"I totally would have been one of the good guys"
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One of the best thing that Jordan Peterson ever did, and the prime reason why he's so hated is for him telling everyone that if they were in Nazi Germany, they'd be a Nazi.
That messed up countless people, because they know in their hearts that it's true.
Wilhelm Reich was a fucking degenerate pervert (peak Wiemar-level, the book "Passions of Youth" features multiple chapters analyzing him raping mares as he entered puberty, he was arrested by the FBI in America for having a research lab where he did nothing but study women masturbating) and the only scientist in history to have his research notes ordered to be burned by two countries, but my fuck did he hit the nail on the head with "The Mass Psychology of Facism."
When people truly feel threatened, they regress into toddlers, and when a toddler feels a threat the only thing they want is a strong, paternal threat to stop it and they don't care about anything about the paternal figure apart from will it stop the threat and make them feel safe.
Methods don't matter. Morality doesn't matter. Freedom is a foreign concept. It's toddler shit; eliminate whatever is scaring me and making me cry; I don't care how you do it, I'll just love you for doing it.
Spot on.
An expansion of your thoughts is the people that say if they had a time machine they would go shoot Hitler. Guess what. They come back to the modern era and they would be told “you shot who! Why didn’t you shoot this German that lead them to do such and such.”
Germany was an economic wreck and the nazis where the first ones to get in power and try to right the sinking ship. If they didn’t exist then some other terrible authoritarian group would get in and commit a different set of atrocities.
Let's say you go back to 1927 and shoot Hitler.
That means that the Communist Party wins in 1928. Which means the Molotov-Ribentroff pact still happens, Poland is still partitioned and conquered, Britain is still drawn into war with them, the confiscation of the "rootless cosmopolitans'" wealth still happens and they end up in gulags rather than concentration camps.
The only way that anything actually changes is that there's no Eastern Front, and the French communists conduct guerrilla warfare against their own troops rather than the Germans.
The war would probably have been even bloodier, but France, Italy, and some Austro-Hungarian countries would be on the allies' side so the outcome would be the same apart from Lend-Lease not strengthening the Soviets to the point where they're able to threaten the world for 50 years. Also, the Japanese would have destroyed China completely.
I'm actually not sure whether that would have been a good thing or not.
Yep. The relevant axis is Freedom vs. Authoritarianism, not right vs left. Yes, many of the ideas resulting from freedom will be foolish and even abhorrent. However these will lose in the marketplace of ideas. Free speech is the foundation of democracy and freedom.
On the other hand, history has shown that some the ideas from authoritarianism are deadly. Discussion to rebut them is repressed with the violence of the state. Further unchecked government power has horrendous consequences. SJWs constantly breach the law but, at the same time, insist on draconian restrictions on others.
Then don't read it. Go back to discord if all you want to see is people calling each other gay and sharing pictures of their lunch.
Internment camps are CURRENTLY happening in China lol
Oh wait am I racist for saying that?
https://fortune.com/2020/07/29/no-point-in-wearing-mask-sweden-covid/