Literary Discussions

Last year a hypothetical scenario dawned upon me of HOW a Nazi victory might in the long run of say three centuries have meant the long term survival of the human species (and I do see Hitler and the Nazis as an extreme evil):  Let us say Hitler conquered the world and through a rein of terror and genocide homogenized the entire world so that religious and racial differences were gone. Now let us say that over the course of a century after Hitler's death, the world revolted against the despotic regime and established a one world democracy. The extreme evil and tyrrany of Hitler's conquest would have eliminated all the sources of religious, cultural and ethnic strife.  Of course we know that Hitler and the Nazis were defeated.... BUT America seriously considered using the H-Bomb to destroy Russia and China (a murder of 300 million people) to make the world a safe place for Democracy. Now we see the warlike tension between various nations and factions and we see that many groups may have access to nuclear weapons. Therefore in theory the victory of the good Allied side which took place in WWII might in theory lead to a diverse and polarized world which destroys itself whereas the monstrous regime of the Nazis might actually have homogenized the world and then fallen away in decay.  There is an ancient Chinese story about a man who is sad because the barn door was left open and his only horse escaped. The village wise man said "be neither sad nor happy for you cannot see the ultimate outcome" .... the horse befriended a herd of horses and brought them back to the barn so now the man rejoiced but the village wise man again said "be neither sad nor happy" ... the farmer's only son chose the most beautiful horse for himself but was permanently crippled while trying to break the horse, so again the farmer was sad and again the wise man counselled "we cannot know the ultimate outcome of anything" ... but then the King passed by seeking young men as soldiers to die in a distant war, and when they saw the son crippled in his bed, they left him as useless, and the farmer rejoiced... but again the wise man said "be neither happy nor sad for you cannot know the end."