How Modern Media Is Training Us to Hate—The Same Tactic Hitler Used Is Happening Right Now!

Have you ever wondered – like I did growing up – how men like Hitler, Stalin and Mao were able to transform ordinary German, Russian and Chinese citizens into the murderers of tens of millions of people? They led historically wealthy countries filled with intelligent, respectful and civil people. These are only a few of many historical examples of tyrannical leaders. How did their use of propaganda, misinformation and fear mongering turn ordinary peace-loving citizens into murderers?  

Human beings feel a need to punish wrongdoing. The tactic of those who lead people to become mass murderers is quite simple: slander a group within your  society with enough fear mongering propaganda and misinformation so that society feels a need to isolate and punish that group. Portray the group you are aiming to destroy as criminal, dangerous, threatening, unfair, and oppressive. Whethern enough, whether the allegations are true, partially true or completely fake news, one will have people's emotions stirred up and waving their angry fists, wanting to punish the slandered group. Slander is mixed with lies, and it is often used by leaders to fool large populations into attacking their political enemies, or to move the opinions of people in society toward the interests of a particular leader.

History consistently shows that the same tactic to be all too effective. We all need to be alert to this tried-and-true device, lest we also be deceived. However, the strategy is often more difficult to prevent than we realize, and here is why.

Slander works on the mind slowly, as smoking works on the body. 

When human beings first smoke, it often makes them sick, with the body trying to reject the foreign substance, but it does not kill them, and after a period of time our bodies get adapt to it and eventually begin to crave it. However, if the smoker smokes long enough, it may result in cancer or some other incurable disease. Once that happens, the person acts, often seeking out a doctor, who may intervene and successfully treat the problem. Or it may be too late. 

Slander works the same way. 

At first, it is normally hard to hear demeaning things said about others, but after all these are just words and no harm is done. As time passes, people gravitate to slanderous comments, wanting to hear what is wrong with someone else. This is because it gives one the virtuous feeling of being superior to another individual or group. Once  more people seem to be listening, the slander creates a cancer of the mind. The slander eventually creates an emotional response in human beings – almost like a drug produces a high. 

This emotional high, anger or frustration, then numbs the minds of civil and rational people. Once enough members of the population have been affected in this way, the society begins to see a need to remove the individual or group supposedly at the heart of the problem. The leader or his followers then seek out heroes who are eager and praised to exact justice for those the society feels are the problem. When a society is high on slander, ordinary rational people will do things they never thought themselves capable of. 

Like rushing water that slowly carves through and deteriorates solid rock, slander slowly deteriorates the rational mind and, over time, begins to affect a person's emotions. When slander begins to affect a person's emotions, the emotions distort the normal thinking of the rational mind. The emotional high warps our feelings towards the group or person being slandered, and we lose our ordinary sense of compassion and sympathy for the hurtful actions taken towards that group of individuals.  

As Adolf Hitler stated in a letter prior to his rule in Germany.

"Anti-Semitism – born of purely emotional grounds – will find an expression in the form of pogroms (violent attacks)." 

In other words, Hitler aimed to slander repeatedly until the German people were high enough on slander to take it out on Jews, who they felt deserved the brutal treatment they were given. 

Western society today is chain-smoking a continual stream of slander through modern media technologies such as the internet and social media. 

It is hard to find any politician, group, or media that is not pushing a steady diet of slander on the normally rational minds of Western individuals, and it is destroying our feelings of sympathy and compassion for other loving and kind people within our societies. One need only consider the thousands of scientists who have been silenced or cancelled if they speak out against the theory that climate change is human caused. (See our video: “The New Culture of Censorship and Cancellation”)

What about the myriads of parents and even teachers who have been threatened with court action or even been dismissed from employment because they resisted the idea that schools should be permitted to teach children sexual behaviors opposed to the cultural and moral beliefs of the home, as is discussed in our video “The War on Parental Rights” 

All this is permitted because one group slanders another, destabilizing society, persecuting people who innocently hold to their own values and doing immeasurable harm

Our minds are like our bodies; what we put into our stomachs makes the body healthy or sick. What we let into our minds affects our emotions. 

Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and many others offered their people one hit of slander after another, and their people smoked it. Their societies became high with hatred, and their hearts were hardened from having compassion for the individuals they made suffer. Once a sizeable majority of the public became high with emotion and cold-hearted towards these groups, leaders could cause immense suffering in those populations without a great outcry from the general public. 

Suppose individuals continue smoking the slander in our Western world. In that case, we will become more and more desensitized, and the consequences of its effect will impact the West in the same manner as they have affected the intelligent and civil societies in every other part of the world over time. 

Gradually, more and more people will stop viewing one another with sympathy and compassion. They will lose any type of natural affection, even for their neighbours. Eventually, a deceived population will begin to see the need to remove targeted individuals or groups seen as the cancer causing the nation’s problems,.

Only many years later, when the slander stops and the delusion wears off, will people recognize their grievous error. They will realize, too late, that they were fooled by people who used their emotions against them to fulfill someone else’s political agenda. Sadly, by that time, the damage will already have been done.

The impact of slander is already visible in our society as shown by our video, “Inquisition and Activism”.