This week in class!

Thoughts this week on Class.
Well actually let’s start with Tuesday. We watched a movie on how the Germans pretty much brainwashed their people into believing Hitler was their almighty righteous leader and that Germany was pretty much a superior race. He used different methods, like scaring the German people, if they didn’t follow him they would incur a great punishment or death. The funny part was when they had reason, and I’m not sure what the other one was called, but it was pretty much like instant attainable desires, or your wanted desires. Reason fights with it and they come to a compromise. This reminds me a lot about my old psychology class, about Sigmund Freud’s theory of the id, the ego, and the superego. The id was your basic primal desires, like food, warmth, and pleasure; it is the first structure present at birth. That’s why babies want their needs meant immediately. Then the next structure is called the ego which pretty much says you well maybe all your needs cannot be satisfied, which is sort of the mediator of the structures. The last structure present is called the Superego, which pretty much is like the one that remembers rules of society and is the polar opposite of the id, and says you can’t do that! The reason sort of reminded me of the superego and I believe they made the film based on these principles. The little child reminded me of actually the id, because it just wanted to do everything immediately and wanted needs fulfilled right away. I actually researched WWII way back in the day for one of my classes, and found out why Germany was the way they were, and why they bought into Hitler. After WWI the Germans were handed over a crushing defeat and were forced to pay money to other Nations that it lost to during the war. The Germans were in a deep recession and living very poorly because all the money made from its economy went straight to the Nations it lost to during war. This led to the deep feelings of depression and inferiority the German people endured. Then one day Hitler came along and promised to make the nation great again, and put the Germany as one of the superpowers in the world, the German people just bought right into Hitler’s radical facades about the German people being a superior race, and the German people just fell in Love with Hitler, so as in the movie Patriotism was one of the strong motivational factors for the German people believing so much in Hitler. Actually after WWII many things were changed because of what happened and many lessons were learned especially now if a country invades another country especially if it’s a superpower it ends up being that countries moral obligation to rebuild that country. Also the United Nations was created to help prevent something like this from ever happening again. Although the united Nations now is seen as a largely ineffective way of getting rid of corrupt leader, and will not act unless provoked, the one good thing about the UN is that it does have the ability to provide large amounts of economic aide, and help to poor and underdeveloped countries in time of natural disasters, or war, but is largely ineffective, because of the large amount of politics that does go on in the UN. Getting back to the movie it seems hypocritical and obvious that Disney did send the same message it was trying to say was bad. Very contradicting, but then again when I think about it the movie was aimed at young kids and America along with many other countries manipulated children a lot over its time. I believe we do and did not do so as much to the extreme as other countries did. Getting back to the book Radical Alterity I am having a hard time really getting a grasp on the message of the book. Probably one of the big reasons is I have only finished about 30 pages of the book, but I do think it may turn out to be like the book “The Ticket that Exploded.” Which was pretty much agony for me to read. I read the first part of the book and he mention Buillard’s text a lot and I’m trying to figure out what he means, maybe this is another author he doesn’t like or something, but there is really no way of knowing. Well I better get to reading the book!