Today, I asked for Adolfs book in a shop.

One shopkeeper seemed a bit confused, and the second one went full panic mode. Strange... :blobamused:

@LukeAlmighty I once found the book in an abandoned trailer.. so I flipped through it and I don't understand how people could believe it back then.. to my taste it's completely obvious propaganda and simplification.. but that's why it also can't have any effect today and therefore I don't know why to ban it..

@mig
People can believe any shit you offer them, if it offers any semblance of an anwser on what burdens them the most.

I have not read Hitlers masterpiece, but I red the Communist manifesto. I do not believe, that there was any part, that could be considered a complete thought.

Yet, people reference that shit to this day, because it helps them select the "problem", "enemy" and the "solution". I hope, that I will gain the same understanding from this book aswell.

@LukeAlmighty for me, the biggest insight is how propaganda is evolving.. what worked years ago no longer works today.. today propaganda has to be more covert, more formless, more indirect..

for example, during socialism the enemy was clear - the party.. although I lived only ten years that time, I think it was clearer who was who.. in other words, did you listen to bad music? -> you were an enemy of the state.. simple..

today everyone listens to what they want, wears their hair the way they want, does what they want and still are not enemies of the state.. the system has integrated almost everyone.. the propaganda works for bigger audience.. basically the only real dissidents of the system today are the homeless..

what has also changed is that the result of today's propaganda is not fanaticism, but rather paralysis.. this is achieved by a flood of information.. the result is the inability to agree on even one conclusion.. and where there is no ability to agree, to unite, there is no possibility of resistance and, on the contrary, complete control is possible.. so the goal of the propaganda is still achieved..

maybe I'm wrong, maybe if I lived in the time of socialism it wouldn't be so clear.. maybe in thirty years it will be also clear who was an enemy today, who was a propagandist and who was a dissident.. but still i thing the propaganda evolves and especially thanks to Internet..

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@mig
Interesting insight, although the way you're describing is returning with the rise of CRT.

Although the CRT cannot work in czech republic for obvious reasons, it is only a question of time till we get a variation that actually is.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt1Nc1oP

@LukeAlmighty btw it always surprises me what people are able to compile together.. the result looks logical, yet it is completely off.. it looks to me like the output of a neural network, which also gives a sort of human output, but does not understand the topic..

yes, you're right, CRT is fanaticism, propaganda very same like in Germany.. the topic is not applicable in Czech republic, therefore it is not the trend in here and I even didn't think of it..

@mig
ok, what did you think off then? I tend to ignore local propaganda a lot to be honest.

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