This is obviously a relatively sombre topic to start with, but a blog has to start with something, and this might as well be it, considering that it would appear to be best if I wrote about the matters mentioned in this entry and also preferably sooner than later:
It seems to me that a great number of people have found and still find it fairly difficult to fully cope with the idea of democide, especially of the industrialized kind, and the democides carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators would appear to be the most problematic in this way.
It can be especially overwhelming to think about such events if one does not truly understand what kinds of misguided ideas led to them, and I don’t think it is very shameful to admit it if one doesn’t: admission of ignorance and confusion is the first step toward true comprehension, and the inability to do so is a far greater shame than incomprehension in itself can ever be, obviously especially if such a crippling personality defect is refractory.
It is fairly typical of me and perhaps even most people to try to find at least thin silver linings even to the darkest clouds as a way to cope or attempt to cope; I think the only effects of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators I could ever describe as positive were the instillation of an increased awareness of the dangers of incomprehension, disinformation, collective narcissism, misdirected hatred, and totalitarianism in at least most of the groups targeted by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, a very large number of Europeans, and people of European heritage in particular plus as a more indirect effect the especially significant one that fortunately still benefits the group the destruction of which the Nazi regime prioritized, i.e. the Jewish people, of course, and which obviously was the refoundation of their own sovereign state, an incredibly exceptionally bittersweet realization of the hopes and dreams of many generations of Jews, and said state is clearly a fairly durable wellspring of hope for them, at least for the time being.
I hope that we can one day help all of the peoples in the West Asian region by strictly and decisively, but always clearly rationally and justly enforcing a real and lasting peace by whatever means necessary and thus hopefully catalyze the start of a new, more enlightened era of thriving civilization(s) in the region, the peoples of which we Europeans are actually fairly closely related to.
I am reasonably confident that given a relatively high level of security, durable stability, universal proper education, and a sufficient amount of at the very least relatively decent economic opportunities, the peoples of the region just might in time go through their own renaissance periods of various kinds and lengths and come to understand that it is in our mutual interest to forge lasting partnerships, especially considering the scope and difficulty of the challenges facing us all in the foreseeable future.
The most critical prerequisite for the kind of peace described above and its desired consequences would seem to be an enduring just settlement of the Palestinian issue, for which I think I have devised a solution that might actually work as intended if the terms of the treaty are effectively and dispassionately, i.e. very professionally enforced.
I will present my detailed suggestions later this year.