The Thule Society: Hitler's Secret Occult Group
Dietrich Eckhart, the man who personally mentored Hitler in public speaking, was associated with the Thule Lodge and Hitler dedicated his book Mein Kampf to him.
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And Hitler dedicated Mein Kampf to Eckhart. And among them, I want also to count that man, one of the best, who devoted his life to the awakening of his our people, Dietrich Eckhart.
#456 — American Fascism
And that's what they're doing in the context of fascism. Yeah, it's interesting. And recalling Hitler in this context is relevant. It has been the case historically that fascist figures present, certainly before they achieve their aims, they present as comical figures. I mean, they present as clowns. They present as easy targets of ridicule, right? So the cultural machinery of satire gets working against them, but in these cases where they succeed, the satire proves ineffectual, right? So if you look back in the late 20s and even early 30s in Germany, Hitler was very often portrayed as a buffoon, as somebody who was not going to achieve his aims, quite obviously, because he was so comical and tawdry and norm-breaking. And that was clearly, as clearly has been our attitude toward Trump all the while. I mean, on some level, it still is, because I do think he lacks some of the things that proper demagogues like Hitler had. But the fact that he's so entertaining and so seemingly harmless because he's just, just a colossal jackass on some basic level. Causes many people, and I think many people hearing this conversation will feel that we are at every point exaggerating the danger, exaggerating the harms already committed, because when you take a look at this guy and the things he says, there's something deeply unsurious about him as a person. I mean, this is why we have, you know, his defenders effectively, I mean, the main defense of him for now going, nearly a decade is or has been, you know, take him seriously but not literally. I mean, this is the first time in my lifetime where we've, I've noticed people, serious people, seemingly serious people, telling everyone in sight not to care what the president of the United States says he's going to do as though that could make, ever make sense. And yet that's been the attitude. It's just like, oh, he didn't, he doesn't mean it, you know, he's not going to take Greenland. Oh, he just, he and his director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just accused. the previous president, President Obama of treason, which is a killing offense in most cases. That's not serious. You don't have to listen to any of that. He's just playing around, right? And so there's something about the lack of seriousness that is the style of presentation here. That is, it's a pattern. It's not just Trump. Well, it's a historical pattern. You're correct. Hitler was seen as a buffoon in the 1920s. Mussolini was seen as this kind of strutting Popin'J. Actually, even Hitler wound up thinking Mussolini is something of a buffoon, but Mussolini was not a buffoon. In fact, he was a brilliant guy. He was a former journalist. He had been a socialist before he became a fascist. No coincidence there. These are smart people, and they are intentionally and deliberately manipulating the public discourse in dialogue first to hijack people's minds so that you think about them all the time. Second, to move the grounded public discourse to an arena where liberal Democrats, you know, small deep. cannot compete. And third, to show that they're in control of what can and cannot be said. All the stuff your mom taught you about what you can and can't say, throw it out the window, they're in the driver's seat now, and that's the message you get. So the second point you raise, the glorification of violence. Now, this, I think, has not been pushed nearly as far as most people think it must be pushed to justify any kind of analogy to what they consider fascism. And this is one place where I even wonder whether Trump is the sort of person who's capable of this. You think of the night of long knives. It's finally secured Hitler's power, right?