We each have a Nazi in us. We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism
We each have a Nazi in us. We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism
Neuroimaging studies have shown that the amygdala, the tiny almond-shaped brain structure that mediates fear, is larger in people with more rightwing views
Neuroimaging studies have shown that the amygdala, the tiny almond-shaped brain structure that mediates fear, is larger in people with more rightwing views
No we fucking don't all have a nazi in us. We all have a thing (fear response) that nazis and other authoritarian propaganda love to take advantage of.
I know that the person who said this was trying to get that point across, but decided to go for shock value over clarity.
And you went for outrage over comprehension.
Except for the part where I clearly comprehended the message, sure.
Wish there was a man inside me 😔
Provocative headline, good read.
On a less serious note, does the small Nazi in us have an even smaller Nazi inside them?
Scary to think that it could be Nazis all the way down.
Maybe it starts, with a nod to xiouxiou, by polishing the mirror until there is no mirror for the motes to land?
Like a nesting doll. A Nazting doll.
When the smaller nazi inside the small nazi gets bigger than the small nazi is when the nazi takes over.
The small nazi phenomena can be modelled by a perturbative expansion
N = 1 + a1 + a2 + a3 + ...
As long as the relative smaller nazi size, represented by 'a', is smaller than one the series converges and you are not a nazi. When 'a' is larger than one, the smaller nazi in the small nazis is actually bigger, e.g. a2 > a, and you are in the nonperturbative regime of the small nazi model, and you'd be called a "full blown nazi". AdS/CFT postulates you can model the nonperturbative regime with a tankie-description, but the theory is controversial.
No. They’ve got a really nice and chill leftist who just wants to help everyone that they’re repressing.
But that leftist, they’ve got an even smaller nazi inside of them.
Not too new of a concept, "Kill the cop in your head" has been a common phrase among the left since the mid 90s and possibly originates from the late 60s.
I read once that Holocaust research causes three distinct traumas. One is where you realize that it really happened to real people. Two is when you empathize with the victims and can visualize yourself of loved ones in that position. Three is when you empathize with the perpetrators and can visualize yourself or loved ones in that position.
It's natural for children to believe that good people do good things and bad do bad, but that opinion can't survive into adulthood without profound lack of self awareness.
Wasn't the gas chambers planned because German soldiers kept going crazy executing people directly. Even if you're trained and brainwashed shooting a child in the back of the head is gonna mess you up (especially more than once). Dehumanising the victims, putting them into work camps, moving them to a room where the overseer can flip a switch. It was all to make you see them as less than human and make it easier to not connect the act of killing them to taking a life. Of course there were a whole lot of absolutely f*cked up monsters but I feel really bad for all the nazis who got sucked into a brainwashed cult and by the time they realised what they were doing they had no out left.
Fucked up. Humans.
I noticed something for the first time, likely due to social conditioning that I'd missed it before: we have to stop dehumanization when speaking of large and small scale humans. They are not monsters, they are humans, like us. Perhaps if they'd been treated in s humane way, they would have enjoyed some happy coincidence of nature and nurture and not gone on to such egregious acts. "In the beginning was the word," and abuse starts with thoughts, progresses to belittling, dehumanization and then physical abuse.
As someone on the spectrum, I've been ostracized, humiliated, and dehumanized all my life, yet I did not become a Nazi. It only made me angrier at the people who want to put their boots on your neck.
I don't understand why people think that human and monster are mutually exclusive categories.
It's dehumanizing. Most of so-called monsters are made, and with proper social and holistic treatment could be rehabilitated and reintegrated. But it's work, and perhaps more importantly, money from the coffers of those with far more wealth than a hundred generations could ever meaningfully use.
Power gives people the freedom to act as they choose, and they choose a lot of nastiness. Does it not make sense that unconstrained choices represent who a person truly is?
Perhaps who they have become. What if these people had loving, supportive homes? Why can't we utilize* their wealth for everyone who doesn't or hasn't had, including them? What if we reimagine re-education as therapy, and education about their own trauma reactions and redirected them to healthier thinking and behaviors, for as long as it takes? Maybe some are too far gone. Are they not human beings deserving of humans care?
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But there's a bad man in everyone, no matter who we are
There's a rapist and a Nazi living in our tiny hearts
Child pornographers and cannibals, and politicians too
There's someone in your head waiting to fucking strangle you
Okay I was mixing Gabor mate up with someone else never mind