My post today is nothing but a simple quote.....
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering, before committing suicide at the Nuremberg Trials
Posted at 3/01/2006 10:16:00 PM UTC
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Aldous Huxley wrote in his "Brave New World Revisited":
"The demagogic propagandist must . . . be consistently dogmatic. All his statements are made without qualification. There are no grays in his picture of the world; everything is either diabolically black or celestially white. In Hitler's words, the propagandist should adopt 'a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with.' He must never admit that he might be wrong or that people with a different point of view might be even partially right. Opponents should not be argued with; they should be attacked, shouted down, or of they become too much of a nuisance, liquidated."
Shockingly relevant in today's America.
The latter: an essay.
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