Steve McAlexander
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RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH
An article that is a perfect example of this statement
~Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it~
THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH
Everyone likes to
say, "Hitler did this", and, "Hitler did
that". But the truth is Hitler did very
little. He was a world class
tyrant, but the evil actually done by the Third
Reich, from the death
camps to WW2 was all done by German citizens who
were afraid to
question if what they were told by their
government was the truth or
not, and who because they did not want to admit to
themselves that
they were afraid to question the government,
refused to see the truth
behind the Reichstag Fire, refused to see the
invasion by Poland was
a staged fake, and followed Hitler into national
disaster.
The German people
of the late 1930s imagined themselves to be
brave. They saw themselves as the heroic Germans
depicted by the
Wagnerian Operas, the descendants of the fierce
Germanic warriors who
had hunted wild boars with nothing but spears and
who had defeated
three of
But in truth, by
the 1930s, the German people had become
civilized and tamed, culturally obsessed with fine
details in both
science and society. Their self-image of bravery
was both salve and
slavery. Germans were required to behave as if
they were brave, even
when they were not.
It's easy to look
back and realize what a jerk Hitler was.
But at the time, Hitler looked pretty good to the
German people, with
the help of the media. He was TIME Magazine's Man
Of The Year in
1938. The German people assumed they were safe
from a tyrant. They
lived in a Republic, after all, with strict laws
regarding what the
government could and more importantly could not
do. Their leader was
a devoutly religious man, and had even sung with
the boy's choir of a
monastery in his youth.
The reality was
that the German people, as individuals, had
lost their courage. The German government
preferred it that way as a
fearful people are easier to rule than a
courageous one. But the
German people didn't wish to lose their self-image
of courage. So,
when confronted with a situation demanding
individual courage, in the
form of a government gone wrong, the German people
simply pretended
that the situation did not exist. And in that
simple self-deception
lay the ruin of an entire nation and the coming of
the second World
War.
When the Reichstag
burned down, most Germans simply refused
to believe suggestions that the fire had been
staged by Hitler
himself. They were afraid to. But so trapped were
the Germans by
their belief in their own bravery that they willed
themselves to be
blind to the evidence before their eyes, so that
they could nod in
agreement with Der Fuhrer while still imagining
themselves to have
courage, even as they avoided the one situation
which most required
real courage; to stand up to Hitler's lies and
deceptions.
When Hitler
requested temporary extraordinary powers, powers
specifically banned under German law, but powers
Hitler claimed he
needed to have to deal with the
"terrorists", the German people,
having already sold their souls to their
self-delusions, agreed. The
temporary powers were conferred, and once conferred
lasted until
When Hitler staged
a phony invasion from
majority of the German people, their own
self-image dependant on
continuing blindness to Hitler's deceptions, did
not question why
war.
But Hitler knew he
ruled a nation of cowards, and knew he had
to spend the money to make the new war something
cowards could fight
and win. He decorated his troops with regalia to
make them proud of
themselves, further trapping them in their
self-image. Hitler copied
the parade regalia of ancient
defeat of the legions at the
from orthodox religions and the occult to fill the
soldiers with
delusions of mystical strengths and an afterlife
if they fell in
battle. Finally, knowing that it takes courage to
kill the enemy face
to face, Hitler spent vast sums of money on his
wonder weapons,
airplanes, submarines, ultra-long range artillery,
the world's first
cruise missile and the world's first guided
missile, weapons that
could be used to kill at a distance, so that those
doing the killing
need not have to face the reality of what they
were doing.
The German people
were lured into WW2 not because they were
brave, but because they were cowards who wanted to
be seen as brave,
and found that shooting long range weapons at
people they could not
see took less courage than standing up to Hitler.
Sent into battle by
that false image of courage, the Germans were
dependent on their
wonder-weapons. When the wonder-weapons stopped
working, the Germans
lost the war.
I remember as a
child listening to the stories of WW2 from my
grandfather and my uncles who had served in
the German people could have been so stupid as to
have ever elected
Hitler dog catcher, let alone leader of the
nation. Such is the
clarity of historical hindsight. And with that
clarity, I see the
exact same mechanism that Hitler used at work here
in this nation.
The American people
imagine themselves to be brave. They see
themselves as the heroic Americans depicted by
Western Movies, the
descendants of the fierce patriot warriors who had
tamed the frontier
and defeated the might of the
But in truth, by
the dawn of the third millennium, the
American people have become civilized and tamed,
culturally obsessed
with fine details in both science and society.
Their self-image of
bravery is both salve and slavery. Americans are
required to behave
as if they are brave, even when they are not.
The American people
assume they are safe. They live in a
Republic, after all, with strict laws regarding
what the government
can and more importantly cannot do. Their leader
is a devoutly
religious man.
The reality is that
the American people, as individuals, have
lost their courage. The government prefers it that
way as a fearful
people are easier to rule than a courageous one.
But Americans don't
wish to lose their self-image of courage. So, when
confronted with a
situation demanding courage, in the form of a
government gone wrong,
the American people simply pretend that the
situation does not exist.
When the World
Trade Towers collapsed, most Americans simply
refused to believe suggestions that the attacks
had been staged by
parties working for the US Government itself.
Americans were afraid
to, even as news reports surfaced proving that the
US Government had
announced plans for the invasion of Afghanistan
early in the year,
plans into which the attacks on the World Trade
Towers which angered
the American people into support of the already-planned
war fit
entirely too conveniently. But so trapped are
Americans by their
belief in their own bravery that they will
themselves to be blind to
the evidence before their eyes, so that they can
nod in agreement
with the government while still imagining
themselves to have courage,
even as they avoid the one situation which most
requires real
courage; to stand up to the government's lies and
deceptions.
The vast majority
of the American people, their own self-
image dependant on continuing blindness to the
government's
deceptions, never question why Afghanistan would
have done something
so stupid as to attack the United States, and as a
result, Americans
find themselves in a war.
Now the US
Government has requested temporary extraordinary
powers, powers specifically banned under
Constitutional law, but
powers the government is claiming they need to
have to deal with the
"terrorists". The American people,
having already sold their souls to
their self-delusions, are agreeing. The temporary
powers recently
conferred will be no more temporary in America
than they were in
Germany.
The US Government knows they rule a nation of
cowards. The government
has had to spend the money to make the new war
something cowards can
fight. The government has decorated the troops
with regalia to make
them proud of themselves, further trapping them in
their self-image.
Talismans are added from orthodox religions and
the occult to fill
the soldiers with delusions of mystical strengths
and an afterlife if
they fall in battle. Finally, knowing that it
takes courage to kill
the enemy face to face, the United States
government has spent vast
sums of money on wonder weapons, airplanes,
submarines, ultra-long
range artillery, cruise missiles, and guided
missiles, weapons that
kill at a distance, so that those doing the
killing need not have to
face the reality of what they are doing.
As I mentioned
above, Hitler was TIME Magazine's Man Of The
Year in 1938. Stalin was TIME Magazine's Man Of
The Year for 1939 and
1942. Both of these men, and many others also
celibrated by the
media, were unimaginable monsters. The lesson from
these facts is
that it isn't easy to spot a genocidal tyrant when
you live with one,
especially one whom the press supports and
promotes. Tyrants become
obvious only when looking back, after what they
have done becomes
known. The German people did not stand up to
Hitler because their
media betrayed them, just as the American media is
betraying the
American people by willingly, voluntarily, even
proudly, abandoning
its traditional role as watchdog against
government abuse.
It is the very
nature of power that it attracts the sort of
people who should not have it. The United States,
as the world's last
superpower, is a prize that attracts men and women
willing to do
absolutely anything to win that power, and hence
are also willing to
do absolutely anything with that power once they
have it. If one
thinks about it long enough, one will realize that
all tyrants, past
and most especially present, MUST use deception on
their population
to initiate a war. No citizen of a modern
industrialized nation will
send their children off to die in a war to grab
another nation's
resources and assets, yet resources and assets are
what all wars are
fought over. The nation that wishes to initiate a
war of conquest
must create the illusion of an attack or a threat
to start a war, and
must always give their population of cowards an
excuse never to
question that carefully crafted illusion.
It is naive, not to
mention racist to assume that tyrants
appear only in other nations and that somehow
America is immune
simply because we're Americans. America has
escaped the clutches of a
dictatorship thus far only through the efforts of
those citizens who,
unlike the Germans of the 1930s, have the moral
courage to stand up
and point out where the government is lying to the
people. And unless
more Americans are willing to have that kind of
individual courage,
then future generations may well look back on the
American people
with the same harshness of judgement with which we
look back on the
1930s Germans.
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