The rise of Hitler to power | Yuval Noah Harari and Lex Fridman

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GUEST BIO:
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Unstoppable Us.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Unstoppable Us.

[strongambitionspowerlifting]

“When you see something beautiful, you don’t understand the monster underneath”… that line will stick with you

[henrywhite]

His insight with respect to truth being complex and painful is excellent. Take a look around the political landscape, tens of millions of people have abandoned truth seeking and fully embraced laughable demonstrable false narratives.

[towellight]

I disagree with his take on that because of what happened after the war and Germany becoming successful afterwards. He is conflating correlation. Just because people after a horrible event decided to take a different route doesn't mean that they would take the same route if the horrible event didn't occur. It is a possibility but the way he describes it is that it was inevitable.

[KWally]

Finally, someone says what I've been trying to say for years. Many of my friends have fallen under the spells of either the far left or right, and have decided to call each other fascists, without either side actually knowing what a fascist does....

[pauldeucher]

Sapiens and Homo Deus are my favorite books. I highly recommend.

[Rhino]

That last sentence is so true man. Good looking people have an incredible advantage over ugly people. Ugly people have to work harder for their success.

[juneshasta]

"Hitler never played Risk as a kid." -Eddie Izzard

[cdenn]

If only we all understood fascism and evil at that level. Most of the Germans were decent humans that got caught up in a cult and an idea. It can happen to literally ALL of us. The vaccine is to acknowledge the complexity and nuance of social structures, people, and reality as a whole. Here in the US, at least, many people are abandoning nuance for simple explanations and solutions on both the American left and right.

[stppenwolf]

As I listen to him speak, I cannot help but think that history is repeating itself. If you hear a politician describing problems very simply and proposing solutions which are even simpler, then you should know you are listening to someone with fascist tendencies

[jessebourbeau]

Wrong about Voldemort, he was very handsome before being destroyed.

[youreallysomethingelse]

Yeah. Absolutely agree with MOST of his points. But post-WWI, Germany was brought to its knees by the Allied powers & was forced to pay crippling reparations for causing the war. This led to massive inflation & an insurmountable debt. Germany started to crawl out of that debt in the late 1920s, but then the depression hit & really upended its economy. Hitler was already on the scene, but in the 30s, when the Germans were again brought back to abject poverty, Hitler's message of "we should no longer be victimized" & Arian racial supremacy really caught on with a socially & economically depleted German republic. And so the Weimar republic became the Third Reich.
It was after that, that the Allies realized that if they economically deplete their enemies, it will lead to civil unrest & allow Hitler-types (fiction story tellers) to gain a following. Harari didn't mention that fact as a major reason why Hitler came to power.

[alanwest]

Why: People had unresolved issues of losing and loss.

How: Leaders helped people hold on to those unresolved issues and promised a brighter future, feeding them a growing addiction for pride. Then confidence was built upon that pride. To be wrong meant the people would lose the good feeling. Strongest in pride kept believing.

Souls free of issues never create or need pride.

Pride misses the target on love.

Pride is a false emotion extra to an experience, like an invented bonus to compensate for a previous loss.

[philipdraper]

Notice the smirk when he says “I say that 😏”….a charlatan like this craves that kind of power, even if he may disagree with the ideology….also I disagree with Germany’s “path” following the Treaty of Versailles. They were essentially tired of being the world’s whipping boy and corrected past grievances in the extreme. A lot of politicians do this on a smaller level in society, even today.

[brozbro]

We just don't have enough books and analysis of Hitler.

[michaeldavison]

Yuval is very intelligent and well thought out but his connections to Klaus Schwab and the WEF seem to show a disconnect between his wisdom and his actions. Maybe it's just the ultimate pragmatism or maybe it's something else. I can not tell.

[saso-gisy]

Germany and Japan were upheld by the US dollar and the trade with the US and it's allies. That is why they became succesfull and that is why they are stagnating in the recent times.

[Tonino]

Japan also emerged as a great industrialized country

[noodles]

i like this guy. he talks about real things

[mellochord]

The most beautiful lies convince a set of people of the correctness of their own delusion. What group does this describe best?