Writing Hitler's Biography (Did he have free will or not?)

I have a video that captures pretty much what I'm talking about -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9a70fz6420

It is the difference between how the Indian and the white men are experiencing the world. If you listen the Indian is deeply connected with the earth, it is part of him, and the spirits of his ancestors flow within this natural world of his. Everything is in motion and connected with everything else, it is all scared, and he is living within his own mythology.

Ultimately he has cyclical time, not linear time. If you look it up the native Indians believed in cyclical time. It is very similar to what Heidegger does with time and it is an exact fit with Norse Paganism too as they believed the past permeates into the present with their cosmology of the ash tree and the metaphor of time as water -

What of intention and necessity, then? This is the water that permeates the image, flowing up from the well into the tree, dripping from the leaves of the tree as dew, and returning to the well, where it then seeps back up into the tree.

There is no absolutely free will, just as there is no absolutely unalterable fate; instead, life is lived somewhere between these two extremes.

http://norse-mythology.org/cosmology/yggdrasil-and-the-well-of-urd/

The white men are abstracted away from this great unfolding event, hence they objectify everything including themselves and they understand everything in the material as a form of reductionism. It is all just abstract material ordering and theoretical problems to solve. This is very similar to Heidegger's technological enframing where everything is atomised and manifest as a problem to solve in the abstract with no connection to the earth.

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