On 17 Mrz., 00:15, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Come on, Francis, you are an intelligent man. What are you saying
> about not knowing how many witnesses of the disappearance of Jews,
> Communists, and mentally ill people were evil? In respect to their
> dumbness they were all evil, of course. Their loved ones often would
> have focused on other qualities in them, obviously.
>
Lost in translation?
It occurred to me, Gabby, that the word, "evil" in English is used
somewhat differently to its German equivalent "böse". In German the
word is used much more generally, e.g. "Du bist böse auf mich,"
transl. "You are angry with me," "Das ist eine böse Falle," transl.
"That's a dangerous trap,", etc. "Böse" means evil, but can also mean
bad, angry, dangerous, unpleasant in English. The term "evil" in
English has, for me, more sinister connotations, but I may be just
confused.
> So let’s talk about how that mechanism is applied today, rather than
> losing ourselves in yet another pointless ego debate. The main
> characteristic of that mechanism is the activated denial mode.
> Everything that doesn’t fit in your love frame of mind of yourself
> will not be commented upon or thought about but will be dreamt
> positively at night. When speaking of “revelling in the wonderful
> depth of Is-ness” you seem to have been working with the same
> technique. What about those others then who still want to remember the
> pre-pink days, the days before the eye turned blue?
>
It was in this narrower, English context that I asked my question
about the "collaborators" during the 3rd. Reich. The question that
arises for me now is whether there is a difference between the Germans
in the 1930s and 40s who knew that their Jewish neighbours had
disappeared and were reportedly working in camps somewhere in the east
and those of us today who buy numerous electronic devices suspecting
that some of the metals built into them were mined by child/slave
labour working in poisonous strip mines in Central Africa? Does
complicity with evil make one evil? Are there degrees of evilness?
Does widespread structural and institutional evil make all those who
(often unthinkingly) profit from it evil themselves?
Francis
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