這也是在上一次大選的時候寫下的一篇。為什麼德國女人們選擇了希特勒?問題提出來了,答案應當並不是多難找,但我也知道這件事沒有誰真想讓自己想明白。現在看起來,我也許還有希望接著這篇再寫一篇,把'為什麼德國女人選擇了希特勒'和'為什麼美國男人選擇了川普'放在一起掰扯掰扯。把人類不分男女一起往泥塘里推一推,這樣畢竟更公平些也更好玩是不是?集體無意識這個東西其實很好玩,不過你要有能力站在它的外面觀望,那倒不是件容易的事情。
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誰選擇了希特勒
(March, 2012)
時至今日,這仍然是個讓全世界人民集體性自覺迴避真相,卻努力尋找著各種替代答案的問題。
1932年的那一次民主選舉最終把納粹和希特勒推上了德國政治舞台。"女性的選票使希特勒獲勝",<Voice of Destruction>的作者Hermann Rauschning 如是說。希特勒自己也在一次講演中驕傲地說:我們爭取到的女性,比所有其他黨派加起來都要多!
詭異的事情是,一戰後的威瑪共和期間,德國女權獲得長足進步。自1918年女性開始享受選舉權。但是僅僅經過區區十數年的民主運作,德國人民就把接力棒順順利利地交到獨裁手中。更為詭異的事情是,女人們用她們得來不易的權利,把權力拱手送給了一個聲張男權的黨派。
這到底是怎麼回事?
王小波先生有一篇雜文討論蠱惑宣傳的問題。以我看這是小波先生最糟糕的一篇文章,根本不知所云。核心問題在於他天真地以為人文社會學當中有著"正派學問"與"異端邪說"之分。這就把他自己完全繞在裡面了。實際的事情是,'精神掌握群眾'的唯一渠道只能是 demagoguery,別無他途的。至於你的理論是欺世的異端邪說,還是濟世的人間真理,那完全決定於你的個人立場。
希特勒先生在那次講演中(國家社會黨婦女大會上的講話)有一段話,本身既是蠱惑(女性)大眾的傑作,又同時點明了蠱惑宣傳的精髓。小波先生與之相比豈止是幼稚了。且把這段講話記錄在這裡。
(Hitler)I remember the difficult years of the Movement』s fight and especially those times in which good fortune seemed to have turned away from us; ••• ••• I know that back then there were innumerable women who remained unshakably loyal to the Movement and to me.
At that time, the power of emotion truly proved itself to be stronger and better. We have seen that the clever mind can be misled only all too easily, that ostensibly intellectual arguments can cause men of weak intellect to falter, and that it is particularly in these times that the most profound inner instinct of preservation of the self and of the Volk awakens in a woman. Woman has proven to us that she knows what is right! In those times when the great Movement seemed, to many, to falter and all were united against us, the stability and sureness of emotion prevailed as stable factors when confronted with brooding intellect and supposed knowledge. For only very few are endowed with the talent of penetrating superficial knowledge to the most profound inner meaning. But this most profound insight is ultimately the root of the world of emotion. That which perhaps only few philosophically gifted intellects are capable of analyzing scientifically can be sensed by the nature of an unspoiled human being with instinctive certainty. The feeling and, above all, the nature of woman has always acted throughout the ages as a supplement to the intellect of man.