tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176006268302183776.post185004173284418003..comments2024-03-20T10:14:19.071-04:00Comments on The Shipler Report: The Demons WithinDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305265860388931637noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176006268302183776.post-68665115643655226232018-11-01T11:46:55.251-04:002018-11-01T11:46:55.251-04:00David,
Another excellent column. I have puzzled ...David,<br /> <br />Another excellent column. I have puzzled from time to time over Nazi Germany. How did it happen? Are Germans inherently evil? A history professor whose course I took at Berkeley spoke of a theory, that each country contains within it a “creep elite,” a cadre of competent men (running the trains on time,) unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of anything, who would follow a man like Hitler. That theory would hold that those same people are among us today. Or more abstractly that each of us has within us a dark side which under the right conditions could emerge. I don’t know. Bob Dylan wrote in "Long Ago, Far Away" of the practice of slavery and gladiator combat. “Things like that don’t happen no more nowadays,” he said. He wrote this in 1963, during the civil rights protests and the protests against the war in Vietnam. And, ironically, only a few months before the assassination of President Kennedy. Thanks again.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18195778377186180505noreply@blogger.com