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