In my teenage years, I was deeply intrigued by two very significant topics, world wars and organised crime. So when I was not reading the Bible, I spent hours reading books on these subjects and it was not long till I came across the book by Adolf Hitler. 'Mein Kampf' which translates my struggle was a fascinating insight into the mind of this murderer. It catalogues his philosophy and most importantly how he saw Germany progressing after a few years of painful economic crisis. The book was poorly written but still very clear on how he saw the world. To surmise for those that may never read it; he felt some people were superior to others and the superior were duty bound to take charge of the inferior, he also felt that immigration was a scourge on any nations economy and immigrants were to be dealt a bad hand, he stressed the fact that since his country was mostly landlocked, there was the need to colonise other countries and use them as platforms for economic activities.
Yes! Hitler was insane but many have argued the thin line between insanity and genius. Hitler was probably unashamedly bigoted and declared that publicly and like any form of hate ended it with murderous consequences.
Please fast forward to 2016, the only thing I see change is the method of carrying out what Hitler alluded to; America and the Allies, ironically the core of the nations that defeated Hitler's Germany, have since the Second World War, systematically, assassinated leaders of other nations, plotted against formal governments and have carried out many unnecessary wars against other countries and killed far more people than Hitler ever did.
The real question is why? The answers I'm afraid comes from Hitler's book, these countries need to subjugate other countries in order to stroke their economies.So excuses are given for attacking these countries but how does that justify the action, maybe Hitler should have worked on better excuses?
Today the far right is on the rise in the West and all sort of reasons have been proffered but are they justified? Is it possible that Hitler was right in his presumptions about the world?
I have lived in the West for over 20 years and love what they are trying to accomplish in their countries but that does not mean I have to be blind to the atrocities of their governments. I have peace and prosperity living in England far more than I was able to achieve in the country of my birth. I feel safer here in England than in Nigeria but my mind is boggled when they allow Saddam Hussain to be hanged and Gaddafi to be shot like a dog or look the other way as genocide was committed in Rwanda or Tyrant ruling Congo because of the resources being pilfered from there.
Many are still reeling from the shock of the recently concluded elections in the state where an openly bigoted candidate was voted for by an overwhelming number of people. I can't help but think maybe Hitler was right. Humanity is just insane.
It couldn't have been better said. Humanity is just insane!
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