themanagersnot2blame
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In his 1924 book, “Mein Kampf,” Hitler describedstrategy for how his then-neophyte Nazi party could seize power through the use of propaganda and psychological manipulation.
According to Hitler's demented worldview, a leader must “fill people with blind faith” that he and his party doctrine are absolutely and unquestionably correct. The leader must create an army of “intellectually less capable men” who are instilled with “rigid discipline and fanatical faith” for the cause, and each follower must be “taught to stake his life for it without reservation.”
To keep the flock obedient, the leader and the party must always appear to be absolutely correct. The party’s pronouncements must be “unshakable,” “dogmatic,” “creedlike,” and always seem like a “granite principle.”
Objective truth and reality are disregarded. It is far more important to cling to what was said initially in order to maintain the impression of always being right, even if the original pronouncement was flatly wrong. As Hitler states, “t is less harmful to retain a formulation, even if it should not entirely correspond to reality, than by improving it” to correct the error.
Questioning authority, of course, is abhorrent to authoritarian rule. Hitler warnedthat the party must avoid “all actions that splinter and create uncertainty.”
The lesson is that when the leader or the party is questioned, the response must be to fight. Fight everything. Concede nothing. Maintain a unified front. Project total power and absolute certainty.
The purpose of Hitler’s approach was to condition the people to mindlessly follow the leader regardless of the leader’s policies or conduct.
So what happens when you makes an idiotic mistake? Deny it. Fight like mad. Maintain the unified front. The truth does not matter one bit.
Admitting a mistake could very well lead to evil consequences. Once your faithful realize that you do indeed make foolish mistakes, they might very well begin to question the legitimacy of the overall mystique.
This could lead to discussion, squabbles, uncertainty, and doubt. One little crack in the façade could cause the entire edifice to crumble.
Aye if they were stupid, selfish idiots happy to put others at risk.
