The essay "Who goes Nazi" (1941) by Dorothy Thompson is a commonly cited classic. Through a fictional dinner party, we are introduced to various characters and personalities. Thompson analyzes whether they would or wouldn't make particularly good nazis. Supposedly it comes down to this: "Those who haven't anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don't—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi." I have no doubt she was a keen social observer, that much is clear from the text. But I can't help but notice a big blind spot here. If you're the kind of person to read and share this essay, satisfied about what it says about you and the world... what does that imply? Maybe that you needed someone else to tell you that? That you prefer to say it in their words rather than your own? Or even that you didn't have your own convictions sorted until then?…