WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.240 --> 00:00:03.879 I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekingana Show. 2 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:07.160 Aaron's back. How's it going, Aaron? 3 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:09.480 What's going on? Happy to be here. 4 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.199 We're gonna talk about We're gonna look at a speech 5 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:14.160 by a Nazi. 6 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:16.120 I don't believe it. 7 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:18.160 This is amazing. 8 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:20.839 I was just sitting a bird earlier. You know, I'm 9 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:25.239 coming on the heels of your close out of Hitler's 10 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:28.039 foreign policy with Thomas, and I'm like, who the hell 11 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:29.879 is going to want to listen to me after that? 12 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:36.000 Oh? I think you know, if you remember that Gebels 13 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:40.679 at this time was still running around with a kpd M. 14 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:45.119 You know that he I mean really up until the end. 15 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:47.920 I mean he he ran with them for about twelve 16 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:51.320 thirteen years. Yeah, then you start to you know, when 17 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:53.320 you when you read some of the stuff that he's 18 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.079 when you read his speeches or read the stuff some 19 00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:58.960 of the stuff you wrote, you're like, oh, okay, that 20 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:01.359 makes sense, this makes sense. Okay. 21 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:02.079 Yeah. 22 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:06.200 So yeah, having you on for that, because I mean, 23 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.280 I don't know that you know as much about communism 24 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:10.079 as Thomas does, but you know a hell of a 25 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:12.159 lot more about communism than most people I know. 26 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:17.760 Yep, I'm a real comrade, all right, talk a little 27 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:20.439 bit of just a little bit about this is. 28 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:27.159 It is from January ninth, nineteen twenty eight, to an 29 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:30.799 audience of party members at the so called Cultural four 30 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:34.799 Politique for Politique, a series of training talks for party 31 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:38.719 members in Berlin. It's Gerbel's most extended discussion on the 32 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:42.120 nature of propaganda, all the more interesting because of its 33 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:45.680 early date. It is worth comparing this speech to one 34 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:49.200 he gave seven seven years later to a closed gathering 35 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:52.439 of party propagandists at the nineteen thirty five Nuremberg Rally. 36 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:56.000 That speech was not published. The text is available, but 37 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:59.000 YadA YadA. So yeah, this is I mean, nineteen twenty eight. 38 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:01.760 This is five years before four is five, you know, 39 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:04.680 more than five years before they take power. 40 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.479 Yeah, so their situation is even more tenuous than it 41 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:09.560 was when they took power. 42 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:16.159 Yeah, yes, all right, I'm gonna start stop me anytime 43 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:19.599 then you know how this works? All right? Knowledge and 44 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:24.599 Propaganda by Joseph Gerbels. My dear fellow party members. Our 45 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:27.479 topic this evening is hotly disputed. I realized that my 46 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:31.919 viewpoint is subjective. There is really little point in discussing propaganda. 47 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:35.879 There is really little point in discussing propaganda. It is 48 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:38.000 a matter of practice, not of theory. 49 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:44.319 One experiential. You have to experience propaganda in order to understand. 50 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:50.240 It exactly exactly that there's no there's no theory behind it. 51 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:55.039 It doesn't it doesn't work unless someone experiences it. Yeah, 52 00:02:55.919 --> 00:02:59.879 one cannot determine theoretically whether one propaganda is better than another. 53 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:04.000 Rather that propaganda is good that has the desired results, 54 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:07.639 and that propaganda is bad that does not lead to 55 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:16.000 the desired results. Consequential consequentialism. Yeah, it does not matter 56 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:18.360 how clever it is, for the task of propaganda is 57 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:21.919 not to be clever. Its task is to lead to success. 58 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:25.680 I therefore avoid theoretical discussions about propaganda, for there is 59 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:28.319 no point to it. Propaganda shows that it is good 60 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:32.039 if over a certain period it can win over and 61 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:34.840 fire up the people for an idea. If it fails 62 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:38.599 to do so, it's bad propaganda. If propaganda wins the 63 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:41.439 people it wanted to win, it was presumably good, and 64 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:44.560 if not, it was presumably bad. No one can say 65 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:45.719 that you're yeah, well, you. 66 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:48.400 Can tell that this is before the invention of the 67 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:52.960 twenty four hour news cycle, because propaganda today is designed 68 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:57.159 to fire you up for about ten minutes. Yeah, and 69 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:59.520 then you click on whatever you need to click on 70 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:02.879 to general great revenue, and then you forget about it. 71 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:06.479 So that is the standard for what's good propaganda now. 72 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:10.319 Yeah, it's basically it's just a brush. 73 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:11.439 Yeah, yep. 74 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:16.199 If propaganda wins the people that wanted to win, it 75 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.000 was presumably good, and if not, it was presumably bad. 76 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:21.680 No one can say that your propaganda is too crude 77 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:24.399 or too low or brutal, or that it is not 78 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.519 decent enough for those who are not the relevant criteria. 79 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:30.639 Its purpose is not to be decent or gentle, or 80 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:34.519 weak or modest. It is to be successful. That is 81 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:37.920 why I have intentionally chosen to discuss propaganda along with 82 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:41.959 a second theme knowledge. Otherwise our discussion this evening would 83 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.879 be of little value. We have not gathered to discuss 84 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.480 lovely theories, but rather find to find ways of practically 85 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:51.720 working together to deal with our everyday challenges. 86 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:53.160 Hmm. 87 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:57.240 What is propaganda and what role does it have in 88 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:00.000 political life? That is the question of the greatest century 89 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:03.399 to us. How should propaganda look and what is the role? 90 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:06.279 What is its role in our movement. Is it an 91 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:08.600 end in itself or only a means to an end? 92 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:11.879 We must discuss that. But we can. But we can 93 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:14.639 do that only when we begin with the origin of 94 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:18.720 propaganda itself, namely the idea, then move to the target 95 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:26.240 of propaganda, namely people. Ideas in themselves are timeless. They 96 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:28.839 are not tied to individuals, much less to a people. 97 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:32.319 They rest in a people. It is true, and affects 98 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:36.600 their attitudes. Ideas people say are in the clouds. 99 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:39.600 So who does that sound like? 100 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.240 People say, yeah, you're in the clouds. Yeah. 101 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:50.120 Yeah. Ideas exist independently of the mind. Yeah, yeah, that's 102 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:51.639 that's what I picked up. When I read that. I 103 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:53.360 was like, oh, he's a he's platonic. 104 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:58.279 That's also in Hinduism too, And oh is it yeah, 105 00:05:58.319 --> 00:05:59.920 outside the mind watching the thinker. 106 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:00.600 Yeah. 107 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:06.000 Thing when someone comes along who can put in words 108 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:10.160 what everyone feels in their heart, each feels. Yes, that 109 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.360 is what I always want it in hope for that 110 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:15.600 is what happens the first time one Here's one of 111 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:19.399 Hitler's major speeches. I have met people who have attended 112 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:21.279 a Hitler meeting for the first time, and at the 113 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:24.279 end they said, this man puts into words everything I 114 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:27.600 have been searching for for years. Yeah, the first time. 115 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:32.120 Yeah, when you can, when you can distill and articulate 116 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:36.959 what people are, what people feel but are unable to articulate, 117 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:42.480 that's that's the best. It's it's it's it's awesome on 118 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:45.240 both ends. Like when somebody says, like, you know, I 119 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:48.360 never knew how to express that like that, that's awesome 120 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:51.240 on our end. And when we're reading something or or 121 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:54.720 listening to something that distills an idea into just a 122 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:59.839 form that's easily digestible, it fires you up. That's that's 123 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:00.399 a amazing. 124 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:06.800 Others are lost in confused. Others are lost in confusion, 125 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:10.680 but suddenly someone stands up and puts it in words. Now, 126 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:13.600 I've heard everything from goat to gutsa? 127 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:15.000 What do you? 128 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:18.720 What do you? How do you pronounce it? 129 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:20.199 Goth? I guess. 130 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:25.439 I'm gonna say gutsa because that's what this is the 131 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:29.040 last that's the last way I heard it say. Gutsa's 132 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:33.600 words become reality. Lost in silent misery, God gave someone 133 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:35.399 to express my self. 134 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:37.959 Should ask me how to pronounce any philosopher's name? I'm 135 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:39.759 the last person you want to ask. 136 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:44.040 But that's a great line there. Lost in silent misery. 137 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:46.360 God gave someone to express my suffering. 138 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:48.040 Yeah. 139 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:52.759 Yeah, some kind of ideas the beginning of every political movement. 140 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:54.759 It is not necessary to put this idea in a 141 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:58.959 thick book, nor that it take political form in one 142 00:07:59.040 --> 00:07:59.879 hundred long para. 143 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:04.079 People somehow manage. 144 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:08.560 History proves that the greatest world movements have always developed 145 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:11.560 when their leaders knew how to unify their followers under 146 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:16.360 a short, clear theme. It's just something I've been saying 147 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:21.120 recently with the whole libertarian party thing is really when 148 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.240 it comes to activism, when it comes to ideological activism, 149 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:29.519 you don't want a party, a political party, because it's 150 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:33.840 just pure bureaucracy. The best way to do it is 151 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:39.000 you pick one narrow topic and you become like a 152 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:42.200 lobby group for it, you become a propagandist for it, 153 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:46.759 and you just go after elected Now you are going 154 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:49.919 after elected officials. You don't have to worry about getting elected. 155 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:53.200 You're going to go after the elected officials. That's the 156 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:58.399 way National Association for Gun Rights basically got constitutional carry 157 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:01.519 and half the states in this country tree is by 158 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:04.519 going to politicians and saying we're going to run this person. 159 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:06.879 We have this person who's going to run against you 160 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:10.919 in a primary. Yeah, if you don't you know, if 161 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:14.799 you don't promise this, Yeah, yeah. 162 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:21.279 That's that. I the Libertarian Party has somehow sunk to 163 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:24.600 new depths. I didn't know we're imaginable, but I guess 164 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:25.519 it's not surprising. 165 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:28.799 Yeah. Well, I mean I said it was going to happen. 166 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:32.559 You're just you know, managerialism takes over. So yeah, right, 167 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:36.840 that is clear from the French Revolution or Cromwell's movement, 168 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:40.799 or Buddhism, Islamer Christianity. Christ's goal was clear and simple, 169 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:44.799 love your neighbor as yourself. He gathered his followers behind 170 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:49.080 that straightforward statement because this teaching was simple, crisp, clear 171 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:53.600 and understandable, enabling the broad masses to stand behind it. 172 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:58.679 In the end, conquered the world. One then builds a 173 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:02.519 whole system of thought on so a brief, crisply formulated idea. 174 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:06.120 The idea does not remain limited to this single statement. Rather, 175 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:09.919 it is applied to every aspect of daily life and 176 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:14.960 becomes the guide for all human activity, politics, culture, the economy, 177 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.960 every area of human behavior. It becomes a worldview. We 178 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:22.519 see that we see that in all great revolutionary movements, 179 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:27.399 which begin with a clear, crisp, understandable, all encompassing idea, 180 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:30.879 they spread more and more and become a mirror of 181 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:34.480 life that reflects all activities of the people, and indeed 182 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:36.840 in a particular way. 183 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:42.080 I wonder if there's a German word for ideology that 184 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:44.200 seems more like what he's describing. 185 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:49.559 I think he's describing a culture. 186 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:50.720 Yeah. 187 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:54.720 Yeah, Then one can say that a person has a 188 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:57.600 worldview not because he knows a lot or has read 189 00:10:57.600 --> 00:10:59.840 a lot, but because he sees all of life from 190 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:03.120 a certain standpoint and measures everything by a certain standard. 191 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:05.679 I'm a Christian when I believe that the meaning of 192 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:08.600 life is the heavy responsibility to love my neighbor as myself. 193 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.799 Kanton once said, act as if the principle of your 194 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.200 life could be the principle for your entire nation. 195 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:17.320 Is that the categorical imperative? 196 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:20.879 Act as if the principle for your life could be 197 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:24.440 the principle for your entire nation? Yeah, huh, Well, I mean, 198 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:26.440 look what he mentions in the next sentence. He says, 199 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:30.320 I am a national socialist, not when I want this 200 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:33.879 or that from this or that, from politics, Rather, when 201 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:38.960 I consider all aspects of daily life, I must act 202 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:41.279 in all things by putting the good of the whole 203 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:43.799 above my personal good, by putting the good of the 204 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:46.759 state above my personal good. But then I also have 205 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:49.360 the guarantee that such a state will be able to 206 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:51.120 protect my personal life. 207 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:57.480 That is such an important caveat, And that's why I's 208 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:01.879 it's going to be very difficult for us people on 209 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:04.519 our side to put their trust in any type of 210 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:12.120 person or movement or or idea that turns into a 211 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:16.360 worldview that that ends up you know, that could potentially 212 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:21.840 end up getting power. Is it takes a very long 213 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:26.240 time or a very desperate population to place that trust 214 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:28.519 in those things. 215 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:33.799 Well, yeah, it takes uh, it takes a whine more. 216 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:37.240 Yeah, yep, it takes desperate It's going to be desperation. 217 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:42.159 You know. Time. You can talk to any number of people, 218 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:44.639 they'll tell you that time is not on our side. 219 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:46.440 So it's going to take desperation. 220 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:52.200 I am a national socialist when I see everything in politics, 221 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:55.320 culture of the economy from this standpoint, I therefore do 222 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:58.080 not evaluate the theater from the standpoint of whether it 223 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:01.000 is elegant or amusing, rather or I ask is it 224 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.559 good for my people? Is it useful for them? Does 225 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:07.200 it strengthen the community? If so, the community in turn 226 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:11.720 can benefit, support and strengthen me. I do not see 227 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:14.600 the economy as some sort of way of making money. Rather, 228 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:17.320 I want an economy that will strengthen the people, make 229 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:21.399 them healthy and powerful. Then too, I can expect that 230 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:24.840 this people will support and maintain me. If I see 231 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.039 things in this way, I see the economy and national 232 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:33.440 socialist terms. Does that sound like socialism to you, as 233 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:36.679 you know, like a libertarian would say, oh, call someone 234 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:37.360 a socialist. 235 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:43.559 No, the antithesis that is the antithesis of anarcho capitalism. 236 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:45.639 I mean, I guess they would say, you know, you 237 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:47.480 have the option to think that way, but you have 238 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:50.039 the option to think whatever way you want and still 239 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:53.600 participate in society. 240 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:59.039 Yeah. If I deliver this crisp clear idea into a 241 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:01.919 system of thought that includes all human devices, which is 242 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:05.440 in actions, I have a worldview. As an idea develops 243 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:09.279 into a worldview, the goal is the state. Knowledge does 244 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:11.639 not remain the property of a certain group, but fights 245 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:14.159 for power. It is not just the fantasy of a 246 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:17.600 few people among a few people among the people. Rather, 247 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:20.159 it becomes the idea of the rulers, the circles that 248 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:24.360 have power. The view does not only pre the view 249 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:27.720 does not only preach, but it is carried out in practice. 250 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:32.519 I recall a long time ago when we were reading 251 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:38.840 State and Revolution, just going over it and viewing it 252 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:43.120 in terms of praxice. You know, during the during the 253 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:47.360 October Revolution, November, everything leading up to and everything after it, 254 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:51.759 practice practice, practice, And you know, at the time, we 255 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:56.279 were kind of moving away from libertarianism because of that. 256 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:59.320 And it's the same thing with this national socialism. It 257 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:04.799 places emphasis on praxis, like practical application of your of 258 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:08.879 your knowledge, of your of your theory or whatever. And 259 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:15.120 I don't I don't see that happening with a even 260 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:18.039 you know, unfortunately, a lot of people that I like 261 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:20.759 that espouse a worldview that I agree with, I don't 262 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:22.600 see them emphasizing it. 263 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:28.200 Yeah, yep. Then the idea becomes the worldview of the state. 264 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:31.759 The worldview has become a government organism when it seizes 265 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.080 power and can influence life, not only in theory but 266 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:39.600 in practical everyday life. Now we must consider who is 267 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:42.679 the carrier, the transmitter, the guardian of such ideas a 268 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:48.039 great man. An idea always lives in individuals. It seeks 269 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:51.720 an individuals to transmit its great intellectual force. It becomes 270 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:54.480 alive in a brain and seeks escape through the mouth. 271 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.080 The idea is preached by individuals, individuals who will never 272 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:01.240 be satisfied to have the knowledge remain. There's a loan. 273 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:05.480 I thought that was a very well constructed paragraph and 274 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.279 figured that's why he's the Minister of propaganda. 275 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:11.559 Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, the great thing about 276 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.480 a speech about knowledge and propaganda is he's propagandizing with it. 277 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:19.039 Yeah, yep, he practices what he preaches. 278 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:25.200 You know that from experience. When one knows something, one 279 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:27.600 does not keep it hidden like a buried treasure, but 280 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:30.360 rather one seeks to tell others. One looks for people 281 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:34.320 who should know it. One feels that everyone else should 282 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.159 know as well, for one feels alone when no one 283 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:40.159 else knows. For example, if I see a beautiful paint 284 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:43.600 again at our gallery, I have the needs to tell others. 285 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:45.480 I meet a good friend and say to him I 286 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:47.639 found a wonderful picture. I have to show it to you. 287 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:50.720 The same is true of ideas. If an idea lives 288 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:53.519 in an individual, he has the urge to tell others. 289 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:57.600 There is some mysterious force in us that drives us 290 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:00.720 to tell others. The greater and simpler the idea, the 291 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:03.519 more it relates to daily life, the more one has 292 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:05.799 the desire to tell everyone about it. 293 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:13.359 And it's a testament to, you know, the the system 294 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:16.759 we live under, that we hesitate to tell people about 295 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:20.599 these great ideas in real life. I mean, I I 296 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:24.200 see great ideas on my timeline every single day, and 297 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:27.440 I want to tell people, but I usually just stop 298 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:29.720 at my wife and see how see what she thinks. 299 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:34.359 And then you know, if if if I go, if 300 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:36.279 I go to bed, nothing happens that I know it 301 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.400 was a bad idea and I just annoyed her. So 302 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:46.960 but it's it's a testament to the counter propaganda machinery 303 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:51.720 that we live under, that we we naturally hesitate two 304 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:57.839 to promulgate these good ideas almost like they know what 305 00:17:57.839 --> 00:17:58.359 they're doing. 306 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:02.839 Yeah, yeah, we we have. 307 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:05.599 To say it in hush tones and quiet, you know, 308 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:08.559 amongst people we trust. 309 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:14.079 Right, And then if it gets to the point where 310 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:17.880 it's so dangerous to say certain things, then everyone's a 311 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:19.319 fed and you don't want to talk to anyone. 312 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:23.799 Yeah, and you know, as awesome as the Internet is, 313 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:28.799 I think that the next big thing is going to 314 00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:33.759 spread via word of mouth and probably semi hermetic circles 315 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.599 because it has to, because nobody wants to get arrested. 316 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:40.720 If I believe that the nation must be governed by 317 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:43.799 the principle that the common good comes before the individual good, 318 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:45.839 I will tell it to those to whom it applies. 319 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:48.319 As soon as I realize that this principle is not 320 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:52.880 only of a transcendental transcendental nature, but that it applies 321 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:54.960 to daily life, I have the need to tell it 322 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:58.400 to those in the economic world. And if I see 323 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:00.359 it applies to culture as well, I have needs to 324 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:03.759 tell it to those involved in cultural activities. The great 325 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:06.480 masses will never be won simply by such a sentence. 326 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:11.480 It must cast its shadow over all areas of human life. 327 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:11.880 Yep. 328 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:17.240 Yeah, Grams, she was Grams, she was the one who 329 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:17.960 understood this. 330 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:20.599 Yeah. It has to march through institutions. 331 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:25.720 Yep. You see how an idea spreads and becomes a worldview, 332 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:28.440 and how the bearer of the individual reaches out to 333 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:31.160 form a community, and how an organization, then a movement 334 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:34.200 grows from the individual. The idea is no longer buried 335 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:36.319 in the heart and mind of an individual. Now there 336 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:40.200 are four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, eighty, one hundred 337 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:43.599 and ever more. That is a secret of ideas. They 338 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:46.480 are like a wildfire that cannot be restrained. They are 339 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:48.319 like a gas that sees through everything. 340 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:51.480 I saw that sentence. It was like, this is too easy. 341 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:59.759 Yeah, where an idea finds entry, it enters, and soon 342 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:03.160 that person is influencing others. The others cannot stop it. 343 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:06.359 They may believe they can stop the fire by force. 344 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:09.000 They may even be able to do so for two 345 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:12.319 or ten, twenty or fifty years, but this is not 346 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:15.599 significant in the larger course of world's history. It is 347 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.799 irrelevant if something happens today or tomorrow or even years 348 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:19.599 in the future. 349 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:23.480 Yeah, it's a very transcendental view. 350 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:30.400 Well, the you know, and the thing is is that 351 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:33.960 you can have the greatest idea in the world, and 352 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:35.759 you can tell it to a bunch of people, and 353 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:38.960 you know, two thousand people can hold on to it 354 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:43.200 and love it and want to talk about it. But 355 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:46.119 if they're not willing to put it into motion, if 356 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:48.880 they're not willing to you know, get the ball rolling 357 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:53.200 on it and implement it. It's use. That's when it's 358 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:53.720 just theory. 359 00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:55.119 Yeah, yep. 360 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:59.079 It is possible to slow an idea by force for 361 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:03.759 a certain period of time. In reality, however, that advances 362 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:07.119 the idea for forces to drive out that which is weak. 363 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:14.440 That's really good. That's really good. Yeah. Now, when everybody's 364 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:20.519 like what you believe, you know, hardly anybody believes that 365 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:24.839 there might be a reason. Yeah, there might be a reason. 366 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:29.680 The elements that do not really belong collapse. Suddenly, the 367 00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:32.680 individual becomes a community, a movement, and if you prefer 368 00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:37.119 a party, each movement begins as a party. That does 369 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:40.880 not mean it has to follow the methods of parliamentary parties. 370 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:42.839 We see a party as a part of the people. 371 00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:46.119 As an idea spreads, becoming a worldview that spreads to 372 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:48.759 the community. The community will once to give the idea 373 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:53.160 practical form. The party will feel the necessities organize. Someone 374 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:55.519 will suddenly have the idea. You think the way I 375 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:58.680 do a way I think. You are working over there, 376 00:21:58.720 --> 00:22:01.240 I am working here. We know nothing of each other. 377 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:04.319 That is absurd. It would be better if we work together, 378 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:06.920 If I did my part and you did yours. Would 379 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:09.160 it not be good if we met every month and talked. 380 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:14.640 That is an organization. Gradually, a strong organism develops a 381 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:17.960 party ready to fight for its ideals. A party that 382 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:22.319 does not want that will indeed continue to preach its ideals, 383 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:24.640 but will never bring them into reality. 384 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:34.799 Yes, yeah, it's it's extremely hard to start that process now, 385 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:38.279 because anything outside of you, if you want to call 386 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:43.240 it the Overton window, never gets beyond what step. 387 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:47.960 Is it? 388 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:52.079 Yeah, never gets beyond not being buried in the heart 389 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:55.319 and mind of an individual or you may you may 390 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:58.559 get up to for those numbers. 391 00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:02.079 No, it's funny. 392 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:09.359 It's a four eighty one hundred. Yeah, it may it 393 00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:13.519 up to one hundred. But and I'm talking in real life, 394 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:17.799 not not x not social media. That's a whole different 395 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:22.480 story that that has its own endpoint that never materializes. 396 00:23:23.319 --> 00:23:28.039 But it's yeah, it's I'm telling you, like, the next 397 00:23:28.039 --> 00:23:30.200 big thing is going to be something you hear in 398 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:31.640 real life. 399 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:38.079 Yeah, it may have already happened. A recent example may help. 400 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:41.720 Our movement is often accused of losing its character as 401 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:44.680