After the United Nations rejected a Libyan motion to dismember Switzerland, which Gaddafi had called "a world mafia and not a state", blogger Robert Farley muses on which other nations should be abolished:
like another little Germany all tucked away down there, and really,
does the world need two Germanys?"
I personally am not in favor of an Anschluss. If I had to pick a country to abolish I would probably choose Belgium. However, Farley has powerful allies in Austria's two greatest postwar writers: Thomas Bernhard and Elfriede Jelinek.
Jelinek's extreme contempt for her native country is well-known. For her, Jörg Haider and Josef Fritzl epitomize Austria. “The beauty of Austria – under which the corpses of the Nazi period are
buried – has covered up much of its history,” says Jelinek.
But Jelinek's diatribes against Austria pale in comparison to those of Thomas Bernhard, the greatest Austria-hater of all time. Here is Bernhard on his native city of Salzburg:
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Obviously, David, all states should be abolished. But we should probably start with the Vatican.