c/gabor-mate
Talks, interviews and lectures by physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté — on trauma, addiction, stress and disease, ADHD, attachment, and healing.
…I looked at Alexander the Great. I looked at Napoleon. I looked at Hitler. I looked at Genghis Khan. I looked at Stalin. It's very interesting when you look at these people. First of all, why did they need power so much? Interestingly enough, physically…
…all very small people. My size. Or smaller, actually smaller. They came from outsiders. They were not part of the major population. Stalin was a Georgian, not a Russian. Napoleon was a Corsican, not a Frenchman. Alexander was a Macedonian, not a Greek. And…
…and killed all these people. For what? For power. You know, if you look at Napoleon, If you look at Hitler or Stalin, what's interesting about them is, you know, the Greeks don't like me saying this because the Greeks loved to claim Alexander the…
…threat. So he was an outsider. Napoleon wasn't French. He was Corsican. He spoke French with a very pronounced Corsican accent. Stalin wasn't Russian. He was a Georgian. Hitler wasn't German. He was an Austrian. So these guys are all outsiders. Number one,…
…He says that Trump is a poster boy for trauma. And you can see that. So was Hitler, by the way. So was Stalin, for that matter. And the difference, again, is that behind or underneath or buttressing or developed by Hitler was a very coherent ideology.…
…possibly apply. Because if you think of the existence of a Buddha or a Jesus or the existence of a Hitler or Stalin, I could give other names, more modern, but I'll leave modern politics aside to save people's tender prejudices, just to protect people's…
…people's tender prejudices. But the point is if a Buddha and a Jesus can be human beings and so can a Hitler and a Stalin, then what does that say about human nature? which is human nature. The fact is, neither is human nature. We cannot talk about…
…human nature. We cannot talk about human nature in a fixed, rigid sense. What we can talk about, though, is what creates a Stalin and what creates Hitler, what creates a Buddha, what creates a Jesus. We can talk about that. And when we talk about that,…