Nietzsche and the Nazis by Stephen R. C. Hicks (Full Audiobook)

[@Bryan_Lion]

I’m listening to this while picking up trash 😌 Never stop educating yourself. One of the benefits of my “robot” job is that I have time to listen to tons of educational content. People are impressed when a little worker bee like me can form a well articulated opinion on critical issues.

[@catladyoftroyn.y.8713]

Never underestimate a man's mind, no matter what his statute.

[@winniethuo9736]

I love that. Keep yourself informed. The introduction to this book tells it. You just don’t know whether the beginning forms the end or the end is there at all without the middle. We just don’t have the answer but some people have gone where none of us here will ever go to seek the gem that the human is looking for. I am just pleased that I am a part of this in my small way. Picking trash has made one man I know become so rich that he is now a president material in my country. Pick trash with pride buddy.

[@elik.webber7630]

Amen , not much in HIgh School History books .

[@tematrixx5470]

What would you recomend for learning

[@winniethuo9736]

@@tematrixx5470Study Manly P Hall. He is not a German, so his viewpoint is…

[@lzl3lol]

Who else is here 7 years on realising that we are seeing very similar events occurring in today's Western world.

[@suzannedawson2632]

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[@NoName-t7e]

Maybe its just a continuation of what we have always seen. Maybe you can kill and imprison your leaders but the people that really control what is going on who operate above them out of sight to the average person are free to carry on just repeating what they always do.

[@lzl3lol]

@Righteous Agitator it must be such a joy to be as pleasant as you are, its a nice feeling inside for you to just be a troll online? I actually never said I knew anything of suffering. I've had my own anecdotal experiences of life and quite honestly I could say it could have been worse. My comment also wasn't anything to do with suffering. It was simply an observation of the current political climate globally. If you are too close minded to observe the similarities playing out around the world that isn't my fault. Have a good day sir.

[@lildemon666.2]

@Righteous Agitator r/murderedbywords

[@johnbaxter189]

Yes national socialism is on the increase again. Socialism is piss up politics. Truly believe the whole world was psychotic from decades of boozing in both wars If they were psychotic then, then brain damaged from war shock where are they at now? I suggest the whole world is in mental health crisis Suicidal even. Socialism is booze politics, pub politics, all about party party party.

[@purplewhatevers]

1:18:43 bro I literally just woke up and this was playing. I've never heard of this book in my life.

[@baileymoore7779]

Bro

[@JonPicoCokeJones]

Dude me too, I woke up in the middle on the night and this was playing around the halfway mark

[@BananaTacoFairy]

bro i 4, my subconscious took in 2 hours

[@ManicDeprescion]

Same. LoL

[@lrich966]

the same i fell to sleep watching Enter the Stars utube channel and woke up with this halfway through playing on my laptop.

[@PopGoesTheology]

Especially instructive for me, were 2:11:14 We know that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Gobles and most of the key intellectuals of National Socialism were admirers of Nietzsche's philosophy. They read him avidly during their formative years, recommended him to their peers and incorporated themes and sayings from Nietzsche into their own writings, speeches and policies. 2:12:21 Nietzsche often called longingly for, "some pack of blonde beasts of prey, a conqueror and master race which organized for war and with the ability to organize, unhesitatingly lays its terrible claws upon a populace." And he spoke of "the deep and icy mistrust the German still arouses today whenever he gets into a position of power is an echo of that inextinguishable horror with which Europe observed for centuries that raging of the blonde Germanic beast." And, again, inspirationally, about what one finds, "at the bottom of all these noble races, the beast of prey, the splendid blonde beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory. This hidden core needs to erupt from time to time. The animal has to get out and go back to the wilderness. It is clear what the Nazis made of these regular mentions of the beast - an endorsement by Nietzsche of the racial superiority of the German Arian type. That interpretation clearly takes Nietzsche's words out of context. In context, the blonde beast that Nietzsche refers to is the lion, the great feline predator with the shaggy blonde mane and the terrific roar. Nietzsche does believe that the Germans once, a long time ago, manifested the spirit of the lion but they were not unique in that regard. The spirit and power of the lion have been manifested by peoples of many races. Nietzsche clearly is using the lion analogically and comparing its predatory power to the predatory power that humans of many different racial types have manifested. Nietzsche here lists six different racial and ethnic groups and the Germans are not special in that list. So, while Nietzsche does endorse a strongly biological basis for cultures, he does not endorse racism of the sort that says that any one race is biologically necessarily superior to any other. The Nazis thought of the Germanic racial type as superior to all others the world over. On the point of contemporary Germans: the world's hope or contemptible. While the Nazis put the German Arian racial type first, Nietzsche is almost never complementary about his fellow Germans. In Nietzsche's view, Germany has slipped into flabbiness and whininess. Germany once was something to be awed and feared, but Germany in the 19th century has become a nation of religious revivalism socialism and movement towards democracy and equality. Whatever special endowments the Germans once possessed, they have lost. Nietzsche believes that Germans of his day should feel ashamed by comparison at the same time German intellectual and cultural life is prominent the world over and Nietzsche deplores that fact contemporary Germany is a center of softness and slow decay. So, Nietzsche believes that Germany's weaknesses are infecting the rest of the world. As he puts it in The Will to Power, "Arian influence has corrupted all the world." So, rather than celebrating contemporary Germany and its power as the Nazis would do, Nietzsche is disgusted by contemporary Germany. 2:29:56 Nietzsche believes that most individuals have no right to exist and he asserts that if they were sacrificed or slaughtered that would be an improvement. "Mankind, in the mass, sacrificed to the prosperity of a single stronger species of man, that would be an advance." And, again, "One must learn from war. One must learn to sacrifice many and to take one's cause seriously enough not to spare men." 2:33:34 Hitler's firm belief was that powerful historical forces singled out some special individuals to perform special tasks and that destiny spoke through those special individuals, "I carry out the commands that Providence has laid upon me," and "no power on earth can shake the German Reich now. Divine Providence has willed it that I carry through the fulfillment of the Germanic task." In invoking divine providence Hitler is drawing upon a long philosophical tradition that goes back most famously to the German philosopher Hegel. 2:43:22 2:45:30 The national socialists had an eagerness to use war as their primary tool for achieving their international goals. We know their praising as fundamental, the martial spirit and the beauty of the warrior soul. We know of their total recasting of education of children to achieve as Hitler wanted "a brutal domineering fearless cruel youth, that youth must be all, that it must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes." The beast of prey phrase is again rhetoric inspired directly by Nietzsche. On the importance and nobility of war, Nietzsche and the Nazis were in almost complete agreement. Nietzsche praised war and urged its coming. He wished for a great purge that would wipe out most humans whose lives he thought worthless and an embarrassment to the human species, "All too many live and all too long they hang upon their branches. Would that a storm come to shake all this worm eaten rot from the tree." But he also longed for war as a means to inspire those humans who have potential to advance us to the Overman. To that end, Nietzsche believed that war is absolutely indispensable, "War essential. It is vain rhapsodizing and sentimentality to continue to expect a very great deal for mankind once it has learned not to wage war. For the time being, we know of no other means to imbue exhausted people as strongly and as surely as every great war does with that raw energy of the battleground, that deep impersonal hatred, that murderous cold-bloodedness with a good conscience, that communal organized ardor and destroying the enemy, that proud indifference to great losses to one's own existence and to that of one's friends, that muted earthquake-like convulsion of the soul."

[@joeyjojoshabadoo889]

This is a great commentary. Well said.

[@thrace_bot1012]

Extremely important point to emphasize, yes. Friedrich Nietzsche's reference to the "blonde beast" appears in his work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," particularly in the section titled "On the Three Metamorphoses." In this philosophical text, Nietzsche presents a narrative where the human spirit undergoes three stages of transformation: the camel, the lion, and the child. It's important to note that Nietzsche often wrote in a poetic and metaphorical style, and his works are open to various interpretations. The "blonde beast" is mentioned in the context of the lion stage. Nietzsche describes the lion as a creature of strength and power that rebels against external rules and authorities. The lion seeks freedom and wants to create its values, rejecting imposed values and traditions. Nietzsche uses the metaphor of the "blonde beast" to symbolize this powerful and assertive aspect of human nature.

[@razerhead9489]

@@thrace_bot1012 Exactly, the Lion is the rebellious stage in which the human grows to realize that morals how established they might seem are a tool of control and urges that the human grows beyond that, I think it is similar to Kants Quote, Sapere Aude, be wise enough to use ur wisdom. He goes beyond morals and oftentimes highlights the hypocrisy of all those who called themselves good. Much, in a way, a relativist would formulate his argument. Also, he mentions that it does not matter from which ethnic this Übermensch will be born, it is just said that he will come. That the Nazis took the blond beast and the Übermensch and assumed that it was a given that it was themselves who would be this superior being is not so much a statement about Nietzsche but more so about the arrogance of AHs philosophie.

[@23joanlee]

you sorely misread the man. your fears are all based on allegories, metaphors and -often, as based on this entry- outright fantasies. nietzsche was complex. learn to read complexly.

[@sledgehammer9739]

"The Turks were not genocidal" Tell that to the Armenians.

[@farmag]

Are you quoting the author? If so where did he say that?

[@BRAND0N...]

It's definitely not an accurate quote but he said it around the 8 minute 30 second mark

[@farmag]

@@BRAND0N... Thanks. Yes, I see the author is talking about 2005 Turks that read Mein Kampf, which he rightfully argues doesn't represent Turkey as a whole. This is not the same as denying Armenian genocide.

[@BRAND0N...]

@Pojka there is only one definition for either of those terms. And both are easily identified as being exactly what they are. Also, they aren't a neccessary part of nation building.

[@sledgehammer9739]

@Pojka The Armenians were murdered. Period. Your attempt at trying to justify what they did is not going to work here. You can play with semantics and catch phrases all you want. In the end millions died because of bigotry and prejudice. No amount of tap dancing will change that.

[@mesolithicman164]

I'm always surprised when intellectuals rightly criticise Nazism but find loopholes for Communism. The fact that the liquidated population was bound by class rather than religion does not make the ideology any more acceptable.

[@tylerchambers5809]

Communism was worse than all ideologies.

[@omermohamed323]

Ok let's compare the Communist Manifesto to Mein Kumpf

[@admontblanc]

Jews are more than a religion though.

[@mattkrier5856]

@@tylerchambers5809 I think you should check out some of the communist projects that never got to take off. There were plenty of prominent anarcho-communists and socialists that never thought seizing and wielding state power would never produce the conditions that they wanted to. Errico Malatesta and Peter Kropotkin are good examples. They rightly saw that seizing state power would only produce a new bureaucratic aristocracy that would then again have its own separate class interests (ex: the USSR and Maoist China). They instead focused on community aid and building coalitions of everyday workers that they would train to wield their own power rather than wield it for them, and once they had worked out a system of governance by which no person or group could oppress any other they would exert their power, as Nietzsche would say, and overthrow the capitalists and aristocrats by whatever means necessary. Afterwards they would just be any other person living in the new society. The communism you are thinking of is a failed experiment the same as liberal democracy and fascism, though for sure.

[@alphasword5541]

I mean, Marxist-Communist theory goes beyond just what the Soviet Union did, or China for that matter which is practically more fascist than anything in the modern era, I'd argue. The problem being that communism is a much more vague term when you realise that it can refer to any number of strains of thought, and it's mainly useful in an economic analysis than anything. Facsism and Nazism are innately tied to racism as a comparison.

[@charlessanders]

This is 8 years old. I can't believe I'm just hearing this for the first time. This is incredibly well done.

[@terracotta6294]

Me too.

[@grizzlyaddams3606]

The guy enunciated nicely.

[@winniethuo9736]

Life is good for you if you have found this. Keep in the narrow buddy. I have gained a brother. I am pleased you are here. This space is for special people. You are special Charles just like my younger brother Charles.

[@winniethuo9736]

@@terracotta6294 You too.

[@Saffron-sugar]

The book is actually 21 years old. Without KZbin, many of us would never have heard of it.

[@johntownsend1732]

Thoroughly enjoyed this. So much to learn. So little time. Thanks very much for making it easier to incorporate this kind of learning into everyday life.

[@carnthesharks]

Babbling assertion- definitely not. But interested to know why you think it’s improper use of history?

[@th3omachos]

So many years later it is so good to ser how many people came together to watch this masterpiece

[@thestonecanoe3159]

I been dwelling yt for years, most of the truthers have already been scrubbed. Good to see stuff like this around

[@pickled0n1ons]

@@thestonecanoe3159 r 8 ettee

[@silent_stalker3687]

Actually the aurthor lied and likely uses notes from Neit’s ‘private journals’ which were altered by his sister and father to support the party. In fact if you read his genealogy of morality he attacks racism, socialism, nationalism, science and religion most openly in the 3rd chapter.

[@matthewhenderson6821]

Does this book hate on Nazis?

[@antonychigurh8939]

I think most of the views came from people falling asleep to youtube, myself included…I’m not complaining though.

[@NelsonStJames]

Critics of Nietzsche often try to underplay the truth in many of his ideas, focusing less on what he actually said, but rather how different groups have interpreted what he said.

[@1dw1]

Well put

[@michaelatkin9649]

Especially "Christians" he's like Satan just for saying 'God is dead and we killed him'. They only qoute God is dead part then when the other part is given to them they still don't get it because they're told he's an anthiest.

[@tellurianapostle]

Whats the truth? if philosophy arrived at the truth it would have ended by now.

[@BradyPostma]

​@@michaelatkin9649- The ones who most adamantly denounce Nietzsche for "God is dead" are the same ones who did the most to kill God.

[@VladimirPutin-p3t]

Nietzsche isn't wrong because because he pronounced the death of God, he's wrong because he thought without God and religion, there is no longer a direction for society or even science. I think science has done fairly well for itself since the autopsy.

[@Mainbusfail]

Some of my favorite people are in this comment thread. Hard working no excuses people from all walks of life. I am retired IT engineer turned floorman and part time janitorial contractor. I'll be scrubbing latrines and taking out trash and vacuuming in about 30 minutes. I could not be happier that I get to do it.

[@claudeyaz]

Hey take care of your health if you are doing that type of work. From working on computers...to working on latrines, lots of long term slow damage to your back and posture etc. If the place you are working has good insurance..may want to see your GP about any small aches and pains..to get a physical therapy referral. They help you do special exercises to strengthen very strange, yet important, and under focused on muscles. Like I was given exercises to strengthen the muscles on the front left and right, of my neck. Apparently strengthening and using those muscles more, limits the stress on the back of your neck and most neck pain. You just seem to be the type of person who enjoys activity. So from a disabled person who cannot hardly handle the pain I live in, it is my selfish habit to nag people... I want people like you to keep enjoying their activity.. But when you do get older, please try and find other things to enjoy if you end up with bad joints or whatever..don't let it destory your mentality like it has mine. Have a good day at work! And please take care of yourself, so you can enjoy your life for a long time, finding friends and loved ones to do it with ya! This was an interesting book...as a surface level intro. Personally...I think how so many people assumed Hitler and co really wanted to win the war at all after the point of no return...How people have always asked, "why fight till the end," questions. I find those questions to really underestimate how much dehumanizing others and seeing yourself as better than others...can cause people to search out groups to just be violent against for the pleasure of it. In a structured society/liberal democracie...those sorts of behavior is held in check by the idea of equal rights

[@shermankearns200]

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[@Mainbusfail]

@@claudeyaz Hey, that was super kind of you to take the time to provide this very informative and warm concern for my and others health. I will take your advice to heart for sure. My wife has me doing about 5 different stretches and a little yoga routines every morning which I swear do help a bunch. Clooz, be safe yourself my friend. Todd

[@nenirouvelliv]

I'm planning to make similar change. I'd rather say no to ulcers before I reach 40, unless I'll die of an heart attack.

[@Mainbusfail]

@@nenirouvelliv Isn't that the truth!! Dino, I found more time to hike and kayak , and believe it or not, I make more money now than I did sitting in a 50 degree 150db server farm. Besides, these kids understand so much more now than I did at their age. It was time for ole Todd to step aside. Dino, let me know what you end up doing. And I wish you the best of luck, happiness and health. Todd K.

[@oldironsides3992]

I found this audio book very informative. The fear of listening or learning about ideas you detest, is really the fear that you might see yourself in it.

[@silent_stalker3687]

Sadly this book is not accurate. Summary: Nietzsche’s sister collected his works after his death, made false papers and documents along with her friends to promote her favorite party… guess who? Now one work abolished this: Nietzsche’s genealogy of morality- chapter 3 attacks nationalism, socialism, racism and ‘the science’, religion, mysticism.

[@gijane2cantwaittoseeyou203]

You like those ideas deep inside, racist

[@Channel-sp3fp]

Anyone who's read NS and revisionist material will know how dishonest the mainstream narrative surrounding the subject is.

[@silent_stalker3687]

@@Channel-sp3fp what’s NS?

[@harryjones84]

​@@silent_stalker3687 it's funny i am not too sure i have this fear....or i guess i kind of do it's almost a fear or maybe more apt guilt about actually getting an element of pleasure from it...obviously the pleasure I am getting is from potentiallt learning about/considering/understanding the whole subject more (which should lead to a stronger antipathy for those ideas if that's a justified feeling) but nevertheless there would still be a guilt around it? Like i am even giving it the time of day... That's kind of bad really isn't it because say if we are talking about something that most of us can safely agree is fundamentally wrong or detestable iike Nazism or sexual abuse or something...and understanding it further i have no fear of liking it more...yet a greater collective understanding in theory could well lead to positive results in the present & future right- touching on your point, it's like potential action to defend against the fearful stuff you referenced coming to pass or being more prevalent? Does this make any sense or am i rambling i feel it sort of touches on the beginnings of quite a potentially significant issue- unless i am totally misrepresenting your thinking or that this feeling is just an idiosyncrasy of mine!😅

[@thenotchosen]

As a moderately educated man I find a lot of info goes over my head ,I am so happy that the author has wrote this book with people like me in mind ,This is an amazing book

[@silent_stalker3687]

Actually the aurthor lied and likely uses notes from Neit’s ‘private journals’ which were altered by his sister and father to support the party. In fact if you read his genealogy of morality he attacks racism, socialism, nationalism, science and religion most openly in the 3rd chapter.

[@CHX_37]

@@silent_stalker3687 Thank you for your comment. I have only listened to the first 21 minutes of this so I have not gotten into the main thesis but having read Thus Spoke Zarathustra very carefully I could not come up with any justification at all for linking National Socialism with Friedrich Nietzsche. I have heard of the explanation you mention above and it sounds reasonable. I think National Socialism was a reaction to the very real threat of communism and the less immediate threat of soulless capitalism. Leftist even to this day do not want to admit the former and capitalist don't want to admit the latter.

[@silent_stalker3687]

@@CHX_37 1/3 of the comment is all I can get by KZbin’s censors ironically german socialism was a thing and a idea- as there was a socialist group in French that were in fact more Anarcho capitalists- sadly the guy’s name is complicated and his work was butchered by the pope. Summary his class system wasn’t anything of equality of any form of wealth, history of of race but a class system based on the politically benefited as the exploiters and the Neo Hegelians basically hijacked the dying philosophy that was socialism- Hegel was a big statist and so was Sigmund.

[@silent_stalker3687]

@@CHX_37 collectivism and capitalism are false dicodomies. Any radical group can have a Heaven but that alone won’t secure it- for that it needs a devil. The correct answer to economics from interventionism to non interventionism scale is this. Marxism, Keynesianism, monetarism, Chicago school, Austrian school. For a example of Keynesianism- see Keynes open letter to FDR- specifically the last paragraph. Capitalism was a slur Europe made. Adam smith’s book wealth of nations was a criticism of mercantilism systems that Europe heavily used. Since they believed- rightfully so given the state of the council of the 13 colonies -that it would fall under and instead it ran circles around them. So instead of saying ‘okay maybe our system has trade offs’ they doubled down and made anti worker laws believing production was what made America have its money in short a unnatural push for industrialization- oh and taxes pushed to keep those industries up and running to subsidize them.

[@Stopstalkingmenarokkurai]

this book is propaganda see David Irvings Hitlers War. Or Secret gold treaty were nazis bought 250 companies in the US after WWII germany had 30 jewish high level officers. 150,000 jewish soldiers.

[@normonsta8057]

"You will own nothing and be happy"......those pulling the stings behind politics

[@jnighs8380]

Hmm I always thought the elites were pushing us that owning material things will make you happy I mean they've totally bought in and been pushing that

[@jnighs8380]

Materialism s huge in the west and the east is happier

[@EmpiricalPragmatist]

@@jnighs8380 Which part of the East is happier exactly? The Middle East? China? Vietnam? I mean, maybe Singapore and Japan are happier, but they're in the minority...

[@EmpiricalPragmatist]

@@jnighs8380 Not saying Western materialism isn't a problem though. However I don't think some kind of enforced socialism would fix that either.

[@PatheticHero]

@@jnighs8380 Denmark is now in the East?

[@anthonychristie7781]

"The Nazis were defeated by the liberal democracies." Tell that to the Soviet Union.

[@hondafanboy1856]

Soviet steamroller

[@davidwhite4874]

Who financed and industrialised the Soviet Union?

[@RealAugustusAutumn]

@Jesus él McNuggetCunt Why does every person get an equal vote if they aren't equal naturally?

[@RealAugustusAutumn]

@Jesus él McNuggetCunt "Why should physical superiority matter?" "Intelligence is required in the voting process" Seems like you don't even know what position you hold on the matter 😂

[@RealAugustusAutumn]

@Jesus él McNuggetCunt "Physically superior" includes every part of the body, including the mind. Intelligence is not abstract, but knowledge or wisdom is. Your intelligence is biological i.e. physical. So likewise, I overestimated you.

[@aaronlambert9297]

The importance of intellectuals supporting Nazism is being replayed in the universities in the US today particularly in Ivy League schools.

[@rappakalja5295]

Name me a single intellectual today who can be equated to Nazi intellectuals?

[@Herf18]

We're seeing the same things happen in the US and other countries today. Sad and scary.

[@itz.makaydaa850]

Sad. Thank God there appears to be down turn in delta world wide as both vaccinations and new drugs along with increasing use of ivomectin \israel studies show is making a big impact. They prayed and the Lord God delivered them.

[@eddie788]

@@itz.makaydaa850 they are barely getting started.

[@neilspaniol5903]

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[@einnocrellaw4327]

Sad indeed.... that too many Americans took our Freedoms for granted until they have recently began to wake up. Our saving Grace in America is that Patriots have always fought to maintain our Constitutional rights , especially when it comes to the right to bear arms. We knew if they ever tried to take that from us we were headed for total disaster in this Country. Our rights to bear arms was specifically given to us in order to prevent a Tyranical Government from taking over this Country. Many people across this world has awakened to the NWO agenda and together ... people world wide are battling it. Indoctrination of the young people via the educational system is the important key factor for this movement. Covid was meant to bring in the NWO in the US... Thankfully though, while many people in this Country fell for our Government attempting to control their every movement... Patriots stood firm, refused to abide by their "mandates", attempted to educate those who abided by their mandates and we now have the majority of our citizens understanding that they were duped, Covid is nothing more than a corona virus , which is the same virus that causes the flu. The other factor of which so far I have not heard mentioned is the Centralized Baking and how their total purpose is to bring about economical disaster of a Country. With Trump in office the Dems knew we Patriots would be successful at collapsing the Federal Reserve which is what we have desired for many years. That's why they had to get Trump out of office via election fraud. We The People though have no problem rising up against a tyrannical government... they know we are well armed and they can restrict the ammunition from We The People... but makes no difference we know how to make our own ammunition and MANY do. We pray it never has to come to that... however, Patriots are not afraid of bloodshed or losing their life for something that will ALWAYS be worth fighting for... OUR CONSTITUTION. They (the establishment) can bring in all the illegal immigrants they want in an attempt to change the very fabric of this Great nation. It won't work. We will soon be transporting ALL illegal immigrants out of this Country... you either enter legally... OR NOT AT ALL. PERIOD .... FULL STOP. If people want what we have here in this Country then they need to stand up in their native Country and fight for what we hold sacred her in the US. Trump is not GOD... we as citizens do not worship him... but... He was sent by GOD to help save this Nation from the perils of evilness. We are ONE NATION UNDER GOD and that is what we shall always remain. ♥WWG1WGA♥

[@consciousmusic9222]

I found this by accident. This is one of the coolest things Ive ever listened to.

[@talizmondakine1995]

The meek like hearing how they almost didn't exhist

[@annbookerrichter]

Absolutely fascintastic from start to end.

[@nathanbosley76]

@@talizmondakine1995 Yeah you definitely do.

[@talizmondakine1995]

@@nathanbosley76 lol good one...People have allways referred to me as Neechy... ...spell ch....it wasn't till I woke to this video....that I realized why

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[@kebman]

1:07:19 *Nazi policies on socialism:* Businesses were told by the state what to produce and in what quantities. Prices and wages were set by the state, and if anyone complained a commonly used Nazi slogan put them on the defensive, quote, “The common interest before self-interest,” unquote. The argument was quite clear. You are not a private individual seeking profit or higher wages in a capitalist economy. You and your property belong in trust to the German people, and you have a duty to serve the public interest even if it involves a personal sacrifice.

[@admontblanc]

Some of those policies were due to war, the US also shifted to command economy since it's the most rational approach during such a large scale war where many battles were being fought very far away from home.

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[@STDealer]

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[@insomnius3447]

On the other hand, the Nazis also disenfranchised worker-movements, crushed unions, allowed single individuals to make massive profits and privatized a lot of german state owned property, way more than other countrys at the time. While the NS-State certainly wasnt capitalist, it wasnt socialist either. It really was its own thing.

[@MacNif]

Philosophy is KEY to truly understanding history and the context of history

[@dmeytrius]

I plan on becoming a history teacher and honestly philosophy of a government is probably the best way to know why they did something or what they might do, what other governments shared the same beliefs. I can't wait to make people wonder about everything happening around them

[@malusmantis1289]

History is nothing but thoughts that keep popping up at the most inappropriate times..

[@ChristopherWood3606]

​@@malusmantis1289history is the study of the human condition by coming to a conclusion on past events through primary and secondary resources (fact finding)

[@drummerboy1390]

At last, an audiobook that doesn't sound like the narrator is underwater.

[@jonis7989]

The narration is superb. Very pleasant listening.

[@mixerD1-]

🤣🤣 True...

[@filipdraganovic1833]

Šćć

[@filipdraganovic1833]

Čćš

[@TheSanityInspector]

And also not like a robot from a 1960s science fiction film.

[@marvelluslucass3662]

I’m a free thinker and I’m black. I would say Nietzche was on to something about power and how people use it

[@jeffreymalakai]

Aaaaaaaàaaaaàaaaàaaaaaàaqqààaw weeoà

[@notmyrealname8282]

What does you being black have to do with the rest of that statement? Does that add something to your opinion? Does it give it validity? For real, I’m curious, why throw that in there? Be honest.

[@nitsuanomrah6997]

@@notmyrealname8282 it kinda came off like he doesn't believe black people are typically free thinkers and by him being into Neitzsche, it further proves (possibly to himself) that he's beginning to separate himself from the black hive mind.

[@Medieval_Dead]

@@nitsuanomrah6997 The hive mind is strong with them. A single radio station got them to commit genocide on their own people for crying out loud.

[@kebman]

Whatever Nietzche was onto BLM perfected.

[@Medieval_Dead]

My goodness, the similarities between them and modern liberals/the left is alarming. It’s literally happening all over again.

[@lenblack1462]

Actually, the Nazi's were right-wing. And yes, every 80 or so years, Right-wing fascism does try to make a come back.

[@Medieval_Dead]

@@lenblack1462 And now they are left-wing.

[@lenblack1462]

@@Medieval_Dead Nope.

[@cyclops-king-crap-music-videos]

@@lenblack1462 yep--both of them are working for the same people

[@lenblack1462]

@@cyclops-king-crap-music-videos The Progressive Left is not.

[@scotniver7180]

Just started listening.. Seems like history is repeating itself. So far, Im rating it one of the Best books I've listened too Thank you

[@arcadealchemist]

always does, every thing has it's loop/frequency

[@stephenthedude4383]

History rhymes. Idk who said that but it's a great quote

[@rickshawwheelchair]

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it

[@ivanpenaloza2905]

@@stephenthedude4383 it was jay-z in the song 100 dollar bills

[@stephenthedude4383]

@@ioanbene184 facts

[@jammazzing5986]

Wow!!!!! You are absolutely right! How can a country know what they stand for when it’s so divided. People need to wake up and come together. Thank you!!!

[@toxinbrewer9126]

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[@TheDarkoricle]

@@toxinbrewer9126 yes?

[@229andymon]

Unless it would be best if that country or union divided. Americans divided from the British Empire, Poles divided from the Soviet Union, Slovaks divided from Czechs., Bangla Desh divided from Pakistan. Not all unity is good unity. History provides us copious examples of unions that have risen and fallen, peoples cannot be atrophied, change is the only constant.

[@nicestpeoplearound]

​@@229andymonno, that's meaningless acceptance of absurdity. To be honest America and Britain should come together, because America is absolutely terrible and needs a monarchy to control it.

[@DrgnTmrSirGawain]

define "waking up"? I believe for me waking up means finding out what my core values are and be very careful when evaluating how what I believe in fits what the environment tries to sell me I should follow.

[@freethinkerer]

I read a lot about evolutionary psychology. If you do not learn why your instincts tell you what they do, then you will not know how to make intelligent rational decisions when weighing important questions. Nietzsche lived in the days when we knew little to nothing in a scientific manner of evolutionary psychology. When listening to this book, I kept hearing a lot of ignorance on the subject. Science knows so much more now. We now know that one should learn why instincts tell them what they instruct. It gives one so much more information in which to make intelligent rational decisions on important questions. Information matters. Intelligence matters so much more than Nietzsche gives credit for.

[@freethinkerer]

@Michael Oatway What? When did i say I was not open to opposing ideas?

[@freethinkerer]

@Infamous Not really. Many in America did not agree with them. Seems more cultural.

[@dutchbiker4825]

You might find that modern psychology is not so scientific as you may think.

[@joeyk19801]

Incredibly powerful. I disagree with Nietzsche in regards to tyranny being the only way to drive society forward. And in fact, watching communism/ socialism play out, I believe it's definitive that that argument doesn't hold water. I agree that strong individuals will drive society forward, but I disagree that they need to enslave the rest of society in order to achieve the goal.

[@tvnorminstudio3080]

Agreed

[@admontblanc]

Maybe they don't always... you should study the emperor Augustus (the first one), many answers to that question, almost paradoxical if seen without context.

[@mihailmilev9909]

But maybe they have. The American "free" capitalist corporations have already started to enslave the rest of society.

[@NoahFonoti]

@@mihailmilev9909 how? By paying people to work a job they choose to accept or not?

[@mihailmilev9909]

@@NoahFonoti ok it is a slightly more nuanced subject. Not all "control" is physical. Is manipulating the masses control for example?

[@joanr3189]

Came upon this by chance and am finding it instructive. Clear. Measured delivery. Deserving of attention, reflection, further readings. Excellent narration by the author. Thank you.

[@javierramirez8592]

La Gente de El 🥲🥲😅🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣

[@alexarivera3354]

Instructive??

[@the-veer231]

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[@alyssavictoria7971]

Good delivery but inaccurate info.

[@lindalee3408]

Excellent book. Listening to it for the third time. Thank you so much for reading it to us. You have a great voice and steady cadence (not sing-song like so many others).

[@thesleezer1711]

I agree its a phenomenal book

[@missnellaful]

I agree with your statement!! Reading to us, his brilliant book, such a gift. Articulate, perfect timing, accuracy! "No sing song." I will purchase it and listen again too! Well stated.🎁

[@annbookerrichter]

Me too, third time!

[@unicorns1393]

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[@unicorns1393]

@@thesleezer1711 , zzZ, z, aZz, z,,, zzz,,,,

[@sheilalopez3983]

When people who follow the crowd find themselves in the middle of monsters they become monsters. The same can be said of everyone, I guess. Only someone with very strong character could escape that.

[@delbertz.osborne9793]

@Anne Schoeder They who fall victim to the whims of other's, will be controlled by those who don't. . --- debo 21 Century

[@delbertz.osborne9793]

Sadly this is true.

[@simgrmehmej8075]

@Eat the socialist Until they begin to eat their own, as it happened in the ussr.

[@illegallawyer]

The admonition to not "fight with monsters" is a warning to avoid using the moral framing of your interlocutor, when arguing values. If you do, you become just like them, morally.

[@1776SportsNutrition]

The thing we must realize is that we are all capable of being the monster. With that, we must do everything to influence becoming the monster slayer to avoid it.

[@goldfishi5776]

who needs psychedelics! have a cup of coffee and fall asleep listening to this. It’s more than full of chaotic imagery. Nice and suitable to motivate one to seek balance.

[@apaceofchange94]

Thought I was the only one. That combination really does something

[@jonathanbray3075]

Gee... Don't stray to far from your fishbowl!

[@Tsayoga]

About to wind down into sleep listening to this. I appreciate your tone & eveness of voice. Tchuss

[@exquisitedoomlapointe185]

Didn't think i'd like this, but the way myths are dismantled here very early on really caught my attention. That's extremely persuasive to me and i knew immediately you had some nuanced take on this. Really gave me a lot of food for thought. Thank you!

[@justinmercer1591]

DAy

[@silent_stalker3687]

He doesn’t seem to know that Nietzsche’s sister and friend cooped his work and notes, made fakes of it to support the **Zi party. In his genealogy of morality he attacked nationalism, socialism, religion, racial ideas and so on- specifically in chapter 3.

[@mikimeadows]

Now listen to Jordan Peterson take on Nietzsche and socialism

[@reespace]

He reinforces myths about black people. He lacks scholarship in this area.

[@silent_stalker3687]

@@reespace how so?

[@christianlee1693]

I woke up in the middle of the night and this was playing at the one hour mark

[@Alex-pb1iy]

Haha me too. 1:13 mark

[@mariaandcream]

Me too!!

[@livmilesparanormalromanceb6891]

Me too! 🤣 and I’m glad, it’s awesome!

[@aguynamewho8709]

Kinda strange I don't get offered to watch this but after I wake up it's playing hmm now im doubtful lol

[@BotirIbragimov]

When I finished listening one audiobook, KZbin automatically started to play it. And I was blown away, all the things we discussed in philosophy classes in university with my professors about all this !. And now it was in 3 hours !, 👏🏻!. Wow 8 years ago uploaded but I searched all about it never to find !. Now it’s in recommending 😂

[@josecaldeira6]

Could it be attributed to improvements in algorithmic programming in IT?

[@iboji49]

Now I know why so many socialists and anarchists convert easily into nazys and vice versa.

[@myowngenesis]

@@iboji49 Mussolini happened and it must be the rule yeah?

[@freethinkerer]

@@iboji49 The book reminded more of Trump than anything. Oddly a lot of socialists Nazi types love Trump. I think it is everything this book spoke about, other than the socialism part. Did you notice how this book did not really delve into socialism much?

[@vkrgfan]

Just because the lecture created 8 years ago, doesn’t mean it was available on KZbin or free.

[@yuma9406]

The one and only audiobook I can finish listening to in one go.

[@darladrury76]

Watch Europa the last battle. All our laws changed by theses same people.

[@Yahweh312]

JUDEN!

[@verborgenewahrheit1594]

Nietzsche’s so-called “praise “ of the Jews at the 2h15 mark sounds more racist itself than any racist charge leveled at the National Socialists.

[@gregweston3770]

the most important documentary on the planet

[@darrenrock2132]

Brilliant

[@NoName-t7e]

@Adriano Bastardi Germans who are jewish?

[@pellman87]

Such a good narrator. Perfect to listen to while going to sleep. 🙌

[@alexcarter8807]

Except for the fucking ads. Leaving my downvote and outta here.

[@SainiRohan]

@@alexcarter8807 I mean it’s a book. You have to earn that money

[@techpriestalex8730]

@alex carter adblocker

[@maximusextreme3725]

@@alexcarter8807 Get an Android and download the ad free KZbin app. You'll thank me later.

[@panzergarden1232]

I once went to my local library and asked for the book beyond good and evil.the woman explained that the last person to take it out hadn't returned it.

[@c4call]

Might mean that's a book you should definitely purchase and read ;)

[@twyckoff87]

Evil destroys itself

[@yj9032]

There are better books

[@robertgough2908]

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[@robertgough2908]

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[@mbrison1]

Who's here because this keeps playing while you're sleeping, and decided to stay to see what the universe is trying to teach you?

[@osojune4542]

Just woke up to this playing on my phone

[@stunnedmulletblah9714]

That's exactly what happened a few seconds ago

[@camilobordelois]

Same here

[@ravenrutherford7401]

Yup

[@justadad6677]

Extraordinary channel. Thank for this. Lots I love about Nietzsche, but also a lot I completely disagree on. Sadly, never get chances to talk with such highly educated people. But at least we can listen and learn.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Maybe ask around? Lol

[@jimc.goodfellas]

Most people we're around on a daily basis are not very intelligent and are complete sheeple

[@bjarkifreyrbjarnason9419]

Oh, you're so smart disagreeing with Nietzsche. Thank you for expanding on that thought.

[@justadad6677]

Is that too mean you agree fully with everything Nietzhe wrote? Something he himself didn't, he changed his views as he got older on somethings, as is common by most people. @@bjarkifreyrbjarnason9419

[@mikec6733]

I'm questioning the 2nd point on the list of differences between Nietzsche and the Nazis. Nietzsche thought that the Aryans were once strong, aggressive and dominant but had grown soft in modern times. The Nazis instilled their philosophies to rekindle and build into the German people a return to their supposed ancient aggression and dominance. Seems as much a similarity as a difference.

[@pendejo6466]

He was referring the Europeans, not just "white folks," and he certainly didn't want them to obtain their former glory so they can oppress people.

[@davidanglin7177]

@@pendejo6466 "Pendejo" is correct as far as your thinking goes.

[@pendejo6466]

@@davidanglin7177 Yeah, I chose this screen name for the eggplants who distract easily--an easy way to discriminate so to speak.

[@moodist1er]

No comprehension of sarcasm. Nietzche was sarcastic af. People reading Nietzche as literally as they read their bibles is 💩

[@pendejo6466]

@@moodist1er Yeah, he was sarcastic all the way, especially his analysis and critique of morality, christianity, Wagner, and every shitty thing about being a German.

[@charliej8104]

The point of Mein Kampf being a best seller in turkey not meaning they’re genocidal might be debated by Armenians.

[@mrs.hancock4124]

Until it’s no longer criminalized to discuss, debate etc one side while those hostile towards have had over 7 decades of unbridled forced demonization indoctrination against the indigenous Germanic peoples, opinions will continue to remain nothing more than irrelevant propaganda incompatible of surviving scrutiny.

[@Caspaah151]

Chronologically it does.. Such a bad faith argument anyways.

[@andsch0172]

Do you know the „Grey Wolf“ movement in Turkey? Extrem nationalism supported by Erdogan

[@romanschapter6513]

Neon Kempt written by jesuits

[@ook6871]

@@mrs.hancock4124 oooo l

[@alicehargest]

Amazing! Can't believe I came across this by accident

[@alien7161]

Europa the Last Battle. You know one side of the story, not the other.

[@toboldygo5823]

Seems like there’s going to be no future for anyone if things keep going the way they’re going🤷🏻‍♂️

[@toboldygo5823]

@@williamcary8029 I’m not trying to reason out perversions on either side and there are plenty to go around🤪

[@alsimmons5539]

Now THAT is heavy history. Not for the hipster douchebag herd

[@thebronzepill7892]

Nietzsche is similarly misrepresented here.

[@Larrypint]

Always read primary sources from the great philosophers, not secondary sources, specially when it comes to Nietzsche.

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

Agreed, Mr. Hicks seems to have used Nietzsche's sister's modifications that she made after her brother's death in defiance of him to appeal to the Nazis of which she was an early supporter. Nietzsche had broken with his sister over her Christian faith many years before his death writing, "If you seek solace of soul and comfort, then believe. But if you wish to be a seeker of truth, then Inquire!"

[@royborrill2711]

@@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 It's ok to inquire, but it's also ok to have faith. After all, on his deathbed I wonder if he was hoping for an afterlife. Probably, because it's human nature to fear death and pray that God exists. Having said that, I think he was a Jew and they don't believe in heaven. So who knows?

[@terrystevens3998]

@@royborrill2711 you are projecting your want for god/afterlife onto human nature. I think most people on their death bed would be hoping there is no god because most people would end up in hell.

[@Overly_Hydrated]

I went to bed listening to Stephen king Audio books. And woke up hearing the words nazi and Jew over and over again. No more audio books for me

[@danielbergersen4459]

Hahaha

[@AverageAmerican]

I like to listen to true scary stories or the Bible which many people think are the same thing. And they are very much alike. Yahweh wants us to know what is coming. In that way, difficulties can be easier to bare...

[@allancouceiro9905]

@@AverageAmerican the bible is fiction, ffs.

[@AverageAmerican]

@@allancouceiro9905 The Bible is not complete but it is the most accurate historical document on the flat plane...

[@QBert904]

@@AverageAmerican that’s factually incorrect and you know it

[@davidnorbertgarza]

😳OMGOSH! My second time waking up to this!🤯 Now I'm curious of what I was exposed to subconsciously

[@jaybee3244]

Right?!!!!!

[@SMMBHQ-cg2zy]

ME TOO , I ALSO WOKEUP TO THIS ON THE OLD PUTER, MMMMMMmmmmmmm wonder whats really going on . seems we may be getting seeded ?

[@inkarnator7717]

So he is basically saying that if we want to defend against naziism, we have to be the exact opposite of them in relation to the nazi-principles that he has identified. But he has not given any reason for this type of reasoning. It rather seems as though he has picked exactly those nazi-principles that he doesn't like and puts them in the center of the nazi-ideology, in order to be able to say "look, every single core tenet of naziism is the exact opposite of what I deem to be good. Since naziism is bad, what I am saying must be threfore good." But why be content with this limited set of principles? What makes a nazi principle eligible for subversion by doing the exact opposite of what it says? E.g. a core principle of naziism is that the Germans are biologically superior to all other peoples. Should we therefore believe the opposite of this principle, that the German people are biologically inferior to all other peoples? If not, why not? Why not apply it to this point, but all the other points that the author has singled out? It doesn't make any sense, it is quiet ridiculous and there is virtually no critical thinking put into his concluding statement.

[@Tartersauce101]

Well said.

[@donaldkeith139]

Did he say that? Can you give me a time stamp because I must have missed that? I mostly just heard him draw the links between Nazism and Nietzsche's philosophy..

[@inkarnator7717]

@@donaldkeith139 2:57:32

[@ShaareiZoharDaas]

@@donaldkeith139 There is no link this man has probably not read Neitzsche or his letters!

[@The1TrueTeacher]

Thank you for the rationalization of the writer's philosophical views. I can only give so much attention to non-sense. The rationality should be sound and taking polar opposites sounds intellectually feasible but when applied to the race theory doesn't hold weight 🤔. Christianity makes a weaker being less their true potential begs the question who sets the potential. Roman Empire used Christianity to add to its military ranks and dominate the world. I love philosophical introspection. Where are you Nietzsche... let's see the self introspection

[@ovidiodemorizi]

Waoo . Thank you . This is deep . It had me interested from beginning to end.

[@Menapho]

Outstanding!! There’s so much to comment on that I can only. Be silent and fully take in all that was presented. Excellent narration! Now I need to purchase the book.

[@VivalaryMan]

But you just listened to it, why do you need to purchase the book?

[@Menapho]

@@VivalaryMan that’s a joke right?

[@VivalaryMan]

@@Menapho No?.. I mean, you literally have it here for FREE BEING READ TO YOU but you want to BUY IT WITH MONEY AND READ IT YOURSELF? Take a second and think about that..

[@Menapho]

@@VivalaryMan I need much less than a second. As it requires no thought. If I need to explain the difference in experience of auditory vs text. It’s a waste of time.

[@VivalaryMan]

@@Menapho I remember when I heard the animal farm audiobook by Stephen Fry, I LOVED it! Infact I loved it so much I'd listen again, however, I wouldn't then think to spend money to have it in text which I then have to read myself and will take up space in my house. I keep my DSM in book form, my medical references etc but I just don't understand why you'd want both. I'm not trying to have a go at you by the way, you can do whatever you want, I'm just saying, your logic on this subject doesn't make sense to me and this is why. If you can't explain why it does make sense then that's on you. ✌🏻

[@John_Corrigan]

Boom.....now that's an audiobook.....narrator perfect.....

[@tonyromano6220]

Right on understanding of history. Look at current state of the world, seems the same.

[@rowdyninja8529]

It’s scientifically impossible for evolution to have changed man within the era of “civilization” and the record-keeping that came with it . Nazi germany existed 80 years ago. Meanwhile, evolution has been at work for millennia. Therefore, it should surprise no one that there aren’t many historical lessons to be learnt. Instinct trumps reason .

[@janvan31166]

Same shit, different century.

[@miztx2syuiip590]

🤣 from your thought to mine- now what to do about these weirdos

[@g.manifestomsnifesto4338]

Taking over education and teach national socialism, but today it is just socialism.

[@raulcheva]

Thanks for sharing this very lucid and docunentated book. Listening to this, I really made this couple of days worthy of spending.

[@Rick_Cleland]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@SuperLogicBoy]

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[@SuperLogicBoy]

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[@SuperLogicBoy]

Ja s 66#. A bsshhš, hž.

[@elsiebello6896]

@@SuperLogicBoy ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp0000

[@harryjones84]

Anyone interested in this debate and wants more insight into the German mindset ot just likes great books I CANNOT RECOMMEND ENOUGH iron Gustav by Hans fallada- about a German family in Berlin just as ww1 kicks off an after

[@Larrypint]

I always recommend reading primary sources no summaries from another time spirit cause it's always thru a filter and often one-sided, specially when it comes to Nietzsche, Heideggers, Sprengler etc.

[@shannonm.townsend1232]

@Poika maybe but the title sounds suspicious lol

[@harryjones84]

@@Larrypint sorry is this relatively speaking a statement of agreement? As it's little hard to say because obviously it is a work of fiction but in a way written by someone you could call a primary source as it is written by a German who i'm pretty sure lived in Germany for most of the significant events of the first half of 20th c... is an interesting debate the value of a fictional but at least temporially primary source or secondary source of non-fiction/academic analysis!?🤔😅

[@angelaolinger3545]

Fantastic interpretation based on historical facts backed up by quotes. So deep and thought provoking that I ordered the book to read it for a deeper understanding.

[@dennerkeithsilva5855]

Imo and then

[@sticksnstonespatriot1728]

I don't know why they are STILL trying to explain the reasons why WW2 was started... For anyone truly curious, the simple answer is in AH book " My Struggle" Go to the original source. Speculation is lazy. The reason, in a nutshell, has to do with unethical banking cartels that dominated Germany and the Balfour Declaration...

[@lucindalewis8397]

Yes Considered doing same. Will listen again. Not a presentation you can grasp if you doze off. Grateful to hear Hicks well structured and quoted perspective.

[@soluschristus8360]

At that time Jesus prayed this prayer: “O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike. Matt 11:25

[@cityman1111]

Your imaginary friend is seriously fucked up

[@AS-gz8oe]

Poweerful statement.. But It is good that you are here my friend. I intend to listen to the end despite the lack of respect I have for the ideas because we are also instructed to 'know our enemy" and 'be wise as serpents".

[@tommyodonovan3883]

I prefer when the author reads their work. And Mr S.R.C. Hicks is as good as any I've ever enjoyed. An Ubermench if you will.

[@loualbano4520]

Psalm:14.1 "The fool has said in his heart there is no God".

[@Dobviews]

Darling, if you want to preach go find a soapbox and a pulpit. If the masses want to hear your nonsense they will come to listen to you. As for the rest of us, what's the matter dear? Do you not agree with Free Will or only when a person agrees with your fantasy. Religion was created by man to control the masses and gain access to the public purse. If there is a god it has nothing to do with the KJV book of plagiarized works.

[@Newgrist]

@@Dobviews Or is a postsecular re-appropriation of religion a legitimate means by which we liberate ourselves from social media, created by man to control the masses and gain access to our purse? One's man meat is another man's poison.

[@Dobviews]

@@Newgrist I wouldn't really know. I wouldn't have this account if 100+ movies weren't attached. I cut out Fakebook, Insta, etc back in 2016. I am more a Curiosity Stream individual. All ideologies can become dangerous when they are used as a means of control, power and money. I tend to stick with science. Ever learning, ever adapting... conformist ideologies only harken back to things like Napoleon, Mao, Hitler, Crusades... never anything good.

[@Newgrist]

@@Dobviews I wish I could say the same. If I had refrained from posting on social media accounts, including this one, I would have achieved far more in life than I have. I think science should be supported and pursued rigorously, but, as you know, in our age of extremism, in which junk science and conspiracy theories abound, we have to be sure that science remains science, and be skeptical of its claims when it tries to pronounce on domains of reality that are outside its purview. When it makes those pronouncements, it betrays itself as just another dogma, just another nefarious "ism," of which we have more than enough in this culture of ignorance.

[@Dobviews]

@@NewgristOh yes, the famous accusation of zealotry and bigotry in science as great as that found in religious people. Sometimes there may be a little bit of justice in this accusation but it usually doesn't work out well for those who use science for such nefarious reasons because unlike religion, science does not keep others from testing those claimed theories and hypotheses. Science instead demands true reproducible results from multiple accredited colleges sources but as supposed zealous bigots, scientists are mere amateurs at the game. This practice helps weed out those crooks using science for personal means. Scientists are content to argue with those who disagree with them. Scientists don’t kill each other for their beliefs and practices (which cannot be said for religious extremists such as Eric Rudolph or Jim Jones the crusades or 9/11.) But I would want to deny even the lesser charge of purely verbal zealotry. There is a very, very important difference between feeling strongly, even passionately, about something because we have thought about and examined the evidence for it on the one hand, and feeling strongly about something because it has been *internally revealed to us, or internally revealed to somebody else in history and subsequently hallowed by tradition.* There’s all the difference in the world between a belief that one is prepared to defend by quoting evidence and logic vs a belief that is supported by nothing more than tradition, authority, or revelation. Your attempt at a false equivalence is noted and dismissed for what it is *belief* The religious creation myth to which most Americans ascribe, was plagiarized from the Babylonian creation myth. But your book doesn't report that, it takes knowledge of multiple religious ideologies to see how things were borrowed from one older ideology to help support or be more acceptable to the public at large. How many other religious books have you read and studied with the same passion and fervour as you do your KJV? Oh that's right, most religious ideologies do not want you to seek out other beliefs and ideas about god. Many believers in the US still cannot grasp the concept that the religious god of the christian faith, judaism, and muslims are all praying the same abrahamic god... the only question is who is the prophet to be followed, how to pray or if a prophet has even arrived yet. *Bless your little heart*

[@bdjshwbwhdhh1991]

Thanks for putting this up. Perfect for a Sunday morning. Cheers

[@user-jv9qz2bu1r]

2:57:40. The NAZIs stood for five things: 1) collectivism (not personal liberty) 2) instinct and passion as basic guides in life (not reason, evidence and logic based system of belief) 3) war and conflict to achieve goals 4). political authoritarianism ( not individual freedom) 5) socialism Which US political party today is motivated by the same five principles?

[@joemerino3243]

That's an interesting distillation of that political party. While it's popular for everyone in the U.S. today to say with certainty that the other party is all mid-century Germans, I don't think either major party really matches up terribly well. The German chancellor would certainly have detested both the republicans and the democrats, and indeed modern republicans and democrats are in reality much closer to each other than either is to what Germany was doing in the early forties.

[@user-jv9qz2bu1r]

@@joemerino3243 Query: which major party today censors? Which has an unholy alliance with tech oligarchs? which party is hell bent on indoctrinating youth? which party panders to the "oppressed" and pits the "oppressed" v. "oppressors"? which party leverages the policer state arms for political gain? Which party essentially buys votes? I could go on ..

[@Trepidateousflesh]

Bro......... CHRIIIIIIIIST The Nazis literally were pro capitalist. And sold shit to consumers through nazi indoctrination & targeted people impressionable & dumb enough to believe the Aryan master race ancestry garbage lying..... The Volkswagen? Made by the Nazi f'n party to sell as "the german people's wagon" get it??? There were no unions whatsoever. In Nazi Germany..... Wake up. Idı0t.

[@joemerino3243]

@@Trepidateousflesh What part of 'National Socialism' do you not understand? It's literally the opposite of 'International Capitalism.' The Soviets made cars too, and sold them. You sound like 'hurr durr I don't like capitalism or nazis so they were the same thing.'

[@joshualizard9658]

EXACTLY. If you are casting your vote for a party that is trying to abolish the bill of rights, you might be a fascist. I'm not saying we should all run out a vote Republican. I'm just saying... In any case, it is a grave error to conclude that the defining factor towards determining whether a nation will become fascistic is with a philosophic system that favors collectivism over individualism. Indeed the liberty of the individual is paramount but it cannot survive where the foundation of our fraternal duties towards the community are neglected. Nor is it with an economic system that idealizes socialism as opposed to capitalism. Any strong centralized government can and eventually will become totalitarian and even genocidal. Our need for strong centralized top down governance may have been essential for our survival when we were infants but we should have begun to outgrow that need shortly after we outgrew our diapers. Come to think of it, governments are a lot like diapers. They should both be changed frequently and for the same reason.

[@pierrepence9876]

"God is Dead." -- Nietzsche "Nietzsche is Dead." -- God

[@LivingLegendMe]

LOL. hahaha.

[@m.s.r.s-9495]

Nietzsche didnt pretend to being eternal.

[@theesikstee.fawr.doler.kwe9585]

I read Nietzsche died after reaching a catatonic state after completing his last book Beyond Good and Evil. I think he failed to find God in all his searching. Or perhaps he did but failed to recognize God, or worse, perhaps he was disappointed in the God he found.

[@itz.makaydaa850]

@@LivingLegendMe history is important otherwise problem downstream in the education system saying the state must dominate you by robotising young people..

[@ambientblue-eyedmonkey8849]

@@m.s.r.s-9495 clown had no choice.

[@lauuura]

Listing to this in 2021, America is screwed if we don’t wake up and see history is beginning to repeat itself.

[@mikenoyb5466]

I don't think it's repeating rather a continuation if you consider that: - there was a eugenics movement in the US before Adolf got his iron cross. -Prescott Bush(the father and grandfather of the Bush Presidents) helped fund them. -Project paperclip (importation of Nazis.) -Mk-Ultra(1950's-present) a continuation of the mind control experiments done in the camps. It goes on....

[@jaredtweed7826]

I suggest that you avoid using casuistry to come to logical conclusions. Especially with history, casuistry often used false comparisons as well as the slippery slope fallacy

[@Larrypint]

Read Oswald sprengler ( but primary source) a great history Philosoph.

[@LguanadonTRex]

I don't see it at this point. There are some parallels, but that means very little. We can probably draw parallels between any two periods in time and geography.

[@Andrea-pm3dy]

Yeah...... 😔

[@ihabmidhat]

Thank you for the writer and for whoever posted this. A lot to take but a good informative book.

[@scrubfive9239]

I fell asleep watching an internet historian video and woke up halfway through this. Random.

[@SayNO2CAMEABUSE]

Same lol!

[@Rick_Cleland]

Same thing, but I was listening to one of my playlists, and this video isn't on it!!

[@SayNO2CAMEABUSE]

@@Rick_Cleland honestly tho do you listen to Jordan Peterson??

[@Rick_Cleland]

@@SayNO2CAMEABUSE Occasionally, mostly his older stuff.

[@SayNO2CAMEABUSE]

@@Rick_Cleland he recommended this book. Maybe thats why.

[@robedgington7421]

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." - A.H.

[@xp7575]

@@thehoodooqueen777 you misspelled Trump

[@pentasigil]

another fake quote

[@cherisun1]

3 hours well spent ..thank you sir 👏👏👏👏

[@kristinashepherd3003]

Loved it and I loved the author reading this book as he has a great voice and really makes this book enjoyable when it is actually pretty heavy subject.

[@BobJ-iw7kq]

When I studied Philosophy over 50 years ago in college, my initial class opened with Homer's Iliad and then went to Plato's Republic. If I were teaching an introductory class, I would open with the movie Schindler's List, followed by this work. Followed by Hick's book on Postmodernism. This work is so relevant to our culture today that its reading should be a mandatory of any education.

[@doclime4792]

Why? This man will be forgotten in 50 years or less. Homer and Plato will be remember for 1000s more. This book hasn't even convinced you that Neitzsche himself is worth reading 😂

[@ketanjibrownsfavemolester7592]

Schindlers list is not philosophy...👈🤣

[@ketanjibrownsfavemolester7592]

@@balsarmy Schindler's list is NOT 👈😆 "Philosophy"...

[@marcgottlieb9579]

@@ketanjibrownsfavemolester7592 A work of fiction based on dubious facts proves the golden rule..Those that have the gold rule..

[@FranzDebussy]

you would open with a fictional movie?

[@loganross1861]

When you find out about Nietzsche’s personal life and vices, it makes a lot more sense why he positioned himself and argued the way he did. The older I get the more sure this approach to understanding becomes. Over and over.

[@victorsaulbotellomarquez2150]

Ñoññllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllop i skrobanie, że taka jest twoja praca, jest bardzo gorąca lub bardzo dobra, że ​​frakcji i komórki i możesz mnie rozdzielić. de la casa de mi m2dddd d damá y mi mamá y mi mamás deq y

[@victorsaulbotellomarquez2150]

Ñoññllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllop i skrobanie, że taka jest twoja praca, jest bardzo gorąca lub bardzo dobra, że ​​frakcji i komórki i możesz mnie rozdzielić. de la casa de mi m2dddd d damá y mi mamá y mi mamás deq y

[@victorsaulbotellomarquez2150]

Ñoññllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllop i skrobanie, że taka jest twoja praca, jest bardzo gorąca lub bardzo dobra, że ​​frakcji i komórki i możesz mnie rozdzielić. de la casa de mi m2dddd d damá y mi mamá y mi mamás deq y

[@victorsaulbotellomarquez2150]

Ñoññllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllop i skrobanie, że taka jest twoja praca, jest bardzo gorąca lub bardzo dobra, że ​​frakcji i komórki i możesz mnie rozdzielić. de la casa de mi m2dddd d damá y mi mamá y mi mamás deq y

[@victorsaulbotellomarquez2150]

Ñoññllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllop i skrobanie, że taka jest twoja praca, jest bardzo gorąca lub bardzo dobra, że ​​frakcji i komórki i możesz mnie rozdzielić. de la casa de mi m2dddd d damá y mi mamá y mi mamás deq y

[@scottwatson3254]

To augment understanding what happened I recommend William Shirer"s book. As a journalist and eye witness it rounds out a fuller understanding and it reads like a story. But this book is very helpful and well written. Lessons for today for sure. It seems that most people who either hurl or embrace the name Nazi have little understanding of it. Someone just used the phrase 'New Order' in a speech and we are certainly being trained in obedience.

[@swagmueller]

I think shirer's book is kinda outdated tho. He uses a lot of the weak arguments mentioned in this book. For instance Shirer often claims that Germans were simply authoritarian, etc. It is still a good book, tho.

[@silent_stalker3687]

Sadly this book is not accurate. Summary: Nietzsche’s sister collected his works after his death, made false papers and documents along with her friends to promote her favorite party… guess who? Now one work abolished this: Nietzsche’s genealogy of morality- chapter 3 attacks nationalism, socialism, racism and ‘the science’, religion, mysticism.

[@donsimons9810]

Oh wow! I just woke up listening to this after falling asleep to "Hiding My True Intentions in Allegory" ASMR! Weird

[@stevenhoman2253]

It is truly shocking, that on the initial face of it; national socialism seeks so simplistic, even dour. The road to certain places is certainly paved with seemingly good intentions. Then again, utopianists are always the first and most mean spirited of people; in my opinion.

[@pluckngrit2]

When the ends justify the means, utopians moral code allows for the current system to die.

[@anujagarwal7992]

@@zeronpeat3407 oh please communism is utopian nonsense,the best communists ever came up with was a state socialist former superpower(btw how that came to be shows communism is worse than Nazism) which lost the economic war with capitalist economies, remember the Berlin Wall and kennedy's words,they definitely never needed walls to keep their citizens inside the country,so economy is best suited to run in capitalist economic societies,but with a welfare net and increase in that net with increase in overall wealth.

[@admontblanc]

@@pluckngrit2 that's very pretentous, the means always determine the ends.

[@pluckngrit2]

@@admontblanc I said “justify the means” not determine the end. Im referring to moral justification of immoral actions to achieve a goal. Utopians do not mind “breaking a few eggs to make an omelette.” They dont mind destroying what we have to get what they want because they believe utopia to be superior and worth any price to achieve. No thing is ever worth any price.

[@pluckngrit2]

@@zeronpeat3407 Socialism fools people into thinking they have power. It creates an elite ruling class and equal misery for the peasants. everything you said was moronic and propaganda for sheep. Socialism is diet communism and that is diet totalitarianism. All enslave the masses for the service of the few. i feel sorry for you falling for that socialist BS. I understand the urge of sheople wanting the state to guide and protect them because they are dumb and weak. But lets not pretend you having an overlord will make life better. If you are not happy now, socialism will not help you.

[@benjaminchartier6458]

A point to remember about Nazism: it's core philosophy is based on an extrapolation on evolution. The idea of a"master race" was based on a line of reasoning which had it's genesis in Darwinism, that the Germanic races were the best product of an evolutionary process,which leads to the strong dominating the weak,that might makes right.

[@triplewhoppper]

I thought it was based on nationalism and reduction of classes within the country? During Nuremberg there was little evidence of the master race aspect where the allies used the term but it was never found in any speeches, documents, writings.

[@susannahwhite7561]

Yes, and he read up on Margaret Sanger. And loved her ideas.😭

[@mikeboone8260]

@@susannahwhite7561 are you kidding I hope you're not condoning this

[@philpottkentucky4802]

@@susannahwhite7561 Hitler banned abortions, you dumb clown.

[@pauldavidson4977]

Had just finished reading " The Birth of the Nazis " which has a lot of great detail, and your work fills in some of the gaps, and provides wonderful insights. Thanks for all that you do.

[@nikkola33]

Does The birth of the Nazi talk about the Balfour Declaration, I feel like there is still something missing from history. The actions and timing of things don't explain the change in behavior over time?

[@pauldavidson4977]

@@nikkola33 I'm sorry, but no, this book doesn't even touch the Balfour Declaration. From my research there isn't any reputable connection between Hitler and the Arab community that called for the destruction of the Jewish community in Palestine. Netanyahu has propagated a false and inflammatory speech trying to make this connection much the same way tRump does. The book " THE BIRTH OF THE NAZIS " How the freikorps blazed a trail for Hitler, is written by Nigel Jones and published by ROBINSON in London. The book takes you from the creation of the " Storm Troopers ", during WW I, through their defeat and humiliation, and the different political ideological infighting that helped bring about the Freikorps, the SS and the beginning of Hitler's rise to power. This is the ground work that explains the psychology and actions of an empire that was laid to waste, leaving a citizenry feeling cheated out of greatness, and the retribution they would eventually exact on Europe.

[@nikkola33]

@@pauldavidson4977 Been researching WWII off and on and trying to find all the missing pieces, decleration seems to fit some actions of Britain before the war, the Jews started being moved to Palestine from Germany in the 40,s. Why not before? So much false info, just trying to fit the puzzle pieces.

[@pauldavidson4977]

@@nikkola33 hi Nik, I'd like to continue this conversation, but we have finally been allowed to have our son & his family visit for the first time in 1 1/2 years. They leave Tues. evening so I'll get back to you Wed. They arrived Fri. late. Sorry.

[@nikkola33]

@@pauldavidson4977 No problem, I'm on vacations myself. Enjoy your time together that's what's most important!

[@mkalbhenn]

This is gold … keep it up bro ..smart and smooth info to my brain 👊🏼👊🏼

[@danhanqvist4237]

A couple of points. Rome: A bit misleading to say that the Roman Empire "collapsed". It's more like it petered out. And it took a long time to do so. The San: not really up-to-date to say that nothing happened in Southern Africa for 10,000 years. The 17th century was pretty eventful there, what with the Bantu migration and the arrival of the Dutch at the Cape. Italy: many Italians did not think they won WWI. The war gave Italy nothing like the dividends that were expected. Philosophical Nazism: I think this is giving Nazism way too much intellectual credence. There is no coherent Nazi philosophy or even ideology. Which, I suspect, was pretty much the whole point.

[@wheresarnie1]

"There is no coherent Nazi philosophy or even ideology." My word, that's probably the most presumptuous, naive and one-sided assertion I've come across in these last few weeks...and that's saying something!

[@danhanqvist4237]

@@wheresarnie1 I think perhaps you should spend some time looking at what Nazi top brass like Hitler, Rosenberg, Himmler and Darré actually said was Nazi ideology. It's a complete jumble. Which probably was a key to their success. Pretty much anyone could find some lite aspect of some of it that they liked, without having to figure out how it hung together. And, anyway, Hitler was never very keen on theory and thinking (nor was Hess or Göring...). He was a lazy bastard who idealised "action" (from underlyings, of course) way above thought. The chaotic system rumbled on with ridiculous amounts of infighting and people working at cross-purposes. It got off the ground largely because of the stupidity and timidity of the democracies. But it did never have any realistic chance to go on for any serious amount of time. They got about 12 years before they crashed in flames. If the Western Powers had been quicker off the mark it would have been much shorter and much less bloody.

[@wheresarnie1]

@@danhanqvist4237 Interesting analysis. I wonder though, if what you see as a "jumble" was just the nascent stages of a newly forming political economic theory or simply a 20th century ideology. Remember, Marxism was an early 20th century ideology which was greatly contributed to by many different voices, scholars etc. I'm by no means a Marxist, but I wouldn't, hindsight being what it is, call Marxism in 1910 a "jumble." It had a clearly defined 'goal', regardless of how utopian it was. It had practical, political means of attaining such goals, which included radically altering known society. In short, I wouldn't call Nazism incoherent or a mess of ideas. It was simply a natural development, one of the many courses of historical action that could've happened. We stand on the shoulders of giants as it is said. The fact that Nietzsche was used by the Nazis in their emerging worldview for the changing world they found themselves in simply meshed with their perception of things at that time. Others could have and do look at Nietzsche's writings and find great hope and inspiration in them to change their life for the better and to stop wallowing in self misery, to find purpose. You're looking at the nascent stages/pieces of what could have been a massive, international movement and labeling them as incoherent because their progress was halted prematurely.

[@danhanqvist4237]

@@wheresarnie1 "Marxism" -- in the sense of what Marx actually had so say -- was a particular spin on classical economics. Some interesting observations but fundamentally flawed (as is the current neoclassical orthodoxy, based as it is on a version of Newtonian physics). The Nazis were not original economic thinkers. They were simply socialists -- explicitly so and actively so in their policies (if such they could be called). "Gemeinnutz vor Eigennutz" was their slogan. Everything and everyone was subordinate to the policy of the State, which meant the Führer. As long a private enterprise delivered what the State wanted -- fine. If it didn't, the state took over. And as any other socialist system it (1) had to resort to totalitarian political structures, harking back to the pre-industrial state and (2) eventually ran out of other people's assets. With the help of more old-fashioned economists they managed to set up a system to exploit the occupied countries (Götz Aly has written a great book about that), but eventually they had bled occupied Europe and Germany quite dry. Socialism is a system of consumption not of production.

[@c4call]

@@danhanqvist4237 shamefully, you write like someone who has not considered the possibility that their opinion of nazism has been proscribed by the opinions of those who invested in being against it. You even write that it could never have survived for long, and so was doomed to inevitably fail. You claim it was a jumble. None of this for which you provide sources. Meanwhile, this actually book provides names and examples, including the most educated minds of the time, not only from Germany, but from many other countries at all. In Norway, their author Knut Hamsun is one of their greatest novelists, ever. He won a Nobel prize for his writing. He met Hitler in person and actually argued with Hitler that he should enact more extreme policies. But here you are, with "neonazis" and "nazi sympathizers", pop up all over the world, seemingly and irrationally from randomness, and you think it's an absurd ideology with no consistency? Maybe you should read mein kampf before making such claims.... careful, it's been a banned book before, in the free United States. So if you want to get it, better get it before its banned again ...

[@SDlETRICH]

To casually dismiss losing World War I as a motivator for fascism since Italy won the war and had the same motivations is a stretch to say the least. When you realize Germany didn’t start World War I but had to assume all blame and damages regardless, the motivation for the third Reich is apparent. The real anomaly is Italy.

[@jefftheriault5522]

I think it would be fair to say that Italy no more won the first world war than, say, Bosnia did. Both nations took terrible losses that they only partially recovered from in the first decade and a half postwar.

[@darthbigred22]

Not really Italy thought they'd get more land for siding with the Entente. They played both sides and were rewarded as such but they took it to heart.

[@bluewaters3100]

phodesCheck out "The Corbett Report" podcast on World War 1 to discover the real thought processes of the original villains behind the war. It was the Rothchilds and Rhoads who deviously created division in Europe through the media and propaganda which turned countries against Germany. This untimately led to the War. We are still under the thumbs of the elite. Look at how evil our media has become and the lies it perpetuates.

[@zackcouch5363]

Every fucking time I fall asleep I wake up to this

[@yummyyum36719]

Masterful work. I plan to re listen to this several times. The point you make about the fact that highly intellectual Germans made a conscious choice to go in the directions of a Nationalist Socialist strongman because they believed that feudalism and democracy had both failed them is absolutely brilliant. The fact that you state the case clearly, without the holier than thou tone of judgement in your voice that other historians and philosophers take in respect to the Nazis is very much appreciated. The truth is that we are all capable of great good or great evil.

[@terracotta6294]

"Dead Men's Secrets" - refers to the reality of an even more intelligent prior civilization - what happened?

[@Beetlejuice699]

12500 year solar cycle 'micro-nova', 6000 year catastrophic flood cycle, each of which events also see a large scale volcanic event within them as well. This planet and our Sun make unavoidable changes to this globe. If you want to learn more, Suspicious Observer is a great channel

[@retrobob3802]

Terrifying that we have not learned from this, book 'burnings' instigated by university students is very 2020s. So many other examples.

[@retrobob3802]

@V V I was referring to cancel culture but okay.

[@olympusentertainment2638]

@@retrobob3802 Don't worry these people are the desperate to find their devil.

[@g.manifestomsnifesto4338]

demonizing a group of people and wanting to remove them from society life.....democrats vs. the unvaxxed anybody?

[@timeparticles]

Great job on writing, research, thoughtful presentation, summary and narration.

[@ngothoeliabeliab2671]

The best random book I have ever read. Thanks Dr Hicks👏👏

[@maryronan9758]

Not money. THE ❤️LOVE❤️Of money. GREED. The ROOT of all evil. Money is good when used for righteous work.

[@siggesaltens2663]

tell that to Zuckerberg and Soros.

[@StephenHicksPhilosopher]

So: If you love righteous work, does it not follow that you should love money?

[@lwells3937]

@@StephenHicksPhilosopher not particularly. Money is just one of the tools used in riotously saving humanity. It is the confidence in money that makes it potent.

[@TheTrevelyansway]

Money was not the root of Hitler's evil. Revenge and love were instead.

[@andsch0172]

@@lwells3937 we don’t have money but currency. Only Gold and silver is money. Currency, so called Fiat Money, is a tool to improve power and influence.

[@PCH12r]

I wish someone wrote book like this about communism and Soviet union as well

[@Johnny.Picklez]

What do you mean?

[@PCH12r]

@@Johnny.Picklez For example how did dialetical materialism and epistemology was created and then had it's implications in practical policies in USSR. P.s I myself am from post Soviet country and I have worked on media propaganda topics.

[@brianfitz6083]

@@Johnny.Picklez lthe Nazi actually won the war and came to over take americans as the 4th reich

[@ifyouonlyk6556]

@@brianfitz6083 you need to research that. The Bank of England and the British banking system funded WWII. America was in bed with the Nazi’s no one won the war it was a well orchestrated game.

[@msdemeanor6039]

@ME 1 it is all totalitarianism. People like to argue over the which "flavor", communist, socialist, fascist, etc. It's all totalitarianism.

[@russelldodd93]

The part about the media sounds an awful Like Us Media today

[@goodoldschool898]

Very much so!

[@typhvam5107]

It does, doesn't it. This is exactly the kind of shit that happened before. Collectivistic mass hysteria and getting rid of adversaries and nay sayers. Its even worse as there is, as far as i can tell, any plot or plan, purely incompetent people doubling down to hide their incompetence and bad decisions, who noticed this gives them a lot of power and money so hey. why not. This will be disastrous, we will have 1 or 2 lost generations with this bs.

[@ravenravstopbanningmeyt1034]

look up the smith mundt act, and operation mockingbird

[@freethinkerer]

The part about Hitler condemning the media sounds an awful like Trump. Trump has succeeded in making citizens reject the media and his followers only believe his claims. That is not good for a society.

[@ravenravstopbanningmeyt1034]

@@freethinkerer the media has always been used to brainwash, along with schools. loook up the smith mundt act and operation mockingbird. trump is one of "them" but it was already like this before him

[@nualarodgersconway3]

Thank you. I could not stop listening.

[@32446]

Fantastic book with some surprising information. Well read.

[@bradburdett4491]

Just a thought: Not understanding the jealousy of other people has brought their safety into question

[@alexp1tx]

Hey r

[@alexcolima7894]

It’s crazy how close America is to repeating history

[@bobrobert1123]

I agree the democrats are out of control.

[@samsonthemanson]

History never repeats, merely instructs, and this time its instructing us to be very careful not to let these ideologies come back

[@__-yu2mz]

@@bobrobert1123 both parties are funded by the same yids

[@cjlooklin1914]

@@bobrobert1123 It must be hard, being a lunatic

[@cjlooklin1914]

@@NullParadigm Lol, another lunatic, I see XD

[@TomTom-rh5gk]

I fell asleep and woke up to the commercial. This is what youtube makes us hear.

[@aguynamewho8709]

😂

[@noobsaibot5285]

I wouldn't say Italy won WW1. That is a ridiculous stretch of the imagination.

[@nickdaniels2083]

Quite a few points made in this are stretches of the imagination, but then again he is accusing the majority of the population of Germany of knowing and willingly voting for the slaughter of millions, and that opinion should be full of holes.

[@freethinkerer]

@@nickdaniels2083 I don’t think he said that. That vote was before the extermination’s. He even noted Hitler had no one opposing him.

[@nickdaniels2083]

@@freethinkerer the author literally states in one of his opening statements that he aims to prove that the German public knew and was ok with Hitler's "Jewish solution".

[@boxelder9167]

I think Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s views of German Christianity and this author’s views are arguably quite different. Whereas Hitler catered to the Church leaders for support in the beginning it was the wolf in sheep’s clothing that became the actions that speak louder than words. The error is to assume that the Church was representative of Christ yet the State was the god the majority was worshiping and following.

[@legalfictionnaturalfact3969]

There is a reason religion and the state overlap so much. They are both fascist authoritarian. And I know Christianity inside and out, so quoting scripture or insisting I am uneducated in the Bible or what have you simply will not work.

[@boxelder9167]

@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 - Jesus destroyed the power structure of the Church so that man could go directly to God without having a priest as an intermediary. After they killed Jesus they set the old structure back up again. It’s good to know what’s God and what’s man and man’s religion. You are fair at identifying a problem but I am curious to know what you think the solution would be?

[@yumeriagirl1231]

@@legalfictionnaturalfact3969 Word Mate🤘🏻🤘🏽🤘🏾

[@yumeriagirl1231]

Factually, peer-reviewed sources please, that a Jesus even existed. Many "Jesuses" were tortured by cross till death. The Romans were not going to allow anyone to overthrow their government. Anyone speaking of a different way, was assassinated or disappeared. And that is factual information

[@boxelder9167]

@@yumeriagirl1231 - The origin of the name “Cristy” means “Follower of Christ”. It’s almost like you need a “Christ” to have a “Follower of Christ”. Makes you wonder how that would have caught on being as it never happened, right? You would think that “In the Year of Our Lord” 2021 that this event with “no evidence” would stop coming up all of the time. It makes sense though if being a follower of Christ is going to get you killed by the Romans that you would name your kids after the themes that would get them killed.

[@Pops2]

Great job Mr. Hicks. It is nice to hear the author read their own creation.

[@melissasmind2846]

Such a great book! Thank you

[@oneinasquillion]

A tremendous piece of work. The text and the delivery. Clear, dispassionate, intelligent. Allows the listener to understand the issues and encourages him to decide for himself the implications. Never once did I feel herded, nor sense an emotive or performative appeal. An absolutely exemplary piece of popular philosophy on a very important topic. Indeed with a war, at least partly ideological in origin, between liberal democracy and the collectivist spirit, once again raging in the old bloodlands of Europe, it could hardly be more urgent

[@silent_stalker3687]

Sadly this book is not accurate. Summary: Nietzsche’s sister collected his works after his death, made false papers and documents along with her friends to promote her favorite party… guess who? Now one work abolished this: Nietzsche’s genealogy of morality- chapter 3 attacks nationalism, socialism, racism and ‘the science’, religion, mysticism.

[@silent_stalker3687]

@Mel Gibson “Eugen Dühring, who makes most disreputable and revolting use in all present-day Germany of moral refuse; Dühring, the paramount moral blusterer that there is to-day, even among his own kind, the Anti-Semites). They are all men of resentment, are these physiological distortions and worm-riddled objects, a whole quivering kingdom of burrowing revenge, indefatigable and insatiable in its outbursts against the happy, and equally so in disguises for revenge, in pretexts for revenge: when will they really reach their final, fondest, most sublime triumph of revenge when they succeed in pushing their own misery, in fact, all misery, into the consciousness of the happy: so that the latter begin one day to be ashamed of their happiness, and perchance say to themselves when they meet, “It is a shame to be happy; there is too much misery!” . . . But there could not possibly be a greater and more fatal misunderstanding than that of the happy, the fit, the strong in body and soul, beginning in this way to doubt their right to happiness. may it, perchance, be their mission to be nurses or doctors? But they could not mistake and disown their mission more grossly-the higher must not degrade itself to be the tool of the lower, the pathos of distance must to all eternity keep their missions also separate. The right of the happy to existence, the right of bells with a full tone over the discordant cracked bells, is verily a thousand times greater: they alone are the sureties of the future, they alone are bound to man’s future. What they can, what they must do, that can the sick never do, should never do!” - genealogy of morality. I suggest Kaufman’s translation of this as his footnotes cover this, as well as the usage of the word race and what it has meant. This translation I took note of however is not from Kaufman’s translation. Also to avoid works of his sister who altered and fabricated a lot of things for certain political party.

[@silent_stalker3687]

@Mel Gibson I have made a reply, please comment if it is visible and KZbin hasn’t hidden it.

[@donthasselthehoff5753]

@Mel Gibson Want me to give you passages from far right degenerates you support which deem other races as inferior while we're at it?

[@KatanamasterV]

@@silent_stalker3687 Your reply is not visible

[@billscannell93]

22:43 I'm only that far in, but that is the bottom line as I have long understand it. Thinking about people in terms of groups and not as individuals will be the death of us all. It will be interesting to see if my perspective changes at all after listening to the whole thing. Very interesting so far.

[@thestonecanoe3159]

I feel the same way bro. I found myself here from searching up legends. I am first nations and took my legends and mythology with a grain of salt. After seeing resemblance I began to realize we are all connected

[@KMF3]

Sin darkens the mind and weakens the will. It's a gradual process and we are subject to it and capable of the worst. Also the influence of demonic activity can not be underestimated. Education often times brings pride, which is a mortal sin that kills all supernatural grace in the soul.

[@harlowjademermaid1882]

WTF... ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT...LMFAO... It's thinking like this, stemming from unsubstantiated & long term religious teachings that has brainwashed an entire generation of people into falsely believing nonsense. If religion hadn't of played such a major role in regressing our society, think of how much more developed we'd be...

[@KMF3]

@@harlowjademermaid1882 oh whatever. Blah blah blah

[@samiam3297]

Balance. Thank you. (I know this took a lot of work!)