[UA] Hitler the Archetype

[Timothy Ferguson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Greg Stolze
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 June 2001 10:58 PM
> To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Subject: RE: Re:[UA] Hitler the Archetype
>
>
> >> Here's their dilemma.  They can monkeywrench him if they want...
> >> but unlike Hitler he's NOT a racist nutjob.
> >
> >A conquering Han general from the Middle Kingdom who isn't a
> nutjob?  He's
> >quite an odd one then...
>
> Not a RACIST nutjob.

Then how's he a Han Imperialist?

> Any Godwalker is going to seem insane (or, if you
> apply the standard of "danger to self or others," arguably BE insane) to a
> more balanced personality.  But the real crux of the situation comes down
> to, are the PCs willing to countenance throwing an entire continent into
> violence convulsions because they're certain it's the way to make Hitler
> merely mortal again?  Tim sez no -- would he say that even if this general
> seemed like the best chance, and possibly the last?  I mean, what other
> country is reasonably going to go on a conquest spree that rivals Germany
> at the beginning of WWII?  What, the UNITED STATES?

Well, if you consider it on a cultural level, doesn't this make Disney the
New Freaky Guy With a Dream and A Moustache?  He's in a bunker too, in urban
myth.


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