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[–] Tallest_Skil 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
"Hitler" is the argument. That's because WWII is the foundation myth for modern society. How do you recognize a society’s ‘foundation myth’? It fulfills three functions:
The story of World War II has become the foundation myth for the Western world. It fulfills all three functions:
The problem with this is that all three functions are backward. They are in the negative. Instead of the origin event being one of fertility and new life, it was a conflagration of death and destruction. Instead of ultimate good taking the central position in the story, that slot is occupied by ultimate evil. Everyone knows that Adolf Hitler, the “personification of evil,” is the centerpiece of the WWII story. Each of his beliefs, taken individually, is held to be a component of “evil”–belief in them is forbidden today. Instead of that which is held sacred being something mysterious and sublime, the holocaust is an obscenity. Having a negative foundation myth means the tree of life for Westerners is poisoned. A society’s bounds of “allowable thought”–its Overton Window–and the orientation of ideas which stem therefrom are all downstream from the creation of the society. The event which formed a society is of the utmost importance in determining what is “acceptable” within that society. As long as our understanding of who we are is determined by a negative ‘foundation myth,’ the only direction for society is down. The missing emotional complex is positivism–self-love. It is no longer felt by Westerners due to the destructive force that is a society controlled and created by jews, angling toward communism. Jews have successfully imparted their worldview–which comes from a position of self-hatred and existential negativism–onto the West.
[–] alele-opathic 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is more profound than it seems at a glance. Excellent analysis.