Svartalfar
01-21-2003, 09:47 AM
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Freidrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
This is sort of the basic of "circles of abuse", such as sexual abuse, physical abuse (or a combonation, such as prison rape). It can be observed in the lives of abused children - they will often grow up to be abusers. A good question is... why? Why does this happen? A common belief is that a child will grow up to believe that this is the "right" way to live. To beat up his wife, kids, etc. Well... I tend to disagree. Even Hitler knew that his actions were highly immoral* and not to be accepted, and everyone knows that, say, child abuse is a terrible thing. So, it's just ignorant to say this is the only reason. I think there is a subconscious desire for "revenge". For release. Picture yourself after the end of a very bad day. Just imagine you were beat up, your girlfriend (of boyfrriend) broke up with you, your stock portfolio lost half it's value and that raise you wanted --- not going to happen. After this kind of shit, any normal person would be on the edge, and would love the oppertunity to take out their anger on someone --- anyone. Taking it out on an innocent person is not too different from taking it out on a guilty person.
And that's sort of what the video is about.
* = Which is why he did not "advertise" the fact that he was killing Jews, Slavs and many other minorities in large numbers.
Freidrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
This is sort of the basic of "circles of abuse", such as sexual abuse, physical abuse (or a combonation, such as prison rape). It can be observed in the lives of abused children - they will often grow up to be abusers. A good question is... why? Why does this happen? A common belief is that a child will grow up to believe that this is the "right" way to live. To beat up his wife, kids, etc. Well... I tend to disagree. Even Hitler knew that his actions were highly immoral* and not to be accepted, and everyone knows that, say, child abuse is a terrible thing. So, it's just ignorant to say this is the only reason. I think there is a subconscious desire for "revenge". For release. Picture yourself after the end of a very bad day. Just imagine you were beat up, your girlfriend (of boyfrriend) broke up with you, your stock portfolio lost half it's value and that raise you wanted --- not going to happen. After this kind of shit, any normal person would be on the edge, and would love the oppertunity to take out their anger on someone --- anyone. Taking it out on an innocent person is not too different from taking it out on a guilty person.
And that's sort of what the video is about.
* = Which is why he did not "advertise" the fact that he was killing Jews, Slavs and many other minorities in large numbers.