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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Oh, I can't wait for the sympathy piece on Auschwitz guards to drop any day now. They must have seen some very, very, very difficult things too, poor souls.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Shooting and Crying

Gil Hochberg described "shooting and crying" as a soldier being "sorry for things I had to do." This "non-apologetic apology" was the self-critique model advanced in Israel in many politically reflective works of literature and cinema as "a way of maintaining the nation's self-image as youthful and innocent. Along with its sense of vocation against the reality of war, growing military violence, occupation, invasion, [there was] [...] an overall sense that things were going wrong."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Interesting read thanks.

Karen Grumberg noted that "the Zionist soldier, a man with a conscience, loathes violence but realizes he must act violently to survive; the dilemma causes him to weep while pulling the trigger. Looking inward, he despairs at the violence he feels compelled to enact this way because he fears his moral corruption."

Amir Vodka wrote "It typically depicts the IDF in a critical light, as a traumatizer of young soldiers, yet the genre itself is often criticized for turning the assailants into victims, and in a sense allowing the continuation of war under the guise of self-victimization."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

So, basically every war movie the US makes about itself.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They don't seem that traumatized when they are literally filming their own war crimes and posting them on Instagram for all the fascist clicks.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The only way I could rationalize the OG Nazis...trying to get into their head and how they managed to do the things they did...was that they were straight up brainwashed.

It sounded crazy when I was younger. Like, something out of a comic book instead of a history book.

But as I watch and try to critically understand how the modern propaganda machine works, I can't help but wonder if maybe I was right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

OG Nazis experienced the same thing. Killing people on en masse mentally fucks with your head, even if the individuals you kill are perceived as vermin/degenerates. This is why they moved on to using other means that is more dehumanizing i.e. pressing a button for the gas chamber

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Brainwashing is perfectly easy. Just ask the US Marine Corps.

That creepy thing people in the US do, hanging flags in front of their houses? That's brainwashing. That's what it looks like.

That's how easy it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not sure if "OG Nazis" only include the first generation, but their Children were pretty much brainwashed.

You can look up "Hitler Jugend" If you want, that organisation basically indoctrinated children while growing up. Right when humans are the easiest to manipulate.

I'd wager that, maybe, you were right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

You can look up “Hitler Jugend”

You have plenty of examples closer to home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Oh man I totally forgot about Hitler youth.

Iirc they were taught to (and did) narc on their parents.

Honestly wouldn't be surprised, if Trump were to become president, if they co-opted BSA for a similar purpose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Sympathy for the devil

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