To: Pining_4_TX
“Because of our history, we Germans are very sensitive about it.”
...and this is the reason that I think Japan’s whitewashing of their past is better than what Germany did. What good is understanding your past, if it creates a psychosis that leads to national suicide?
9 posted on
02/12/2018 10:08:38 PM PST by
BobL
(I shop at Walmart...I just don't tell anyone)
To: BobL
...and this is the reason that I think Japan’s whitewashing of their past is better than what Germany did."But when the end came, it would not be from the sea, it would be from the sky ... irresistible ... unimaginable ..." - WORLD AT WAR ( Laurence Olivier )
23 posted on
02/12/2018 10:37:50 PM PST by
dr_lew
To: BobL
“...and this is the reason that I think Japan’s whitewashing of their past is better than what Germany did. What good is understanding your past, if it creates a psychosis that leads to national suicide?”
I couldn’t begin to say whether there is a definite parallel, but Japan is in the midst of suicide by low birth rate.
28 posted on
02/12/2018 11:32:31 PM PST by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: BobL
...and this is the reason that I think Japan’s whitewashing of their past is better than what Germany did. What good is understanding your past, if it creates a psychosis that leads to national suicide? WHOA - totally insightful...
73 posted on
02/13/2018 9:40:55 AM PST by
GOPJ
(Conservative men who date liberal women deserve the misery they're going to get...)
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