THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH

[Nin-Yaaban]

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 boar with nothing but spears and who had defeated three of Rome's

mightiest legions in the Tuetenberg Forest.

 

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 Germany itself

was destroyed.

 

When Hitler staged a phony invasion from Poland, the vast majority of

the German people, their own self-image dependant on continuing

blindness to Hitler's deceptions, did not question why Poland would have

done something so ****** , and found themselves in a 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 Rome, to remind the Germans of the defeat of the

legions at the Tuetenberg Forest. Talismans were added 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 Europe. I wondered how the

German people could have been so ****** 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 British Empire.

 

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

****** 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.