we're partying like there is no tomorrow

I watched Die Untergang, the German movie about the last days of Hitler's life in the bunkers of Berlin. The movie is largely filmed from the perspective of Traudl Junge who was the secretary of Hitler. There was something really scary in peoples behavior in those last few days before the final defeat of the Nazi goverment. Of course the whole war in it self was one big tragedy but I just got from shoulder surgery and covering all that is a bit too much with just one hand.

In this movie that was based on facts, many of the people in the bunker knew that the enemy was closing in. They knew that all hope for conquering and ruling the world was over. All the trust they had put to their great leader was about to collapse if not already collapsed. Even thought the collapse of the empire was just around the corner, the future wife of Hitler, Eva Braun organized a party and almost everybody joined him. Not even the closing mortar fire could stop them from drinking and partying. Eventually a bomb hit the building and everybody still alive had to return underground.

Next day it all continued. These people "privileged" enough to stay in Hitler's bunker continued ignoring the reality. Many of them were just drinking all the time. Many of these people knew they would die or at least the ideology that they believed in and to which they had build their whole identity as human beings was going to die. They didn't care about anything anymore or then they cared about things that were totally unimportant and absurd. I guess when a person losses all hope of future no one can really predict how (s)he bahaves.

Here is the part of the post that I'm going to blow over the top. I think we, the western civilization, are in the same situation as the people in that bunker. At the end of the day we're not taking cyanide or shooting ourselves in the head but we are partying like crazy and spending our time ignoring the problems that are happening outside our well guarded bunker.

What I'm saying is that we fail to take responsibility of the things that are happening just around the corner and to admit that many, not all, are caused by our actions in the past. I'm not saying that we should save the whole world. Funny enough is the fact that both Hitler and his party and our current political system have the same core principal, they both want the world to be better place FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE.

Politicians main worry is to please the people that give them the mandate to stay in power where we as individual people don't have to worry about that. I am in charge of my own life and that is why I can do what ever I want. I can either drink and party until it's all over or I can walk out of the bunker and see what is really going on.

(I don't mean that things are that bad (yet) or that it's the alcohol and dance music that is destroying our minds (I use both of them).

Traudl Junge, the secretary, of Hitler was interviewed at the beginning and at the end of the movie. She was inside the bunker to the bitter end so she saw it all. She was also probably one of the last people that realized that it was all over. She had kept her faith to her leader longer than most of Hitler's “closest friends". At the end of the movie she said something like this:

It's no excuse that I didn't know about the killings and suffering and what they were doing to people. Ignorance is no excuse. I could have found out about things.

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