Why The Bad Guys Won WWII
The spiritual battle between The New World & The Eternal Flame of Violence
Others have cast World War 2 as a fight between good and evil, capitalism and bolshevism, fascism vs. anti-fascism. I will tell a different story.
World War Two was fought between the eternal flame of violence, and the abundant parochialism of the New World. It was not fought between physical entities or countries, but between great spirits of existence. That is the reason for the vast scale of the violence.
America is a parochial place. It is our shire. The old way of doing things lasted longer over here because we did not face the threats of invasion that would have animated us to reform the social order. We preserved our guns, our speech, our God, and so on.
The Nazi Germans had superior social technology, however. That is the reason they surpassed us in the average caliber of the fighting man, resource efficiency, and scientific advancement. So in some ways World War 2 was the strangest war in existence because a decidedly more archaic civilization conquered a more advanced one.
I don’t mean to diminish the advancements of the United States that occurred over the same period. In some ways, particularly manufacturing technology, Americans were more advanced than the Germans. But spiritually, and with regard to the major considerations, World War 2 was a regressive war in this way.
In contrast to the parochial United States, you have the emergence of bold new dictators in Europe. Veterans of the first world war who saw violence, decided they liked it, and came to the understanding that it is the animating principle of existence. 1
Hitler was the good guy because he was pro-violence and violence is life itself.
The battle for Europe was the last stand of the spirit of violence, which had been weakened over the millenia by Christianity, International Jewry, and the civilizing process itself. The spirit breathed life and power into its highest lieutenants, it poured every drop of itself into its soldiers. It made them stronger, faster and braver.
Re-animating the world requires the reintroduction of violence. It is a spirit that should never have been killed. But kill is what they did.
The spirit of violence is not entirely dead. There are those of us who call ourselves fascists, and worship it, whether we know this or not.
Can it be revived?
First, accept the blessings of the spirit. Allow it to animate you. Then carry out its wishes in the world. And we will see whether that is enough.
cheerio
The Japanese also had this understanding, but you could say that they had never forgotten it rather than came to a new understanding.