Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "A Conversation so Intense It Might as Well Be Psychedelic | John Vervaeke | EP 180" video.

  1. Re: "Heidegger's attractivness to Nazism". Nazism was a return to nature in ideas; and profoundly Malthusian. We see the Malthusian aspects of Nazism in their: - belief that economic parity for Germans with US Americans, is absolutely limited by the amount of agricultural land available to Germany. Hence their desire for more land by conquest. - Nazi eugenics - obsessions with renewable power - support given them from German environmentalists (AKA conservationists) The modern Green movement are also intrinsically driven by Malthusian, anti-human concerns. The other connection between Nazism and the modern Green movement is authoritarian politics. The form of authoritarianism is totally different with each. The authoritarianism in Modern Environmentalism is 'soft'; not hard. Witnessed by how they by-pass the will of the people at every stage of politics. By supporting the transfer of power to NGOs, trans-GOs (such as the UN and EU), and GOs (e.g the US EPA), laws passed with no democratic debate nor mandate (E.g. the UK Climate Change Act), ... Societal support for modern environmentalism is surface deep. Hardly anyone votes for them; we have more important concerns. Because they get so little support in democratic institutions the greens by-pass democracy to drive their agenda forward behind the scenes. By capturing institutions, and politicians. In debate, Greens trash freedom of Speech, and are rabidly censorious. The climate movement refuse to debate anyone who's not in with their 'climate crisis', and they have NEVER debated their real political oppenents: people like me who see environmentalism for the social cancer it is. They drive their agenda forward by capturing politicians; not by arguing for their ideas at the grass-roots, or electorally. So the environmentalist disdain for debate is easily understood. It's just pragmatic politics. Green politics is power in action. Heidegger has come full-circle: with greens we see the embrace of power for its own sake - because embracing democracy is far harder.
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