Takes One To Know One
I’m currently reading Inside the Third Reich, by Albert Speer, Hitler’s friend, architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production.
Like all books of any worthwhile insight, it’s best lines are equally applicable to situations removed from those specifically drawn upon by the author.
Like this one:
“In the euphoria of history-making activity, unpleasant facts were ignored; they were no more than obstacles to the achievement of the grand design.”
Hmm, seems about right. And then there’s this one:
“Hitler usually concluded this historical speculation by remarking: ‘You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion… The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”
I’m just sayin’…
June 12th, 2009 at 17:10
That’s kinda eerie there, Track.
June 12th, 2009 at 17:16
Scott,
If you think that’s eerie (which it is), then check out the incredibly prescient quotation from 1857 in this post:
http://trackacrat.com/2009/05/22/alan-grayson-is-a-moron/
June 12th, 2009 at 17:44
I think the second one is overly pessimistic though. We almost got to where he talks about with Carter, but Americans re-asserted themselves. We are heading back the other way, but I still think there’s plenty left in America that we will see a major pushback in the next few years.
June 15th, 2009 at 17:17
I am going to send you a few of my posts from the manifesto. I am an amateur historian and the links between Iran, the Baath party and Hitler are not known by most people. Also, we are following the historic paths taken by both the Roman Republic and the Weimar Republic (Germany post WW1). Both those representative governments led to the most despotic governments in history. Are we going to do the same?
June 15th, 2009 at 17:19
Scott Martin is right. The problem is, what if the pushback is worse than the problem. Historically that has usually been the case.