From Introduction to the 2nd Edition (1941) Science and Sanity (1933) by Alfred Korzybski
When he joined the German army with its orderly efficiency, etc., he found an ideal for himself as an escape from Hapsburg decadence. [But] he was too much of an Austrian not to utilize to the limit the Hapsburg methods. Ultimately through this combination of methods he 'out-Prussianed' the Prussians, whose particular arrogant, brutal methods were never approved and often disliked throughout the world and even in Germany.
It was only natural in his 'chosen people' delusion that he should hate and try to destroy other 'chosen people' ' obviously there is no place in this world for two or more 'chosen people'. Very soon treatises will be written on the 'Jehovah complex' of Schicklgruber, Jr., etc.
When analysed from a non-aristotelian point of view, such orientations appear pathologically twisted. Yet they produced results, as history shows. It is not accidental that some years ago Hitler in one of his speeches took a definite stand for the prevailing aristotelianism, two-valued orientations, etc., and against modern science, which naturally develops in a non-aristotelian direction.
Dr. Irving J. Lee in his article [December,1940], formulates a fundamental contrast between the types of �rhetorics� of Aristotle and Hitler, and the non-aristotelian type of communication (etc).
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Hitler was born into Austrian bureaucracy. The older Schicklgruber wanted his son also to become a Hapsburg bureaucrat. Schicklgruber, Jr. had a natural repulsion for them, and so deliberately boycotted any education, to disqualify himself. This lack of education ostracized him from the class of so-called 'intelligentsia', to which a Hapsburg bureaucrat eventually belonged. Through living necessities he had to become a plain labour hand, yet
he was also not acceptable to the plain workers, who do not look at life as a Wagnerian opera.
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It may become clearer why I speak of a dying, aristotelian, two-valued system by giving examples of how this type of evaluation is at the foundation of present day confusions and terrors. Thus, for instance, the Nazi militant delusion of 'chosen people' gives us an excellent illustration of a two-valued, 'either-or' orientation. The two-valued twisting of 'real neutrality' is another significant example. This distortion has kept the 'neutrals' in terrors, disorganizing their national and political life to the point of collapse. The Nazi two-valued evalutaion of 'neutrality' was : either he 'really neutral' and endorse and fight for the Nazis, or be 'not really neutral' and not help them.
Comment A few years later a similar situation occurred when dealing with the Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks had claimed the �right� to establish �friendly governments� in the countries they had (with the signal help of the other Allies) liberated-invaded. That would have at least meant, governments unopposed to the �world revolution� which had ever been the article of faith within the Kremlin.
— (WPT).