re: “Or: “What do you think of Triumph of the Will?”
I’m going off on a bit of a tangent, I know, by responding directly to that question, but I think there is an important warning there for us in the U.S. When I first saw the videos of Trump descending the escalator in his Tower to announce to the adoring (paid) crowd below that he would run for President, I thought of the famous scene in which Hitler’s plane descends from the clouds.
Part of her genius was the use of the new technology to enhance the impact of PR on the masses. We may not fully appreciate what she did, because we have become so accustomed to those techniques being deployed a thousand times a day to manipulate our emotions, to sell soap and cars and politicians.
Today the new technology involves the internet, social media, cable “news” networks, etc. When Trump descended to save us, we didn’t fully understand how these technolgies were being deployed. Even now, we see that only dimly.
Another parallel is the open use of the big lie technique. Fake news, alternative facts, nothing matters.
I am not predicting the U.S. will end up in anything like what happened in Germany, but there are many ways to go to hell, or at least to decline.
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June 5th, 2018 
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