A memorable quote from Goebbels

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This is Paul Joseph Goebbels. He was born on October 29, 1897. He was famously known as one of Adolf Hitler's most trusted men and the one who runs propaganda throughout Nazi Germany. A very radical antisemitic and nationalist, hellbent on bringing back Germany to its former glory, to the glory days before World War I, he was one of the highest-leading commanders in the Nazi Party, with a very wise and intelligent mind that he often compared to with Bismarck's. One of his biggest ambitions, like Hitler's, was the creation of a Greater German Reich, where all the German-speaking people and those of Germanic and Aryan origin would be unified under one totalitarian banner. However, these ambitions faded as they were never followed through whatsoever.

By the near-end of the World War II in Europe, on May 1, 1945, a day after Hitler's suicide, Goebbels succeeded him as the new Chancellor of the Third Reich, but only for a day. Since Germany was on a hopeless losing edge and the capital of Berlin was relentlessly attacked by the Soviets, instead of simply deciding to escape Germany or surrender to the Russians, many German soldiers and high-ranking officials and generals decided that they would just die in their own hands, the same hands that they used to kill six million Jews and much more, rather than leave their own "Fatherland" or be persecuted at the whims of their prevailing wartime enemies. Soon, his wife, Magda, poisoned their own children to death and ultimately, Joseph and Magda shot each other as an act of suicide.

Now, why the fuck am I telling you this?

Because he said a very memorable and inspiring quote…

“A child laughs when it feels joy and cries when it feels pain. Both things, laughing and crying it does with its whole heart. We all became so tall and so clever. We know so much and we have read so much. But one thing we forgot: to laugh and cry like the children do.”
—Joseph Goebbels

I gotta say that I love that quote as it reflects the daily life of not just adults but also to teenagers who are transitioning to adulthood.

Goebbels's statement above shows the dominance of the emotions of joy and sadness to the energetic youth, as well as perceiving thoughts from the imaginary realm. Since adults tend to forget perceiving and experiencing what the children usually experience early on, dull and less important emotions such as anger, fear and disgust dominate the human mind instead, most notably to the youth who just moved from one state to another, feeling homesick or transcending into a new stage of life. Hence why Goebbels claimed that the adults like him forget to laugh and cry like the children do. Obsolete things such as imaginary childhood icons, song-powered wagon rockets that ignites rainbows from its brooms and nursery songs are thrown into the deep abysmal memory dump to be forgotten forever. But let's not forget what our emotions accomplished us to do and achieve, what we call as core memories, memories that are unlike any other. They are what defined human beings for their rest of their life and created "personality islands" to shape their consciousness for all time.

People like Goebbels may be downright horrible and atrocious. But despite their evil image that we often see, we fail to realize that there might some good left within Goebbels, Hitler, Goering, Himmler and other terrible people that we love to hate. No human being is pure evil. Humans are split in themselves between good and evil. While the bad within ourselves may never be thrown into the memory dump, it is best for the good to outweigh bad and not let our negative side dominate the positive. If there is a just reason why Goebbels and the others resort to violence and why they are driven to do such things, we can understand why they are destined to so. Stalin's Great Purge which lasted ever since the foundation of the Soviet Union until his death was often overlooked and ignored, and the Holocaust criticized and universally despised by eventually the entire population of the world, simply because of the Allied victory in World War II. Turkey, even up to this day, seeks to still deny the Armenian Genocide, which occurred 100 years ago. But it's the 21st century, and in this modern world, we need to accept events by what they were. The damage has been done. What was done is already done and we cannot turn it back no matter how much we try. Even if we would eventually throw these memories and knowledge into the memory dump, the facts are still evident that these events happened.

Life is ugly and every man, group, friend or family, even ourselves in particular, has done something we're not proud of. We often wanted our emotions of joy to dominate our human consciousness. But no matter how much we try, we can't seem to bring joy completely within ourselves. There will always be joy, sadness, disgust, anger and fear, as our minds will always be driven to conflict and choices in our everyday life. We discard memories and bring in new ones. Yet, our subconscious feelings and core memories which describe us as human beings will never go away.

Life is full of ups and downs. We may never bring the run of our lives trailing always up a hill, but we must not also let these spiral downhill.

This is Crisostomo-Ibarra and I approve this message.