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Apr 17, 2021 27 min

21 - The Atomization Bomb - Hannah Arendt’s

from Bonner Private Research Podcast Hosted by Dan Denning

Bullet Points 00:50 - Start (after one false start) 00:55 - Hannah Arendt and the Origins of Totalitarianism 01:20 - Europe in the lead-up to WWII 01:45 - Something more insidious even than the militarized state 02:15 - Attend makes a narrow escape from Nazi Germany 02:30 - A case of the Gestapo “just doing it’s job” 03:05 - Interned as “alien enemy” in Paris 03:35 - The question on everyone’s mind, then and since 04:05 - Life in Hobbes’s nature: “nasty, brutish and short.” 04:25 - Post Enlightenment, Uber-Industrialized Germany 04:55 - Enter Messers Marx and Engels 05:40 - Communism and Nazism as fraternal twins 06:15 - A parasitoid infecting unthinking hosts on the right AND left 06:40 - Nazism favors neither the right nor the left, says Hitler 07:20 - Hitler’s extensive socialist programs and the rise of the Brownshirts 07:30 - Something more than collectivist dogma alone 08:05 - The source of evil, residing within man himself 08:40 - Totalitarianism as it “spreads like a fungus” 09:20 - An unholy alliance: Terror, meet Ideology 09:30 - The Atomization Bomb 09:55 - “A single death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.” Joseph Stalin 10:25 - The citadel of the mind - Man’s last stand against propaganda 11:25 - Totalitarian tactics of the abusive spouse 12:20 - Classic double blinds - The unhappy plight of the Russian clerk 13:05 - Eichmann in Jerusalem 13:30 - “A curious, quite authentic inability to think” 13:55 - Cliches, stock phrases and the making of the perfect totalitarian tool 14:35 - Terrorized individuals as fertile matter for mass propaganda 14:55 - The three primary ways we are primed for totalitarianism 15:15 - The mass media factor and the advent of choose your own adventure reality 17:15 - The deleterious impact of Social Media bombardment 17:55 - Critical Race Theory - A devastating doctrine of division 18:20 - An extreme contempt for facts 19:10 - The oppressive legacy of facts, rationality and evidence 20:00 - The grand irony of Critical Race Theory 20:35 - Projection and bigotry in its most primitive form 21:30 - The staggering hubris in demanding the cancelation of history 22:00 - CRT proponents - by their clichés you shall know them 23:05 - Mandatory, taxpayer funded Critical race Theory training in the USA 23:40 - Enter COVID-19 and the atomization of man in 2020 24:05 - A look at what did not happen during the ongoing pandemic 24:55 - Alone together - the unusual commonality of being apart 25:30 - The social circuit breaks that keep us civil, sane and harmonious 26:05 - What lies beyond the biological toll of COVID-19? 26:30 - Standing shoulder-to-physical-shoulder against the totalitarian creep This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/subscribe

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