The worst thing Hitler did, long term, the thing he did the most civilizational damage with, was a sentence in a book about how/why one should read books. It’s done more than 8m bodies of damage since.
He said to read to confirm your biases no matter how much you have to cherry pick and ignore everything else–to be someone who can’t have new ideas communicated to them, only their existing opinions confirmed.
This seems to be the implicit message of all cults and religions, many of which pre-date Hitler by thousands of years. Where did he write this message?
Fascists read mein kampf like christians read the bible – not at all if they can help it. I don’t think his words had the influence or significance you’re honoring them with.
Help me out, I’m not getting this reference.
He said to read to confirm your biases no matter how much you have to cherry pick and ignore everything else–to be someone who can’t have new ideas communicated to them, only their existing opinions confirmed.
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anywhereeverywhere?This seems to be the implicit message of all cults and religions, many of which pre-date Hitler by thousands of years. Where did he write this message?
Its somewhere in ‘mein kampf’
Fascists read mein kampf like christians read the bible – not at all if they can help it. I don’t think his words had the influence or significance you’re honoring them with.
I think they read and pass on that part.