This is an editorial overview of nature's political revolution it's not really a formal lecture it's just some notes for where we need to go in reviewing it again they feel this is one of the most important things if not the most important thing we've ever created on however there are some editorial directions that were not adequately exploring and I want to mention one of the points is while the historical view of the past is actually critical and redoing actually right and putting it in theirs and inadequate discussion of the future of totalitarianism particular the future of totalitarianism in an Internet world and we do discuss that somewhat in the throngs of blood lecture but it is not adequate and not to go into all the details here some of its already covered in the thrones blood lecture on what you want to discuss is the dialectic on which is in one of the other lectures and I didn't see it all of the dilemma of totalitarian regimes in an Internet age and the whole structure of totalitarianism and propaganda part of the problem is the comic book view of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in the mind of most people in the West particularly in America that these were thuggish regimes that just held everybody in place by Burke terror and beat up anybody who's who spoke out and so on the D the situation in Stalin's Russia and in post-World War II Russia might be closer to that the situation Nazi Germany was most definitely not where you had where Hitler was without a doubt the most popular leader in German history pop possibly of all time and the there was so little resistance that the Gestapo was really a very tiny organization and prior to Kristallnacht D the concentrations camps in Germany were largely empty because it was hardly any opposition on in analyzing totalitarian propaganda you need to look at the statements of Goebbels who was was one of the leaders for propaganda in Germany again there are a lot of myths about this the Goebbels control propaganda Germany most definitely did not but he was a major factor in and in a he would've liked it but he didn't and was a major factor in the handling of the German media on the Goebbels responsiveness about this the Goebbels claim use the word the big lie again this is nonsense and in the no such statement was ever made" to use my propaganda deserve to be studied because the really quite brilliant Goebbels observed that all propaganda in order to be effective needed to be is as factually accurate as possible and in our time this is this is all so even more so true because of the power of the Internet so there's there's a dilemma on what
For instance it was a very tough call by Goebbels on the decision to make public the disaster at Stalingrad there was a previously an attempt a plan to keep it secret on it was probably a propaganda unfortunately for the German people masterpiece on the part of Goebbels to make this full scale of the disaster public to the German people because it establishes bonus credibility with the government for the entire rest of the war so you need to understand the subtlety of a propagandistic message here now on in the case of the Internet and in the case of of totalitarianism in general there's a dilemma that if you completely destroy freedom of speech etc. etc. that can become a self self-destructive situation since it cuts off needed information and can even be counterproductive for public support one of the reasons why the Russian the Soviet system collapsed was that their system of totalitarianism was so heavy-handed that it had the opposite effect of what was intended people tend to believe anything as long as the government if the government said asked people automatically believe Y was true and led to a very unrealistic view of the West and unrealistic expectations about what the overthrow communism would lead to particularly in Russia itself so how will he totalitarian regime handle freedom of speech it's it's not clear it's not clear on the other issue that needs to be discussed is the issue of biological super soldiers and the essay we have on that is more more usable but that needs to be put into however as the larger issue is how a totalitarian government will function this needs to be elaborated for example versus the revelations of Snowden are highly relevant from a technological point of view if you wanted to wiretap an entire country it was humanly impossible again you need to get a filter out all the junk of the comic book view of totalitarianism you're in school was humanly impossible for some of the reasons listening to an entire country today with the power of all of supercomputers and and of a voice recognition you literally got you are not she'd want to do literally could wiretap the entire country and pull out the words that you wanted to have recorded or saved or monitored or tractor water so actually the power of totalitarianism in technology is is increasing technology has no morality if there's no this rubbish about how the Internet will prevent totalitarianism's rubber is just that rubbish so these are some thoughts that we need to have elaborated this is a bit of a disorganized lecture but is just some thoughts I wanted to