Friday, July 20, 2012

Why Hitler?

John's latest video and continuing to talk about the Evil Baby Orphanage made me think about Hitler. Why Hitler? Why make a law for him denoting that after sometime that have to put him up as absolute evil? Why is he the No. 1 worst man in history, while what he done pales comparison to others? Why not Genghis Khan or Stalin or even Bin Laden? Why Hitler? Is it because of the propaganda? All of History Channel and Allied posters made him what he is? Or was it because he was the last baddie? We'll never have a mean person like him as our perception of the baddie has changed. Why did it change? Well, first of all, complex diplomatic affairs ,but there's more to that. Is because of what he did? Maybe. He did kill most people because of ideology, and subject of the genocide live quite close to us. But what really make him appalling is not just the action. But how he was just an abused boy who liked painting and they rejected him and he got angry and wanted to start a revolution in a beer pub but miserably failed and his book of rambling made best seller for no reason and now he controls Germany. There's something humane about how he came up to be bad. It wasn't just blown up version of what we did for centuries but something coming from our brains. Jew killing was just said by other people, and he just became a deranged puppet. There's something we can relate to, that we could be bad as them and nothing really to stop us from that. Best villains are not card carrying ones, but one that we relate to going mad. One who took a slightly different -- and deadly -- path. That realism is what make us scared. That they are one of us. Just with a different motivation. As we know about Osama, I think we could relate to this man more and be more thoughtful how he became bad. Just like Hitler. It's about becoming bad, not being bad that horrify us. Thank you.

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