Our own "untermensch syndrome" in the american mass psychi....

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....which allows most in the U.S. to stand aside and do noting to stop the senseless slaughter of thousands and even millions of human beings around the world.

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The Nazi ideology of placing its Aryan blood above all others, believing its Germanic peoples the pinnacle of civilization, reflects a perverted mass psychosis brought on by a malevolent leader and a hypnotized tribe - namely Germany. In the delusional world of the Nazis, Jews, Gypsies and Slavs were considered inferior. These peoples were labeled 'untermensch,' the German word for sub-human. As such, labels became reality and reality became a holocaust, resulting in millions of deaths and untold levels of suffering. When a group of people like the Nazis begin to believe in the sub-human label they propel, the group afflicted becomes the equivalent of animals, free to be killed, tortured and dehumanized, free to be robbed of freedom, opportunity and happiness.

The Nazis, however, are not alone in exacerbating this phenomenon. On the contrary, it has been as pronounced in human history as advancements in technology. As long as there have been competing tribes the concept of untermensch has existed, released over and over through centuries and millennia. No nation or culture is immune; no epoch is innocent. With every war, invasion, occupation, domination, enslavement, oppression, exploitation, genocide and ethnic cleansing that has marked human time on Earth untermensch has been implemented, used by the powerful to justify the crimes, rapes, murders and dehumanization inflicted upon innocent fellow human beings. Untermensch is the tool used by the human brain that grants man the power to destroy humanity and all its virtues while inflicting untold levels of misery onto men, women and children without the interference or burden of human guilt, laws, theology, morality or righteousness getting in the way.

Yet our minds cannot fathom the long reaches of a history marked by incessant war, death and violence. Understanding the constructs of time and space are not talents we have evolved. Grasping the enormity of the passage of time, with the rise and fall of tribes, clans, city states and empires, the evolution of human society and spirituality from cave to metropolis, the genetic altering and evolution of diversity coming together and adding to the human spectrum, and the conquests, genocides and environmental changes created by our ancestors is not a skill endowed into our primate brains, and thus the enormous jigsaw puzzle that is human history remains a mystery. We can barely put together the pieces of our own eighty year existence on the planet, even as it is a puzzle that we experience first hand. How then are we to fathom hundreds of thousands of years of modern human existence, generation upon generation, century after century?

In an existence estimated at five million years, from primates living in trees to the dawn of living in one-hundred story skyscrapers, man has not deviated from our mammal selves. Our passions, emotions and behaviors yield to the animal inside us, and throughout our existence it has come out again and again to unleash terror on our unsuspecting species. For millions of years our species has consisted of one continuous epoch of aggression against each other, with periods of calm in between, - controlled at the individual level but becoming an unleashed monster at the tribal - destroying all we have achieved and the beauty inherent in our existence. Mammals we are, and mammals we will remain, yet the ego of our existence and the theology of our beliefs will not let us awake to our greatest truth.

<from> July 19, 2006 at 09:31:28

The Untermensch Syndrome: Israel's Moral Decay

by Manuel Valenzuela

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_manuel_v_060719_the_untermensch_synd.htm

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. There are some valid points in this

but when the writer has to spend multiple paragraphs explaining why he/she is NOT antisemetic, methinks thou dost protest too much.

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2. Perhaps you are correct, yet the concept of "untermensch syndrome"

...does seem to apply to the American mass psyche, does it not?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. It applies to humanity, absolutely

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4. And then it should explain why almost all of the House and Senate

...go along with George Bush's insanity to continue the Iraq war, Bush's indifference regarding the Israeli war on Palestinians and now the invasion of Lebanon and even Bush's bazaar behaviors and displays and overheard conversations at the G8, Bush's lack of deliberate and timely action following Hurricane Katrina and the victims in New Orleans, as so on. The U.S. mindset does seem to fit the "unbermensch syndrome" description in not forcing our leaders to take more humanitarian actions and commitments toward these affairs.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. I agree

but it is human to feel this way, not just American. I had a foreign student live with me from Africa in college. She told me that only her trip to America convinced her that white people grieved when they lost family. She had thought it was only something people of color felt.

And that ignorance is probably at the core of most of our problems.

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6. What is frightening about all this is that our chosen leaders....

...use a concept like the Untermensch Syndrome, if in fact a valid sociological condition, then it is used to manipulate and control and undermine the majority of humanitarian resistance, to further a particular political agenda, warped or otherwise.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. I guess it must be pretty valuable

as a tool, given that they exploit it so much.