Mostly calling an other, or even worse, many others 'Insane', is an indication that you do not understand them, or the situation that they feel they are facing.
For Z, he plays a role, like in a play, in this case a 'Drama'. Sometimes he makes 'mistakes' and the hidden from sight 'Blower' corrects him (he often doesn't like that) because his role is fixed. (But i assume he doesn't know that he will not survive in the role in this play performance.)
For Trump 2 important things play a role:
1. He is possibly Highly intelligent (85% probability) and Autistic/Asperger (55% probability). He has developed a perfect 'Masking' defense. Being Autistic myself, i recognise that. He sets others 'on the wrong Leg', like in a boxing match (Dutch saying), meaning: 'Misleading'.
2. He knows what he wants, but doesn't have all knowledge and experience that is necessary and he cannot trust those in and around the White House, The Senate and Congress, because of the Bunch of Hidden or openly Neocons, Zionists and other corrupted individuals. And he does certainly not trust the Pentagon, the CIA and NSA etc.
His knowledge and experience with Trade 'Dealing' does NOT work in Diplomacy, as he now certainly has found out. And to make things even worse, he cannot trust all those in his team, since they are more or less influenced by the DeepState or the Zionists. His man in the Pentagon has recently been swallowed by one of the Tentacles of the Monster in the Deep State. He can trust maybe 3 or 4 of them.
So for an outsider his behaviour is illogical and unpredictable (otherwise he would have been toppled already).
He has to immediately quit from the War on Russia (because that is what is going on in Ukraine), without being blamed for the inevitable overthrow of the NAZI-Regime in Kiev. He lost valuable time (100 days) in finding out that a Ceasefire BEFORE a done DEAL was IMPOSSIBLE with that NAZI Regime and the NAZIS in Brussels, because they are both controlled from the City of London, where the Monster is. The same was true with the negotiations at the end of the Vietnam War in Paris. The War continued till the deal was concluded.
I believe you are attempting to rationalize something that has no rational basis.
One, Trump has absolutely no training in the areas he is attempting to make decisions against. And two, he was sired and raised by a sociopathic father, which he appears to be following in the footsteps of. Hence, his early alignment with Roy Cohen.
Most people believe that insanity is something they see in the movies. But Trump is a combination of a psychotic, narcissistic, degenerate personality.
The result is that he is quite insane, given his stupid policies and the overwhelming rejection of them outside the circle of sycophants that he surrounds himself with.
And the Ukraine situation has nothing to do with The Third Reich, but everyone just loves to call anything monstrous as Nazism. However, the term Nazi is western one and The Third Reich was quite rational in its policies given what it underwent in the 1920s and 1930s. But you have to study the diplomatic histories to understand this.
Whatever Ukraine is or isn't, it has never had anything to do with National Socialism.
The people who like to parade around National Socialist symbols in The Third Reich would have all been locked up as emotionally deranged people.
I think you're both right. As in, Zelensky's not simply "insane" but neither he is "acting".
The coke monkey knows full well his survival (political and VERY likely physical) is tied to his position. Should he lose power, he's bound to have an "accident" either by his own Nazi owners (in order to pin all the blame on him or "punishment" for not winning the war) or by Western intelligence (because we can't risk him blabbering about those sacks of money 'accidentally' ending up in EU and US diplomats' baggage, can we?).
So, he is behaving irrationally exactly like a person panicking and on the edge of a nervous breakdown. The best analogy I can find is of a compulsive gambler who lost everything at the poker table. He can't get up and go out, or he'll have to face the consequences, bankruptcy, a drastic reduction in lifestyle, etc. As long as he can keep playing, betting money he doesn't have, signing fake checks, he not only can avoid facing reality, he can hope in a stroke of luck saving his sorry ass.
Of course, Z's well known abuse of cocaine does also help a lot in explaining his irrational behaviour and temper tantrums; after all, side effects include anxiety, paranoia, psychosis and cognitive impairment leading to poor impulse control and decision making.
I live in The Netherlands, my parents fought 5 years in the communist resistance, as continuation for their support for 'De Internationale Rode Hulp', helping those who fled the NAZI-regime, Jews and other Communists, to go to Spain, or England.
So as child, born just after the war, they explained to me what Nazism was like.
My father worked in the Harbour and together with some comrades organised the only Strike against the NAZI's in Europe (Except the uprising in Warsaw by Jews themselves).
I have a different way of thinking. I recognise the 'type of' Evil that was manifest in Nazism and today in Zionism. It is 'Unnatural', 'Inhuman' for Humans and needs a long trajectory of brainwashing and de-humanisation to produce them.
Did you read my article that Julian published, about 'The Monster' ?
To begin my reply, I was not talking about The Third Reich during the war years but what shaped it during the 1920s and 1930s.
WWII on all sides was an atrocity that never should have happened but you have Britain and Poland to that for that. And FDR was their biggest cheerleader for doing so. To date, no one has really understood FDR's hatred for Germany. However, it is thought that while FDR was never able to pull the US out of its depression, The Reich was growing and expanding its economy at breakneck speed, mostly due to the fact that Adolf Hitler and his finance minister removed the power of the German bankers.
By the time Germany invaded Poland, the Soviet Union had already invaded and occupied in full or in part 7 countries but no one said a thing. In 1940, Stalin invaded Finland because he wanted its port area in the southeast.
France and Serbia played the same roles prior to WWI that Britain and Poland would play prior to WWII.
Like you, I had family involved in the war in both Europe and the Pacific. A part of my extended family died in the camps. And growing up we were indoctrinated in the US with "Jews" good, "Germans" bad. It took a long time of in depth studying to get that crap out of my head.
Europeans are hardly strangers to mass propaganda. And prior to WWII you had Britain again to thank as they were the actual creators of "The Big Lie", not Goebbels. Actually, a lot of speeches made by Goebbels were made based on realities and not the fantasies of the West.
Though your relatives who fought with and\or for the Communists were probably convinced they were fighting on the right side of history, nothing could have been further from the truth. Stalin and the USSR were responsible for over 60,000,000 deaths of innocents from the 1920s on.
Your relatives were not fighting for Communism but instead Jewish Bolshevism, which was a Jewish inspired ideology of raw power and subordination of the masses. Until Stalin purged the ruling USSR councils, around 80% of its members were Bolshevik Jews. After the purging such numbers were substantially reduced but not with NKVD, where the Jewish leadership retained its power and continued its murderous rampage throughout Russia, killing anyone they thought were against Stalin's Regime.
And though today President Putin (I man I admire) still goes on about "The Great Patriotic War" during WWII, no such thing ever happened. Documentation has clearly shown that Stalin had plans to overrun the entirety of Europe. And the though The Reich may have not been aware of it at the time, they halted these plans with its invasions to the east in 1941.
This part of WWII would become the most brutal period of warfare in Human history. As a result, there is no doubt that many felt the side they were fighting for was the correct one. But it was all so unnecessary...
After the war, even Churchill (a man of little competence or common sense, and a true warmonger) recognized that it was the USSR, which was the enemy of the West, not Germany. General George Patton said the same openly and was probably assassinated for it.
In the end, it really doesn't matter whose family members died or did what or why, but the fact that the leadership in the West and in the USSR at the time were set on their own visions of world domination; even FDR sent such a cable to Churchill whose reaction was that FDR was "mad".
And today, the Balkans still can't figure out who they hate more. At least the French had an understandable reaction to the 1944 Allied Invasion who saw Allied troops rape and pillage their countryside while Vichy France under Marshall Petain of WWI fame at least had cordial relations with German authorities. Petain had already seen the atrocities of warfare on his home's soil and could be forgiven for working with the Germans to not let it happen again.
Zionism is not Nazism as you say, but Bolshevism run amok. And it is finally causing the Israeli state to eat itself alive. As far as I am concerned, this can't happen fast enough as the entire world has just about had as much of Jewish victim-hood and their subsequent atrocities as one planet can handle.
Before you consider your reply, you may want to consider reading David Hoggan's, "The Forced War", which is to date, the definitive, diplomatic history of how and why WWII came about. There are also innumerable books on the actual histories on the creation of modern Israel. The best ones so far that I have read are the two books by Thomas Suarez, "State of Terror" and "Palestine Hijacked". Both completely drawn from Israeli and Zionist archives, these books will give you nightmares for weeks.
And considering that I have seen enough horrors in my own life, this is some accomplishment to one has been studying warfare since childhood...
Thank you for your impressive reply and considerable supportive info on the topic.
I note that you did not read my 'The origin of the monster', for which i gave a link to Julian's post of my article. It includes on a more abstract level the same histories as you are writing about.
But i start with some philosophical way of looking at what is Evil. Not all animals know 'evil'. I dare say almost none. So what is Evil for humanity ?
Because i got many questions about the first part of 'the Monster', i added a new part to it, based on AI Deep Seek (X - Grok) about the Nature of homo sapiens and how that has changed in no more than 100.000 years, mainly in Africa.
Here the link to 'The Monster version 1.01 Delta':
The link to the main article is in one of my replies above in our discussion.
To give an over-all reply, i would say that the viewpoint i try to use in the Monster is in Sensing what happens below the surface and not only the superficial streams, but the deep streams that really drive humanity. And i try to follow what we sense as 'Evil' from it origin to the days we live in.
The Monster is still or again located in the City of London and is desperately trying to get a foothold in the 'Heartland' to ultimately control the whole world.
Cassandra
PS. On the issue of Communism:
that is a concept and as such can be manipulated by The Monster and its tentacles. But the Natural feelings of homo sapiens are in supporting each other on an equal basis with special care for the young, the Old and the handicapped. We are a Social Mammals species and our role in our original habitat was that of Prey. But that has changed. We now are predators that eat almost all other species. We had to adapt and we were best provided with the means to adapt: Language, fire, tools, leadership, increasing the maximal size of a group... We now can produce groups of over 10 million...
OK. Stalin was a Dictator and the ideology of centralising economy failed after the war, because it was not adaptive enough.
What my parents and me saw in Communism was exactly that, our feelings of being one huge family living together. After i read about Stalin and the Bolshevik revolution, that made me choose for following Anarcho-Communism, because i started hating Authority, feeling something evil in it. I did not know i was Autistic then, but it was my thinking in wordless reality that made me sense that. OK, that was what i tried to say.
Cassandra... Again, thank you for your informative notes.
The study of evil per-say is called "ponerology" (from Greek πονηρός ponērós, "evil"). Not a popular subject for study by any means.
I believe the difficulty here is that "evil" itself is a Human abstraction applied to horrendous things that cannot be explained easily to the average person.
Stalin could easily fall under such an abstraction given the enormity of his crimes.
However, Adolf Hitler not so much as he was not the man he has been made out to be in the mass media for so many years.
For one, Adolf Hitler was a highly intelligent person. He was able to read a technical book in a single day from cover-to-cover, and had a personal library of over 12,000 books; not something a stupid person would have. He was able to easily converse on a multitude of subjects including architecture and mechanics. he also designed some of the munition supply containers that were used during the war.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and loved children. The last is one of the reasons (among several) why I believe the so-called Holocaust is nothing but made up fantasy.
The idea that Adolf Hitler wanted to dominate the world would be laughable if so many people hadn't believed it. One can see simply from the tactical nature of German Forces that such an endeavor, even if it were anticipated, would have never had the means to have been carried out.
Nonetheless, I really don't like such abstractions because they cannot be analyzed within any relatable context.
If we call Adolf Hitler "evil", what does that actually mean? Is he then any more "evil" than the deranged criminal mind who puts a baby into a microwave?
In both cases, I just see such people as just "shitty Human beings", who are the products of their backgrounds and to a small degree genetics (psychopaths are born but most are not criminal while sociopaths are created and are often violent).
Stalin was clearly a classic case of paranoia mixed with god-knows-what else (sort of like Trump who is a classic narcissist). One could call him "evil" but in reality, he was just a murderous, criminal thug, just like many US presidents.
Despite this, I can understand you being drawn to Communist theory\ideology. In reality there is nothing intrinsically wrong with it. It is just another economic model like Capitalism or Socialism. And there are some very real benefits to structuring a society around Communist thought. However, I believe where everything goes wrong is that leaders in societies attempt to brand an entire society as Communist or Capitalist or whatever. Each economic model can only be used successfully to a certain extent. For example, Communist-styled businesses can be as successful as any Capitalist one. It is simply in the implementation.
And you are right, Communism was supposed to bring people together as a sense of oneness. Unfortunately, the realities of the Stalin regime (which was not really Communist at all except in name) had very short-sighted people, damning the entire concept.
With Communism, as well as Socialism (to a degree), westerners tend to believe that the ban on private property means that one can never own house. However, such a restriction was never meant in such a way. Instead, it meant that companies could not be owners of labor and that the state would manage oversight in all industry.
Obviously, this cannot work out very well if it follows that all such entities must overseen by the state.
China, it appears, has been very successful in applying a Communist infrastructure to certain state industries while allowing others to become quite Capitalistic. Hence her economic flexibility.
Like The Third Reich, China prevents any one industry from gaining monopolistic control at the expense of everyone else. In order to do this, The Reich disbanded the trade unions, an act which has been popularized as a negative against The Reich. However, what is not commonly known is that The Reich created The Board of Manufacturing, which was devised to force companies and their workers to develop their own solutions to various issues. As a result, representatives from both management and employee were equally represented in this entity. And it appeared to work quite well.
China takes a more authoritarian approach but it is working for them and from what I can understand, the populace is generally quite happy with the results. Who then can say that such system is bad?
Of course, US leadership will because they want the entire world to submit to their economic demands. They are ll living in a past that never really existed and have, as a result, become a danger to the entire world...
Zelenskyy may accept the ceasefire, but just as in all such pauses before, the nationalist elements of the UAF will surely break the peace. Expect a drone attack of the parade in Moscow or some suchprovocation. He couldn't get them to withdraw to the agreed Minsk Accord lines in 2015 and he can't get them to stop shooting now, either.
How does anyone know what Zelensky is thinking? To me he is as clinically insane as Trump...
Well Steve...
Mostly calling an other, or even worse, many others 'Insane', is an indication that you do not understand them, or the situation that they feel they are facing.
For Z, he plays a role, like in a play, in this case a 'Drama'. Sometimes he makes 'mistakes' and the hidden from sight 'Blower' corrects him (he often doesn't like that) because his role is fixed. (But i assume he doesn't know that he will not survive in the role in this play performance.)
For Trump 2 important things play a role:
1. He is possibly Highly intelligent (85% probability) and Autistic/Asperger (55% probability). He has developed a perfect 'Masking' defense. Being Autistic myself, i recognise that. He sets others 'on the wrong Leg', like in a boxing match (Dutch saying), meaning: 'Misleading'.
2. He knows what he wants, but doesn't have all knowledge and experience that is necessary and he cannot trust those in and around the White House, The Senate and Congress, because of the Bunch of Hidden or openly Neocons, Zionists and other corrupted individuals. And he does certainly not trust the Pentagon, the CIA and NSA etc.
His knowledge and experience with Trade 'Dealing' does NOT work in Diplomacy, as he now certainly has found out. And to make things even worse, he cannot trust all those in his team, since they are more or less influenced by the DeepState or the Zionists. His man in the Pentagon has recently been swallowed by one of the Tentacles of the Monster in the Deep State. He can trust maybe 3 or 4 of them.
So for an outsider his behaviour is illogical and unpredictable (otherwise he would have been toppled already).
He has to immediately quit from the War on Russia (because that is what is going on in Ukraine), without being blamed for the inevitable overthrow of the NAZI-Regime in Kiev. He lost valuable time (100 days) in finding out that a Ceasefire BEFORE a done DEAL was IMPOSSIBLE with that NAZI Regime and the NAZIS in Brussels, because they are both controlled from the City of London, where the Monster is. The same was true with the negotiations at the end of the Vietnam War in Paris. The War continued till the deal was concluded.
Just saying
Cassandra
I believe you are attempting to rationalize something that has no rational basis.
One, Trump has absolutely no training in the areas he is attempting to make decisions against. And two, he was sired and raised by a sociopathic father, which he appears to be following in the footsteps of. Hence, his early alignment with Roy Cohen.
Most people believe that insanity is something they see in the movies. But Trump is a combination of a psychotic, narcissistic, degenerate personality.
The result is that he is quite insane, given his stupid policies and the overwhelming rejection of them outside the circle of sycophants that he surrounds himself with.
And the Ukraine situation has nothing to do with The Third Reich, but everyone just loves to call anything monstrous as Nazism. However, the term Nazi is western one and The Third Reich was quite rational in its policies given what it underwent in the 1920s and 1930s. But you have to study the diplomatic histories to understand this.
Whatever Ukraine is or isn't, it has never had anything to do with National Socialism.
The people who like to parade around National Socialist symbols in The Third Reich would have all been locked up as emotionally deranged people.
I think you're both right. As in, Zelensky's not simply "insane" but neither he is "acting".
The coke monkey knows full well his survival (political and VERY likely physical) is tied to his position. Should he lose power, he's bound to have an "accident" either by his own Nazi owners (in order to pin all the blame on him or "punishment" for not winning the war) or by Western intelligence (because we can't risk him blabbering about those sacks of money 'accidentally' ending up in EU and US diplomats' baggage, can we?).
So, he is behaving irrationally exactly like a person panicking and on the edge of a nervous breakdown. The best analogy I can find is of a compulsive gambler who lost everything at the poker table. He can't get up and go out, or he'll have to face the consequences, bankruptcy, a drastic reduction in lifestyle, etc. As long as he can keep playing, betting money he doesn't have, signing fake checks, he not only can avoid facing reality, he can hope in a stroke of luck saving his sorry ass.
Of course, Z's well known abuse of cocaine does also help a lot in explaining his irrational behaviour and temper tantrums; after all, side effects include anxiety, paranoia, psychosis and cognitive impairment leading to poor impulse control and decision making.
Thank you for your reply Steve.
Do i guess right that you are in the US ?
I live in The Netherlands, my parents fought 5 years in the communist resistance, as continuation for their support for 'De Internationale Rode Hulp', helping those who fled the NAZI-regime, Jews and other Communists, to go to Spain, or England.
So as child, born just after the war, they explained to me what Nazism was like.
->https://johnriddell.com/2021/07/29/international-red-aid-1922-1937/
->https://spartakus.miraheze.org/wiki/International_Red_Aid
My father worked in the Harbour and together with some comrades organised the only Strike against the NAZI's in Europe (Except the uprising in Warsaw by Jews themselves).
->https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/amsterdam-general-strike-february-1941
I have a different way of thinking. I recognise the 'type of' Evil that was manifest in Nazism and today in Zionism. It is 'Unnatural', 'Inhuman' for Humans and needs a long trajectory of brainwashing and de-humanisation to produce them.
Did you read my article that Julian published, about 'The Monster' ?
->https://open.substack.com/pub/julianmacfarlane/p/cassandra-origin-of-the-monster?r=5fz4bm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
So, you understand, that i do not recognise your explanation.
Take a look at this collection of photo's from the Kiev Regime.
->https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gp0RzsiW8AAS5cK?format=jpg
But you have of course the right to have your own thoughts about it.
Just saying.
Cassandra
Thank you for your informative notes...
To begin my reply, I was not talking about The Third Reich during the war years but what shaped it during the 1920s and 1930s.
WWII on all sides was an atrocity that never should have happened but you have Britain and Poland to that for that. And FDR was their biggest cheerleader for doing so. To date, no one has really understood FDR's hatred for Germany. However, it is thought that while FDR was never able to pull the US out of its depression, The Reich was growing and expanding its economy at breakneck speed, mostly due to the fact that Adolf Hitler and his finance minister removed the power of the German bankers.
By the time Germany invaded Poland, the Soviet Union had already invaded and occupied in full or in part 7 countries but no one said a thing. In 1940, Stalin invaded Finland because he wanted its port area in the southeast.
France and Serbia played the same roles prior to WWI that Britain and Poland would play prior to WWII.
Like you, I had family involved in the war in both Europe and the Pacific. A part of my extended family died in the camps. And growing up we were indoctrinated in the US with "Jews" good, "Germans" bad. It took a long time of in depth studying to get that crap out of my head.
Europeans are hardly strangers to mass propaganda. And prior to WWII you had Britain again to thank as they were the actual creators of "The Big Lie", not Goebbels. Actually, a lot of speeches made by Goebbels were made based on realities and not the fantasies of the West.
Though your relatives who fought with and\or for the Communists were probably convinced they were fighting on the right side of history, nothing could have been further from the truth. Stalin and the USSR were responsible for over 60,000,000 deaths of innocents from the 1920s on.
Your relatives were not fighting for Communism but instead Jewish Bolshevism, which was a Jewish inspired ideology of raw power and subordination of the masses. Until Stalin purged the ruling USSR councils, around 80% of its members were Bolshevik Jews. After the purging such numbers were substantially reduced but not with NKVD, where the Jewish leadership retained its power and continued its murderous rampage throughout Russia, killing anyone they thought were against Stalin's Regime.
And though today President Putin (I man I admire) still goes on about "The Great Patriotic War" during WWII, no such thing ever happened. Documentation has clearly shown that Stalin had plans to overrun the entirety of Europe. And the though The Reich may have not been aware of it at the time, they halted these plans with its invasions to the east in 1941.
This part of WWII would become the most brutal period of warfare in Human history. As a result, there is no doubt that many felt the side they were fighting for was the correct one. But it was all so unnecessary...
After the war, even Churchill (a man of little competence or common sense, and a true warmonger) recognized that it was the USSR, which was the enemy of the West, not Germany. General George Patton said the same openly and was probably assassinated for it.
In the end, it really doesn't matter whose family members died or did what or why, but the fact that the leadership in the West and in the USSR at the time were set on their own visions of world domination; even FDR sent such a cable to Churchill whose reaction was that FDR was "mad".
And today, the Balkans still can't figure out who they hate more. At least the French had an understandable reaction to the 1944 Allied Invasion who saw Allied troops rape and pillage their countryside while Vichy France under Marshall Petain of WWI fame at least had cordial relations with German authorities. Petain had already seen the atrocities of warfare on his home's soil and could be forgiven for working with the Germans to not let it happen again.
Zionism is not Nazism as you say, but Bolshevism run amok. And it is finally causing the Israeli state to eat itself alive. As far as I am concerned, this can't happen fast enough as the entire world has just about had as much of Jewish victim-hood and their subsequent atrocities as one planet can handle.
Before you consider your reply, you may want to consider reading David Hoggan's, "The Forced War", which is to date, the definitive, diplomatic history of how and why WWII came about. There are also innumerable books on the actual histories on the creation of modern Israel. The best ones so far that I have read are the two books by Thomas Suarez, "State of Terror" and "Palestine Hijacked". Both completely drawn from Israeli and Zionist archives, these books will give you nightmares for weeks.
And considering that I have seen enough horrors in my own life, this is some accomplishment to one has been studying warfare since childhood...
Thank you for your impressive reply and considerable supportive info on the topic.
I note that you did not read my 'The origin of the monster', for which i gave a link to Julian's post of my article. It includes on a more abstract level the same histories as you are writing about.
But i start with some philosophical way of looking at what is Evil. Not all animals know 'evil'. I dare say almost none. So what is Evil for humanity ?
Because i got many questions about the first part of 'the Monster', i added a new part to it, based on AI Deep Seek (X - Grok) about the Nature of homo sapiens and how that has changed in no more than 100.000 years, mainly in Africa.
Here the link to 'The Monster version 1.01 Delta':
->https://open.substack.com/pub/julianmacfarlane/p/cassandra-origin-of-the-monster?r=5fz4bm&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=111049321
The link to the main article is in one of my replies above in our discussion.
To give an over-all reply, i would say that the viewpoint i try to use in the Monster is in Sensing what happens below the surface and not only the superficial streams, but the deep streams that really drive humanity. And i try to follow what we sense as 'Evil' from it origin to the days we live in.
The Monster is still or again located in the City of London and is desperately trying to get a foothold in the 'Heartland' to ultimately control the whole world.
Cassandra
PS. On the issue of Communism:
that is a concept and as such can be manipulated by The Monster and its tentacles. But the Natural feelings of homo sapiens are in supporting each other on an equal basis with special care for the young, the Old and the handicapped. We are a Social Mammals species and our role in our original habitat was that of Prey. But that has changed. We now are predators that eat almost all other species. We had to adapt and we were best provided with the means to adapt: Language, fire, tools, leadership, increasing the maximal size of a group... We now can produce groups of over 10 million...
OK. Stalin was a Dictator and the ideology of centralising economy failed after the war, because it was not adaptive enough.
What my parents and me saw in Communism was exactly that, our feelings of being one huge family living together. After i read about Stalin and the Bolshevik revolution, that made me choose for following Anarcho-Communism, because i started hating Authority, feeling something evil in it. I did not know i was Autistic then, but it was my thinking in wordless reality that made me sense that. OK, that was what i tried to say.
Cassandra... Again, thank you for your informative notes.
The study of evil per-say is called "ponerology" (from Greek πονηρός ponērós, "evil"). Not a popular subject for study by any means.
I believe the difficulty here is that "evil" itself is a Human abstraction applied to horrendous things that cannot be explained easily to the average person.
Stalin could easily fall under such an abstraction given the enormity of his crimes.
However, Adolf Hitler not so much as he was not the man he has been made out to be in the mass media for so many years.
For one, Adolf Hitler was a highly intelligent person. He was able to read a technical book in a single day from cover-to-cover, and had a personal library of over 12,000 books; not something a stupid person would have. He was able to easily converse on a multitude of subjects including architecture and mechanics. he also designed some of the munition supply containers that were used during the war.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and loved children. The last is one of the reasons (among several) why I believe the so-called Holocaust is nothing but made up fantasy.
The idea that Adolf Hitler wanted to dominate the world would be laughable if so many people hadn't believed it. One can see simply from the tactical nature of German Forces that such an endeavor, even if it were anticipated, would have never had the means to have been carried out.
Nonetheless, I really don't like such abstractions because they cannot be analyzed within any relatable context.
If we call Adolf Hitler "evil", what does that actually mean? Is he then any more "evil" than the deranged criminal mind who puts a baby into a microwave?
In both cases, I just see such people as just "shitty Human beings", who are the products of their backgrounds and to a small degree genetics (psychopaths are born but most are not criminal while sociopaths are created and are often violent).
Stalin was clearly a classic case of paranoia mixed with god-knows-what else (sort of like Trump who is a classic narcissist). One could call him "evil" but in reality, he was just a murderous, criminal thug, just like many US presidents.
Despite this, I can understand you being drawn to Communist theory\ideology. In reality there is nothing intrinsically wrong with it. It is just another economic model like Capitalism or Socialism. And there are some very real benefits to structuring a society around Communist thought. However, I believe where everything goes wrong is that leaders in societies attempt to brand an entire society as Communist or Capitalist or whatever. Each economic model can only be used successfully to a certain extent. For example, Communist-styled businesses can be as successful as any Capitalist one. It is simply in the implementation.
And you are right, Communism was supposed to bring people together as a sense of oneness. Unfortunately, the realities of the Stalin regime (which was not really Communist at all except in name) had very short-sighted people, damning the entire concept.
With Communism, as well as Socialism (to a degree), westerners tend to believe that the ban on private property means that one can never own house. However, such a restriction was never meant in such a way. Instead, it meant that companies could not be owners of labor and that the state would manage oversight in all industry.
Obviously, this cannot work out very well if it follows that all such entities must overseen by the state.
China, it appears, has been very successful in applying a Communist infrastructure to certain state industries while allowing others to become quite Capitalistic. Hence her economic flexibility.
Like The Third Reich, China prevents any one industry from gaining monopolistic control at the expense of everyone else. In order to do this, The Reich disbanded the trade unions, an act which has been popularized as a negative against The Reich. However, what is not commonly known is that The Reich created The Board of Manufacturing, which was devised to force companies and their workers to develop their own solutions to various issues. As a result, representatives from both management and employee were equally represented in this entity. And it appeared to work quite well.
China takes a more authoritarian approach but it is working for them and from what I can understand, the populace is generally quite happy with the results. Who then can say that such system is bad?
Of course, US leadership will because they want the entire world to submit to their economic demands. They are ll living in a past that never really existed and have, as a result, become a danger to the entire world...
Zelenskyy may accept the ceasefire, but just as in all such pauses before, the nationalist elements of the UAF will surely break the peace. Expect a drone attack of the parade in Moscow or some suchprovocation. He couldn't get them to withdraw to the agreed Minsk Accord lines in 2015 and he can't get them to stop shooting now, either.