THREE WORLDS - AESTHETIC, SOCIAL, & SPIRITUAL

Don't look for Adolf Hitler. Don't be concerned about swastikas. If you are at all interested in answering the question “can it happen here?” It is too easy to get lost. I have developed three tools to help me find a way to the answer.

First, imagine what the United States of America would have to look like if it was to physically and spiritually embody what was going on in Germany in 1936 after the Olympic Games and the gloves came off, and the German war machine rolled onto the road that ended in Auschwitz Poland. 

There needs to be a leader that said we must start on a new road they can can lead us back to our own previously held greatness. Then there has to be a reunification as a was between Germany and Austria the brings together those people who consider themselves rightful leaders, perhaps the unification of Caucasians that would come from folding Canada into the United States. 

Then there has to be a division of the world of US and the world of THEM, that for Germany was the demonization of the Soviet Union and all in league with them, and for us could be Mexico and all of the threats moving like lemmings bearing the plague from the South. That there needs to be as there was for Germany and expansion of land seen as rightfully once inheritance or destiny to renew natural resources and labor that you can keep impoverished, and for Germany that was Poland and ultimately if things had gone as planned, the Ukraine. 

We as the only country that calls ourselves America might naturally see a natural destiny of our domain not just from sea to sea but from the Arctic Circle to the Panama Canal. Perhaps that stretch of Central America can be like Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Perhaps even the entirety of South America can be seen as a Ukraine or breadbasket full of natural mineral resources for us to pine. For Germany there was the troubling world revolution of the Soviet Union to battle, we have terrorism, undefined, amorphous, and everywhere we can see someone who perhaps does not wage attacks on us but preaches contradiction to us, a form of ideological terrorism no doubt.

Second, you would have to pick 5 important themes and start in about 1933 and go to 1945 in Germany following the way these themes transformed Germany incrementally over that decade. Consider the legal disenfranchisement of a people. Follow that track. Consider the militarization of a civic culture. Follow the establishment of secret intelligence and paramilitary services to the point they had their own secret world of courts and places of black detention. Follow the transformation of national politics into one of aggressiveness and confrontation. Follow the development of a sense of the nation being cheated and deprived of its rightful place in the world. Follow learn how these transformations took place in Germany and then chart where the United States is on those 5 different paths.

Third, look into your own fearfulness of others and your willingness to abandon the humanity of others by turning your back on the removal of their human rights. Look at that place in your heart and then looked down deeper into your belly to see if there are passions there that could be stirred to song to see the kind of justice that can be waged in the streets.

Look to these 3 things, that is contemplation, then in thinking about them with an open imagination you wove entered into the meditation that can answer the question by rephrasing it while looking down at your own feet and where you stand and say in a whisper to yourself “can it happen here?”

630 words by Leo Rivers, the garage house, Cottage Grove, Oregon Monday, August 7, 2017 9:39:24 PM