vlog. SPDF Day 18: (Thought experiment). What MIGHT you and others have done in the late 1920's or early 1930's to prevent Hitler, WWII, the Holocaust?
Back in the late 1920s and early to mid 1930s what might you have done, you and people like you, differently, that might have prevented Hitler, prevented the extermination of six million eastern Europeans, gypsies, Catholics, and another six million Jews? What might you have done that thereby would have headed off world war two?
The ultimate statement, the ultimate attention getter given the wiring of our nervous systems, is risking one's life for a cause, or giving one's life for a cause. This is inarguable by anyone who is honest.
I'm unaware of activists, so called activists, of that time, that did any such thing. Whte Rose did later, to late; and Dietrich Bonoffer and a few others did, much later, much too late.
Presumably activest wrote memos, had meetings, had more meetings, had talks, wrote books, spoke to their friends.... All those things probably helped. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Tens of millions were slaughtered because no one stopped what was coming about, no one changed the future.
Would making a more heroic, more aggressive, more militant nonviolent attempt have been worth one person's life? Wouldn't that have been worth the lives of 10,000 nonviolent warriors? Of course it would. That is without question.
The question is can you, can I, WILL you or I, become one of those people now? We are at beyond the equivalent of the late 1920s early to mid 1930s Germany. We're on the verge of unstoppable ecocide. We're on the verge of a another, probably much larger slaughter in Palestine, quite possibly a total final genocide. We're on the verge of the extinguishing of United States democracy for many many many generations. There's much more at stake than ever before.
If in this thought experiment you can imagine that in 19 late twenties early 1930s Germany you might have chosen to escalate beyond anything that was done, you need to apply that imagination to today. And you need to do it now. I'll do my part of trying to show us the way, but I can't do your part..
Dr. Jane Goodall: "We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources."
