No. I didn't forget that. I just think it's irrelevant. No declaration of anything will change human nature. We are a herd species - 95% of people are followers. They do what the loudest or most authoritative voice tells them.
As Hannah Arendt wrote at the trial of Eichmann, he wasn't very bright. He was quite normal. He was just doing what he was told to do. That's what she called the banality of evil.
That's what 95% of humanity do - they do what they are told to do. They side with the side that is the most popular or where they get the most kudus. The vast majority of the human species are not thinkers, and they never will be.
As Plato noted, there are three types of people - the consumers (the people led by appetite), the soldiers (the people who protect society), and the thinkers (or Philosopher kings, as he called them. There are very, very few of this last group.
You said, "History has shown that the authoritarian education at home and in school in Germany, was one of the reasons why the German population blindly followed Adolf Hitler in the 1930' and '40s..."
No, history did not show that at all. What history showed was that the punitive damages given to Germany at the end of 1918 war left the country with massive inflation. My late father told me that in Berlin in the 1930s, they had to carry suitcases of money to pay for things, and sometimes, if they started off in the morning, by afternoon the prices had increased.
His book of that time period, "Memoirs of a Jewish Journalist in Nazi Germany" is available on Amazon.
Erich Fromm, Adorno, and others seem to think we have some sort of dimension that animals don't. They're making assumptions based on various religions. We're just another species of animal. Specifically, again, we're herd animals. We are divided into the mass of followers and a few leaders. That's how tribes work. We are also a tribal species. We are not going to evolve to become sort of humane, benevolent species. The best we can hope for is a system of government and economics that will enable us to live peacefully, and I don't think we have the kind of leadership and intellect to do that.
I always thought the student movements and the feminist movements of the 60s and 70s were off-kilter. Some good - some bad, as I explained in my article. Certainly, the education system that began to replace the old classical education system has not been a success. When I was in Germany a little while ago, I was shocked at the lack of critical thinking amongst Germans. They might be deciding to support this or that, but the 'this or that' they supported was not the result of critical thinking. It was the same old thing - the thing that they were told. One cannot get away from the biological fact that most people are followers - not leaders.
With regard to Palestine, until the 1967 war, if you check, in old newspapers referred to Palestine, they were referring to Israel. Also, the area called Palestine under the old Ottoman Empire (which dissolved in 1917) included present day Jordan as Palestine, Samaria, Judea, etc.
The area today known as Palestine were previously:
The West Bank - Jordan
Golan Heights - Syria
Gaza Strip - Egypt.
The area was also relatively empty, and, again, if you go back and read the historical papers of that time, you will see it described as nothing but desert, a few nomads, etc. That included present day Israel. The Jews built the area from a desert into the modern thriving place it is today.
The Palestine population you refer to comprises a people who have been indoctrinated to hate Israel, Jews, and anyone who is not Muslim. Egypt doesn't want them - that's why she also has a very high wall to prevent people in Gaza from crossing into her country. Jordan doesn't want them. Not sure about Syria, but basically, if the Middle Eastern countries don't want the land back, you have to ask yourself why.
When I was growing up in Africa in the 50s, there were still hunter gatherer societies. Sub-Saharan Africa was stone age when colonists first came. They created the modern world we have there today. Sub-Saharan Africans didn't read, didn't write, had constant tribal wars, genocides, cannibalism, etc. Again, check your history. Unless you think an educated, informed civilization is bad, you cannot just condemn colonization saying it was all bad.
There will be no human transformation. Again, we are an animal species. The fact that there are a handful of people who have the capacity to formulate other systems does not mean that those systems will be implemented. I see absolutely no hope for humanity whatsoever.
Scientist and author, Jared Diamond, has written about the causes of human collapse. We're basically headed for extinction - as confirmed by the world's leading scientists. I concur.
Philosophers do not deal with reality. They try to understand human nature but they tend to have a premise that is not scientifically based.
I wish I could believe that we are all going to have this fantastic, ideal society, but I don't. I think, as a species, we're done.
