw rule-keeping (even if its according to a very liberal, seemingly squishy, politically-correct set of rules) is all that remains.
“The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.” (Numbers 14:18)