abstract
| - Adolf Hitler kickstarted the Reverse Holocaust philosophy machine in the 1930s by implementing the Forward Holocaust, or "Holocaust" for short. This was a critical moment in philosophy history, and without it, thoughts of a Reverse Holocaust would just be a fevered dream of some redheaded madman. It did not take years for philosophers to start deconstructing the Forward Holocaust to reverse it; in fact, the very first inkling of a Reverse Holocaust was suggested parallel to the Holocaust by Hitler's #2 Rudolf Hess. Hess was slightly uncomfortable with gassing millions to death, since some of his closest friends were Jewish (or at least he claimed every time he told a dirty joke), and proposed an alternate gas chamber where prisoners laughed themselves to death with nitrous oxide. The bold emotional contrast of coupling hilarity with mass murder was an idea far ahead of its time, but Hitler was having none of it. Hess stepped down in disrepute. Years later, a madman, unfortunately not ginger, named Adorno led the concept through its growing pains in his treatise Auschwitz: Can We Undo It? Though the text raised some interesting questions about the relevancy of Utopian imagery in a post-disaster society, the response to the titular question from the critical community was a resounding "No." Adorno quit his position at the University of Frankfurt in disrepute, though not before pilfering some Nitrous Oxide from the dean's stash.
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