Evil's Best Tool : Cheap Intimacy
At the close of World War 2 the allies found very few Gestapo ( Nazi secret police ) records intact...except in Wurzburg where they were salvaged completely intact. What the allies found was a chilling testament to the darker side of human nature. There were only 8 gestapo secret police in Wurzburg. In fact in all of Nazi Germany there far fewer gestapo agents than the
allied forces had thought . The record showed in Wurzburg that the secret police knew that they could rely on the fact that people had a frightening need to be deemed with approval by a higher authority; evil or otherwise. Their records reveal people taken away to concentration camps because they snubbed someone on a special occasion or they did not fit the mold in the workplace.
One BBC documentary followed a young woman who was quiet and not social enough with many people who perceived it as a snub. She was gassed in 1942 as a threat to the state. There was only a need for enough secret police in Wurzburg to write up documentation and information about people who told secrets and lies about other people to gain status with the authorities and to gain "cheap intimacy" with others. yeah, you know: gossip ...In other words " I don't know you, but if you are "important" I will tell you things about other people and I will gain your intimacy and protection" ....There are checks and balances in our society today that ensures that a government will not put people to death based on a whim or lack of social acceptance. BUT...check out any workplace, school, church or institution today that involves hierarchy. There is a constant pressure ( especially when weak or imperceptive leadership exists ) to weaken and even damage others for the sake of the twisted approval of a select few... This is what makes New Heights an unusual place of solace for all. The very awkwardness and difficult process we experience in embracing so many people is the lifeblood of the place. This acceptance is a bulwark against the kind of thing in humanity that was exploited in Wurzburg. Those who sent the many away to camps from Wurzburg were strangely missing and silent when the glare of true justice exposed the real culprits through the Gestapo records. It is so with many institutions today .````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ```May the Jesus who accepted me, pound my heart into submission when the whiff of "cheap intimacy " catches my nostrils and shows me an easy status to be gained.
At the close of World War 2 the allies found very few Gestapo ( Nazi secret police ) records intact...except in Wurzburg where they were salvaged completely intact. What the allies found was a chilling testament to the darker side of human nature. There were only 8 gestapo secret police in Wurzburg. In fact in all of Nazi Germany there far fewer gestapo agents than the
allied forces had thought . The record showed in Wurzburg that the secret police knew that they could rely on the fact that people had a frightening need to be deemed with approval by a higher authority; evil or otherwise. Their records reveal people taken away to concentration camps because they snubbed someone on a special occasion or they did not fit the mold in the workplace.
One BBC documentary followed a young woman who was quiet and not social enough with many people who perceived it as a snub. She was gassed in 1942 as a threat to the state. There was only a need for enough secret police in Wurzburg to write up documentation and information about people who told secrets and lies about other people to gain status with the authorities and to gain "cheap intimacy" with others. yeah, you know: gossip ...In other words " I don't know you, but if you are "important" I will tell you things about other people and I will gain your intimacy and protection" ....There are checks and balances in our society today that ensures that a government will not put people to death based on a whim or lack of social acceptance. BUT...check out any workplace, school, church or institution today that involves hierarchy. There is a constant pressure ( especially when weak or imperceptive leadership exists ) to weaken and even damage others for the sake of the twisted approval of a select few... This is what makes New Heights an unusual place of solace for all. The very awkwardness and difficult process we experience in embracing so many people is the lifeblood of the place. This acceptance is a bulwark against the kind of thing in humanity that was exploited in Wurzburg. Those who sent the many away to camps from Wurzburg were strangely missing and silent when the glare of true justice exposed the real culprits through the Gestapo records. It is so with many institutions today .````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ```May the Jesus who accepted me, pound my heart into submission when the whiff of "cheap intimacy " catches my nostrils and shows me an easy status to be gained.
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