Jordan Peterson - Why Atheism Will DESTROY YOU
https://youtu.be/cgvZ1BlzCHU
"In the case of Hitler…it's easy to blame what happened in Germany on Hitler but that's a big mistake because it was a dialogue between Hitler and the German people, right…Hitler didn't create himself. It was co-creation. He said things, people listened and told him back what so say, and he said them and they listened and they told him back what to say, and it looped…until he was the mouthpiece of their darkest desires…now that's a game he was willing to play…but it isn't like Hitler created Nazi Germany. Hitler and the Germans co-created Nazi Germany, and a leader gives articulation to the imagination of the population. That's what a leader does.
And you know, you could say that maybe Hitler filtered what the Germans were telling him through a particular lens because he had no shortage of resentment and desire for revenge in his own heart…it's not like his life was a spectacular success before he became a political activist…and he was brutalized very badly in WWI and he didn't get to pursue his primary dream which was to be an art student in Vienna and he had applied 3 times and got rejected all 3 times, and so he was bitter about that. He was basically living on the streets after WWI wasn't the world's happiest person and I'm sure he carried a fair bit of resentment in his heart in the trenches of WWI.
In one experience that he had, all of his friends had been killed by a mortar when he had wandered off to go do something else…so, it's hard to even imagine what something like that would do to you…but I can tell you when you're the only survivor of twenty people that's also going to give you an enhanced sense of your own specialness because the alternative is just to think about how goddamned arbitrary the universe really is."