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Is it not so that traditions’ beliefs, ideas, notions and opinions, emotions and feelings, attitudes and stances toward life, are more determinative and powerful than the many people they inhabit?

The semi-conscious, rarely-spoken, shared daily social assumption that life and world are for the pursuit of happiness.

Many, if not most, spend their lives seeking happiness…leaving little time to worry about wisdom.

A considerate, kind God… consoler of the lives and deaths, pains and pleasures, successes and failures of the wealthy.

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./?

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