If we want to end war in our world, then we’ve got to get our narratives straight. There’s simply no way to get an entire country to fight unless you have a villain to defeat for a good cause – especially in a democracy. The Hitler Narrative is the storytelling department of our war machine. Understand how that works and maybe you won’t be so inclined to accept the next brutal showdown between the West and the rest of the impoverished world.
Most of us in the West have been taught that the single most important lesson from World War I and World War II (the Great War) was the defeat of Hitler. Our entire Western lives hinge upon it. The notion of protecting our freedom from slavery is what oils the wheels of our war machine. From there, the powers-that-be cite Hitlers all over the world that threaten our privileged way of life. The result is the War on Iraq and many other conflict nations desperate to find their place in the world.
Many innocents have died in our wars against them. People just like the men and women who died in World War I and II that we’ve mourned on Remembrance Day. We don’t seem to count their numbers as well as we count our own. For sure, a human failing. The reason rests squarely on the Great War narrative which has been co-opted by the Hitler narrative which in turn gives us reasons to attack enfeebled countries. No one ever stops to think that this narrative distracts us from another truth: That international cooperation could have stopped the world wars in the first place let alone new wars in the world today.
If anything, someone is trying to prevent you from thinking about international cooperation when it comes to conflict. They always use the Hitler boogeyman to scare you into submission. That’s the Western Narrative we’ve all blindly lived by. That’s our propaganda.
Rest assured the world is made up of dangerous people. The Soviet Union, Iran and North Korea each have had difficult, tyrannical men who threatened at least the lives of their own people. Selling the population on military action against them is an easy task, but what has made it so easier is the Hitler packaging. Remember, the lesson with Hitler was that no appeasement or cooperative effort worked. We had to seek and destroy him. That’s your indoctrination.
Every TV-bearing Westerner in Europe and North America has been thoroughly brainwashed into thinking that the West is a kind of superhero who kills the evil tyrant. Without this story, we simply wouldn’t understand why we invaded Iraq, Libya or other troubled nations, the most recent being Venezuela. You probably thought that this narrative has been fed to you so that you agree with the attacks. No, that’s not the case. It’s been fed to you to make the attack understandable so that you get fed up and stop thinking about it. Without this narrative, you would feel confused, then disturbed. Then, you might start talking about it.
They feed you narratives so that they can control the conversation. Once they give you an answer, you’re not apt to look in any other direction. You don’t have to even agree with them. The whole point is that you don’t even think outside of the topic for other answers.
Moreso, the Hitler narrative has been fed through the one medium everyone is enjoys: TV. For decades we’ve seen TV shows about evil tyrants and innocent people enslaved by them. TV leads into other mediums such as comic books, movies and video games. Each of them tell the same indoctrinating story: The bad guy is like Hitler who wants to take people’s freedom away. We need to kill him without diplomacy. Like it or not, you’ve been desensitized and thoroughly brainwashed into passively accepting this narrative. It’s Hollywood’s job to keep it going through Marvel action films, Star Trek movies, James Bond stories and Star Wars, of course. (It’s easier to organize and feed these narratives if the storytelling is controlled from one or two entertainment companies like Disney, for instance. And they won’t budge because they need military equipment to buy your love. It’s a Faustian contract, for sure.)
If you’re feeling uncomfortable, then good. It’s what happens when you realize that the indoctrination is real. We’ve been so thoroughly ingrained that we took this narrative for granted. Namely, because it’s true. These tyrants are really bad people who should be stopped. If not, then they should at least be dealt with. So, I am not saying the narrative isn’t true. I am saying that it’s been fed to you so much that you’re too focused to think of other narratives that are far more constructive and healthy for the world. You think that the evil dude can only be thwarted by the good guys attacking just like they did on the beaches of Normandy.
Have you ever thought to wonder that maybe the Great War was a breakthrough in the spirit of international cooperation? The United Nations, the Geneva Convention and the Welfare State are all offshoots from the world wars. International cooperation is what prevents wars from happening, not invading weaker countries for their oil.
Many believe that World War I and II were the product of secretive international agreements between nations heavily influenced by selfish elites who started wars for their own gain. Doesn’t that sound familiar? So, a counterweight was created in order to protect innocent lives from these powers-that-be that would use war to get what they wanted. The Great War should have been “the war to end all wars” through international institutions that resolved conflict at a table rather than by the bullet. It was about re-organizing the world around human rights and welfare. International institutions were created to fulfill this aim. But they have fallen apart to the evil tyrant narrative that seeks to end cooperation in exchange for a righteous war against oil-bearing companies. Journalism even support this evil tyrant myth and hardly report on selfish elites who don’t care about people as much as their bank accounts. Any such reporting is considered underground or subversive because it doesn’t chase after the Hitler which inevitably leads to military action and more riches for the rich.
So the wars keep going. The Great War’s lesson about international cooperation is lost. Instead, you’re compelled to think of the Kim Jong-un as an evil warlord like Hitler which means appeasement won’t work – international cooperation won’t work – only invasion or sanctions. You may even question the narrative but the evil tyrant narrative successfully block other ones so that you don’t have other options of assessing the situation and go back to your life to forget what’s happening. The evil leader in question makes a bad move and he’s taken out. Then we take the oil or passageway or whatever.
So, the Great War narrative has been co-opted to promote an evil Hitler threatening to take over the world. You’ve heard it so often in movies, TV and video games that you just accept it because it’s so familiar. As a result, you don’t even question it. You don’t even think that maybe there’s a way to use international cooperation to prevent a massacre so that secret deals aren’t made just like ones that led to World War I. The powers-that-be don’t want you to. They’re up to the same tricks as before hoping they can manage everything so that it’s easy for you to look the other way when they do their dirty business.
Can you see why understanding storytelling is so important for the world? Just think about this the next time your leader talks about a country it wants to invade. They use the same story again: The evil Hitler who needs to be stopped. Their leader needs to die. I am not saying you should agree or not agree. What I am saying is that once they say that, it’s really hard for you to think of any alternative.
They’ve just controlled the narrative again because the Hitler narrative is so brainwashed into your system, that it’s a trigger and you don’t even know it.