Nazi Occultism Victims

 Recently, I finished up a documentary by Extra Credits about the part Occultism had to do with the rise of Nazism in Germany. I never knew how much the occult had in bringing such terror to Europe. One of my favorite points that the documentary tried to nail in was how even if an idea is stupid, it doesn't mean its not dangerous. And it's true even today. I've met people who believe the world is flat or that birds aren't real. It's so easy to post anything stupid on the net and even easier to build a cult following. It's scary how people will use pointless facts or psudo science to build their theories. At the end of the documentary, the narrator turns the camera on America. It's true that we weren't anywhere as bad as the Nazi's, but hints of racist theories and psudo science were in our home. Blood bags for soldiers were seperated by skin color, black for black soldiers and white for white. Imagine that for a moment, your blood which is the same type as another man's, can't be used because of your skin color. Because the medics were told that you were an inferior being. I look at this and I feel sick.

Now, we've come a long way since sorting blood bags by skin color. There are still many problems that persist with racism but strides have been made since the 1940s. Lovecraft died in 1937 at the age of forty six before he saw the start of the second great war. Had he survived, I wonder what he would think. We know form his "poetry" about blacks how he felt about them but we don't have any documentation of him interacting with people of other races. Was he too brought up on the psudo science that caused the Germans to wipe out the "inferior" humans? I recall in "Call of Cthulhu" a scene where Lovecraft compares the locals who worship the god as "savages." Lovecraft obviously had low impressions of "lesser" races so why am I grasping at straws to defend him? Maybe there is no defence for such a backwards way of thinking. I've looked at media from the same time period and I see hints or flat out bolsterous examples of racism. I believe I've mentioned before how Disney had a cartoon called "The Cookie Carnival," where bakery sweets hold a contest for a queen. As they introduce the various "flavors" Ms. Licorice shows up dancing to the beat modeled after blackface. Walt Disney saw this film. Walt Disney gave his stamp of approval to this film. Do I hold Disney to the same standards as Lovecraft? If we go back further, the "Three Little Pigs" cartoon has the Wolf dressed up like an unflattering Jew. Neither Lovecraft nor Disney are here to defend themselves but I question if they are victims of this belief or if they did more harm by continuing the trend. Let's put the light on me: what kind of beliefs do I have that will be considered harmful or backwards ten to twenty years down the line? LGBT issues are a prickly subject in many circles even twenty years after such ideas gained some ground in America. I need to be careful, people take things and blow them out of proportion. My coments and questions could easily be read as offensive.

I should digress here. I didn't mean to go onto a racist tangent. But it's obvious that the way of thinking in the 1920s and 30s had an effect on both men. Both of whom are regarded as masters of their craft. I'll end it here for now, I don't want to end up defending racism but at the same time I see them as men of their time. People who saw the world in a way that is offensive to us today. Something I'll just have to deal with as I write my own stories.