Re: I am not anti-semitic and have corrected my earlier post
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02/24/2005, 11:29:03
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I do not have time to finish every thread and answer every question.

No, I am not anti-semitic. There is so much to tell that I do not know where to start. When I was reading Gita Sereny's book about Albert Speer, I came to the conclusion that many Nazis had been suffering from the same sort of misguided idealism, lack of critical thinking, transfer of responsibilities to the leader, hero worship as I. This does not mean of course that SSB or Rawat is as dangerous as Hitler but I think many of the underlying psychological and social forces are the same. The biggest difference is that Hitler was not a wolf in sheep's clothes unlike Rawat and SSB, as the brilliant German author Sebastian Haffner pointed out (also translated into English). If a guru presents himself as a wolf in sheep's clothes then he has only limited possibility to exhort his followers to do evil things. If he goes too far then the cognitive dissonance becomes too big and he would lose his followers.

(OT) Every subject, every ideology, every cult, religion in Wikipedia should get a treatment that describes its viewpoints in a fair and neutral way, including Holocaust denial, "Nazi mysticism", including transparently incompetent or fraudulent cult leaders. Articles can have a criticism section or even a separate criticism article though.

Andries






Modified by Andries at Thu, Feb 24, 2005, 12:00:00

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