That’s one way to look at it, but I believe your thinking is about one stratum too low. The problem with Germany, and the rest of the West, is the final rejection of Natural Law with its moral absolutes that value human life and non-atavistic behavior. Once the West adopted the Neo-Darwinist view that all ethics, morals and all laws are a product of prevailing social feelings of the time and nothing more— a view successfully espoused by such eloquent luminaries as the Huxleys and O. W. Holmes Jr.— and rejected the concept of Divine guidance, democracy was doomed to wither and die. It’s happening quickly.
[ That’s one way to look at it, but I believe your thinking is about one stratum too low. The problem with Germany, and the rest of the West, is the final rejection of Natural Law with its moral absolutes that value human life and non-atavistic behavior. Once the West adopted the Neo-Darwinist view that all ethics, morals and all laws are a product of prevailing social feelings of the time and nothing more— a view successfully espoused by such eloquent luminaries as the Huxleys and O. W. Holmes Jr.— and rejected the concept of Divine guidance, democracy was doomed to wither and die. It’s happening quickly. ]
The “Ancestral Guilt Tripping” was one of the hammers they used to bludgeon the Germ,an culture and people into submission in order to keep them submissive and way from natural law.