Bullet Points
00:50 - Start (after one false start)
00:55 - Hannah Arendt and the Origins of Totalitarianism
01:20 - Europe in the lead-up to WWII
01:45 - Something more insidious even than the militarized state
02:15 - Attend makes a narrow escape from Nazi Germany
02:30 - A case of the Gestapo “just doing it’s job”
03:05 - Interned as “alien enemy” in Paris
03:35 - The question on everyone’s mind, then and since
04:05 - Life in Hobbes’s nature: “nasty, brutish and short.”
04:25 - Post Enlightenment, Uber-Industrialized Germany
04:55 - Enter Messers Marx and Engels
05:40 - Communism and Nazism as fraternal twins
06:15 - A parasitoid infecting unthinking hosts on the right AND left
06:40 - Nazism favors neither the right nor the left, says Hitler
07:20 - Hitler’s extensive socialist programs and the rise of the Brownshirts
07:30 - Something more than collectivist dogma alone
08:05 - The source of evil, residing within man himself
08:40 - Totalitarianism as it “spreads like a fungus”
09:20 - An unholy alliance: Terror, meet Ideology
09:30 - The Atomization Bomb
09:55 - “A single death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.” Joseph Stalin
10:25 - The citadel of the mind - Man’s last stand against propaganda
11:25 - Totalitarian tactics of the abusive spouse
12:20 - Classic double blinds - The unhappy plight of the Russian clerk
13:05 - Eichmann in Jerusalem
13:30 - “A curious, quite authentic inability to think”
13:55 - Cliches, stock phrases and the making of the perfect totalitarian tool
14:35 - Terrorized individuals as fertile matter for mass propaganda
14:55 - The three primary ways we are primed for totalitarianism
15:15 - The mass media factor and the advent of choose your own adventure reality
17:15 - The deleterious impact of Social Media bombardment
17:55 - Critical Race Theory - A devastating doctrine of division
18:20 - An extreme contempt for facts
19:10 - The oppressive legacy of facts, rationality and evidence
20:00 - The grand irony of Critical Race Theory
20:35 - Projection and bigotry in its most primitive form
21:30 - The staggering hubris in demanding the cancelation of history
22:00 - CRT proponents - by their clichés you shall know them
23:05 - Mandatory, taxpayer funded Critical race Theory training in the USA
23:40 - Enter COVID-19 and the atomization of man in 2020
24:05 - A look at what did not happen during the ongoing pandemic
24:55 - Alone together - the unusual commonality of being apart
25:30 - The social circuit breaks that keep us civil, sane and harmonious
26:05 - What lies beyond the biological toll of COVID-19?
26:30 - Standing shoulder-to-physical-shoulder against the totalitarian creep
