tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1077390606481159043.post8733408416485598107..comments2023-05-08T01:10:48.278-07:00Comments on A.R. Moxon: Bubbles 9 - The Lowest RungA.R. Moxonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16322468951694364351noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1077390606481159043.post-51460985776588683702022-03-30T07:45:53.341-07:002022-03-30T07:45:53.341-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.oistinnagatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11571874387074051386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1077390606481159043.post-69071813725705243292018-01-02T07:37:20.122-08:002018-01-02T07:37:20.122-08:00I remember the quote. You've completely misund...I remember the quote. You've completely misunderstood its meaning, I'm afraid.<br /><br />I'm perfectly well aware that the threat was insidious and subtle and fooled many. That's the point. It's not a blaming of them. It's a warning to us, as we see the old patterns emerge again.<br /><br />Your comment here is, I'm sure, an excellent argument against someone else's point. Unfortunately it has little to do with mine.A.R. Moxonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16322468951694364351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1077390606481159043.post-27932627463960992622017-12-24T16:36:20.273-08:002017-12-24T16:36:20.273-08:00The next time you think war is simple, read some T...The next time you think war is simple, read some Tim O'Brien.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11785102248435241547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1077390606481159043.post-74367263316001436902017-12-24T16:26:23.342-08:002017-12-24T16:26:23.342-08:00I recently saw a meme in which you were quoted as ...I recently saw a meme in which you were quoted as saying: "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi Party, not because they hated jews..." I'm sure you remember what you said.<br /><br />This is one of the most historically ignorant things I've seen--it's a toxic perspective of history that reduces the most complicated actions of people to flat, political commentary.<br /><br />The majority of German soldiers didn't want to fight, but if they refused they would be sent to a forced labor camp or killed. If they still resisted, the Gestapo would imprison or kill or send their family to a forced labor camp. You're telling me that when someone held a gun to your mother's head, you'd rise up and fight for 2 seconds until you yourself were shot? There was an entire division of Wehrmacht soldiers from Prussian military families who talked openly of revolt and killing Hitler until they were killed. Most of these men didn't want to be forced to lose all their toes to frostbite as they get dysentery and subsequently die of dehydration in sub-zero temperatures? but they did it anyway because they would be shot by the Feldgendarmerie or their families might be punished.<br /><br />The German people weren't the only ones fooled by Hitler's political brilliance--he was Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1983. It is easy to sit back in your chair and criticize people for not standing up to a leader that so many people loved and were fooled by. I for one would do as these men were forced to do, because I'm a regular person, not Nelson Mandela. To oversimplify history is to have the worst perspective of it. History is Social Studies and Psychology wrapped into one; it just studies people in the past. People are individually complicated and consequently societies are even more complicated. History is the discovery of human complication. I suggest you learn more about it before saying historically ignorant things.<br /><br />I recommend: Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945, both by Antony Beevor, for a better understanding of the European Theater. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11785102248435241547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1077390606481159043.post-82089714804291373092017-09-20T07:21:10.011-07:002017-09-20T07:21:10.011-07:00Cool, thanks. Duly noted.Cool, thanks. Duly noted.A.R. Moxonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16322468951694364351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1077390606481159043.post-48163125470675857052017-09-17T10:30:58.925-07:002017-09-17T10:30:58.925-07:00amazing blog(s)amazing blog(s)Lynnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12624357413775091248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1077390606481159043.post-83642838454114772332017-09-16T05:07:00.592-07:002017-09-16T05:07:00.592-07:00gozo.comments@gmail.com is personally interested i...gozo.comments@gmail.com is personally interested in the Old Goat's work.<br /><br />(($; -)}™Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600999558107797041noreply@blogger.com