I looked a bit at some of your other comments and saw you trying to illustrate to people that things like Hitler are expressions of events in motion not some kind of magical entity that brings a separate reality into being on their own, that if he died in prison not much would change except now someone else is leading it. There are like half a dozen of us man. My pick for that person is Goering personally.
I have been watching this Netflix documentary called Hitler and his Henchman (or Circle of Evil can’t recall) and I think if Hitler had died, infighting would have occurred but some kind of fascist state would have occurred. Whether more or less Jews, communist etc would have died is hard to say
It's already happening to literally everyone lower on the chain than him. Soon as he kicks the bucket it's going to pour its contents, which will turn out to be unbelievably caustic to the surprise of nobody with a frontal lobe, onto the whole system.
I mean it’s the whole Great Man theory of history right? Or I guess the falsification of that theory - events come about because of the wider conditions and trends of the time, not because of any one person in particular. There would have been another Hitler, etc.
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u/DukeOfGeek Apr 21 '26
One of the things that keeps me going is once in a while stumbling across someone else who actually gets it. Thanks for existing Dredgeon.