Passage from Huxley's BNW revisited-Remind you of someone?

[Room101]

The entire book draws parallels along with frightfully accurate predictions, which have seen the light of our day. BNW Revisited sits at top of my must read list. If you have not read BNW Revisited I ask you were have you been?

Describing Hitler's strategy for dispensing effective propaganda, Mr. Huxley says:

"The demagogic propagandist must . . . be consistently dogmatic. All his statements are made without qualification. There are no grays in his picture of the world; everything is either diabolically black or celestially white. In Hitler's words, the propagandist should adopt 'a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with.' He must never admit that he might be wrong or that people with a different point of view might be even partially right. Opponents should not be argued with; they should be attacked, shouted down, or of they become too much of a nuisance, liquidated."

Huxley quotes Hermann Rauschning in a different vein:

"Hitler . . . has a deep respect for the Catholic church and the Jesuit order; not because of their Christian doctrine, but because of the 'machinery' they have elaborated and controlled, their hierarchical system, their extremely clever tactics, their knowledge of human nature and their wise use of human weaknesses in ruling over believers."

[manfriend]

1. not ringing any bells

"Hitler . . . has a deep respect for the Catholic church and the Jesuit order;

In fact he had so much respect for the catholic church he only had a few thousand priest murdered.

Next kook, please.

[mhr]

2. That's Ths Point Manfriend, Reread The Passage!

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