09-06-2005, 09:21 AM
SIGH
The usual tune that periodically comes up. Remember that Nazism grew up in a Germany that was quite embued with superior race/morality/you- name-it mentality a good 50 years before WW1 hence before corpral Hitler definitely lost his marbles and seduced many to follow. I am not speaking of the ingorant but of many intellectuals and those of the industrious middle class.
You can believe something together with many others (friends, fellow citizens, crowds and masses) but that doesn't make it true. Beliefs versus truth, dreams versus reality..... Some people like to believe in fairy tales (the simple minded), others in ideology (the intellectuals). Critical thinking is a recent phenomenon in culture and at the individual level it is quite rare, difficult to acquire and very easy to loose.
Just watch what happens with this thread
The usual tune that periodically comes up. Remember that Nazism grew up in a Germany that was quite embued with superior race/morality/you- name-it mentality a good 50 years before WW1 hence before corpral Hitler definitely lost his marbles and seduced many to follow. I am not speaking of the ingorant but of many intellectuals and those of the industrious middle class.
You can believe something together with many others (friends, fellow citizens, crowds and masses) but that doesn't make it true. Beliefs versus truth, dreams versus reality..... Some people like to believe in fairy tales (the simple minded), others in ideology (the intellectuals). Critical thinking is a recent phenomenon in culture and at the individual level it is quite rare, difficult to acquire and very easy to loose.
Just watch what happens with this thread
Jeffery Wyss
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
