更新时间:2019-07-22

果冻 • 我们的父辈:Hitler was created by us.希特勒由我们创造出

The Hitler Experience was made possible as a result of group consciousness. Many people want to say that Hitler manipulated a group—in this case, his countrymen—through the cunning and the mastery of his rhetoric. But this conveniently lays all the blame at Hitler’s feet—which is exactly where the mass of the people want it.
But Hitler could do nothing without the cooperation and support and willing submission of millions of people. The subgroup which called itself Germans must assume an enormous burden of responsibility for the Holocaust. As must, to some degree, the larger group called Humans, which, if it did nothing else, allowed itself to remain indifferent and apathetic to the suffering in Germany until it reached so massive a scale that even the most cold-hearted isolationists could no longer ignore it.
You see, it was collective consciousness which provided fertile soil for the growth of the Nazi movement. Hitler seized the moment, but he did not create it.
It’s important to understand the lesson here. A group consciousness which speaksconstantly of separation and superiority produces loss of compassion on a massive scale, and loss of compassion is inevitably followed by loss of conscience.
A collective concept rooted in strict nationalism ignores the plights of others, yet makes everyone else responsible for yours, thus justifying retaliation, “rectification,” and war.
Auschwitz was the Nazi solution to—an attempt to “rectify”—the “Jewish Problem.”
The horror of the Hitler Experience was not that he perpetrated it on the human race, but that the human race allowed him to.
The astonishment is not only that a Hitler came along, but also that so many others went along.
The shame is not only that Hitler killed millions of Jews, but also that millions of Jews had to be killed before Hitler was stopped.
The purpose of the Hitler Experience was to show humanity to itself.
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Hitler was created by you. He arose out of your Collective Consciousness, and could not have existed without it.
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Hitler did nothing “wrong.” Hitler simply did what he did. I remind you again that for many years millions thought he was “right.” How, then, could he help but think so?
If you float out a crazy idea, and ten million people agree with you, you might not think you’re so crazy.
The world decided—finally—that Hitler was “wrong.” That is to say, the world’s people made a new assessment of Who They Are, and Who They Chose To Be, in relationship to the Hitler Experience.
He held up a yardstick! He set a parameter, aborder against which we could measure and limit our ideas about ourselves. Christ did the same thing, at the other end of the spectrum.
There have been other Christs, and other Hitlers. And there will be again. Be ever vigilant, then. For people of both high and low consciousness walk among you—even as you walk among others. Which consciousness do you take with you?
翻译：
希特勒经验之所以可能，是由于群体意识所产生。许多人说希特勒操纵了群体 —— 也就是他的国人 —— 用的方法是他的狡诈和滔滔善辩。但这种说法却是一种方便说法，把一切罪责都推到希特勒身上 —— 这不是人民大众所要的方式。
但如果不是数以百万计的民众支持他，跟他合作，宁愿屈服，则希特勒什么也不能做。自称为日耳曼人的这一小群，必须为大屠杀负起重大的责任。同样，这称之为人类的大群，也必须负起重大的责任。因为这人类大群即使并没有做什么，却也是漠然的允许，漠然于德国所发生的痛苦——直至其情况是如此之深，以至于连心肠最冷硬的分离主义者也不再能漠视为止。
所以，是集体意识提供了纳粹运动的沃土。希特勒只是抓住了时机，但并不是他创造了这个运动。
必须要懂得这其中的教训。一个持续在强调分别和优越感的群体意识，会使悲悯之情大量消失，而悲悯之情的消失，则无可避免的会随之以良心的丧失。
以狭隘的民族主义为基础的集体概念，会忽视他人的苦难，却会要所有的别人为你们的苦难负责，因而为报复、“整风”和战争制造借口。
奥许维茨是纳粹解决“犹太问题”的办法——是一种试图“整风”的企图。
希特勒经验的可怕，并非在他把此经验加诸于人类身上，而是人类允许他去做。
令人吃惊的不仅是希特勒的出现，而是还有那么多人同行。
可耻的不仅是希特勒屠杀了好几百万犹太人，而是在希特勒被迫住手以前，必须有好几百万的犹太人被屠杀。
希特勒经验的用意，乃是向人类显露它自己的面貌。
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希特勒是由你们所创造的。他起于你们的集体意识。没有这种集体意识，他不可能存在。这就是你们的教训。
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希特勒没有做任何“错”事。他只是做了他做的事。我要再次提醒你：有许多年的时间，上百万的人都认为他是“对”的。他怎么可能会不认为如此呢？
如果你冒出某个疯狂念头，而上千万的人都同意，你就很可能不会觉得自己多疯狂。
这世界——终于——认定希特勒是“错”的了。这乃是说，世界上的人对他们是谁和他们选择做谁，参照希特勒经验，做了新的评估。
他拿出一把尺来，设了一个参数，一个界线，依此我们可以测量和限制我们对自己的观念。基督所做的也是同样的事，只不过是在光谱的另一端。
还曾有过别的基督，别的希特勒。以后还会再有。所以，要警觉。因为高等意识和低等意识的人都走在你们之间——正如你们走在他人之间。你又带着什么意识呢？
（译文摘自《與神對話Ⅱ》方智出版社译者：孟祥森，台湾大学哲学系、辅仁大学哲学研究所毕业,曾任教台湾大学等学府。https://www.douban.com/doubanapp/dispatch/book/1367052?dt_dapp=1）