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There is something inherently impossible for a world- and life-view of nihilism to be believable – in spite of all appearances – to a conscious, thinking, reflective creature.

When the American forces saw the remnants in the concentration camp at Ohrdruf there were essentially at least three degrees of death: the deaths of the interned, “death” of belief in mankind, and death in the belief of a caring God.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/ohrdruf-concentration-camp

Proportions of human stupidity and brilliance are probably fairly much constants through time.

Ie multicultural and perennial.

How could those raised in post-wartime American middle-class suburban prosperity, imagine the pre-war and wartime life in Nazi Germany?

Not very realistically. Amongst which evil societal and personal was believably foreign.

The amoral inhumanity of deeds and events, human and natural, in history./?

Eg

And his malign legacy… amongst which is the McConnell-Trump Supreme Court.

The container of group psyche inside of “Christian nationalism”.

The lessons of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol would warn the real selfish rich while they are yet alive… but those who do not heed will learn theirs eventually, too late.

I know a very rich one who did not learn before…

Augustine sought meaning for the Fall of Rome in the sky.

Gibbon sought meaning for the Fall of Rome on the earth.

And a historian has found in history 210 reasons for the Fall of Rome… and counting…