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That is the level of understanding that the NYT piece seems to be promoting, but it is not at all my point. The point of the quote I posted is that these "devi
by bloaf 6y ago
That is the level of understanding that the NYT piece seems to be promoting, but it is not at all my point.
The point of the quote I posted is that these "deviationists" do not jump on bandwagons of any kind, be they good or bad. Therefore, political movements that expect uncritical acceptance of their ideas see them as opponents even if they mostly agree.
- jessaustin 6y agoI confess I like the summary in your reply a great deal more than the excerpt in your original post. It is a fact about humans that many of them think and perhaps even overthink various topics of import, leading to indecision, ambivalence, sometimes even confusion. Those humans are not worse humans than their brethren who seek only to support what they currently perceive to be their tribe. [EDIT:] In fact I think you have completely misunderstood Dorothy Thompson, since the Nazis were overwhelmingly the latter rather than the former sort of human. A complete reading of her essay is a complete reading of a set of wooden stereotypes, interesting only for the fact that it records the propaganda of an era in which a previously apparently peaceful nation was girding itself for world war. Ms Thompson includes such scintillating analysis as "Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi." Good grief.
- bloaf 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Thompson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Thompson