The Fourth Reich
Megalomaniacs have been with us forever. Most believe or convince themselves that they have been chosen by some superhuman being. The main question is why so many people eagerly follow them even when they clearly are madmen or morons like Adolph Hitler or George W. Bush respectively.
Comparative psychologists would argue that it is human nature to gather around a queen or king, particularly in a time of great danger. Ants do this. Bees do this. Ants and bees select a queen and give her attendants to care for her every need. The remaining members of the colonies divide mainly into workers and soldiers. The single goal is to protect and preserve the queen.
The instinct that drives insect colonies, animal herds and bird flocks drives human tribes. Democracy is antithetical to the herding instinct. Any madman or evil genius who recognizes this basic human drive, or as in Bush’s case, has a madman sidekick who figured it out, aspires to reach a totalitarian position.
Dictators exist not because they have managed to intimidate the people but because the people want them. A dictator can’t exist without large segments of the population who are willing to become his soldiers, police and bureaucrats. No dictator has ever had a problem finding an abundance of those willing to become his brutal police thugs.
Herman Goering, one of Adolph Hitler’s top lieutenants, explained the simple formula for turning people into a mindless, stampeding herd. Convince them that there is an external threat, Goering said. It’s very important, he added, to argue that there are internal subversives as well. Thus there is a fear of the external threats and internal enemies. Authoritarians always put a face or faces on the internal threat. Michael Moore and Al Franken are the faces chosen by this administration. Franken represents the deep-seated Christian racism and hatred against Jews. Moore is a frumpy, overweight person who doesn’t fit the ideal image of Ronald Reagan, John Wayne or the Marlboro man.
Since most thinking is done in the vision segment of the brain, images make a deeper and longer lasting impression. The primitive instincts of “identification friend or foe” and “fight or flight” take place in the vision segment of the brain. Images best activate atavistic reactions. No one is more aware of this trait than public relations firms.
George W. Bush, a semi-literate, failed business man, but the best and brightest the GOP has to offer, followed Hitler’s playbook to the letter in his rise to power. The deranged Dick Cheney actually holds the reins of power. Bush is his loony preppy sidekick. He arranged the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. Speaking through the mouth of preppy George, he divided the world into those who are “with us or with the terrorists.” He went on to warn us that there is “an old Europe, and a new Europe.” Old Europe includes those who failed to join Bush in his wars. They can’t be trusted, he implied. The French became the symbol of these subversives.
The difference between Americans and Frenchmen is that the French government fears its people. The U.S. government has no fear of its people. The robber baron Jay Gould once commented that the upper class has no reason to fear the lower class. “I can get one-half to kill the other half,” Gould bragged. The American people are so thoroughly brainwashed that they can be herded together and led into any misadventure no matter how contrary to their own interests the adventure is. The French would go into the streets and shut down the nation if the government attempted to carry out some of the anti-democratic actions the U.S. government gets away with. Frequent wars and a primitive, expensive healthcare system that’s a bureaucratic nightmare are two examples.
Most conflicts are between evil and evil. The winner writes the history portraying itself as moral, and the loser as the immoral party. World War II was an excellent example. It was evil fighting evil fighting evil. The United Kingdom and the U.S. were and are at least as evil as Nazi Germany. Both had committed several genocides. Hitler adopted many experiences from the U.S. The U.S. had a eugenics program from 1890 to 1920 dedicated to purifying the white race. Hitler’s propaganda program was borrowed from U.S. and U.K. programs developed during World War I.
If good wins, it is by default. The British and French empires collapsed when those two nations, weakened by World War II, were no longer able to exert the force necessary to keep colonial people suppressed. Institutionalized racism against black U.S. citizens became an embarrassment to U.S. leaders who hypocritically condemned Nazi racism.
People are wired to be evil as civilization defines the word. The analytical part of the brain that provides the ability to know right from wrong resides in the brain stem. It is activated only by determined effort, use and exercise. In the U.S., no more than eight percent of the people have a functioning analytical center of the brain. The other 92% parrot morals and ethics taught to them by their parents, teachers, churches or government. Those are superficial morals. Superficial citizens can switch to opposite views anytime the circumstances change. They can self-righteously condemn the Nazis for murdering six million Jews while excusing the murder of ten million native Americans by their own government. They can condemn the killing of 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001 but justify the murder of 150,000 innocent Iraqis by George W. Bush.
The most horrific act ever committed by mankind was the incineration of tens of thousands of innocent men, women, children and babies at Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons. Yet 92% of U.S. citizens lack the ethics to conclude that those brutal acts were wrong, let alone sick and twisted.
The neo-cons who run the U.S. today are the equivalent of the Nazi Brown Shirts of the 1930s. Dick Cheney is a Hitler. Karl Rove and Donald Rumsfeld are Goebles and Eichman. George W. Bush most closely resembles Saddam Hussein whom he claims to detest.
Today’s U.S. leaders want to create the Fourth Reich and rule the world. Except for that small 8% enlightened citizens and their own gross incompetence, they would be close to their goal today. Like all megalomaniacs and sociopaths before them, they are their own worst enemies. What they destroy when they destroy themselves remains to be seen. If the past is a lesson, they will render the U.S. to the ashes of former empires. Then good will be the winner again.
Comparative psychologists would argue that it is human nature to gather around a queen or king, particularly in a time of great danger. Ants do this. Bees do this. Ants and bees select a queen and give her attendants to care for her every need. The remaining members of the colonies divide mainly into workers and soldiers. The single goal is to protect and preserve the queen.
The instinct that drives insect colonies, animal herds and bird flocks drives human tribes. Democracy is antithetical to the herding instinct. Any madman or evil genius who recognizes this basic human drive, or as in Bush’s case, has a madman sidekick who figured it out, aspires to reach a totalitarian position.
Dictators exist not because they have managed to intimidate the people but because the people want them. A dictator can’t exist without large segments of the population who are willing to become his soldiers, police and bureaucrats. No dictator has ever had a problem finding an abundance of those willing to become his brutal police thugs.
Herman Goering, one of Adolph Hitler’s top lieutenants, explained the simple formula for turning people into a mindless, stampeding herd. Convince them that there is an external threat, Goering said. It’s very important, he added, to argue that there are internal subversives as well. Thus there is a fear of the external threats and internal enemies. Authoritarians always put a face or faces on the internal threat. Michael Moore and Al Franken are the faces chosen by this administration. Franken represents the deep-seated Christian racism and hatred against Jews. Moore is a frumpy, overweight person who doesn’t fit the ideal image of Ronald Reagan, John Wayne or the Marlboro man.
Since most thinking is done in the vision segment of the brain, images make a deeper and longer lasting impression. The primitive instincts of “identification friend or foe” and “fight or flight” take place in the vision segment of the brain. Images best activate atavistic reactions. No one is more aware of this trait than public relations firms.
George W. Bush, a semi-literate, failed business man, but the best and brightest the GOP has to offer, followed Hitler’s playbook to the letter in his rise to power. The deranged Dick Cheney actually holds the reins of power. Bush is his loony preppy sidekick. He arranged the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. Speaking through the mouth of preppy George, he divided the world into those who are “with us or with the terrorists.” He went on to warn us that there is “an old Europe, and a new Europe.” Old Europe includes those who failed to join Bush in his wars. They can’t be trusted, he implied. The French became the symbol of these subversives.
The difference between Americans and Frenchmen is that the French government fears its people. The U.S. government has no fear of its people. The robber baron Jay Gould once commented that the upper class has no reason to fear the lower class. “I can get one-half to kill the other half,” Gould bragged. The American people are so thoroughly brainwashed that they can be herded together and led into any misadventure no matter how contrary to their own interests the adventure is. The French would go into the streets and shut down the nation if the government attempted to carry out some of the anti-democratic actions the U.S. government gets away with. Frequent wars and a primitive, expensive healthcare system that’s a bureaucratic nightmare are two examples.
Most conflicts are between evil and evil. The winner writes the history portraying itself as moral, and the loser as the immoral party. World War II was an excellent example. It was evil fighting evil fighting evil. The United Kingdom and the U.S. were and are at least as evil as Nazi Germany. Both had committed several genocides. Hitler adopted many experiences from the U.S. The U.S. had a eugenics program from 1890 to 1920 dedicated to purifying the white race. Hitler’s propaganda program was borrowed from U.S. and U.K. programs developed during World War I.
If good wins, it is by default. The British and French empires collapsed when those two nations, weakened by World War II, were no longer able to exert the force necessary to keep colonial people suppressed. Institutionalized racism against black U.S. citizens became an embarrassment to U.S. leaders who hypocritically condemned Nazi racism.
People are wired to be evil as civilization defines the word. The analytical part of the brain that provides the ability to know right from wrong resides in the brain stem. It is activated only by determined effort, use and exercise. In the U.S., no more than eight percent of the people have a functioning analytical center of the brain. The other 92% parrot morals and ethics taught to them by their parents, teachers, churches or government. Those are superficial morals. Superficial citizens can switch to opposite views anytime the circumstances change. They can self-righteously condemn the Nazis for murdering six million Jews while excusing the murder of ten million native Americans by their own government. They can condemn the killing of 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001 but justify the murder of 150,000 innocent Iraqis by George W. Bush.
The most horrific act ever committed by mankind was the incineration of tens of thousands of innocent men, women, children and babies at Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons. Yet 92% of U.S. citizens lack the ethics to conclude that those brutal acts were wrong, let alone sick and twisted.
The neo-cons who run the U.S. today are the equivalent of the Nazi Brown Shirts of the 1930s. Dick Cheney is a Hitler. Karl Rove and Donald Rumsfeld are Goebles and Eichman. George W. Bush most closely resembles Saddam Hussein whom he claims to detest.
Today’s U.S. leaders want to create the Fourth Reich and rule the world. Except for that small 8% enlightened citizens and their own gross incompetence, they would be close to their goal today. Like all megalomaniacs and sociopaths before them, they are their own worst enemies. What they destroy when they destroy themselves remains to be seen. If the past is a lesson, they will render the U.S. to the ashes of former empires. Then good will be the winner again.
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