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Mein Kampf. Apart from being a bad person, Hitler was a terrible writer. Low quality thoughts articulated badly. I only read it so I could nail neonazis when they came at me with their stupid arguments.
Adolf Hitler was a modern-day edgelord and an incel. He didn't have any original thoughts, he stole the ideas from the magazines he read while he was poor and unemployed
It's a good thing people don't act like that any more /s
Modern-day edgelords and incels are...edgelords and incels. Maybe "premodern" would be more accurate? Probably not, I'm not sure.
That was the modern era, we live in the postmodern era.
I listened to parts of it as an audiobook. I felt like I was going insane. Helped me pass the time at work though.
I think it's even worse in German. It comes across as a toddler trying to sound grown up.
I'm always a little bit scared that what I'm listening to will start blasting out of my phone speaker because I forgot to turn on my headset or something.
I'm terrified of that personally
By the way, one big takeaway of ‘Triumph of the Will’ is that the Nazi rally was extremely fucking boring after the first ten minutes or so. But apparently seven hundred thousand people had nothing better to do than stand and listen to Nazis shout at them for hours.
Was that helpful or necessary in the end? Or was is such trite that you could have done without?
If nothing else, it's worth it just to see how brain-dead nazism really is. They're not Machiavellian masterminds, they're thugs with an ideology built on brainfarts. Also quoting from the book (in the original German) is a good way to kill a conversation with one of the modern spawn.
It is extremely babble-minded and not at all worth reading or deconstructing.
I read it in the mindset of your first question.
Turns out, any argument you can think up in 2 seconds against bigotry is going to be more insightful and well-founded than a rebuttal against nascent nazi scribblings.
I'm guessing it's the same kinda situation as one having to actually read ‘Atlas Shrugged’ to see for themselves that it's a complete turd of a book.
Who recommended it to you?