Gender and racial discrimination, exploitation and so forth are only effects. The real problem is that it is possible to suppress the people with false Science or false descriptions of the world; that supports Might Is Right. Or like this. We are not genuine citizens.
The Norman Conquest was a cataclysm for the English people. After 1066, ... Castles, until then a rarity, sprang up everywhere. ... these were not defences against a foreign foe, but instruments of internal repression, ... More telling, though, is the political vocabulary introduced under the Normans. Out go witan, folkmoot and folkright. In come fealty and homage, fief and vassal, villein and serf. The progress toward personal liberty, free contract and equal access to the common law was suspended. ...
So, when politicians are able to openly criticise at least the outer layer of the established stupidities of to just obey; it gets closer to openly talk about the real core of the terror.
Lies, fearmongering and fables: that’s our democracy
, People power can challenge the status quo, but only if we understand our political system has inherent flaws
”, George Monbiot, The Guardian, 4 October 2016.
My Comment
The REAL problem is that George Monbiot and others granted a monopoly of to write in the massmedia simply refuse to say anything about WHY the political system, or to be more correct the Western worldview, is flawed in order to maintain the present order.
In short.
Useless production of complaints is made to appear as valuable critique in a culture that is based on that there cannot be any change.
Despite the poor quality of the public copies I assume that any, absolutely any viewer, can only fall directly into the emotions that Riefenstahl wanted to incite.
This also means, the more you fight back the emotions to be a part of the Nazi movement; the more you make it impossible to understand in concrete terms WHY this true masterpiece of propaganda is so powerful.
In short the film unlocks and expose in full vigour the training of the citizens that they can only obey or be like soldiers as anything else is made mystical.
Consequently the total harmony, the total power, the only possible aspiration in life is to be united with your fellow soldiers.
To be a soldier among other soldiers is the only possible ideal of the current culture of the West. Even if it at the moment is not correct to worship open totalitarianism.
And of course to be restricted to obey is just to full fill your duties.
The defence of to accept to be a soldier that can only obey is also a major theme of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) that call the acceptance "the banality of evil".
It is of course easy to brush off Triumph of the Will as an old and uninteresting example. But the daily training of you to be an obedient soldier goes on everywhere all the time.
Here are two examples, from a major news media, of the daily training of you to be an obedient soldier presented as advice on how to be successful.
From Agatha Christie and Charles Darwin to Keira Knightley, Francoise Hardy and Morrissey, the socially awkward and anxious have changed the world for the better. Have we forgotten the benefits of being shy?
Sure, to be successful demands to be shy! The arguments to be stupid and obedient are bound to be hilarious. And remember this crap is presented as to be Science.
So, when the people are trained daily to follow totalitarian ideals it is not so strange that many dream of the total harmony of a totalitarian State.
