, itself inflicted by ruling class overprivileged psychos unsatisfied by merely feeding them into the meat grinder?
With the inevitably resulting intergenerational pathology being to inflict that abuse on their children in a culture that allows them no healthy outlet, as well as resenting their parents for not giving them Nazis to fight to morally justify said abuse?
Or am I overthinking this?
Oh for sure. Much of this, like most problems in the world, can be traced back to the English, who have a noted history of treating their children like shit, at least if we reach back deep enough intergenerationally.
british upper class boy schools definitely ran on systematic abuse of the young by the older students and the teachers, and i’m sure this prepared them for decisions like firing cannons at civilians and overseeing famines
but this is rest of europe erasure for sure. do you think eg german parents and child rearing methods/institutions were better?
i think it’s a fairly recent (re?)discovery that beating kids is bad.