" The Goebbels Experiment " film opens today in Manhattan. It is a narrated documentary that uses Goebbels own personal diary from 1924-1945-it uses Goebbels own words. " The revolution is inside me ", he wrote. Joseph Goebbels was Hitler's minister of propaganda. He was what Karl Rove is to Bush and what Carville was to Clinton. Goebbels dreamed the big dream of a master race and a German Reich. But Hitler and Goebbels' hubris ended badly. Goebbels peculiar charm is the failure of a brilliant man to understand a simple truth. People are different. This fact precludes master-race philosophies and empire.
How would Goebbels have done today with the internet, podcasting and the limitless access to huge populations. Probably he would not be as effective . The odds would favor him ending up as a crank podcaster who would be lost in the "white noise" of todays communication world.
America is also going to learn that a democratic empire is not doable. America's own diversity seems to stand in the way of education, healthcare, legal reform etc.-too many special interests that cost too much money to achieve equal results. So how are we going to export that political model , particularly to poorer countries?
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