Modern Capitalist Fascination With The Nazi Party

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I'm sure a lot of you would chalk up your belief in the Nazi cause against the jew and degeneracy in general to be simply a logical one. But even beyond that I think that there is a trend in western societies, especially in modern consumerist societies, of fascination and a kind of craving for the experience of the Third Reich.

I just watched Inglorious Basterds for I think the 6th time, and both in the cinematic form and also in myself I could see a kind of attraction to the culture of the Third Reich. It was beyond what some might was some unity of purpose or correct ideology. Well, not beyond, it was simpler than that.

The symbolism. The expression of the society and the movement in countless works of art and culture. The thorough practice of beatification of one's society with the symbols of meaning they hold dear. Like in the picture provided. All the swastikas everywhere, the uniforms, the unbelievable perfusion of the Nazi ideology represented in almost every single facet of their lives. It's beautiful. There's no other word for it.

So why do modern consumer societies, especially Americans, feel this subconscious obsession with it? Even as a child I remember looking through these large picture books we had in the library at my school of all these old pictures of the Third Reich. I couldn't put my finger on what was so fascinating about it. But one would need take only the most cursory glance around our society to see how deprived of symbolism we are. And even the symbols that we do have lack any sort of power or significance. They do not represent a living reality in everyday American life.

In place of symbols, we have advertisements. We have Starbucks, Coca Cola, and pictures of healthy people. Where there is no advertisement there is a bland architectural heap of beige and convenience. It is a culture of endless and meaningless aspiration, always representing what we could be, and not representing what we ARE.