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To: Sam who wrote (494235)

7/9/2022 10:10:54 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 542214

Just a matter of time before that came up :)>.

That is true of both Germany and Japan, and look at them both now.

I read a long time ago a marvelous explanation about that and what it boiled down to was that ALSO both countries were very militaristic and conformist and sort of brutal.

But look at the turn around since!! Both countries are beacons of democracy and civility and great nations.

IMO, it was their ability to learn that saved them i.e. they learned a new way TO BE.

There are no better students on the earth than Japanese and Germans.

But what they were NOT learning in the 20 and 30's was the "humanities"

Look at how Japan and South Korea and Taiwan and Germany embraced democracy after the war and because all four countries are educational warriors they learned to change.

So we see that even in the most reprehensible behavior, if it is out of ignorance, but the people understand the power of education they can change.

The problem with the slave states needing to change is that they are not much into education-lol! .

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Germany may have been the best educated society in the world in the 1920s and 1930s. Indeed, a good deal of the reason why US universities flourished after WWII was due to the number of highly educated German emigres to this country. And certainly why the Manhattan Project got started and completed, for better or worse. And why the sciences in higher education flourished after the war.

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As I keep saying look around the world right now. The highly educated societies, in the main, are usually democracies, prosperous and function under the rule of law.