Who Goes Nazi?
“I am completely opposed to the spirit of this age, because it promotes the neglect of thought…
Today there is not only a neglect of thought but an actual distrust or depreciation of it. The organized political, social, and religious groups of our time are bent on inducing the individual to take up uncritically ready-made beliefs rather than invitin
People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it. A twelve-year-old boy worships Jack Dempsey. An adolescent in a Glasgow slum worships Al Capone. An aspiring pupil at a business college worships Lord Nuffield. A New Statesman reader worships Stalin. There is a difference in intellectual maturity, but none in moral outlook.
George Orwell • All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
Quote Origin: Fascist Movement – To Fascinate Fools and Muzzle the Intelligent – Quote Investigator®
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Ortega held the process to be the driving force of history. The “reciprocal action between the masses and select minorities,” he wrote, “is the fundamental fact of every society and the agent of its evolution for good or evil.” Ortega’s masses we now call the public. By “select minorities” he meant the admirable few: elites who, at their best, lavi
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Thirty years ago I had a high school history and government teacher who forever changed the way I think about the power of identity, especially group identity, in affecting human behavior. In my senior year of high school, in the early 1990s, he taught a section on Nazi propaganda that I’m sure these days would be posted to social media in a hot mi... See more