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August 13, 2015
"Who'da thought a Class 'B' landscape painter and sociopath would have such insight into Human Nature?"
and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation." -- Adolf Hitler -- Chasmatic w/ title by Condon
Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 13, 2015 10:03 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Sadly true.
I wonder whether 'common core' or 'uncommon depth' will teach our children how to think clearly and critically, how to test ideas in the hurly-burly of the real world, how to separate correlation from relation, how to recognize PC as Pusillanimous Corruption, what it takes to live with beneficial purpose.
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at August 13, 2015 4:10 PM
I think the quote is actually Josef Goebbels', not Hitler's.
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The Big Lie essay was extracted form Mein Kampf according to the Holocaust Histriography web site
Posted by: chasmatic at August 14, 2015 11:46 PM
The 'Class B Landscape painter sold fake aged artworks in Vienna prior to enlisting in the German Army for WWI. Confidence men always understand how to abuse the trust of other people.
There is no particular genius or wisdom involved in abusing someone else's trust.
Posted by: Speller at August 17, 2015 11:44 PM
"There is no particular genius or wisdom involved in abusing someone else's trust."
Immortal words, Speller.
Archiving.
Posted by: John Condon at August 18, 2015 3:28 AM