Ping to self
They were libertarians! :p
Not exactly. These are his recorded words around the dinner table, the rough equivalent of the Nixon tapes. He did not write, edit or revise them.
Fascism and (especially) Nazism were essentially a reversion to pre-Christian ideals, while Communism was a heretical perversion of Christian ideals themselves.
Our word virtue and our word virility are both descended from the Latin for “man.”
To the ancients, these both meant manliness, which they saw as the highest good. But their idea of a real man was largely what we would think of as a bully, the dominator of others, the conqueror.
Christ provided a contending idea of what a real man is or should be. It was so foreign to the thought of the time that even his own followers didn’t really comprehend it till after his death.
The two ideas of manliness have fought it out ever since in western civilization. Chivalry was only one of many attempts to reconcile the two.
Fascism rejected the Christian ideal and reverted to the ancient pre-Christian notion. Just about everything in what Fascism stood for flowed from that.
This is as opposed to Islam, where the ideal of manliness as domination was never challenged. It was, in fact, reinforced by the example of Mohammed.
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When even your boss thinks you’re buttering him up too thick...and your boss is Adolf Hitler...yeah, you’re buttering him up too thick.
As a ceremony for illegitimate children Himmler created a “secular christening’, called an “SS name-giving”, in which the child was wrapped in a blanket covered with embroidered swastikas and runes and set before an altar, with the parents laying their hands on him and solemnly speaking his name. For their birthdays these children received by the SS a gift of candles, manufactured at no charge by the prisoners at Dachau.
By or from? Yeah, I know Dachau wasn’t about killing the whole population, but never let your casualties go to waste, right?