Adolf Hitler's Reading Technique
When the "Waldorf
Critics" kept suggesting a connection between Anthroposophy
and Nazism, I found it necessary to repeat a post I had made
to talk.origins after seeing how Christians and Darwinists were
blaming each other's ideologies for Hitler and the holocaust.
It's based upon something I read in Gerald Suster's book "Hitler:
Black Magician."
It shows that just about
anyone or anything alive or in existence prior to the 1930's
can be accused of having fuelled Nazism and the Holocaust.
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From: Tarjei Straume
Subject: Adolf Hitler's reading technique
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 10:52:32 +0100
My fellow subscribers,
About a year ago, there was a long, long thread
on talk.origins where a Christian fundamentalist, who argued
for the validity of "creation science," endeavored
to establish that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was in
some responsibility for the Holocaust. Here is my contribution
to the thread in question, which was entitled "Evolution,
Religion, and National Socialism":
"It's totally ridiculous and ignorant
to make Hitler and the Holocaust into an ethical-ideological
football in the evolution/creation "controversy". A
year and a half ago, I wrote a long article about Nazi occultism
for our anarchist magazine Gateavisa (http://www.pluto.no/doogie/ga/)
after extensive research on the subject. I covered most of their
sciences, pseudo-sciences, religious rituals and beliefs, and
their ideology.
"What has to be understood in this context
is that Adolf Hitler developed a very special reading technique
when he was in prison - a method of study which in his case proved
remarkably effective. He ensured his readers in "Mein Kampf"
that it was his habit to resort to books if he wanted to solve
a problem. He insisted that his method of reading, better than
any other, consisted of "remembering the essential and forgetting
the unessential completely". In practice, this meant defining
what is essential, which in the case of Adolf Hitler did not
entail logical analysis, but an intuitive and emotional process
of comprehension, which he skillfully united with whatever appealed
to his own prejudices.
"From Schopenhauer he took fatalism and
the idea of the will, but he forgot the Buddhism and the pessimism.
From Nietzsche he took the concept of evolution, the will to
power, and the Übermensch, but he forgot that this Übermensch
should not conquer his fellow man, but himself. He took from
Wagner the racism, heroism, and paganism, but he forgot the Arianized
Christianity. Further, he took from Helena Blavatsky (the pioneer
of spiritual evolution) and other occultists what he wanted and
conveniently forgot everything that did not harmonize with his
own world view.
"With this in mind, it should be self-evident
what a hopeless waste of time and energy it is to blame Nazism
on all kinds of pre-Nazi sources of knowledge, ideology, philosophy,
and religion."
It goes without saying that Darwin and Steiner
share the same boat here, and it is very interesting that Dan
Dugan has indeed recruited Christian fundamentalists to support
his campaign (Watchman Fellowship).
Cheers,
Tarjei
http://www.uncletaz.com/
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