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Originally posted by Equinox
Hitler was truely a genius
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1938 Times Man of the Year.
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Hitler gave Germany the Autobahn
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guts out.
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Ah this whole genius thing. As you may have guessed there are more than a few genii in the world that make wondrous things possible.
The idea that a single individual could be responsible for all of it is hero worship.
Edison had over 1,000 patents; his muckers had none- until they left him. Not smarter than any of them. He was just a fuckin' name. *Many* scientific geniuses of fair conscience and free spirit fled Hitler and the Reich.
Individuals can deviate. Nazis can't; they ape and follow orders; they implement a program; they minimize invention, that organic peculiarity.
As we move from the industrial / machine age into the information age, great advances are born of individuals, or teams that could not function efficiently within nationalism.
The genius of hitler is an outgrowth of a particular age of technology.