When I read about WWII it seemed that Hitler's goal was mostly to dehumanize, or if not Hitler the people who organized the Nazi party. What was it they were trying to win?
No I haven't read the Third Reich, but I read anything by those who endured the constant torture of their camps. No I haven't read much about torture or violence. This is because I never believed in violence as a way to get what I want.
Lately I have been struck by the current media obsession with whether Buffy St. Marie was a real native person. And all the interviews, conversation and experts on this topic. She is a celebrity and most celebrities are adored then deconstructed when "we" have finished with them.
Extraordinarily talented people are consumed like a feast until they are tortured to despair. Capitalism knows how to use humanity, make us all commodities. Some have been truly spent to the point of madness, drug addiction and bitterness. Is anyone valued today?
Even the American president in the nation that has made a fine art of exploitation, is drawn and quartered mentally if they fall into the pit of power-over-dignity.
So what has this got to do with a woman raised by adopted parents identifying with a first nation goal and personality. Haven't we benefited by her knowledge, talent and drive?
Media loves talent and beauty. Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley - celebrity sucks the blood out of them until they die.
Entertainment is a weapon of war used first before the bombs are dropped. Why? Because the people must support the warmongers. Intellectuals are too deep to be used by the state. I am not one. I am too impressed by how power is abused to be a scholar. It's emotional for me.
Yes emotions have a part in this drama. I have succumbed to the mind games, suffered the embarrassment and depression trying to figure things out. And I am disgusted with the way power seeks to make puppets out of humanity.
Take antisemitism for example. The latest thought that stung me, was how good Jewish families have repeatedly suffered whenever a narcissist needs to kill people in order to feel important. For Jews the threat never ends, throughout the centuries hatred has been directed with lies, violence and destruction of the community. But also our faith in civilization has been destroyed. Our faith in humanity broken.
Minorities and women and men of colour are imprisoned and publicly punished so the ruling egos can manipulate us. Do we want to win a war just to repeat it again and again?
Wise words have been spoken and ignored by the apparatus of a ruling regime and then we are plunged into hell again, and again and again.
This is why misogyny, racism, ableism and religion return to hate. Who is to blame? All and none of us. But at least we know we must act to hold up humanitarian principles. The hungry must be fed, the sick hospitalized, the healthy employed. It takes love, a love of life for life to maintain this. Love is the first imperative in the economy.
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