I suspect that it's all but impossible to know what Hitler thought about anything, including Nietzsche, other than that he badly wanted to rule the entire world. This is largely due to the fact that he was likely intentionally confusing.
In Mein Kampf he claimed to be a Catholic, said it was foolish to change existing religions, and at times used the death of Christ as fuel for hatred of the Jews. At other times he hinted that he wanted all religion to die before "the advances of science". Completely hypocritically regarding leaving religions as they are, he later proposed altering Christianity to remove Jewish influence and described Christ as an "Aryan warrior". He had crosses replaced with pictures of his face in various churches and even hatched a plan to kidnap the pope. Just when you think he's probably an atheist, he criticises atheism. It seems he hated existing religions but saw Jesus as a valuable tool, but what did this man really think?
He originally entered the rightist party that he later transformed into the Nazis as a part of a mission to infiltrate it that was assigned by a leftist group he was in. They figured his verbosity would help him fit in, but when the group not only accepted him but started looking to him as a leader, he essentially ditched his assigned mission and just sought to create his own thing. Was he a leftist or a rightist? Did he even care? It seems he was never on either side, merely working his way up.
The confusion is all in line with his leadership style. He discouraged his men from speaking privately with one another and often gave them completely conflicting orders to foster competition and hatred between them. As long as they were only unified in the sense that they served Hitler, there could never be an uprising against him.
As for the Jews, it's surprisingly not difficult to make the argument that he didn't even have a problem with them as he purportedly got along fantastically with many of them during his days in WWI, and as for what he claimed was the problem, it was all over the place. How the fuck do you simultaneously claim that Jews want out-of-control, iron-fist capitalism and also communism?
He was admittedly in love with deceit. I suspect that all we can say for sure is that he was a psychopath and that he possessed above average intelligence. Putting arrogance above that intelligence was his downfall as he attempted to maintain 100% control over all military operations even as his war experts insisted he should split the workload up and let them do their thing on various fronts.
At any rate, regardless of all that, I fully agree that natural selection results in the creation of ecosystems.
Wow man. I can see you have a serious liberal arts background going here. I value conversation with guys like you. I would have loved to become a generalist, but chose instead to spend four years with multivariate calculus, computer science, finance, and a couple of graduate classes in Electrical Engineering.
Anyway as you have said, falling in love with your own deceitfulness is usually a sign of impending doom. Too bad we can't meet for lunch sometime. If you can talk to the level of that previous comment, I could reciprocate with whatever $300/hour IT consulting advice you could ever want.
It's definitely too bad that we can't have lunch sometime.
Also, I would say that's still fairly generalist of you; in my experience people who study finance or computer science tend to find the other field uninteresting. I'm sure they're valuable skills to have in conjunction.
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I suspect that it's all but impossible to know what Hitler thought about anything, including Nietzsche, other than that he badly wanted to rule the entire world. This is largely due to the fact that he was likely intentionally confusing.
In Mein Kampf he claimed to be a Catholic, said it was foolish to change existing religions, and at times used the death of Christ as fuel for hatred of the Jews. At other times he hinted that he wanted all religion to die before "the advances of science". Completely hypocritically regarding leaving religions as they are, he later proposed altering Christianity to remove Jewish influence and described Christ as an "Aryan warrior". He had crosses replaced with pictures of his face in various churches and even hatched a plan to kidnap the pope. Just when you think he's probably an atheist, he criticises atheism. It seems he hated existing religions but saw Jesus as a valuable tool, but what did this man really think?
He originally entered the rightist party that he later transformed into the Nazis as a part of a mission to infiltrate it that was assigned by a leftist group he was in. They figured his verbosity would help him fit in, but when the group not only accepted him but started looking to him as a leader, he essentially ditched his assigned mission and just sought to create his own thing. Was he a leftist or a rightist? Did he even care? It seems he was never on either side, merely working his way up.
The confusion is all in line with his leadership style. He discouraged his men from speaking privately with one another and often gave them completely conflicting orders to foster competition and hatred between them. As long as they were only unified in the sense that they served Hitler, there could never be an uprising against him.
As for the Jews, it's surprisingly not difficult to make the argument that he didn't even have a problem with them as he purportedly got along fantastically with many of them during his days in WWI, and as for what he claimed was the problem, it was all over the place. How the fuck do you simultaneously claim that Jews want out-of-control, iron-fist capitalism and also communism?
He was admittedly in love with deceit. I suspect that all we can say for sure is that he was a psychopath and that he possessed above average intelligence. Putting arrogance above that intelligence was his downfall as he attempted to maintain 100% control over all military operations even as his war experts insisted he should split the workload up and let them do their thing on various fronts.
At any rate, regardless of all that, I fully agree that natural selection results in the creation of ecosystems.
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Wow man. I can see you have a serious liberal arts background going here. I value conversation with guys like you. I would have loved to become a generalist, but chose instead to spend four years with multivariate calculus, computer science, finance, and a couple of graduate classes in Electrical Engineering.
Anyway as you have said, falling in love with your own deceitfulness is usually a sign of impending doom. Too bad we can't meet for lunch sometime. If you can talk to the level of that previous comment, I could reciprocate with whatever $300/hour IT consulting advice you could ever want.
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It's definitely too bad that we can't have lunch sometime.
Also, I would say that's still fairly generalist of you; in my experience people who study finance or computer science tend to find the other field uninteresting. I'm sure they're valuable skills to have in conjunction.