Fascinating interview Nick but I think you got closer to it when you suggested that it wsas more a matter of fear. Bruckner himself referred at the end to the decire of Europeanss not to be "discomforted" by the world's troubles. Those come much closer to the mark here. When I discuss the matter with people of this type I honestly don't get much of an impression of gulit. Denial, yes, desperate attempts to argue their way out off the corner perhaps using gulit - certainly; but real guilt? - no. We must be careful not to dignify the true baser reasons involved here by confusing them with the arguably positive idea of guilt. Rositive that is in that it can lead to real contrition and acts of real recompense - in shor, acts that would be the diamectric opposite of those disucssed in the interview, that would attempt to extend in particular, the rights enjoyed by the west's cultural relativists to the peoples of Iraq, Afghanistan etc. Bruckner's heart is undoubtedly in the right place but the analysis is flawed.