Riddles of Ourselves.

Today a black lady I met, a very respectable neighbor, a former stranger, just met her, said to me, out of nowhere: “Hitler was a genius.” Weird moment. Maybe she liked me. Actually, sitting beside me, my fiancé, maybe she wanted her.

I love moments like those. I said to her: “Well yes, an evil genius,” instantly reproaching myself for even trying to be PC. We were on our stoop, smoking. Cold. We were people. And my black friends have more integrity than my living room theatre whiteys.

I thought this once also…

We forget whats most marked about Hitler’s mystery: That he was a man that got, understood and existed on the level of ideas. Hitler walks into a room and sees not an incomplete bohemian loft, dishevled and says with disgust not ugh, this is a messy room!

But rather says: “Liberalism! The liberalist democracy of the past” Everything connects directly to a system of ideas for this man. Coupled with this is one idea in particular: that society can be perfected and is a system, can be worked just like a machine.

The society as machine idea.

ALSO: The curious phenomenon of hysteria in Democratic developed societies. i.e. the patriotic hysteria that resulted from the aftermath of 9-11. (Or the the phenomenon of celebrity hystery.) Information media lend the celebrity an invincible, godlike air.

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