One of the first things totalitarians do when they set about transforming a democratic society into whatever type of strictly-regulated, utterly soul-deadening totalitarian dystopia they are trying to transform it into is radically overhaul and remake its culture. You can’t impose your new official ideology on a formerly democratic society with a bunch of artists running around loose, making fun of you and your propaganda. No, you need to get the culture business under control, and dictate what is and isn’t “art,” and what types of art are “harmful to society,” and demonize them, and the artists who created them, and censor them, or otherwise erase them.
Unfortunately, I need to explain this again. If you post anti-Semitic or other types of bigoted garbage in my replies, and I see it, I will ban you. I won't argue with you, or otherwise interact with you. I'll just ban you and delete your garbage. That will take me about 3 seconds. Then I'll forget you ever existed.
You are guilty of two unforgivable sins in Totalitaria (to borrow Joost Meerloo’s term): making people think and making people laugh. Both activities pose fatal threats to tyranny.
Below are several pertinent passages from Meerloo’s “Rape of the Mind”:
• “Puzzlement and doubt, which inevitably arise in the training process, are the beginnings of mental freedom.… Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorize, to salivate when the bell rings.”
• “Totalitaria is constantly on the alert for social sinners, the critics of the system, and accusation of dissent is equivalent to conviction in the public eye. Insinuation, calumny, and denunciation are staples of the totalitarian strategy. The entire nation is dedicated to the proposition that every man is a potential enemy of the regime.”
• “In the end, human rebellion and dissent cannot be suppressed; they await only one breath of freedom in order to awake once more.”
• “Love and laughter break through all rigid conditioning. The rigid automaton cannot exist without spontaneous self-expression.”
And now you know why you are New Normal Germany’s worst nightmare. And the more they try to hurt you, the harder it boomerangs back at them.
Fascists exist to the right and left of most in society. Humorless autocrats with narcissistic personalities and little love for the average man. Keep fighting for truth, justice and the Human way.
Sir I absolutely loved “zone23”. Did you ever see the series “altered carbon”. In that society they banished death.
I’m a born American citizen and a medical professional and I’ve had a very good relatively well off peaceful life. But I also grew up in a very observant, religious Jewish home and I was raised with the mentality that the entire society, everything around you is just a veneer of civilization and turn on you at any moment.
Even though we have affluence and relative peace, and a huge amount of freedom of speech and expression, the modern way we live has a dehumanizing effect on us.
Will become complacent, obedient, soft, cogs in a giant machine
How to balance these things? How can we reconcile our need for safety and comfort with our passionate feelings and wanderlust. Well isnt that what art is all about. Isnt that what opera is , shakespeare.
Of all the ppl ive followed since this horrific fake pandemic erupted , ive been particularly inspired by your work on consent factory
You really distill and crystalize crystallize the issues.
Hitler was a progressive. Progressives don't want to believe that. It's ironic, but not a surprise, that the modern day German progressives want to show vehement opposition to the Nazi regime of the 1930-40s., by way of demonstrating that they are not like him. But they are the same totalitarians that he was. That's the ironic part.
You could have been more obvious. The photo of Lauterbach should have included at least two swastika armbands, a Pfizer lapel, and a ridiculous mustache.
Brilliant. You should wear a cape. All superheroes should wear capes then we can spot you in a crowd and if our freedom is being stamped on, we will know who to turn to. I think a dark blue cape would suit you...
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
It is seldom in these trying times that we can enjoy and even smile when we read about what is being done to us, but we certainly get to do that with your writing. Thanks.
I know that you were being facetious in the last sentence, but I will offer an answer anyway. You'd be enjoying your life without the threat of state violence being visited upon you. At least not as directly anyway.
This absolute lunatic obsession with the Nazis is going be Germany's undoing. It's pretty much unstoppable at this point. It's going to blow up, one way or another.
Unfortunately, I need to explain this again. If you post anti-Semitic or other types of bigoted garbage in my replies, and I see it, I will ban you. I won't argue with you, or otherwise interact with you. I'll just ban you and delete your garbage. That will take me about 3 seconds. Then I'll forget you ever existed.
You are guilty of two unforgivable sins in Totalitaria (to borrow Joost Meerloo’s term): making people think and making people laugh. Both activities pose fatal threats to tyranny.
Below are several pertinent passages from Meerloo’s “Rape of the Mind”:
• “Puzzlement and doubt, which inevitably arise in the training process, are the beginnings of mental freedom.… Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorize, to salivate when the bell rings.”
• “Totalitaria is constantly on the alert for social sinners, the critics of the system, and accusation of dissent is equivalent to conviction in the public eye. Insinuation, calumny, and denunciation are staples of the totalitarian strategy. The entire nation is dedicated to the proposition that every man is a potential enemy of the regime.”
• “In the end, human rebellion and dissent cannot be suppressed; they await only one breath of freedom in order to awake once more.”
• “Love and laughter break through all rigid conditioning. The rigid automaton cannot exist without spontaneous self-expression.”
And now you know why you are New Normal Germany’s worst nightmare. And the more they try to hurt you, the harder it boomerangs back at them.
Fascists exist to the right and left of most in society. Humorless autocrats with narcissistic personalities and little love for the average man. Keep fighting for truth, justice and the Human way.
Sir I absolutely loved “zone23”. Did you ever see the series “altered carbon”. In that society they banished death.
I’m a born American citizen and a medical professional and I’ve had a very good relatively well off peaceful life. But I also grew up in a very observant, religious Jewish home and I was raised with the mentality that the entire society, everything around you is just a veneer of civilization and turn on you at any moment.
Even though we have affluence and relative peace, and a huge amount of freedom of speech and expression, the modern way we live has a dehumanizing effect on us.
Will become complacent, obedient, soft, cogs in a giant machine
How to balance these things? How can we reconcile our need for safety and comfort with our passionate feelings and wanderlust. Well isnt that what art is all about. Isnt that what opera is , shakespeare.
Of all the ppl ive followed since this horrific fake pandemic erupted , ive been particularly inspired by your work on consent factory
You really distill and crystalize crystallize the issues.
Thank you
Modern Art is a way of money laundering.
Hitler was a progressive. Progressives don't want to believe that. It's ironic, but not a surprise, that the modern day German progressives want to show vehement opposition to the Nazi regime of the 1930-40s., by way of demonstrating that they are not like him. But they are the same totalitarians that he was. That's the ironic part.
You could have been more obvious. The photo of Lauterbach should have included at least two swastika armbands, a Pfizer lapel, and a ridiculous mustache.
The poor Germans. They are having such a hard time understanding their past. Obviously.
Brilliant. You should wear a cape. All superheroes should wear capes then we can spot you in a crowd and if our freedom is being stamped on, we will know who to turn to. I think a dark blue cape would suit you...
Just keep meditating and asking “the one who is many” for peace abd guidance ;)
This should be funny. We live in very unfunny times.
Trudeau/Singh have formed a massive hate club following; we just need a national vote to see how many millions are keen to show their support
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
It is seldom in these trying times that we can enjoy and even smile when we read about what is being done to us, but we certainly get to do that with your writing. Thanks.
As a German citizen: Keep it up, the current crop of cretins deserve nothing but utter contempt and ridicule. Thank you for not giving in.
I know that you were being facetious in the last sentence, but I will offer an answer anyway. You'd be enjoying your life without the threat of state violence being visited upon you. At least not as directly anyway.
This absolute lunatic obsession with the Nazis is going be Germany's undoing. It's pretty much unstoppable at this point. It's going to blow up, one way or another.