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Ideas:
There were a few things about the movie "Fury" that really stood out to me. I think they were supposed to stand out, because there were only a few moments in the movie when the characters seemed to stop and make some sort of introspective, revealing remark like this one:
"Ideas are peaceful; history is violent."
Brad Pitt's character said that, and in my head, I was like, "Nooooot really."
This is why: Ideas are not always peaceful. Ideas, in fact, make history. What's more, ideas are what make history violent.
Hitler's troops were mobilized by the ideas he had in his head. Before Hitler ever came to power, he spent time filling his head and the heads of others with ideas. Demonic ideas. World-domination ideas. Self-worshipping ideas. Hitler's idea of how the world should be and how, more importantly, he should be worshipped as the saviour of the Aryan race, resulted in the slaughter of countless millions.
Never, never underestimate an idea.
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