The Psychology of Genocide
"The seductive quality of hate appeals to the average person's irrational fears, their vanities, their greed and their blood lust. "
This is an interesting quote as it relates to the average person and how hate appeals to our irrational fears, our vanities, our greed and our blood lust. It explains how with this hate the average person will listen to a manipulative leader if it ensures that it will appeal to all of these things. However to completely understand this quote it is important to understand how hate appeals to the average persons irrational fears, vanities, their greed and their blood lust.
Firstly, hate may appeal to the average person as they may think that a race of people may steel jobs and they will be less successful. This is tied in with greed as people always wants more and they would think that they will not be able to get more. People have the irrational fear that they will lose everything, or that their world will go into chaos due to a certain type of people. Therefore, at the end all of this leads to blood lust. If a manipulative leader comes out and tells gives people an option which will erase all their fears, by using exterminating them they will begin to have a blood lust and will want these people to be exterminated. Once the leader has a following of people due to this reason other people will then start to follow the leader due to the fact that they want to be part of the norm of the society. With this people start to develop hate and ultimately people become part of a genocidal project due to their tremendous amounts of hate.
"The seductive quality of hate appeals to the average person's irrational fears, their vanities, their greed and their blood lust. "
This is an interesting quote as it relates to the average person and how hate appeals to our irrational fears, our vanities, our greed and our blood lust. It explains how with this hate the average person will listen to a manipulative leader if it ensures that it will appeal to all of these things. However to completely understand this quote it is important to understand how hate appeals to the average persons irrational fears, vanities, their greed and their blood lust.
Firstly, hate may appeal to the average person as they may think that a race of people may steel jobs and they will be less successful. This is tied in with greed as people always wants more and they would think that they will not be able to get more. People have the irrational fear that they will lose everything, or that their world will go into chaos due to a certain type of people. Therefore, at the end all of this leads to blood lust. If a manipulative leader comes out and tells gives people an option which will erase all their fears, by using exterminating them they will begin to have a blood lust and will want these people to be exterminated. Once the leader has a following of people due to this reason other people will then start to follow the leader due to the fact that they want to be part of the norm of the society. With this people start to develop hate and ultimately people become part of a genocidal project due to their tremendous amounts of hate.