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The Psychology Behind Mass Subservience to Tyranny
10/11/02
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EXCERPT:
"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.
"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."
QUOTABLE:
"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." -
Abraham Lincoln
THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND MASS SUBSERVIENCE TO TYRANNY
And The Consequent Rise of the Fourth Reich
From: Christos Lightweaver, www.heartcom.org/bio.htm
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 WWII, 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 stupid, 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 WWII 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 WWII from my
grandfather and my uncles who had served in Europe. I wondered how
the German people could have been so stupid 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 to challenge a government gone wrong, the
American people simply pretend that the situation does not exist.
Cherished illusions supercede hard reality.
When the World Trade Towers collapsed, most Americans simply refused
to believe suggestions that the attacks had been staged by parties
working for the U.S. Government itself. Americans were afraid to,
even as news reports surfaced proving that the U.S. 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 stupid as
to attack the United States, and as a result, Americans find
themselves in a war.
Now the U.S. 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 U.S. 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 celebrated 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 judgment with which we look back on
the 1930s Germans.
###
QUOTABLES:
As said by the Psy-Ops henchman for Hitler, who made the Big Lie big
enough, bold enough and told enough...
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield
the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences
of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use
all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal
enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the
greatest enemy of the State." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels
As for the Common Sense that the Big Lie makes uncommon:
"We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our
government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human
kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those
forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-
governance." - Doris Haddock - Taken from her website at
www.grannyd.com
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people
who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about
it." --Albert Einstein
"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade
unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was
a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time, no one was
left to speak up."
--Pastor Martin Neimoeller
"Evil will succeed only if enough good people do nothing." -Edmund
Burke
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