www.youtube.com/watch?v=n840zXmlzak
I found this video absolutely disturbing. As I listened to it, the cadence of the speech and the choice of words (at least in the English subtitles) was emotionally mesmerizing; yet when my rational mind kicks in, it's a whole lot of empty rhetoric.
Canadian political campaigning today has become increasingly rhetorical and emotive in its approach rather than rational. The danger I see with such training of the political minds of the masses is that it in fact makes Canada ever more vulnerable to a sociopathic but eloquent speaker, be he far right or far left.
I'm no Nazi, I find the Nazi regime to have been reprehensible, but I cannot deny Hitler's impressive rhetorical eloquence when saying a whole lot of gibberish.
I found this video absolutely disturbing. As I listened to it, the cadence of the speech and the choice of words (at least in the English subtitles) was emotionally mesmerizing; yet when my rational mind kicks in, it's a whole lot of empty rhetoric.
Canadian political campaigning today has become increasingly rhetorical and emotive in its approach rather than rational. The danger I see with such training of the political minds of the masses is that it in fact makes Canada ever more vulnerable to a sociopathic but eloquent speaker, be he far right or far left.
I'm no Nazi, I find the Nazi regime to have been reprehensible, but I cannot deny Hitler's impressive rhetorical eloquence when saying a whole lot of gibberish.
