How Hitler was Even More Evil Than You Think - Prof. Jordan Peterson

so here's what you should have done if you were Nazi and you wanted to win the war you should have Enslaved the Jews and the Gypsies and had them work right you had should have had them work for the benefit of the Victory and then if you wanted to liquidate them afterwards that's the logical thing to do if you want to win and we assume that Hitler wanted to win but that's not a very intelligent assumption why would you assume that he wasn't exactly a good guy so why should we assume that he was aiming

at the good that he was promoting even in his own terms right the Glorious Everlasting fourth Third Reich right that'll rule for a thousand years and be a Bastion of civilization and music because that's the sort of thing he purported to be interested in well so what do you do with the Jews and the gypsies well round them up fine enslave them fine you don't kill them you certainly don't devote a substantial proportion of your War resources while you're losing to accelerate the rate at which the extermination is taking place because that's a bit counterproductive

unless what you're aiming at is the maximum possible Mayhem in the shortest period of time well so what happened as the Germans started to lose the war did Hitler lose faith in his own ability no he believed that the Germans had betrayed him with weakness and so he was perfectly willing to accelerate the rate at which Germany was losing the war and so when Hitler and his minions had the choice here's the choice you can suspend your unnecessary demolition of people win the damn war and then pick it up afterwards or while you're losing you

can just accelerate the Mayhem even though it's counterproductive it's like what'd they pick well they pick to accelerate the Mayhem and so to me there's an old psychoanalytic idea I think this was derived by Jung if you can't figure out what someone is doing or why look at the outcome and infer the motivation if it produces Mayhem perhaps it was aiming at mayhep now you know you have to use that dictum carefully if someone's irritating you you know maybe it's because you're irritable that you should sort yourself out but maybe it's because they're actually aiming

at irritating you and that's the actual motivation so perhaps not but it's another tool in your analytical armament so and so you see well this is the thing about warfare that's so interesting about about because you you can you can attribute it to territoriality you can attribute it to a war for resources that's what the I would say wretchedly simple-minded economists presume people fight over scarce resources it's like hey we're a little bit more sophisticated than that and first of all what resources are you talking about the bloody Inuit had nothing they lived perfectly well

what did they have snow and sealed blubber you know people can live an unbelievably deprived conditions and so the idea that there are natural resources that we fight over because there's a shortage of them is a pretty oversimplified view of human beings it's like well why do people fight well maybe they fight sometimes for good reasons but very very frequently they fight for bad reasons and those bad reasons are are personal as well as socio-cultural and economic you know if you were a Nazi prison guard for example whatever pathologies you were carrying around in your

destructive little soul whatever element of Cain was deeply embedded in you had the opportunity to be manifest fully at every moment of your waking existence right you had these people who were completely beholden to you with no rights whatsoever to whom you could do whatever your evil little heart determined think well maybe that was a motivation for putting them there to begin with and all the cover story about well we're trying to build the Third Reich and we're trying to stabilize the state and we're trying to do all these good things maybe that's just a

cover story for the real motivation which is nothing but but what the construction of death camps that killed six million people how about that and the obliteration of 120 million people on the planet and the and the and the and the leaving of European runes maybe that was the motivation or are we going to attribute to Hitler the highest possible motives say no it's an archetypal manifestation of Cain now he's going to put up a front that says well I'm your savior it's like well destructive people think that Cain is their savior