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George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf
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Whoah way to paint us all with a broad brush.
Think the downfall of Labour’s last leader shows how patently untrue this thinking is.
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#43I think he highlights some fundamentally toxic aspects of human nature with this bit: “The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do.” The engineer in me wishes we could substitute the soldiers with construction workers or something, but I can’t deny enjoying war games growing up. These da…
a few personal notes:
- as kids we all did fight games, from just kung fu fights for fun, to team fights where we somehow considered a group strongly as "not our friends"
- maybe remains of evolution needs to make kids ready to fight for survival ? it might sound primitive but some bits are important because life may become chaos and ability to secure your own vital space is life critical (even in a modern world)
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Similarly that Slavs are excluded from the holocaust in the US speaks volumes about the culture.
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Would you mind explaining more what you mean? I’m half Jewish, so I feel confused because I didn’t get any antisemitic vibes from it at all. But I wasn’t raised in Jewish culture so I am still trying to learn about these aspects.
It sounded like maybe you’re saying that since hitler’s focus was to eradicate my ancestors, Orwell should have at least mentioned that. But I don’t understand why it’s related to Orwell’s point — his thesis is that Hitler was a profoundly appealing leader.
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#47> Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice This fact has been the downfall of every utopian ideology, and ignoring creates a vacuum that fascist regimes readily fill. I wonder what…
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The British Empire was more than "the training of young men for war and the endless breeding of fresh cannon-fodder". During the nineteenth century, the British army was absurdly small compared, for example, to the armies of continental powers. See e.g https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14218909
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Exceptional point. I hadn’t noticed this bit when I read just now.
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Empires in general. I wonder if it wouldn’t equally describe the Mongolian or even the Roman. But it’s also hard to discount the amount of technological progress that comes from such empires, so “brainless empire in which nothing ever happens” felt like a stretch.