Peace in Our Time

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In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

— Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001), The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 1980.


If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace and lead in gently all the sick, the halt and the lamed.
And they would smile me a weary thanks.

— D H Lawrence (1885 – 1930), 1908.

Nazi Party (NSDAP) Election Results
1928	2.6%
1930	18.3%
1932 (Jul)	37.3%
1932 (Nov)*	33.1%
1933 (Mar)**	43.9%
*Last free elections **Last contested elections

(Munich Agreement, 30 September 1938)

Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945):
[The Jew] is and remains the eternal parasite, a freeloader and scrounger, foreever spreading like a bactarium, and wherever he appears, the host nation withers and dies away.
(Mein Kampf, 1925)

The hour will come at last in which the millions who despise us will stand by us, who with us will hail the new hard won, painfully acquired, German Reich we have created together, the new German kingdom of greatness and power and glory and justice.
(Election Campaign Launch, Berlin Sports Palace, 10 February 1933)

There will be no mercy now. …
Anyone who stands in our way will be butchered.
Every communist functionary will be shot where he is found.
The communist deputies must be hanged this very night.
Everyone in league with the communists is to be arrested.
Against the social democrats … too, there will be no more mercy.
(Reichstag fire, 27 February 1933)

On 30 January, [the day I was appointed Chancellor,] the die was cast in Germany.
And I don't think that our opponents, who were laughing then, are still laughing now!
(1933)

If international financial Jewry in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the peoples into a world war again, the the result will not be the Bolehevization of the Earth and thus the victory of Judaism, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.
(30 January 1939)

(The Gates of Hell 1941 ‒ 1942, The Abyss: Rise and Fall of the Nazis, Episode 7, 2021)

Joseph Goebbels (1897 – 1945):
With regard to the Jewish question, the Fuhrer wants to wipe the slate clean.
That's not just a turn of phrase.
Global war is here, and the annihilation of world Jewry much be its necessary consequence.
(13 December 1941)


Franz von Papen (1879 – 1969) [Conservative Politician]:
We have hired [Hitler].
Within six weeks, we'll have pushed him so far into the corner, he will squeak.
(1933)


Otto Wels (1885 – 1930) [Social Democratic Politician]:
You can take our lives and our freedom, but you cannot take our honour. …
At this historic hour, we German Social Democrats pledge ourselves to the principles of humanity and justice, of freedom and socialism. …
We send greetings to the persecuted and oppressed.
We greet our friends in the Reich.
Their steadfastness and loyalty deserve admiration.
The courage with which they maintain their convictions and their unbroken confidence guarantee a brighter future.
(Reichstag, 23 March 1933)


Hannah Arendt (1906 – 75):
[The] Jewish moneylender [had] for centuries … been excluded from all greater business transactions and found his only opportunity in the economically unproductive and insignificant but socially important loans to people who had a tendency to live beyond their means. …

Which group of people would turn antisemitic in a given country at a given historical moment depended exclusively upon general circumstances which made them ready for a violent antagonism to their government.
But the remarkable similarity of arguments and images which time and again were spontaneously reproduced have an intimate relationship with the truth they distort.
We find the Jews always represented as

• an international trade organization,
• a world-wide family concern with identical interests everywhere,
• a secret force behind the throne which degrades all visible governments
  • into mere façade, or
  • into marionettes whose strings are manipulated from behind the scenes.

Because of their close relationship to state sources of power, the Jews were invariably identified with power, and because of their aloofness from society and concentration upon the closed circle of the family, they were invariably suspected of working for the destruction of all social structures. …

The first international anti-Jewish congress took place in 1882 in Dresden, with about 3,000 delegates from Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia …
The Jews very clearly were the only inter-European element in a nationalized Europe.
It seemed only logical that their enemies had to organize on the same principle, if they were to fight those who were supposed to be the secret manipulators of the political destiny of all nations.
(The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951 / 1967)


Claudia Wallis:
[A] huge study published this past summer in the New England Journal of Medicine found that taking vitamin D for five years did not reduce the rate of fractures in healthy adults ages 50 and older.
That result built on earlier findings, led by the same team, that D supplements do not improve bone density (or, for that matter, lower the risk of cancer or heart disease).
An editorial accompanying the fracture study declared that it’s time for medical professionals to stop pushing these pills and quit ordering so many blood tests for vitamin D levels.
“Food and incidental sun exposure likely provide enough vitamin D for healthy adults,” says endocrinologist Meryl LeBoff of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, who led the study.
(A Diet for Better Bones, Scientific American, January 2023)


Steven Cummings & Clifford Rosen:
An estimated one third or more of US adults 60 years of age or older take vitamin D supplements, not including those who take multivitamins or other compounds containing vitamin D.
Yet controversy continues about its overall benefits.
In this issue of the Journal, LeBoff and colleagues report findings from an ancillary study of the Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial (VITAL), which extend the results of that trial; taken together, VITAL and this ancillary study show that vitamin supplements do not have important health benefits in the general population of older adults, even in those with low 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels.
(VITAL Findings — A Decisive Verdict on Vitamin D Supplementation, New England Journal of Medicine, 28 July 2022)


Michelle Obama (1964):
Emotions are not plans.
They don't solve problems or right any wrongs.
[Be] careful about letting them guide you.
Rage can be a dirty windshield.
Hurt is like a broken steering wheel. …
It you don't do something constructive with them, they'll take you straight into a ditch. …

Going high … happens over the course of a lifetime, the course of a generation.
[It] is demonstrative, a commitment to showing your children, your friends, your colleagues, and your community what it looks like to live with love, and operate with decency.
(The Light We Carry, 2022, pp 276‒7)

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John Howard (1963):
I do not accept that there is underlying racism in this country …
(Response to the Cronulla Riots, 2005)

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Jonathan Haidt (1939):
People who think differently and are willing to speak up if they disagree with you make you smarter, almost as if they are extensions of your own brain.
People who try to silence or intimidate their critics make themselves stupider, almost as if they are shooting darts into their own brain.

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

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Who controls the Past controls the Future
Who controls the Present controls the Past

— George Orwell (1903 – 50), Nineteen Eight-Four, 1949.


The struggle of Man against Power
Is the struggle of Memory against Forgetting

— Milan Kundera (1929), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 1979.


In Beleriand in those days the Elves walked, and the rivers flowed, and the stars shone, and the night-flowers gave forth their scents; and the beauty of Melian was as the noon, and the beauty of Lúthien was as the dawn in spring.

— John Tolkien (1892 – 1973), The Silmarillion, 1977.

Charles Manson (1934 – 2017):
[On release from prison in 1967, Manson] was transferred to the supervision of criminology doctoral researcher and federal probation officer Roger Smith [in San Francisco.]
… Smith worked at the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic (HAFMC), which Manson and his family frequented throughout their stay in the Haight.
Roger Smith, as well as the HAFMC's founder David E Smith, received funding from the National Institutes of Health, and reportedly the CIA to study the effects of drugs like LSD and methamphetamine on the counterculture movement in Haight–Ashbury.
The patients at the clinic became subjects of their research, including Manson and his expanding group of (mostly) female followers …

David Smith … wrote that the change in Manson's personality during this time "was the most abrupt Roger Smith had observed in his entire professional career."…
David Smith claims that Manson attempted to reprogram [his followers] minds to "submit totally to his will" through the use of "LSD and … unconventional sexual practices" that would turn his followers into "empty vessels that would accept anything he poured." …
[By] April 1968, Manson had attracted 20 or so followers, all under the supervision of his parole officer Roger Smith and many of the staff at the HAFMC.
(Wikipedia, 13 February 2023)


Helter Skelter:
… Manson often spoke to the members of his Family about Helter Skelter in the months leading up to the murders of Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in August 1969, an apocalyptic war arising from racial tensions between Black and White people.
This involved reference to music of the Beatles, particularly songs from their 1968 "White Album", and the New Testament's Book of Revelation.
(Wikipedia, 15 February 2023)


Ernst Mach (1838 – 1916):
I do not believe that atoms exist.

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Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exagerate.

(Letter to Prime Minister Asquith)


We shall not flag or fail.
We shall go on to the end.
We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air; we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old.

(Speech in the House of Commons, 4 June 1940)


Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation.
Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire.
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us now.
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war.
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.
But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say,

This was their finest hour.

(Speech in the House of Commons, 18 June 1940)

Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

— John Tolkien (1892 – 1973), The Riddle of Strider,
The Lord of the Rings, 1954.


Every time I change wives, I should burn the last one.
That way I’d be rid of them.
They wouldn’t be around to complicate my existence.
(Maybe that would bring back my youth, too.)
You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents.

— Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)


[For] young ladies will look forward to being married, and will jostle each other in the race to the altar, and will avail themselves of all opportunities of displaying their own attractions to the best advantage, down to the very end of time as they have done from its beginning.

— Charles Dickens (1812 – 70), Nicholas Nickleby, 1839.

(Jim Endersby, Women in Science Fiction, 2021)

Dear Miss Ford,

Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as the work is performed entirely by young men.
For this reason girls are not considered for the training school.

The only work open to women consists of tracing the characters on clear celluloid sheets with India ink and filling in the tracings on the reverse side with paint according to directions.

(Walt Disney Productions, 7 June 1958)


Charles Darwin (1809 – 82):
[Among women] the powers of intuition, of rapid perception, and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man. …
[These] faculties are characteristic of the lower races and therefore of a past and lower state of civilisation.
(The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 1871)

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The Descent of Man

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Charles Darwin (1809 – 82):
The [marked] variability of all the characteristic differences between the races [of man] indicates that these differences cannot be of much importance …
[For,] had they been important, they would long ago have been either:

• fixed and preserved, or
• eliminated.

In this respect man resembles those forms, called by naturalists protean or polymorphic, which have remained extremely variable, owing … to their variations being of an indifferent nature, and consequently to their having escaped the action of natural selection.
(On the Races of Man, The Descent of Man, 1871)


David Wilson (1949) [Evolutionary Biologist]:
Jewish history is not as simple as a displaced people struggling to survive amidst hostile neighbors.
Jewish groups survived and even prospered through specific activities and relationships with different elements of their host nations. …

A common pattern was for Jews to form an alliance with one gentile segment of the host nation, usually the ruling elite, to exploit another gentile segment, such as the peasantry.
Far from being anti-Semitic, the ruling elite would attempt to protect the Jews from the rest of the resentful host population. …

The non-Jew had no fear that the Jew would take a partisan stand in the struggle between the rulers and the ruled, who bore the economic yoke of the political privileges enjoyed by the rulers.
(J Katz, Tradition and crisis: Jewish society at the end of the middle ages, 1961)

The Jew’s outsider status was an advantage as far as the rulers were concerned.
(Darwin's Cathedral, 2002)

Steven Grosby

Professor of Religion, Clemson University

During the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, there were those who thought that the divisions of humanity were ‘given’ in the sense that they were an unavoidable consequence of racial differences.
For example, the French diplomat Arthur de Gobineau (1816 – 82) argued:

• that humanity was divided into different races; and …
• that these races determined the distinctiveness of the culture of one civilization from that of another.

[It] was Gobineau who developed … the view that the decline of a civilization was the inevitable result of the mixing of one race with another.
This view was subsequently extended by the anti-Semitic Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855 – 1927), who believed in the existence of a pure Aryan race.
The most hideous historical expression of these racialist views was the anti-Semitism of German Fascism, which asserted that the ‘blood’ of the Jews defiled the supposedly pure and superior Aryan race.
Such racialist views about the ‘natural’ divisions of humanity into permanent physical types have been shown to have no scientific basis whatsoever, as genetic variability may be greater within a race, than between races.
These views have, deservedly, been rejected today by all serious analysts.

(Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2005, p 99)


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