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On the other hand, maybe it would have been better to devote more effort to pleasure. In a few years from when it was written, Germany would be devoting the fu
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
On the other hand, maybe it would have been better to devote more effort to pleasure.
In a few years from when it was written, Germany would be devoting the full power of a modern industrial economy, not to pleasure but to wipe out undesirable people.
They would is the newly developing field of electronic data processing, not for pleasure to to better target people for death.
Planes would be built not for people to travel on vacation, but to drop bombs.
Factories would work around the clock, not producing goods for pleasure, but weapons of death.
The greatest group of geniuses ever assembled, would be given an unlimited budget not to develop new forms of pleasure but to develop a weapon that could vaporize an entire city in a few seconds.
- readthenotes1 3y agoStore-bought pleasure, the opiate of the elite?
- al_borland 3y agoI have to believe there is a middle ground between devoting life to pleasure and trying to exterminate a race of people. That middle ground is most of what we call life today.
- cyber_kinetist 3y agoNo need for a middle ground; why not both? (ex. the US)
- shiroiushi 3y agoIt's not really "both" in the case of the US; as with most developed nations, the US devotes a certain percentage of its national budget to military stuff. With the US, it appears gargantuan, but that's because the US economy is the largest in the world by GDP as measured in USD, so of course it's going to look like a lot. But there's a big difference between how much the US spends today on the military vs. in WWII during its wartime economy, or Nazi Germany during that same time.