Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Where do our modern ideologies come from? (Timeline Map)" video.

  1. Hitler did not start off anti-Communist. Like Mussolini he flirted with Communism at first (because he liked the totalitarian nature of it probably), but by being petite bourgeois from Austria, he probably had a Bavarian socially conservative reaction and rejected it. He preferred the mytical racial mumbo-jumbo of the Thule society as the Nazi ideology totalitarian basis. I knew about that before TIk pointed that out.
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  2. Love not war is a good concept that is rarely practised because of political inconvenience.
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  3. Where does Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill get their influence from?
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  4. I don't really want to dignify this bunkum with a reply, but there is no actual scientific basis of race of humans other than superficial appearance. Dark skinned people naturally come from sunnier climates, where darkness brings increased protection from stronger sunlight and UV light. It's the only reason. Whereas eye colour may be more sexually selective than you think (by the female). In any case, all modern humans are a species of bipedal ape from Africa.
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  5. Anything that is faith based IS a cult. This might include Communism as faith based class conflict. I'm not questioning class, just that it's in perpetual conflict as an article of faith as Marx put it. Mysticism and faith a bed fellows. That is why a rejection of mysticism might lead to a rejection of faith. If you need faith and dogma to "keep you going" is your personal preference, but still does not validate this kind of thinking as reflecting reality. You can by dogma be or appear wrong. What so you have left when mysticism and faith dissappear? You have nature. A non-personal paradigm of existence with physical laws. Furthermore, useless to pray to a law of nature, like gravity. It does provide an intellectual space for pantheism, except that this again is mystical; God as being outside of nature and the great cosmic experimentalist. Not evidence based again.
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