When I read “Globalization and populism”(Korea Joongang Daily, May.13), I had but to share the concern of author on this new disturbing global trend. Yet feeling the need to hight more on the catastrophic implication of this blindness, I would like to add some details that may help others to realize the imminence of this crisis.
Without doubt, Adolf Hitler was a tyrant who killed millions of Jews and gypsies and started a war that would devastate the world for the next five years. Germans received blames for not being able to stop the tyrant from reaching a post that allowed him to exert all the harmful influences, but it would be wrong to say that Germans of that period all consciously understood and willingly supported the gruesome reality of Hitler’s agenda.
Rather, the more likely explanation is that Nazism was a disease, an epidemic that quickly spread among them. After the devastating consequence of the World War I, Germans were in despair, waiting for a leader to save them from hardships they suffered. Hitler was at the right place at the right time, and he …show more content…
The world destroyed Hitler and Nazi was demolished. But is the madness really gone? Stanley Milgram’s social experiment gives us a glimpse of the answer to that question. In Milgram’s experiment, when participants were told to deliver electric shocks to students whenever students had wrong answers on a quiz, sixty percent of the participants complied with their requests and delivered the maximum shock possible, which rather resembles the way Hitler’s lieutenant colonel Adolf Eichmann devised various ways to conduct Holocaust “efficiently” under Hitler’s order. I admit, the intensity of evil between the two cases is quite different, but that is not what really matters here. The important thing is that an ordinary citizen with average conscientiousness chosen at random was capable of performing even inhumane actions under
Without doubt, Adolf Hitler was a tyrant who killed millions of Jews and gypsies and started a war that would devastate the world for the next five years. Germans received blames for not being able to stop the tyrant from reaching a post that allowed him to exert all the harmful influences, but it would be wrong to say that Germans of that period all consciously understood and willingly supported the gruesome reality of Hitler’s agenda.
Rather, the more likely explanation is that Nazism was a disease, an epidemic that quickly spread among them. After the devastating consequence of the World War I, Germans were in despair, waiting for a leader to save them from hardships they suffered. Hitler was at the right place at the right time, and he …show more content…
The world destroyed Hitler and Nazi was demolished. But is the madness really gone? Stanley Milgram’s social experiment gives us a glimpse of the answer to that question. In Milgram’s experiment, when participants were told to deliver electric shocks to students whenever students had wrong answers on a quiz, sixty percent of the participants complied with their requests and delivered the maximum shock possible, which rather resembles the way Hitler’s lieutenant colonel Adolf Eichmann devised various ways to conduct Holocaust “efficiently” under Hitler’s order. I admit, the intensity of evil between the two cases is quite different, but that is not what really matters here. The important thing is that an ordinary citizen with average conscientiousness chosen at random was capable of performing even inhumane actions under