I want answers, dammit!
August 28th 2007 07:26
‘It may be good to [use guns] but it is far better to win the hearts of the people’ – Joseph Goebbels
Current world leaders are trying to win the hearts of the people with guns in foreign places and fear tactics on the homefront. So far, they are failing. If current levels of resentment towards leaders arriving in Australia for the APEC conference are anything to go by, I’d say that very few people are happy with the actions of the people responsible for governing them.
Cut back to Nazi Germany and you’ll find a very different scenario altogether.
According to Wilhelm Reich, fascism is not merely the ‘befogging or deception of the masses’ but rather the masses were ‘fully accessible to the ‘Nazi Psychosis’ and hence responsible for every social process:
‘Fascism is to be regarded as a problem of the masses, and not as a problem of Hitler as a person or the politics of the National Socialist Party’.
The terrifying part of this theory is that we're comparing our current society with one that was engrossed in the ideas of their leader, optimistic and positive about the future of their country with a society that is increasingly negative towards leaders and their policies.
But still, there is very little change between the dictatorship of Nazi Germany and the current regime in the western world.
As a generation of skeptics set amidst an era of increasing doubt and mistrust, we're not doing a very good job of making significant changes. We don't take social action seriously unless it's plugged by big names and faces (aka...Live Earth, Live 8?). No abominations are being voted out and no breath of fresh air is being voted in. We’re waiting for Bush to exit and Howard to bow out but we’ve already let it get this far.
Are we, 'the masses', to blame for everything that has gone wrong since their inception?
And if not...why have we seen very little change in the world?
Current world leaders are trying to win the hearts of the people with guns in foreign places and fear tactics on the homefront. So far, they are failing. If current levels of resentment towards leaders arriving in Australia for the APEC conference are anything to go by, I’d say that very few people are happy with the actions of the people responsible for governing them.
Cut back to Nazi Germany and you’ll find a very different scenario altogether.
According to Wilhelm Reich, fascism is not merely the ‘befogging or deception of the masses’ but rather the masses were ‘fully accessible to the ‘Nazi Psychosis’ and hence responsible for every social process:
‘Fascism is to be regarded as a problem of the masses, and not as a problem of Hitler as a person or the politics of the National Socialist Party’.
The terrifying part of this theory is that we're comparing our current society with one that was engrossed in the ideas of their leader, optimistic and positive about the future of their country with a society that is increasingly negative towards leaders and their policies.
But still, there is very little change between the dictatorship of Nazi Germany and the current regime in the western world.
As a generation of skeptics set amidst an era of increasing doubt and mistrust, we're not doing a very good job of making significant changes. We don't take social action seriously unless it's plugged by big names and faces (aka...Live Earth, Live 8?). No abominations are being voted out and no breath of fresh air is being voted in. We’re waiting for Bush to exit and Howard to bow out but we’ve already let it get this far.
Are we, 'the masses', to blame for everything that has gone wrong since their inception?
And if not...why have we seen very little change in the world?
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Comment by Sheree
Cliche Murder
Should I be concerned?
Computers *shakes head* they really miss the point don't they?