30 January 2011

So hollowed out

What was the mentality like of the mid-20th century Middle European citizen who found meaning for his life, and purpose, in the ecstasy of mass meetings and in the incessant blarings of propaganda? 
How had his spiritual world been so hollowed out that he could be satisfied with such meager moral gruel? 
And what was the mentality like of the mid-20th century Jew who could end up persecuted and, in the end, nearly exterminated by so meager a moral actor? 

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