10-26-2017, 11:02 PM
(10-26-2017, 04:08 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote:(10-26-2017, 01:45 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster....01.30.htm
While hitler was being disingenuous here, you do realize that everything he said in that speech was essentially True: Germany did not declare war on Britain and France; Britain and France declared war on Germany. There is also that fact that Britain had not intention of marching troops into Germany in retaliation for the invasion of Poland. In reality the west at all points from 1919 on to the present day has imposed wilsonianism on the world (the post-ww2 world was essentially a improved version of the post-ww1 Versailles order) and pretty much regards any government that voices opposition to the Wilsonian system as somehow illegitimate.
It may have been the way of kings to break treaties when such was convenient, said Raynald de Chatillon (who had raided caravans in violation of a treaty that he had made earlier with Saladin) in the presence of Saladin (his captor) and Guy de Lusignac (a fellow captive). At that, Saladin beheaded Raynald de Chatillon. As Guy de Lusignac cowered in fear that he would get the same treatment, Saladin told Guy de Lusignac that having done nothing wrong, Saladin's surviving captive had nothing to fear. Guy de Lusignac was released. Just rulers might execute those who committed perfidy, but not those who had done nothing wrong. Such may have contributed to the recognition in even the Crusader world (and the Crusaders were thugs) that Saladin was a just ruler.
For the invasion of Belgium despite the unfortunate country's official neutrality, Germany was judged guilty of a perfidious crime against peace. Occupations and annexations resulting from aggression could not be recognized as legitimate. Brutality to a country and its people, including massacres, enslavement, and plunder in the wake of aggression would be damnable crimes. The United States did not recognize the Japanese annexation of Manchuria or the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The non-totalitarian world would not recognize the Soviet takeovers of the three tiny Baltic Republics in 1940, either, let alone every act of fascist aggression from the Nazi occupation of Denmark to the Japanese attacks on the USA, Britain, the Netherlands, and Free France.
Since World War II there have been other acts of blatant aggression, including the Soviet suppression of democratic revolutions in East Germany and Hungary, the American incursions into Laos and Cambodia, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and -- most uniformly reviled -- the invasion of Kuwait by Satan Hussein.
Quote:The Boomers today have absorbed all the mistakes of the missionaries uncritically and seeks to tyrannically brainwash millennials into being good little boy scouts by usurping choices and tyrannically disempowering the millennial until the millennial absorbed the boomers disgusting doctrines uncritically. Millennials will never embrace "freedom" as defined by boomers because that doctrine intrinsically contradicts millennials inner nature and is seen by the millie as starry-eyed nonsense forced upon the by boomers.
First of all, we Boomers do not form a cultural or political monolith. We split on the merits of the two Boomer Presidents (Clinton and the younger Bush) and the one Generation X President (Obama) who preceded Trump. With Donald Trump -- he may be part of our Boomer Generation, but many of us thoroughly despise him. Indeed, America split very evenly between Dubya and Gore, two very different politicians.
A Boomer politician has no natural constituency just for being a Boomer. We have our liberals and our conservatives, our radical leftists and our radical rightists, and even commies and fascists. We have people convinced that no human suffering is in excess so long as it enriches and pampers elites while maintaining the power of those elites, and people who think such abominable. Some of us believe in Pie in the Sky When You Die as a valid reason for inflicting mass poverty upon those who will get their rewards in Heaven in return for suffering in This World and people who believe that an unconscionable offering. Some of us are cultural cosmopolitans who don't see "American" as a cause to accept or reject culture; some of us reject anything foreign because it isn't American. Some of us consider finely-honed rational thought the means of achieving anything worthy; some of us find all the answers in the Bible and don't need or want any book-learning that contradicts the Bible.
Some of us thought the War in Vietnam a noble purpose; some of us thought it a crime. Boomers are the last generation to live under the influence of the divide about the Vietnam War. All that I can say about Howe and Strauss is not that there is one Boomer way of looking at the world, but whatever Boomers believe they seem to believe it firmly, as is true of prior Idealist generations.
Quote:Actual Millie attitudes toward wilsonian "freedom"
https://qz.com/848031/harvard-research-s...democracy/
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
