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Maybe not worthy of a drumroll, but there you are.This is a little bit of an email I sent to Dad on Thursday (he's great for hearing rants). Love you! The end's a bit sudden because of annoying bell-like things which compell you to go to your next class. Such things should be thrown overboard.
"We're doing the Hitler thing in History. 'Tis very interesting, but sad of course. Anyway, I've started reading a historical narrative of the siege of Stalingrad which Mr Fielding recommended to all 'booky' people. It's a bit masculine (read: unemotional) but good. The only slightly distracting thing is that when I come across a quoted source it automatically gets noted... grrrrr, school indoctrination... I can't stop myself thinking 'That's a primary source! That's good research! I should do that!'
We devoted an entire class to the study of why he was 'evil' a few days ago. I know there could be much longer spent on that - much, much longer - but what we did do was very interesting. It's 'breaking down the cardboard cutout', the 'epitome of evil'. I think now that he was a fanatic. He wasn't essentially evil, but capable of it and possessed of the kind of thinking that justified brutal action.
Oooh, speaking of justifying absurdities: The National Front! They're insane! Some of what they say makes sense (mainly observations on the inter-racial resentment in Britain) but the way they want to fix it! "Black people are naturally less intelligent than whites. Promoting them into positions they are unequipped to handle does nothing but breed confusion and resentment in their minds." Essentially, it is more humane (whitely humane) to attempt to keep the 'poor little stupid negroes' totally ignorant! That's disgusting! I was dying to write a blog entry about it but couldn't find enough internet time. They've been saying these things for 50 years. They're still saying them, and they must believe that they're right. They're just like you, and me, and Stalin and Hitler: perfectly justified in their own minds of their own beliefs. See: I believe what I just wrote. I've justified it to myself. Everybody does it... evrybody's the same. What we believe dictates our actions, and whether we are honest and true to our beliefs or not has no impact on the way they affect others. A man who believes in his heart that Jews should be killed and acts on that produces exactly the same result as a man who believes in his heart that Jews should be protected and kills them anyway.
It's mind control! It's Hitler and the Reichswehr. It's the Americans and their forces. It's Communist Russia and the Red Army (though they did lose 50,000 through desertions on one German front alone). It's the Dalai Lama and the Buddhist faith. It's all the authors you've ever read, all the people you've ever met, even me now. Mr Fielding acknowledged it yesterday, this eternal brainwashing. He said that if Hitler had died after the conquest of France, he would have been hailed as the greatest German politician of the century. He would be an example of quality statesmanship, with those little indiscretions against the Jews (denied the opportunity to evolve into fully-fledged genocide) would be overlooked."
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