Hitler and Ordinary People
A Japanese ex-professor was puzzled by Hitler, so that he wrote a book about Hitler.
He especially noted the following passages in a book Hitler wrote:
"Ordinary people have only limited absorptive capacity with small powers of comprehension, but they have big ability to lose memory.
Ordinary people feel more satisfaction inside their minds when hearing ideology that does not allow coexistence of other ideology than when facing liberalistic freedom."
The ex-professor said that Hitler himself was one of ordinary people. Therefore Hitler knew ordinary people very well.
But the ex-professor said that he had felt mystery in personality of Hitler. In order to understand Hitler, he wrote a book on Hitler based on his own experience of having lived in Vienna, Austria.
So, we should read the above passages in the Hitler's book as below:
"Hitler has only limited absorptive capacity with small powers of comprehension, but he has big ability to lose memory.
Hitler feels more satisfaction inside his mind when hearing ideology that does not allow coexistence of other ideology than when facing liberalistic freedom."
And, the reason why Hitler looked like being in a veil of mystery for the Japanese elite scholar is that the Japanese scholar cannot fully understand ordinary people.
But there was of course another key element: religion.
AlQaeda killed so many people with confidence, because their acts were linked to their sense of religion. Nazis also killed so many people with confidence (though trying to hide the acts from the world), because their acts were linked to their sense of religion. If all the Muslims thought that leaders of AlQaeda could not be accepted and praised by Allah, no young Muslims would be recruited for suicide-bombing missions. If all the Germans before WWII had thought that Hitler could not be accepted and praised by the Vatican, no ordinary Germans would have been recruited for the ethnic-clearing missions against Judaists.
In addition, there was a hidden factor, too: Looking like an idol.
Like Chaplin, Hitler did not look like a very ordinary person. In movies, Chaplin clearly looked different from other players though so uniquely comical. In reality, Hitler looked different from other politicians as uniquely artful on the political stage. Chaplin was truly an artist unlike other ordinary players. Hitler was truly a politician like an actor unlike other ordinary politicians.
So, you can find one bad and dangerous combination: an ordinary person, a religious linkage, and an uniquely idol-like characteristic.
For example, former President Mr. W. Bush shared a sense of ordinary persons in terms of intelligence and a religious linkage as he could get rid of being an alcoholic with help from a priest, but he was not good at looking uniquely idol-like on the political stage though he tried to look charming.
And, of course, President Mr. Obama and Republican Mr. Romney do not meet the conditions for having the bad and dangerous combination above mentioned. Yet, we may still have to take precautions against some dangerous biased movement in the American politics, since only the Devil can provide such wealth in Wall Street and such freedom in the mainstream American life.
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Dan 4:14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
Dan 4:15 Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:
Dan 4:16 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
Dan 4:17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
Dan 4:18 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.
Dan 4:19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.