{"id":115164,"date":"2020-01-23T00:44:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T07:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=115164"},"modified":"2020-01-22T04:35:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T11:35:11","slug":"dietrich-bonhoeffer-on-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2020\/01\/dietrich-bonhoeffer-on-stupidity.html","title":{"rendered":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Found this interesting quote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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While awaiting execution, Bonhoeffer recorded a number of his thoughts in a work we now know as\u00a0Letters and Papers from Prison<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>One of these essays, entitled\u00a0On Stupidity,\u00a0<\/em>records some of the problems which Bonhoeffer likely saw at work in Hitler\u2019s rise to power:<\/p>\n

\u201cUpon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity. \u2026 The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other. The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail.\u00a0Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances.<\/strong>\u00a0The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent.\u00a0In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being.<\/strong>\u00a0Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n

As both major US political parties continue to centralize power, Americans today might do well to heed Bonhoeffer\u2019s warning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What has struck me for three years has been the sheer wilful stupidity of the excuse-makers for Trump.\u00a0 They can literally spend three years hugging the flag, and shouting \u201cRespect the troops!\u201d at peaceful kneeling protesters asking only that cops not be able to gun down innocent kids<\/a> and feed homeless people shit sandwiches<\/a> with no fear for their jobs.\u00a0 They can accuse people who don\u2019t want to send troops to die in pointless wars of being terrorists who hate the troops.\u00a0 They can use the military as human shields for Trump with abandon just as they use the unborn.<\/p>\n

But let the draft-dodger Trump mock POWs, spit in the faces of Gold Star families multiple times, be on record as calling his years of draft-and-STD-dodging as his \u201cpersonal Vietnam\u201d, pardon war criminals, .insult the honorable troops who convicted them, and, most recently, take a dump on the military as \u201cdopes and babies<\/a>\u201d as well as \u201closers\u201d and the wilfully stupid flag huggers and Respecters of the Troops have not one word to say against him.\u00a0 They can read\u2013or more properly refuse to read\u2013the following and muscle down their consciences to go on praising this manbaby as he wantonly insults men and women who toilets he is unworthy to lick clean:<\/p>\n

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Before they could debate the Iran deal, Trump erupted to revive another frequent complaint: the war in Afghanistan, which was now America\u2019s longest war. He demanded an explanation for why the United States hadn\u2019t won in Afghanistan yet, now 16 years after the nation began fighting there in the wake of the 9\/11 terrorist attacks. Trump unleashed his disdain, calling Afghanistan a \u201closer war.\u201d That phrase hung in the air and disgusted not only the military leaders at the table but also the men and women in uniform sitting along the back wall behind their principals. They all were sworn to obey their commander in chief\u2019s commands, and here he was calling the war they had been fighting a loser war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019re all losers,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou don\u2019t know how to win anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Trump questioned why the United States couldn\u2019t get some oil as payment for the troops stationed in the Persian Gulf. \u201cWe spent $7 trillion; they\u2019re ripping us off,\u201d Trump boomed. \u201cWhere is the f\u2014ing oil?\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Trump seemed to be speaking up for the voters who elected him, and several attendees thought they heard Bannon in Trump\u2019s words. Bannon had been trying to persuade Trump to withdraw forces by telling him, \u201cThe American people are saying we can\u2019t spend a trillion dollars a year on this. We just can\u2019t. It\u2019s going to bankrupt us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAnd not just that, the deplorables don\u2019t want their kids in the South China Sea at the 38th parallel or in Syria, in Afghanistan, in perpetuity,\u201d Bannon would add, invoking Hillary Clinton\u2019s infamous \u201cbasket of deplorables\u201d reference to Trump supporters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump mused about removing General John Nicholson, the U.S. commander in charge of troops in Afghanistan. \u201cI don\u2019t think he knows how to win,\u201d the president said, impugning Nicholson, who was not present at the meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dunford tried to come to Nicholson\u2019s defense, but the mild-mannered general struggled to convey his points to the irascible president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMr. President, that\u2019s just not .\u2009.\u2009.,\u201d Dunford started. \u201cWe\u2019ve been under different orders.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dunford sought to explain that he hadn\u2019t been charged with annihilating the enemy in Afghanistan but was instead following a strategy started by the Obama administration to gradually reduce the military presence in the country in hopes of training locals to maintain a stable government so that eventually the United States could pull out. Trump shot back in more plain language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI want to win,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t win any wars anymore .\u2009.\u2009. We spend $7 trillion, everybody else got the oil and we\u2019re not winning anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump by now was in one of his rages. He was so angry that he wasn\u2019t taking many breaths. All morning, he had been coarse and cavalier, but the next several things he bellowed went beyond that description. They stunned nearly everyone in the room, and some vowed that they would never repeat them. Indeed, they have not been reported until now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI wouldn\u2019t go to war with you people,\u201d Trump told the assembled brass.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Addressing the room, the commander in chief barked, \u201cYou\u2019re a bunch of dopes and babies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For a president known for verbiage he euphemistically called \u201clocker room talk,\u201d this was the gravest insult he could have delivered to these people, in this sacred space. The flag officers in the room were shocked. Some staff began looking down at their papers, rearranging folders, almost wishing themselves out of the room. A few considered walking out. They tried not to reveal their revulsion on their faces, but questions raced through their minds. \u201cHow does the commander in chief say that?\u201d one thought. \u201cWhat would our worst adversaries think if they knew he said this?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This was a president who had been labeled a \u201cdraft dodger\u201d for avoiding service in the Vietnam War under questionable circumstances. Trump was a young man born of privilege and in seemingly perfect health: six feet two inches with a muscular build and a flawless medical record. He played several sports, including football. Then, in 1968 at age 22, he obtained a diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels that exempted him from military service just as the United States was drafting men his age to fulfill massive troop deployments to Vietnam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tillerson in particular was stunned by Trump\u2019s diatribe and began visibly seething. For too many minutes, others in the room noticed, he had been staring straight, dumbfounded, at Mattis, who was speechless, his head bowed down toward the table. Tillerson thought to himself, \u201cGosh darn it, Jim, say something. Why aren\u2019t you saying something?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But, as he would later tell close aides, Tillerson realized in that moment that Mattis was genetically a Marine, unable to talk back to his commander in chief, no matter what nonsense came out of his mouth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The more perplexing silence was from Pence, a leader who should have been able to stand up to Trump. Instead, one attendee thought, \u201cHe\u2019s sitting there frozen like a statue. Why doesn\u2019t he stop the president?\u201d Another recalled the vice president was \u201ca wax museum guy.\u201d From the start of the meeting, Pence looked as if he wanted to escape and put an end to the president\u2019s torrent. Surely, he disagreed with Trump\u2019s characterization of military leaders as \u201cdopes and babies,\u201d considering his son, Michael, was a Marine first lieutenant then training for his naval aviator wings. But some surmised Pence feared getting crosswise with Trump. \u201cA total deer in the headlights,\u201d recalled a third attendee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Others at the table noticed Trump\u2019s stream of venom had taken an emotional toll. So many people in that room had gone to war and risked their lives for their country, and now they were being dressed down by a president who had not. They felt sick to their stomachs. Tillerson told others he thought he saw a woman in the room silently crying. He was furious and decided he couldn\u2019t stand it another minute. His voice broke into Trump\u2019s tirade, this one about trying to make money off U.S. troops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNo, that\u2019s just wrong,\u201d the secretary of state said. \u201cMr. President, you\u2019re totally wrong. None of that is true.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tillerson\u2019s father and uncle had both been combat veterans, and he was deeply proud of their service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe men and women who put on a uniform don\u2019t do it to become soldiers of fortune,\u201d Tillerson said. \u201cThat\u2019s not why they put on a uniform and go out and die .\u2009.\u2009. They do it to protect our freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There was silence in the Tank. Several military officers in the room were grateful to the secretary of state for defending them when no one else would. The meeting soon ended and Trump walked out, saying goodbye to a group of servicemen lining the corridor as he made his way to his motorcade waiting outside. Mattis, Tillerson, and Cohn were deflated. Standing in the hall with a small cluster of people he trusted, Tillerson finally let down his guard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s a f\u2014ing moron,\u201d the secretary of state said of the president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The plan by Mattis, Tillerson, and Cohn to train the president to appreciate the internationalist view had clearly backfired.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Instead, they speak against the bearers of bad news, which they call \u201cfake news\u201d for reporting what what he did, in fact, say and do.\u00a0 There is no other term for that than wilful stupidity.<\/p>\n

And wilful stupidity is a grave sin, a sin against the Maker of the human mind.\u00a0 A sin against truth.\u00a0 And for Christians, it is a grave sin against Jesus Christ, the Logos, who is the Truth.<\/p>\n

I remember a decade or so ago when conservative Christians were bragging that the Christian conception of the Logos as self-consistent truth meant that we live by truth while those barbaric Muslims believed they could tell any lie since their false god changes his mind all the time (conveniently in accord with their wishes).<\/p>\n

But then conservative Christians, drunk on the folly of \u201ccitizen journalists\u201d like James O\u2019Keefe and sundry \u201cprolife\u201d activists who embrace the Noble Lie for the Greater Good then took the next step with the rise of the biggest sociopathic liar in the history of the presidency and embraced the Ignoble Lie for the sake of Raw Power.\u00a0 They have no problem with a man who has literally told 15,000 lies since he took office<\/a>.\u00a0 It bothers their consciences not one bit.\u00a0 Lying is now \u201csmart\u201d for Cult.\u00a0 Let us do evil that good may come of it and sin that grace may abound.\u00a0 Because my Precious Feet pin taketh away the sins of the world.<\/p>\n

They have made their grab for the One Ring\u2013they have chosen wilful stupidity in the hope of power for the sake of power.\u00a0 None of this has anything to do with Jesus the Truth any more.\u00a0 Truth is the enemy of their god king and therefore their enemy.<\/p>\n

And unless they repent they will lose not just their minds (which are already mostly gone) but their souls as well.\u00a0 And that will be even more sure if they conclude, like Trump, that getting away with everything is proof of the favor of God and continue living by lies.\u00a0 Because sooner or later, reality smashes through every fragile cocoon of lies.\u00a0 Trump may well escape all consequences of his lies in this life.\u00a0 Money and power are tremendous insulators from consequences and he has almost never had to face them because of it.<\/p>\n

But the Cult are not insulated.\u00a0 They will pay the bills for all the lies he has told them.\u00a0 Because just like the troops he pretends to honor while calling them losers behind closed doors, he regards his base as prey as well and will abandon them to save his own skin in a heartbeat.\u00a0 This was always true\u2013always.<\/p>\n

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hireling and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hireling and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. (Jn 10:11\u201314).<\/p>\n

\u201cYet even now,\u201d says the LORD,
\n\u201creturn to me with all your heart,
\nwith fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
\nand tear your hearts and not your garments.\u201d
\nReturn to the LORD, your God,
\nfor he is gracious and merciful,
\nslow to anger, and abounding in mercy,
\nand repents of evil. (Joel 2:12\u201313)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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