[UA] Hitler the Archetype - the Self-Loather

[R. Menzi]

----At 4 Jun 2001 14:41:34 -0000 Nick Wedig
mrteapot at disinfo.net wrote:
> I suppose the moral ambiguity of the archetypes
> keeps this from being a significant question.  


     The Butcher?  If he ascended, why make him such a
obvious one?  That's not a cool twist.  I say play up
his supposed Jewish connection via his father; make
him ascend into The Self-Loather.

     By embodying his hatred for himself to such a
degree (through the genocide of his kind), he was
setting the stage.  When the camps were witnessed, the
curtain rose, and when he completed the psychodrama
with an act of suicide, he was taken into the IC
instead an afterlife.

     The result... the rise of righteousness via
victimization, where people empower themselves with
the claim of weakness and lack of power - what a
better manifestation of the Self-Loather's entrance
into the IC.

     On a more personal level, the rise of eating
disorders may also be associatiated with this
influence.  If he was, indeed, the Self-Loather, old
Adolf may have been replaced in the 80's by some
pretty young girl with lots of eating disorders who
had her face "fixed" with surguries until she was
disfigured (like Jackson).

     When her final bulemic convulsion actually
induced cardiac arrest in her starved heart, she was
taken up, and Hitler has the indignity of being ousted
by a noseless Kate Moss wannabe.... What better way
for the Self-Loather to be forced from his seat.

     The mirrors do not stop at merely being the
target of one's own disgust.  The new Self-Loather
earned her seat by influencing the fashion industry.
She performed the same ritual of defacing herself via
her "type:" making those who have healthy body fat or
slight imperfections into self-identified uglies (in
an emaciated homage to the last Hitler's work), she
orchestrated her own metaphorical Final Solution for
the plump little pig she saw in the mirror.



Regards,
- R. Menzi

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