February 2015 – Omphaloskeptomai

riddledwithlight:

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echoingdaydreams:

dandeleijons:

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i-wanted-to-rp-so-i:

wholocked-me-in-my-mindpalace:

improbablenormality:

johnisnothisdate:

catatonicconundrum:

adolfi:

Hitler flirting with Eva Braun.

I don’t know how this makes me feel

It makes me feel very uncomfortable

You know what’s so uncomfortable about this? It shows that perhaps one of the most evil men in history, was a human being. That, on occasion, he could be nice, even flirty. That’s not all. You want to see evil people as evil, screaming horrible stuff over a desk with 20 microphones with 20, 000 people saluting them. The evil is clear and recognizable then. This shows a completely different image, it scares you because that means that evil isn’t a stereotype, that evil is not recognizable, that evil could be anyone. It scares you because this shows that could be lurking inside anyone and you’ll never ever know. Maybe in you?

i reblogged this literally like 2 minutes ago, but i want this version because of that comment ^

That comment is one of my favorite post commentaries, because it’s completely right. People aren’t inherently evil. Like good, it’s a role they grow and live into. We have just as much potential to destroy as this man exhibited. And it’s a very eye opening experience to realize that.

does anyone even remember that one time hitler attended that luncheon between world leaders, some guests of which even included china’s socialist leader as well as Stalin. And then when they were ordering, everyone was gladly ordering impressive dishes one after the other, but Hitler placed an order for barley tea and a pheasant (considered a peasant’s meal by standard). When he was questioned as to why he would order something like this in something as grand as a world leader’s congress, he replied,

“I don’t smoke when my people cannot smoke, and I cannot eat when my people are going hungry.”

He wasn’t evil for its own sake, let’s try to remember that despite the countless murders, but for a moment, he did actually believe he was doing something for the good of his countrymen.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE

No, he’s right. Hitler, though extremely wrong in his views, did everything for what he thought would better the lives of his people. It was wrong. It was disgustingly, horribly wrong. But he did not do it because it was evil and he was evil. He did it because he believed it would help Germany and those who needed a better life. Those who don’t understand or even try to understand the human brain will always label men like him as ‘evil’ because it is easier to accept. But he wasn’t ‘evil.’ He felt love and loyalty and responsibilities. He simply took these aspects and morphed them into a twisted, violent thing.

Tumblr is probably the only place we could have this conversation and not be lynched.

dang son

“Every villain is a hero in his own mind.”

― Tom Hiddleston

I love every thing about the comments.

“Hitler, though extremely wrong in his views, did everything for what he thought would better the lives of his people"

I mean actually, in the last weeks and days of the war, there were cases of only one train line in which he chose to send more Jews to the camps and in doing so delay sending supplies to his own troops.

"Tumblr is probably the only place we could have this conversation and not be lynched.” Oh my fucking gosh. Yes. Not hating Hitler is very edgy and not mainstream at all. Also: really? you think you’re the ones facing violence for your identity? Um, I do still kind of think that still happens rather more to Hitler’s victims – the MOGAI people, the disabled, the POC, the Romani people, the Jews – than to his supporters.

Finally: Please ask yourselves why you are so invested in humanising the genocidal murderer — and not his victims.

I don’t think trying to see Hitler as anything other than a despicable, horrible, messed up human is a good thing. He certainly was despicable, horrible and messed up and there are good reasons he’s often the go-to example of evil humans. He was really fucking evil.

I’m less sure of I agree with seeing Hitler as a monster. I think it’s important to keep in mind that Hitler, ultimately, *was* human. That’s what makes him so fucking scary. He’s not some superpowered being from another dimension. He’s not a literal demon. He’s a human. Humans are capable of the terrible things Hitler did. We need to acknowledge that if we want to prevent it.

So yes, you should really fucking abhor Hitler. You should internalize that hate and for me it actually burns with a rather strong intensity, even if I don’t really have a direct connection to the matter (other than living in a place with a lot of reminders about World War II). But you should keep in mind that he is human.