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Johan van der Dennen (scroll down for source): We may imagine that so-called normal people could never believe in anything so ludicrous as the delusional systems of the insane. Yet historical evidence suggests the opposite. Whole societies have been persuaded without much difficulty to accept the most absurd calumnies about minority groups (e.g., witches, heretics, Jews, 'enemies of the people') portrayed as enemies of the majority. Such accusations, Storr (1991) claims, originate from a particular type of fantasy which is comparable with, indeed equivalent to, paranoid delusions of the kind found in psychotic subjects.
STATISTICS ON POLITICALLY MOTIVATED KILLINGS: Brzezinski (1994) labels the twentieth "the century of megadeath." He presents a concise statistical accounting of the "extraordinary toll of politically motivated killings" in this century, an unparalleled and heinous record of mass murder.
According to Brzezinski, no less than 87,000,000 lives were lost during the wars of the century, including the two World Wars. These include casualties inflicted on the civilian populations during the course of the war, but not committed as a deliberate policy of extermination. Brzezinski adds another 80,000,000 (80 million) lives or more as belonging to people in groups being deliberately murdered, and not as a result of combat.
Thus, he asserts, more than 167,000,000 people were murdered in the course of the twentieth century. If Brzezinski is even half right, the title 'The Century of Megadeath' is unfortunately all too apt.
THE PASSAGES ABOVE ARE from: THE 'EVIL' MIND: Pt. 1: GENOCIDE AND MASS KILLINGS.
Johan M.G. van der Dennen
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