Germany proposes EU-wide ban on Nazi symbolism (Page 2 of 2)

I think the opposite is true, at least for now. Nazism at this point exists as a symbol of the worst kind of evil, and as such it is very useful for manipulating the public mind. Even though Stalin was a more prolific killer, and hundreds of previous cultures and civilizations were more cruel, Hitler and his followers have the worst reputation. Nazism is used today as a way to divert attention and outrage from ongoing evils. Rather than focusing on actual wrongdoing, (corporations poisoning the planet, pedophile priests wrecking the lives of children, megalomaniacal political leaders selling their people down the river, institutional racism, drug laws that drive prices up and make illegal dealing lucrative, economic manipulation by the elite, etc.) the leaders can just point to a swastika and say "there's the real evil".

And who can argue with them? Nazism eclipses all current evils in the public mind. The public mind is simple. It doesn't retain the "how" and "why", just the images. So as long as we don't wear swastikas and double lightning bolts while we torture POW's and raze the homes of children, we are safe. We are not evil. The caricature-like nature of Nazi evil--its cartoonishly overblown presence--ensures that comparisons to current evils will be laughed down. After all, we can never be that evil! Anybody who'd make the comparison is surely just another Chicken Little!

The banning of the swastika and other Nazi imagery is a symptom of the confused state of mind most people now live in. The virtual is leaking into the real. Rather than making an attempt to penetrate to the heart of the real, people are just accepting the virtual as real. They are treating symbols like the things they represent. The Nazis could have worn smiley faces instead of swastikas. Then we'd be banning smiley faces and patting ourselves on the back for defeating evil. The new confusion can be seen in the banning of violent video games, where a simulation of violent behavior is taken for actual violence. It can be seen in the banning of toy weapons, where a simulation of a tool of killing is taken for actual tool. And it's apparent in the banning of Nazi symbols, where the imagery of evil is taken for evil itself.

Nazism will slowly regain respect in the world after its basic tenets are swallowed by the people. We will never see the rise of the party itself, complete with the old uniforms. The world will become Nazified first, under the surface, and then people will "rediscover" and "re-examine" Nazism. If the NWO is successfully implemented, intellectuals will begin observing how similar it is to the Nazi ideal, then they will conclude that the Nazis were right, but their methods were flawed. We won't have Nazi stormtroopers on the streets, just generic stormtroopers. Nobody will wear swastikas, because it won't be necessary. The swastika will go down in history as a quaint symbol of our forefathers. It'll be revered alongside all other political symbols which the NWO will subsume.