“I don’t know why people do not read Mein Kampf more regularly,” Knausgaard says. “It tells you first-hand about all the narcissism; you see that collapse in German culture. There is no chance that anyone could become a Nazi by reading that book. The appeal of nazism was entirely visual; Mein Kampf is a lesson in this very petty, extremely self-righteous way of thinking. It’s horrific, but it seems important to understand that now. I would never compare directly to Trump, but that extreme pettiness and self-righteousness sound similar. Every other context is different, of course it is.”
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