I enjoy many of your notes and the direction of your views resonates with mine often. For notes like this one I trust it could help the following discussion if you would choose a long-form note and elaborate more on it. Factually this note seems wrong to me but I sense you want to express something more than is written there.
Discussion
It is difficult to express it all, but to synthesize so that there are no misunderstandings.
- History is written by the victors, there are many false narratives around the second world war as in other historical events, if you do not keep this in mind you swallow a totally distorted version of reality.
- There are no good guys and bad guys, from my point of view they are all bad guys.
- They are all bad because statism is bad.
- Some said they fought against communism but in reality they were also communists, states are inherently communist, in the same way the same people who fought against the USSR in the 80's were communists.
- It is really a struggle between the individual and the state.
- I find the account of the second world war useful because if you go deeper you realize the amount of lies, and it makes you question the current authority.
“History is written by the victors”, agree, that is the important part here, because in retrospect we can see all the atrocities of the wars and regimes, but those are not fully controlled and are sparked by the chaos of sudden change of direction of the huge states and millions of people, of which many are sick to the bone, but then there is no stopping of it and each new atrocity is just one more turn of the screw on a way to the previously intended goal. There is no way back. After all the dust settle, the victors forbid, decentivize and socially discourage a proper review of all the acts. Even less teaching the complexity in schools, because the ambiguity of events (not values) is undesirable for any new regime due to a limited time for establishing itself in a matter of one or two decades. It’s not black&white except of killing and stealing. And I agree that all states are guilty of the latter one. Who doesn’t fight wars? Owners of the mines and real estates that are being protected by the citizens who didn’t opt-in but been born-in.
Yes, war has to be the easiest way to control a people - and I guess its not limited to the hot phase where you demonise your enemy because you're fighting them etc, but its then natural to build on that deception to make a peacetime control structure.
I only just really started to appreciate this, particularly in respect of ww2. When you've seen how the state lies to further its interest even in something like covid, when we have the internet and the truth can now get out, its easy to see how total their control would have been after ww2 - and how irresistible the temptation to use that.
"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte