Tim Snyder on our post-catastrophic Hitlerian future in The Guardian

Hitler the politician was right that a rapturous sense of catastrophic time creates the potential for radical action. When an apocalypse is on the horizon, waiting for scientific solutions seems senseless, struggle seems natural and demagogues of blood and soil come to the fore.

Full article:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/16/hitlers-world-may-not-be-so-far-away

As Hitler demonstrated, humans are able to portray a looming crisis in such a way as to justify drastic measures in the present. Under enough stress, or with enough skill, politicians can effect the conflations Hitler pioneered: between nature and politics, between ecosystem and household, between need and desire. A global problem that seems otherwise insoluble can be blamed upon a specific group of human beings.

Aaah, well…I’m just going to sit on me porch, drink some beers and observe the impending doom to the back drop of some real old rock and roll…