World Ice Theory and the Supernatural Imaginary of the Third Reich (2017)
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World Ice Theory and the Supernatural Imaginary of the Third Reich (2017)
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Re: World Ice Theory and the Supernatural Imaginary of the Third Reich (2017)
#2Really totalitarians are all about believing their own flattering lies. Witness the "foes are strong and weak at the same time" hallmark and notice how incoherent and terrible their estimation of foes are. It is "good" at justifying travesties but incoherent doublethink doesn't lend well to strategy.
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#3They present it as if it’s ridiculous (and it is) but is it any more ridiculous than the mainstream creation myths that millions and millions of completely sane and rational people believe or claim to believe now?
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#4They present it as if it’s ridiculous (and it is) but is it any more ridiculous than the mainstream creation myths that millions and millions of completely sane and rational people believe or claim to believe now?
just because they're in the majority doesn't mean they're sane, imo.
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#5Really totalitarians are all about believing their own flattering lies. Witness the "foes are strong and weak at the same time" hallmark and notice how incoherent and terrible their estimation of foes are. It is "good" at justifying travesties but incoherent doublethink doesn't lend well to strategy.
Plenty of non-totalitarian groups display these kinds of cognitive dissonances. This is not a unique, or even particularly noteworthy trait. It has little to no descriptive power.
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#6They present it as if it’s ridiculous (and it is) but is it any more ridiculous than the mainstream creation myths that millions and millions of completely sane and rational people believe or claim to believe now?
just because they're in the majority doesn't mean they're sane, imo.
I’m fairly sure the majority of people don’t believe in literalist young earth creationism. It’s mostly a thing in certain Protestant sects, and regionally (especially in Turkey) in Islam.
If you’re talking about the vaguer “evolution happens, but, er, maybe a deity did something non-specific about it”, then that’s more common, granted.
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#7Totalitarianism has to rely on lies. If people knew the truth and especially if everybody knew that everybody else also knows the truth they would surely revolt. The Emperor's New Clothes.
The main lie about totalitarianism is that some people are inherently entitled to rule over others.
The extra totally crazy lies are kind of a Canary in Coalmine, does anybody dare to confront them? If not then the big lie about the power of the totalitarian government is safe too.
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#8there is a group of conspiracy theories around the idea the all those "scientific occultism" and "psychological warfare" ventures continued in the USA among programs such as MKULTRA and others (say the theories) not yet declassified because they were more successful.
I suppose you could categorize these close to "Hitler retired in Argentina" and similar "Nazism went on" conspiracies.
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#9there is a group of conspiracy theories around the idea the all those "scientific occultism" and "psychological warfare" ventures continued in the USA among programs such as MKULTRA and others (say the theories) not yet declassified because they were more successful. I suppose you could categorize these close to "Hitler retired in Argentina" and similar "Nazism went on" conspiracies.
To quote a famous movie: The biggest stunt Devil ever played on us was he made us believe he doesn't exist.
"Nazism" is still going on. Nazism is basically the same thing as totalitarianism in general. It never went away in many parts of the world. There are even Neo-Nazis in the USA.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
just because they're in the majority doesn't mean they're sane, imo.
I’m fairly sure the majority of people don’t believe in literalist young earth creationism. It’s mostly a thing in certain Protestant sects, and regionally (especially in Turkey) in Islam. If you’re talking about the vaguer “evolution happens, but, er, maybe a deity did something non-specific about it”, then that’s more common, granted.
I never quite understood why many religious people have a problem with Evolution. If God created everything, surely he could create Evolution as well.