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Otherwise, people are left with sentiments that will fester and eventually boil over again. This does seem to very often be the pattern, which makes it pretty
by lacker 5y ago
Otherwise, people are left with sentiments that will fester and eventually boil over again.
This does seem to very often be the pattern, which makes it pretty surprising to me in retrospect how smoothly Germany and Japan have adapted to the post-World-War-2 international order. They aren't completely nonexistent, but German Nazi groups and Japanese imperialist groups certainly have not dominated the post-war political scene, and democracy seems pretty firmly entrenched in both those countries.
So, perhaps you don't need to wipe out every man, woman, and child a la Deuteronomy, and there is some sort of post-war intervention that can be successful in creating a lasting peace. I don't have a much stronger conclusion than "sometimes it is possible", though.
- dylan604 5y agoDon't forget about time. Those small groups become larger groups with time. WWII hasn't been that long ago relatively speaking. Since the Civil War, it seems, there has been enough time for certain ideas to have grown to a large enough numbers of people that we are where we are today. This is sounding dangerously close to me supporting wiping out entire swaths of people, which I'm absolutely not. It's understanding the reasonings for those that do isn't so illogical. It just doesn't sit well with anyone that feels differently.
- krapp 5y ago>Germany and Japan have adapted to the post-World-War-2 international order. They aren't completely nonexistent, but German Nazi groups and Japanese imperialist groups certainly have not dominated the post-war political scene, and democracy seems pretty firmly entrenched in both those countries. Germany and Japan no longer romanticize and idolize revolutionary violence and nationalism, whereas the US very much still does in the mythology that its built around gun culture and the Founding Fathers - in no small part because the US suffered relatively little for its part in World War 2, and never actually learned the lessons the rest of the world did.
- zozbot234 5y ago> Germany and Japan no longer romanticize and idolize revolutionary violence and nationalism There's plenty of idolization of it in Germany still, with the prevalent myth of a "clean" Wermacht. Often the proponents of the myth end up unwittingly parroting transparent Nazi-era propaganda about the supposed heroic deeds of whatever random, obscure German military figure.