So_crates Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 (edited) It wasn't too long ago I read something about Nazi Germany. One of the tenet it perpetuated was that Hitler wasn't responsible for the Holocaust, it was the people he put in charge under him. Having delt with da veys Christian Nazis, I wonder if this theory translates. Maybe all werewolf was interested in was mountains of cash and getting laid. Most of the spiritual holocaust goes to the people he put in charge under him. As Stalin once said,"I don't rule Russia, 100,000 clerks do." My psych professor also mentioned the true face of evil. She interviewed an ex-Nazi high up on the food chain. She said he wasn't evil like we imagine evil. She said his evil was more of an everyday evil--no matter what he was ordered he obeyed it as if it were a grammatical rule. Put these two things together and it could explain what da vey was really all about. SoCrates Edited January 7, 2011 by So_crates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WordWolf Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 "I do whatever I want. When asked why, I come up with an excuse that makes it sound proper. When problems happen, someone else is responsible." That's pretty much the vpw method-minus the specifics of using Scripture and plagiarism to give out that himself was some great one. Any HEALTHY leadership system begins with accountability at the top. Of course, vpw never BOTHERED to go through any training of any kind, and just A$$UMED that he was running things right, even when his orders resulted in most crude flailings that hurt people. Naturally, he always put the blame on everyone else. "Oh, my orders were fine, it was the people under me who messed up." Same nonsense Stalin apparently spouted. He taught "follow what I say without questioning it." When people didn't do that, he kicked them out and smeared their reputations. When people DID do that, we had what was said above- "the banality of evil", where evil orders are given, then carried out by people who don't MEAN evil, but are cogs in an evil machine that is doing evil. Technically, the machine wasn't evil in and of itself, but the means and the goals were evil, therefore I call it all "evil." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
So_crates Posted January 7, 2011 Author Share Posted January 7, 2011 "Oh, my orders were fine, it was the people under me who messed up." I believe John Ehrlichman perfect the I-was-just-obeying-order schtick. SoCrates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ham Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 what I find intriguing.. we got to study Hitler, Stalin, Milosevic, Pol Pot.. all rolled up in one, in a very very small microcosm.. maybe that was the point this time around.. the Squirrels report, has been formulated, and sent.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waysider Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Another example of confusing the puppets with the puppeteer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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"I do whatever I want. When asked why, I come up with an excuse that makes it sound proper.
When problems happen, someone else is responsible."
That's pretty much the vpw method-minus the specifics of using Scripture and plagiarism to
give out that himself was some great one.
Any HEALTHY leadership system begins with accountability at the top.
Of course, vpw never BOTHERED to go through any training of any kind,
and just A$$UMED that he was running things right, even when his orders
resulted in most crude flailings that hurt people.
Naturally, he always put the blame on everyone else.
"Oh, my orders were fine, it was the people under me who messed up."
Same nonsense Stalin apparently spouted.
He taught "follow what I say without questioning it."
When people didn't do that, he kicked them out and smeared their reputations.
When people DID do that, we had what was said above-
"the banality of evil", where evil orders are given, then carried out by
people who don't MEAN evil, but are cogs in an evil machine that is doing evil.
Technically, the machine wasn't evil in and of itself, but the means and the goals
were evil, therefore I call it all "evil."
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I believe John Ehrlichman perfect the I-was-just-obeying-order schtick.
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what I find intriguing..
we got to study Hitler, Stalin, Milosevic, Pol Pot.. all rolled up in one, in a very very small microcosm..
maybe that was the point this time around..
the Squirrels report, has been formulated, and sent..
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Another example of confusing the puppets with the puppeteer.
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