“Peoria über Alles
“Take Germany as a city cut off from the outside world by a fire or flood advancing from every direction. The mayor proclaims martial law, suspending council debate. He mobilizes the populace, assigning each section its tasks. Half the citizens are at once engaged directly in the public business. Every private act – a telephone call, the use of an electric light, the service of a physician – become a public act. Every private right – to take a walk, to attend a meeting, to operate a printing press – becomes a public right. Every private institution – the hospital, the church, the club – becomes a public institution. Here, although we never think to call it by any name but the pressure of necessity, we have the whole formula of totalitarianism.
“The individual surrenders his individuality without a murmur, without, indeed, a second thought – and not just his individual hobbies and tastes but his individual occupation, his individual family concerns, his individual needs. The primordial community, the tribe, re-emerges, its preservation the first function of all its members. Every normal personality of the day becomes an “authoritarian personality.” A few recalcitrants have to be disciplined (vigorously, under the circumstances) for neglect or betrayal of their duty. A few groups have to be watched or, if necessary, taken in hand – the antisocial elements, the liberty-howlers, the agitators among the poor, and the known criminal gangs. For the rest of the citizens – 95 percent or so of the population –duty is now the central fact of life. They obey, at first awkwardly but, surprisingly soon, spontaneously.
“The community is suddenly a single organism, a single soul, consuming its members for its own purposes. For the duration of the emergency, the city does not exist for the citizens but the citizens for the city. The harder the city is pressed, the harder its citizens work for it and the more productive and efficient they become in its interest. Civic pride becomes the highest pride, for the end purpose of all one’s efforts is the preservation of the city. Conscientiousness is the highest virtue now, the common good the highest good…”
Betcha this is where Obama wants to take us…watch for him to declare emergencies that he created…
Thanks Michael Savage. Barabasi and Csermely talk about the cycling of groups from chaos through collapse…so did Toynbee...the sequence is consistent and so is the math regardless of the size of the participants or the gods they consult…
Barabási, A-L (2002) Linked: The New Science of Networks. NY: Perseus.
Csermely, Peter (2006) Weak Links: Stabilizers of Complex Systems from Proteins to Social Networks. NY: Springer.
Mayer, Milton (1955) “Peoria über Alles” They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 254-258.
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Comment by Gary Wren on March 12, 2012 at 2:38pm -
Sounds like a fight coming................
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Comment by hunter60 on March 12, 2012 at 8:01am
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Advanced societies protect and defend the rights of individuals and the rule of law. Primitive societies assign all rights to the tribe and defend the tribe at the expense of the individual while promoting the rule of dictators or oligarchies.
Guess which train we got on when we failed to show our leftist ideologues the door back in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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Comment by catherine deanni on March 12, 2012 at 6:43am
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All Obama needs is a crisis and he can declare marshal law and will have full control of country from the whitehouse without anyone stopping him from pushing his agenda, in the name of protecting the people. That is What Hitler did, of course he was behind it. Remember this: NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE.
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Comment by Henry Hollenberg on March 12, 2012 at 6:22am
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912 Project's Presidential Position Matrix:
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Comment by Doug Nicholson on March 12, 2012 at 1:13am
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@Jim Coles: "...the laws allowing him to do so require immediate congressional oversight...". Kind of like how Presidential appointments must be made with the advice & consent of the Senate unless it is in recess, huh? We all know Odumbo has NO respect for the laws of the land and, if given the chance, will ignore them completely.
ABO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment by Agi Yaeger on March 11, 2012 at 10:37pm -
Grace, that is exactly what I meant. We spent months on debating the fairness doctrine until we were blue in the face, trying to stop its passing.Obama threw the word out, we panicked, and it really was a diversion.
Meanwhile, this administration was planting the seeds to create small crisis, like Fluke's testimony in congress. that was not supposed to have taken place. Someone else was supposed to have testified. But they pulled the plug and voila she appeared, to create an uproar....never let a crisis go to waste.
They knew that the conservatives would be up in arms and someone would slip and the hoopla would start. As soon as Rush made his remark, they were there with the list of advertisers, out came the checkbooks and the fallout began. Remember, Soros said that he gave hundreds of millions of dollars to media matters to take down conservative commentators and journalists.
Do we honestly think that the companies pulled their ads because they were altruistic? They were paid off, like everyone else is. Every time this happens, just think it's our stimulus money and Soros' that is paying from politicians to corporations to take us down. They are always steps ahead of us and we can't seem to catch up to stop them.
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Comment by Jerold Ross on March 11, 2012 at 10:27pm
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Everything exists on our side; we only need a leader to emerge. Remember the old Soviet Union and Breshnev and the others when it fell down. There was no bloody war, it was quick and pretty clean because they had a leader in wait.Who's our leader gonna be? Newt??? He sure as hell could be.
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Push back!
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Comment by Grace Kirby on March 11, 2012 at 9:49pm
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Agi, read the article and this is very disturbing. Obama does not need to declare an emergency, he can silence us through this tactic. We must step up our efforts to let advertisers know that we will not support them if they continue their boycott of conservative talk shows. McDonald's? Give me a break.
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Comment by Peter D Sowatskey on March 11, 2012 at 9:48pm
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Maybe companies are pulling their advertising because they don't make enough profits to pay for the ads?
Peter Sowatskey--Google
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