JulianMorrison comments on A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 14 May 2009 01:25:12AM 5 points [-]

Original Naziism was very tied to a historical milieu. The conditions of Weimar Germany won't exactly recur. But by interpreting it as a suite of metaphors, it becomes somewhat immune to context, more able to bridge the centuries - while continually enticing its adherents to drag the world back to 1935, which is the era in which the metaphors make sense.