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If Hitler was a serial killer then fine maybe this analysis would make some sort of sense. But he had a movement behind him. There were huge socio-economic factors behind the Nazis. It wasn't just Hitler having a chip on his shoulder

That dude said a whole lot of nothing

Stalin was 10 times worse but Lex is absolutely obsessed with Hitler

You got the wrong person on this topic

okay three minutes into to this and no one has said a meaningful sentence, gotta go

what even did hitler lol

I wonder what Kanye has to say about this?

can we also do the history of the biden administrations evil? more relevant today

The bots in the comments are out of control

I think Conti is way off base... for one, he actually, by definition, misrepresented Envy vs. Jealousy.

The better question is 'was Hitler an unusual person, or a common person type in a position of unusual power?' Americans concentrate on demonizing Hitler - fair, but forget to ask 'how similar to the rest of us was this guy?'

Who else thought the thumbnail was a younger Jordan Peterson?

It is quite amazing how inconceivable the idea of socio-economic conditions and forces playing a role in the rise of people like Hitler is for Lex. Individual psychology doesn't operate in a vacuum, it's intertwined and conditioned by prevailing socioeconomic conditions and relations. Individual psychology is in fact far from the main determining factor in the development of history, it can play a factor but only within definite objective limits.

Every day, Lex learns more of what it is to be... human.

To use Lex’s own analogy of the flame of jealousy versus the blaze of envy, it could be said-based on Conti’s viewpoint/description-jealousy could instead be regarded as the spark. The blaze, or the flame-the thing with the capacity for destruction-is separate from the spark. If you make a spark where there are no conditions for a flame, nothing will happen. Likewise, if jealousy arises in a place where there are no conditions for envy, then nothing destructive will come of that emotion.

This guy is the most correct about narcs. I’ve always felt there was a directed hatred of others in their function. Not just selfishness. They come after you no matter what you do

I've never quite understood these obsessions with psycho-analyzing Hitler as if he was some sort of pinnacle of evil. Hitler was one man who played a role within a huge mechanism that is a reoccurring theme throughout history. It's not Adolf Hitler who is important in understanding an evil mind. And in many ways he was likely not at all like he's portrayed in conversations like these. It's Ordinary Men who are ALWAYS the people who carry out the stimulation of evil. It's really things like cult psychology, orphan psychology, group-think, ideological possession, desperation, perversion are all the just some of the main ingredients in understanding evil. It's so much more dynamic and deeper than mere jealousy, envy, etc.

This at the heart of the human tragedy: the worst things in history were done by people acting out of a sense of duty, by people did not generally relish the violence and the atrocities they committed - but compelled themselves to do so out of a sorely misplaced sense of moral obligation.

I would highly recommend: Hans Blumenberg - „Lebenszeit und Weltzeit“ (Lifetime and worldtime).