Summary

In Chapter 19, Wilkerson describes watching a clip at a Berlin museum of Hitler returning to the city in 1940 after the battle of France. Seeing the crowd cheer and hell for him, full of euphoria disgusts her. She notes that while we think we are too moral to have behaved that way, those thousands of people were not all bad people. They were humans, susceptible to propaganda. Germany teaches us that evil can be activated in people easier than we would like to believe.

In Chapter 20, Wilkerson says caste, by constructing the centrality of the dominant caste, makes them narcissists. Some scholars apply narcissisms not just to individuals, but to nations and subgroups. Groups trained to believe in their superiority experience self-inflation, which leads to fascism when they are willing to sacrifice themselves for the group. The group is eager for a leader to...