Not to oversimplify but a shit economic situation was a large part of the reason the Nazis were able to rise to power.
And as I look at around at our current world… Oh. Shit.
But jokes aside, I think a lot of people are just not aware enough to realize how easy it is for extremism to fester in a society where people are economically (and morally) depressed. If you want to know why Hitler rose to power, then look no further than 1930s Germany to understand that. Our world doesn’t look too different from that.
And besides, it’s not like anyone knew exactly what was going to happen as events unfolded. Nothing like WW2 had ever occurred in the history of the planet, so even if you had a perfect time machine so you could go back and tell people what was about to happen, it’s not like they would actually believe you. People were miserably, angry and desperate… so they wanted to fuck around, and eventually they found out, so to speak.
And one last point: Nazi Germany is also an extreme example of what can happen to a depressed society, and it’s not like things always turn out the same way. I’m pretty sure that things are going to end pretty miserably before the world becomes a better place, but it doesn’t necessarily mean WW3 or another Holocaust or anything like that. We can’t know any of this with certainty - all we can do is hope for the best (and prepare for the worst, as they say).
I think a lot of people are just not aware enough to realize how easy it is for extremism to fester in a society where people are economically (and morally) depressed
They’re “not aware enough” because the education systems, as well as the media, which are controlled and or owned by the people looking to manipulate them, and deliberately ensures that from infancy the population is only given a white washed version of history that serves those in power, so that exactly this can happen.
Which only reinforces OP.
The idea that any of this is accidental, or worse, is some inevitable part of “human nature” is just one more way in which those in power manipulate you in to accepting it as reality.
The Nazi just brought home the method used by the french and brits in the colonies. Europeans weren’t shocked at genociding jews, they were shocked on them attacking “civilized” nations.
Wanna talk about how they gazed people in algeria?
All true, except that it doesn’t really get better because after we manage to contain or survive the upcoming Nazi/extremism movement, nature will punish everyone on the planet for not having done anything about climate change.
So first we have to deal with huge societal and political problems, and then with huge natural ones (which also cause huge societal and political problems as a result).
We know the answers to both of these problems, but we aren’t changing anything.
Not to oversimplify but a shit economic situation was a large part of the reason the Nazis were able to rise to power.
And as I look at around at our current world… Oh. Shit.
But jokes aside, I think a lot of people are just not aware enough to realize how easy it is for extremism to fester in a society where people are economically (and morally) depressed. If you want to know why Hitler rose to power, then look no further than 1930s Germany to understand that. Our world doesn’t look too different from that.
And besides, it’s not like anyone knew exactly what was going to happen as events unfolded. Nothing like WW2 had ever occurred in the history of the planet, so even if you had a perfect time machine so you could go back and tell people what was about to happen, it’s not like they would actually believe you. People were miserably, angry and desperate… so they wanted to fuck around, and eventually they found out, so to speak.
And one last point: Nazi Germany is also an extreme example of what can happen to a depressed society, and it’s not like things always turn out the same way. I’m pretty sure that things are going to end pretty miserably before the world becomes a better place, but it doesn’t necessarily mean WW3 or another Holocaust or anything like that. We can’t know any of this with certainty - all we can do is hope for the best (and prepare for the worst, as they say).
They’re “not aware enough” because the education systems, as well as the media, which are controlled and or owned by the people looking to manipulate them, and deliberately ensures that from infancy the population is only given a white washed version of history that serves those in power, so that exactly this can happen.
Which only reinforces OP.
The idea that any of this is accidental, or worse, is some inevitable part of “human nature” is just one more way in which those in power manipulate you in to accepting it as reality.
The Nazi just brought home the method used by the french and brits in the colonies. Europeans weren’t shocked at genociding jews, they were shocked on them attacking “civilized” nations.
Wanna talk about how they gazed people in algeria?
All true, except that it doesn’t really get better because after we manage to contain or survive the upcoming Nazi/extremism movement, nature will punish everyone on the planet for not having done anything about climate change. So first we have to deal with huge societal and political problems, and then with huge natural ones (which also cause huge societal and political problems as a result). We know the answers to both of these problems, but we aren’t changing anything.
Where joke
For real.