Posted by Declan on May 18, 2006, at 0:50:08
In reply to I don't get it., posted by curtm on May 17, 2006, at 16:37:40
If you were to look at a society/culture from the outside you might notice more connection between politics and psychology than you do looking out from inside. Lets take, for arguments sake, the stab in the back legend that was so important in Germany (to say nothing of anywhere else) after WWI. There was a political need for it, by those who had run the war, to avoid blame. And there was a personal need too, so people could say that their efforts had not been in vain. Just to psychologise, it may be that Hitler needed to treat the German people with the same degree of ruthlessness that he attributed to the Jews. I dunno if I'm making myself clear. I think it's the same thing, it's just the scale that is different.
Declan
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