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@p @dj @amerika @lina @ins0mniak @j @why I don't even dislike the National Socialists, I just think the mythologizing of Hitler himself is bizarre. Some of his administration seemed legitimately schizophrenic. Many of his early supporters were later persecuted by him, and much like other politicians, he can't tell the truth to save his life. The guy practically contradicted himself every other speech.

I don't inherently have an issue with lying, but he was barely clever about it. Just said whatever he thought everyone wanted to hear. Carl Jung said this was because he embraced Wotan, the spirit of the Germans. Fanciful, but some might suggest he just got a dopamine hit from the cheers of the crowds. Who's to say who's right?

Administratively, I view Hitler as a more naive version of Lincoln, who I'm also not a fan of, but motives aside, at least he knew what he was doing. Hitler drove his own movement to ruin. The drawback of Dionysian power is that it lacks wisdom. It always sews the seeds of its own demise at its foundation, and Hitler, being a student of Nietzsche, somehow failed to understand that he was enacting the exact pattern described in his books.