The Human Capacity For Delusions, Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Third Reich, Depravity and American Slavery

When we talk about the human capacity for delusions, Dwight D. Eisenhower's World War II comment on the Third Reich's contributed practice in the annals of human depravity to fellow human comes to mind.

Dwight D. Eisenhower reportedly wrote his wife upon the liberation of one of the Third Reich's death camps that he wasn't aware that such cruelty could exist.

The delusional aspect of this comment is: This observation is being made by an American, a White American, a legatee, a beneficiary of the worst example, the most abjectly depraved reality, the most complete practice of human cruelty to fellow human, as it stands the great institution of American Slavery.

Dwight D. Eisenhower is a member of the beneficiary status quo who owe the American narrative to every filthy, depraved, cruel, inhumane, savaged, barbarous, genocidal, monstrous, bestial, pitiful vestige of American Slavery.  What Dwight D. Eisenhower's comment reminds us of is the human capacity for delusions and idealistic anecdotes.

The Third Reich's depravity is just that another annal in the chronicles of human depravity.

If the Third Reich's attempted extermination of it's subjects is basis, a vantage point of critique of the human ability for epochal violence---then it pales in comparism to it's antecedents.

The Genocidal activities of Cecil Rhodes in southern Africa, The Conquistador scourge in the America's.  The Anglo-Saxon conquest of North America and extermination of Tasmanians, The Japanese slaughter of Chinese and Koreans, Belgium's destruction of the Congo and it's people, to name a few.  But the quintessential and fundamental dynamic of the depravity dialectic is the consequence of the tensions, contradictions, antagonisms and Intellectual-Liberalism of Political-Economy polemics of Capitalism and Communism.

If Dwight D. Eisenhower wasn't caught up in the delusions of the classic indulgence: The "others" depravity is always worse---for the purpose of this contra we ressurect Eisenhower.

by Apropos