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Monday, June 19, 2023

San Francisco, Chicago, Baltimore And Berlin

 Dig these.

San Francisco, Now

Chicago, Now

This is a suburb of Chicago.

Baltimore, Now

Berlin After The War, 1945


We Don't Know When We Are

That sequence is what I mean when I see this or that person doesn't know when he is. Five months prior to that video from Berlin, to pick a length of time almost at random, Nazi officials were giving speeches about the glories of National Socialism and the Reich's newscasts talked about how the Luftwaffe was shooting down bombers by the dozens. It was all nonsense. The place was in ruins, because of National Socialism. If National Socialism was going to work, it would have born better fruits than flattened cities and a generation of dead, young Aryans.

The evidence of its failure was clear to see.

These days, we hear speeches about racial justice, social justice and gender affirmation. Our social media sites, save for Twitter, enforce censorship codes that prevent you from exploring the causes of the horrors of the modern events above. 

By 1943, the Nazi experiment had failed. The next two years were just Germany being ground into dust because they wouldn't surrender. Today, the progressive experiment has failed. We're just delaying the inevitable by allowing it to drag on and on and on.

Our national media, the CNNs and the NPRs have seen all of those videos, images, news stories and more. Like the Reich news media, they tailor what they present to us to hide what is really happening. Almost all of us have seen the homeless, the crime, the filth and the degeneracy, but so long as we're not given the big picture, we can be uncertain about how widespread the failure is.

Oh sure, our freeway overpasses here in San Diego are littered with drug addicts in tents, but the newscasts are telling us Trump was arraigned and Juneteenth celebrations are in full, wholesome swing across the country. Maybe things aren't going badly. Besides, aren't our officials working hard to suppress white supremacy and hate?

Oh sure, our neighborhood got whacked by the Eighth Air Force last night, but the newscasts say that 83 B-17s were shot down and Hamburg was untouched. Maybe things aren't going badly. Besides, it sounds like the Bolsheviks are taking a beating on the Eastern Front.

National Socialism, the idea that all power should be given to the government and racial differences were a thing, was a failure. Unfortunately, it wasn't acknowledged until May 1945. Its lineal descendants, critical race theory and gender ideology, are failures. In places like San Francisco, Chicago and Baltimore, we're around September, 1944. That's when we are.

Unfortunately, we still have plenty of people consuming the propaganda from the media, the Academy and the entertainment industry telling us things are actually going really, really well.

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1 comment:

  1. tim eisele2:00 PM

    If you are really wanting to find parallels with what happened to Germany, I recommend that you read the first part of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". While there are some similarities between the situation in the US now, and Germany before the war, there are also a lot of extremely profound differences. In particular, it wasn't just the Nazis. They actually came to power because the fighting between the old aristocracy and the various communist factions had pretty much wrecked the country. The Nazis were basically positioning themselves on the side of the aristocracy and the industrialists, against the communists. And Hindenburg ultimately appointed Hitler as Chancellor (even though he didn't actually like Hitler or the Nazis) because he thought that the Nazis were necessary for overcoming the communists.

    To be fair, Hindenburg was kind of between a rock and a hard place. If the Communists took over, then Germany was going to get ingested by the Soviet Union, which depending on how things went could have resulted in a World War II that was even more horrific than what happened with Hitler in our timeline. Handing things over to the Nazis might have looked at the time like the lesser of two evils.

    My point is, I don't think the people you are complaining about in the US can be usefully compared to the Nazis. They are much more like the German Communists, right down to the kind of scattered, uncoordinated activity and the lack of a clear, charismatic leader. A group that could be compared usefully to the Nazis would be one that (a) has one outspoken, charismatic leader, perhaps with a few trusted underlings; (b) claims that everything is falling apart due to the communist analogs, abetted by a shadowy minority group that a lot of people are predisposed to be prejudiced against; and (c) claims that they can fix everything by returning to a former state of glory, where they are in control.

    https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-ebook/dp/B07XD76H41?ref_=ast_author_dp

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