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*This episode is releasing on April 9, 2023, at dawn, Berlin time. This is in commemoration of the execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who stood up to the lies and deception of Hitler, and who paid for it with his life. He died at dawn exactly 77 years ago from this moment. I dig into Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to explore the mind of an early master propagandist, and how we might avoid being bewitched by another iteration of him in the future. 

0:00 - Bonhoeffer Introduction
15:00 - Our aversion to reading Hitler
21:45 - How this episode connects with the season
23:30 - Hitler's/Germany's struggle: injustice and imperialism
33:00 - Racial ideology
38:00 - Hitler's moral lens
42:45 - Hitler's grounding of authority
49:00 - Hitler the progressive
51:15 - Why focus on the masses?
53:30 - How to propagandize the masses
59:30 - The elite are disconnected from the masses
1:06:00 - How the elite propagandize the masses like Hitler
1:12:30 - Ellul and Hitler's overlap
1:13:45 - Importance of truth at the core of propaganda
1:16:00 - Importance of polarizing groups and issues
1:20:10 - Mithridatism and saturation
1:20:50 - Vary forms of propaganda
1:21:25 - Propaganda aims at effectiveness
1:22:00 - Concluding thoughts

*Correction to Holmes's quote. It is "three generations of imbeciles is enough," not one generation. 

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• Mein Kampf: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54270.Mein_Kampf?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ovwYMtecRX&rank=1
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=e1URNvJNzt&rank=1 
• Amusing Ourselves to Death: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034.Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=QflaH4J2oW&rank=1
• The Technological Society: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274827.The_Technological_Society?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=rgzFLjmZo6&rank=2
• Propaganda: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274826.Propaganda?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=MJ0Jt4z7sR&rank=1
• Taking the Risk out of Democracy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1120159.Taking_the_Risk_Out_of_Democracy?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=ZxSDv6Pmbg&rank=1#
• Radio Free Dixie: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/448669.Radio_Free_Dixie?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=uGxfhd7aPn&rank=1
• Negroes with Guns: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/591966.Negroes_with_Guns?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=wQCrsAZi9K&rank=1
• War is a Racket: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198259.War_is_a_Racket?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=RlES4OU70M&rank=1
• Ordinary Men: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/647492.Ordinary_Men?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=25su7U5vdK&rank=1
• They Thought They Were Free: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/978689.They_Thought_They_Were_Free?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=RWDbW6fePA&rank=1 
• The Art of War: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ROLaW6yH3C&rank=1
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40630.How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=AQAMpj0Euk&rank=1
• The Internationalists: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753784-the-internationalists?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=T6SzEBTOOH&rank=1
• My episode on the Internationalists: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/draft-117-independence-day-grotius-and-the-internationalists
• The Dawn of Everything: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-everything?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=kyjUybYn98&rank=1
• Sikes Picot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaPWlKv7n0Y
• Congolese father stares at child's severed limbs: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/father-hand-belgian-congo-1904/
• Apotheosis of Washington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Washington
• Marsh's Bonhoeffer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18248389-strange-glory
• Bonhoeffer the Assassin: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17321394-bonhoeffer-the-assassin?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=azvmmkJ1uU&rank=1
• Metaxas's Bonhoeffer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7501962-bonhoeffer
• Metaxas: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/eric-metaxas-trump-bloodshed-american-apocalypse-live-not-by-lies/
• Bonhoeffer: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/02/22/the-nazi-mind/
•  Hijacking Bonhoeffer: https://www.christiancentury.org/reviews/2010-09/hijacking-bonhoeffer 
• Moltke not wanting to assassinate Hitler: https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2020-01-26/ty-article/.premium/the-evangelical-who-was-part-of-the-german-resistance-against-hitler/0000017f-e0d6-d75c-a7ff-fcdfd6010000
• Bonhoeffer's "Behold the Man!": https://swordofthespirit.net/wp-content/bulwark/february2016p4.htm
• My Previous Bonhoeffer Episode Part 1: https://share.transistor.fm/s/a9fa9d76
• My Previous Episode Part 2: https://dashboard.transistor.fm/shows/the-fourth-way/episodes/47-se5-bonhoeffer-pacifist-or-assassin/edit

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