Everything that can be said about Hitler, true or false has been said repeatedly.
Except one thing.
The use of speed, amphetamines and then Ritalin, in huge amounts drives down your tested IQ score. This is not well known. I know because it happened to me. When I stopped using speed and went into recovery, my IQ was down to 100. My visual memory was almost gone completely.
People don’t know about this, one medical student I know of failed a term found that his IQ was average and QUIT his entire medical career. He did not know that the IQ goes back up when you quit. He asked at his MED SCHOOL, and no one knew that!
Hitler used speed heavily till the day he died. By reading this blog, you have discovered a critical fact about the deterioration of his performance from the brilliant politician of his earlier years that the encyclopedic works about him did not, as far as I know, mention.
By the way, do not let the fact that Adolf was an energetic man fool you. Oddly enough, it is highly energetic people who tend to use amphetamine and coke. This is not the only contradiction represented by speed. Remember that it is used to treat children who are already hyperactive.
Despite all the screams against Ritalin for such children, it is the ONLY drug that WORKS. It is a Schedule 2 drug, and doctors, who want total control of any drug that has any effect, would not use it if they had any other.
There is a legion of urban myths about hyperactivity, as there are with race. Every year someone would come up with absolute proof that hyperactivity is cured by taking children off sugar, hug therapy, talk therapy, and on and on. The list is endless, and I lived through at least a dozen of them.
These answers to hyperactivity were endorsed one year and if you mentioned it the next, the same people would laugh at you and deny ANYONE ever believed that. They were another piece of accepted crap that proved that Ritalin was a Plot this time. This is the kind of recurrent dumbness that gives conservative groups their cuckoo reputation.
The difference of course, is that liberals can all agree on another explanation of why race isn’t there every year and deny it the next, but media conservatives NEVER remind them of it. Things like cutting for sugar to and hyperactivity are remembered by liberals and they CALL the kooks on the right “kooks.”
#1 by Dave on 01/09/2010 - 1:18 pm
Drugs are devastating, but the world is full of ailments and those of us that don’t have them are blessed.
But the worst disorienting drug is intellectualism and it is equally devastating and easy to fall prey to.
BWs post in “Pointing Fingers” certainly straightened me out because it made me realize that you can’t assess treason on the basis of ideology and Wordism.
Ideologies are shelf items. You simply remove one from the shelf and call it your own the same way you make brand choices at the supermarket.
The real test is the willingness people have to point fingers at the guilty and demand they be punished.
On the basis of that test, we have a whole lot of treason going on.
“Pointing Fingers” cuts through the crap. It made me realize there is no such thing as “respectable conservatism” or “liberalism”. There is only the widespread and virtually united front that advocates that fingers should never be pointed.
The left-right ideological banter and advocacy groups are just farting at the table.
#2 by BoardAd on 01/09/2010 - 5:56 pm
They keep ending up in the trash, which right ticks me off.
#3 by Dave on 01/09/2010 - 6:20 pm
Sometimes I delete my comments myself, because I am not happy with them.
And one of the great things about a seminar is that you don’t have to live with remorse. That is why the “delete” button is important.
#4 by BoardAd on 01/09/2010 - 6:34 pm
For everything I have posted on this blog I have later asked myself why I wrote what I had.
Not everyone has the delete button. Only those SysOp assigned a user role to help with clearing the comments. Please don’t abuse the delete button.
#5 by shari on 01/09/2010 - 5:47 pm
Why do Dave’s comments get posted and then go missing?
#6 by Dave on 01/09/2010 - 6:11 pm
For so many people, time itself is an enemy.
It has to do with their inability to come to terms with selfhood.
Often, the most energetic persons are the worst sufferers.
That is the meaning of their frenetic energy. It is driven by a feeling of intolerable selfhood.
I watch politicians up close. More of them are crazier than you think, driven by unrecognized personality disorders that have root in the inability to endure their own existences.
Don’t be dismissive of this by considering this observation idle psychobabble. It is true and it is a huge problem for society.
Aldous Huxley dreamed of a society where these kinds of personalities suffering from unrecognized disorders, personalities that tend to dominate politics, were actually brought into custody. He thought these personalities needed to be identified young, and restrictions needed to be put on their activities and that they needed to be reined in and restrained as a matter of policy.
Hitler was never a centered individual. Adolph Hitler and John McCain are such twins. Hitler was full of bitterness and resentment of his suffering in WWI. People today have no notion of the horrors of WWI and what it really did to soldiers. Hitler’s mentality was extreme and it was a mentality that was forged in combat, and not uncommon at all. Hitler had many fellow sufferers who identified with him in a way hardly anyone today understands. People in the 19th century would have had a much better grasp of it.
McCain is of the same ilk, and no matter how hard he tries he can be nothing but juvenile. His choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate was evidence of that in spades.
In my mind’s eye I can see McCain making exactly the same speech Hitler made known as the Danzig Corridor speech where Hitler in self-pitying fashion confuses his own career with the interest of Germans, whines about the horrors of war, and then does everything he can to escalate matters. It was a perfect John McCain speech. Rest assured that John McCain’s eternal life disappointment is that he will never have the opportunity to make a Danzig Corridor speech.
Personalities such as these are easy prey for more centered opponents, who lead them around like dogs on a leash.
Horus has it right.
Our movement is strong, but our bench is thin. Our bench is destined to grow into much greater depth. It will be very important to have assurances that the crazies don’t get seated. We will win if only we follow a Huxley policy by handing over the personality disorder types to our opponents, to let them wreck havoc there – in the enemy camp.
#7 by shari on 01/09/2010 - 9:52 pm
The temptation to doublethink is with us all. It’s the contaminated air we breath.So many have just ran with it. I have often felt so foolish and defeated. But I thought recently of those few choices I made that were right, and how they have made a difference. I can still learn at a late date, while so many just keep their heads firmly stuck somewhere, no matter how unhappy they are.
#8 by warweaver on 01/10/2010 - 11:05 pm
But should Hitler, in fact, be regarded as merely a lunatic?
I understand the point about the Danzig speech, but he not only connected his own psychological issues with Germany’s Weimar plight, but also revealed connections between race and the body politic. Surely Hitler didn’t eradicate Jews simply as if some Wagnerian theater dedicated to his own megalomania.
I wonder whether, at least in some respects, Germany (in its early years) represents a recent, Western, prototype of what a nation looks like when it is serious about solving its problems.