Fool Me Twice

I stumbled on a thought yesterday when I was thinking about how Christianity is such an ill-fitting faith for a capitalist country. I may have shared it in a past entry. Why do those who follow the gospel of greed support Christianity? Hitler liked the church. He admired it as an organization. The church is a very successful organization which has survived for many centuries. Hitler wanted his Reich to last a thousand years. He may have looked to the organization of the church for inspiration and guidance. And indeed, didn't his elite SS guards fancy themselves as priests and mystics? But why would capitalists like the church? Perhaps they also appreciate its organization. In a sense, the church was the first multinational corporation. But there may be another more sinister reason: double-think. Double-think is a term coined by George Orwell in his novel 1984 to define the human mind's acceptance of two opposing thoughts at once. If you can think that you love your neighbour at the same time as you cut him off on the highway, you are engaging in double-think. As I see it, a mind which simultaneously accepts two opposing thoughts at once is open for exploitation. Such a step would shut down the critical thinking centres of the brain and allow advertising slogans and newspaper headlines to take root. The more confused you are, the more exploitable you are as consumers. Of course, I'm not accusing anyone of brainwashing the population here. I'm just making an educated guess.
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