I reread this article today and I thought to myself why do totalitarians hate Jews?
On a whim I put that into Google to see what was returned and what I found was rather interesting. Obviously articles such as that tend to lump people in a way that helps their argument but the basic premise rings true for me - totalitarians need the ignorant and the cowed. Free thinkers will poke holes in their model.
That line of thinking makes a great deal of sense to me but I don't understand why it is only the Jews that are brought up. Totalitarians are equal opportunity killers of the independent of thought as well as the independent of means (e.g. kulaks).
Continuing the line of thought from the previous post, it strikes me that the ever present need of totalitarians is to control the narrative. Widespread teachings of how totalitarians treat intellectuals and those that aren't dependent on state would be bad for the narrative while narrowing the scope will bring the unbalanced out of the woodwork.
Ah, now I'm painting with a very broad brush.
On a whim I put that into Google to see what was returned and what I found was rather interesting. Obviously articles such as that tend to lump people in a way that helps their argument but the basic premise rings true for me - totalitarians need the ignorant and the cowed. Free thinkers will poke holes in their model.
That line of thinking makes a great deal of sense to me but I don't understand why it is only the Jews that are brought up. Totalitarians are equal opportunity killers of the independent of thought as well as the independent of means (e.g. kulaks).
Continuing the line of thought from the previous post, it strikes me that the ever present need of totalitarians is to control the narrative. Widespread teachings of how totalitarians treat intellectuals and those that aren't dependent on state would be bad for the narrative while narrowing the scope will bring the unbalanced out of the woodwork.
Ah, now I'm painting with a very broad brush.
