I am concerned about the turn several threads are taking recently. Basically, one gets the impression, as if there were a need to associate N - ness with good qualities as in contrast to S - ness.
On one side, there are several discussions about how N is correlated to IQ. Although this correlation seems to exist, that does not mean that Ss are by definition less intelligent, indiviudally, as Ns. We are just looking at two slightly shifted Bell curves here, but with both containing a very wide range of individual values. The approach to statistics used by some posters actually serves to reinforce the notion that N does not always need to be correlated with high IQ.
On the other side, some posters argue that no high level Nazi could have been an N. These posters do not seem to have seen much original footage of speeches done by high level officials of that regime (I have). I fully agree with Uber's assessment of several persons mentioned in his post (although I may not agree with his enthusiasm for these persons). I am afraid that this terrible ideology did infiltrate N - brains just as well as S - brains.
I am very conscious and appreciative of Jennifer's comment in an earlier thread, where she said that many Ns are suffering so much in RL, that they need to blow off some steam here in this forum. This is a valuable argument, but I think we are not doing ourselves or the MBTI a big favour by propagating the myth of the N as some superior being.
I recommend the book of Nora Waln: The Approaching Storm: One Woman's Story of Germany 1934-1938.
National Socialism is about the idea of the Nation and of the ideology of the State of the People.
Socialism & Nationalism are the twin by-products of the French Revolution. Their creation was not a foreseen event.
The idea of the Revolution was to take the power from the aristocrats and give it to the people.
The middle classes.
Nation however is seen as a specific people.
The languages of nations had not entered the stage of literacy. Once the people gained power and rudimentary learning they became conscious of the myth of the nation.
The earlier wars were not wars between nations. They were wars between powers.
The power could not be shifted to the people. It could only be shifted to specific peoples.
The myths of the nations clashed. The German's was the Aryan myth.
It included the totalitarian idea of the communality.
The French had unleashed the hound; the hound went back to France. To bite.
The myth of the Volk appealed to the masses. It was the Volk (folk) movement.
The writers of the Enlightenment had not created the future of their image.
And what has this to do with anything?